Over the countless eons that followed, Li Fan wandered aimlessly across the East Sea in search of immortal islands.
He searched from the East Sea to the West Sea, from the West Sea to the South Sea, and from the South Sea to the Northern Sea, searching and searching.
He took in the sights of the Primordial Four Seas. Thinking about it, if overseas immortal islands were so easy to find, the Dragon Clan would have discovered them long ago.
The greatest characteristic of overseas immortal islands was that they were not fixed in one place. They floated upon the sea, drifting with the waves.
Li Fan decided to take a look at the Land of Guixu.
He set foot on the East Sea once more and swiftly headed toward its depths.
At the deepest part of the East Sea, he searched for several days without even catching sight of Guixu. Li Fan realized that this so-called Guixu existed in another dimensional space.
After spending some time, Li Fan finally detected spatial fluctuations and used the Law of World to tear open space.
This was the Land of Guixu—the place where all things in the world met their end.
Li Fan noticed that the deeper he went, the faster his magical power was consumed. No wonder Candle Dragon had said this place was extremely dangerous. He had not even entered the true Guixu yet.
If he entered Deep Guixu, even a Great Luo would find it difficult to escape.
Li Fan could only try his luck around the outskirts of Guixu. Perhaps the immortal islands were nearby.
When he reached a spatial node on Guixu's outskirts, he suddenly discovered an Innate Concealment Formation. Had he not been extremely close, he would never have noticed it.
This thrilled Li Fan. Dawn was right before his eyes.
Li Fan hurriedly used his primordial spirit to comprehend the concealment formation. He feared that forcibly breaking it would trigger uncontrollable risks.
A full hundred thousand years passed before he finally found a flaw in the concealment formation.
The formation changed unpredictably. Every step Li Fan took landed on a specific position as he followed the Heaven-Earth Veins toward the island's depths.
Before long, Li Fan vanished from where he stood and entered the Innate Grand Formation. The scenery before him shifted, and he arrived on an immortal island.
This was the God-Demon Era at the beginning of creation. The immortal island had yet to fully evolve, and remnants of Chaos Qi still lingered upon it. It lacked the scenes described in Later Generations—strange flowers and exotic herbs everywhere, with rare birds and unusual beasts roaming about.
Chaos Qi was too overbearing. Even Li Fan's physical body could not withstand it, so he could only go around it.
As he slowly headed toward the island's center, Li Fan discovered a pool entirely formed from gathered Three Lights Divine Water.
At the center of the pool, a white Twelve-Grade lotus was rooted there. However, its twelfth petal remained rather illusory. This was the legendary Penglai Immortal Island.
Li Fan's eyes lit up. This was the legendary Twelve-Grade Pure World White Lotus, and it had not yet fully matured.
When Pangu created the world, the Chaos Green Lotus shattered and transformed into many Innate Spiritual Treasures. Six lotus seeds scattered throughout the Prehistoric Universe, and one mature azure-origin seed could become an Innate Supreme Treasure.
Li Fan sent a thread of divine sense toward the Pure World White Lotus, intending to refine it. The white lotus possessed abundant spirituality. Still in the midst of gestation, it hoped Li Fan would help it.
Li Fan agreed without hesitation and fed every piece of Divine Materials on his person to the white lotus.
Then, he activated the Perfect Minor World he carried with his own magical power, continuously pouring the power of the world into the "Pure World White Lotus."
He sacrificed his world to perfect the white lotus. After all, this Innate Spiritual Treasure was simply too tempting.
The Pure World White Lotus's spirituality was delighted, and its final Innate Restrictions successfully evolved. Its twelfth petal was about to fully manifest.
As the Pure World White Lotus reached completion, Li Fan's divine sense continuously comprehended the World Purification Law belonging to the white lotus.
One hundred thousand years later, the white lotus was complete, and a heavenly phenomenon descended. Fortunately, it was within the immortal island's Innate Grand Formation, hidden by Guixu as well, so no one discovered it.
Li Fan's World Purification Law reached the Venerable God Realm. This harvest was simply enormous.
Most importantly, the Twelve-Grade White Lotus in his hand was a top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure with Forty-Eight Restrictions. He had struck it rich.
Li Fan absorbed the white lotus into his primordial spirit and began refining it. Because Li Fan had helped it, the white lotus cooperated greatly.
In one hundred thousand years, Li Fan refined forty Innate Restrictions. The white lotus could now nurture Ninth-Grade White Lotuses, but Li Fan did not need them yet, since doing so would consume the white lotus's origin.
His World Purification Law had already reached the peak of the Venerable God Realm. The Minor World in his hand had nearly fallen from the Perfect Minor World rank. Its world origin had been depleted, but it would slowly recover after being nurtured for a while.
Li Fan collected the entire pool of Three Lights Divine Water into his Minor World, then began refining the island's formation to take control of Penglai Immortal Island.
After successfully refining it, Li Fan sensed the locations of the other four islands.
Following the familiar route, Li Fan arrived at another island and swiftly reached its center.
He saw an Innate Spiritual Root, formed from Innate Wutu Essence: the Huangzhong Plum, ranked first among the Top Ten Innate Spiritual Roots of the Primordial. It was a Great Dao treasure that even Saints coveted.
It bloomed once every thirty thousand years and bore fruit once every thirty thousand years. Nine plums with yellow skins and black patterns hung from the tree. This was Yingzhou Island.
Li Fan quickly approached, plucked a plum, and put it into his mouth.
The flesh was crisp and tender, the plum crooked and sweet; its juices flowed abundantly.
"Delicious."
Li Fan understood the effect of this Innate Fruit. Besides increasing magical power and aiding comprehension of laws, it could raise a mortal to the Venerable God Realm—the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm of Later Generations. The price was that their True Spirit would be forever imprisoned within the plum pit.
After eating the fruit, Li Fan spent ten thousand years comprehending the Law of Earth and reached the Venerable God Realm.
Afterward, he placed the remaining eight Huangzhong Plums into jade boxes. This was the first batch of Spirit Fruit, and their effects were extraordinary.
Then he placed the Huangzhong Plum into his Minor World. This Minor World was the storage box Li Fan carried with him.
Li Fan discovered that the soil beneath his feet was actually Nine Heavens Breathing Soil, the sacred material Empress Nuwa, one of the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao in Later Generations, would use to create humans.
He collected all of it. This Nine Heavens Breathing Soil had a special property: as long as one possessed a portion of its origin, it would divide, endlessly producing more Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
Its drawback was that Nine Heavens Breathing Soil divided extremely slowly, but the piece in Li Fan's hands was very large.
Continuing onward, Li Fan spent some effort entering the Third Immortal Island.
After reaching the island's center, he found nothing at all. Li Fan wore an expression of utter disbelief.
Li Fan carefully searched the entire island, yet still found nothing. That was impossible!
If it was not above ground, then it had to be underground. He would carry out the Heaven-Raised-Three-Feet Plan and start digging.
He found it. Li Fan's face filled with a smile. "A pearl."
Li Fan continuously refined the pearl with Primordial Spirit Power and absorbed it into his primordial spirit. It was actually a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl. This was Fangzhang Immortal Island.
There was no time for surprise. He hurriedly continued searching.
One pearl after another, digging and digging across the tiny island.
Thirty-Six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls circled in Li Fan's hands like stars. They were too beautiful, and they were the Innate Spiritual Treasures best suited to Li Fan.
Li Fan hurriedly sat down to refine the treasures. They were actually top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasures with Forty-Eight Restrictions. Even more surprisingly, they were fragments of the Chaos Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Pearl.
When Pangu created the world and chaos shattered, the Chaos Pearl, one of the four great Chaos Supreme Treasures, also suffered the Great Dao's backlash. This too was part of the evolution beneath the Great Dao.
After using Primordial Spirit Power to refine thirty-six Innate Restrictions, he could refine no further. His realm was insufficient. However, he comprehended Space Law.
In Later Generations, the God of Wealth Zhao Gongming possessed only twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, and their quality was merely that of Supreme Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
It seemed that many unforeseen things had happened over the long years.
The Sea-Calming Divine Pearls possessed the traits of both Space Law and the Chaos Pearl. No wonder they could open up worlds.
Li Fan continued onward. While traveling, he noticed something was wrong. He was getting closer and closer to Guixu's interior.
He found them. Daiyu and Yuanqiao were extremely close to one another, and the island-protecting grand formations were unstable. What had gone wrong?
Li Fan entered the island and discovered that part of its formation had shattered. Guixu was absorbing the immortal island's origin.
Though it was very slow, Li Fan could see that Yuanqiao was smaller than the previous three immortal islands.
At Yuanqiao's center stood a tea tree. Li Fan probed it with his divine sense and discovered that it was the legendary Chaos Spirit Root, the Enlightenment Tea Tree.
Unfortunately, it had been damaged during creation and had regressed into a top-tier Innate Spiritual Root. Li Fan placed the Enlightenment Tea Tree into his Minor World and planted it atop the Nine Heavens Breathing Soil.
When he arrived at Daiyu, it was roughly the same size as Yuanqiao. No wonder its reputation in Later Generations was not as great as that of the first three islands. At the island's center, Li Fan discovered a Sky-Supporting Divine Tree.
His divine sense entered the tree, allowing him to learn that it was Tongtian Jianmu. It had regressed from the Chaos Spirit Root, the World Tree. It too had been damaged during Pangu's creation of the world and regressed into a top-tier Innate Spiritual Root.
This was the Innate Spiritual Root best suited to Li Fan, so he first placed it into his Minor World.
The formations of the two immortal islands were damaged, and they had drifted close together, huddling against one another for warmth. No wonder the two islands were so near.
Li Fan spent one hundred thousand years slowly repairing the formations. However, the origin absorbed by Guixu was already gone for good.
The Innate Grand Formations activated, and the two immortal islands slowly drifted toward Guixu's outskirts.
Li Fan had set his sights on these five immortal islands, which had evolved from fragments of chaos.
The immortal islands would not fully evolve until the Witch-Demon Era in Later Generations. Li Fan wanted to use Penglai as the center, link the origins of the five immortal islands, bring them into the world ahead of time, and break out of Guixu.
Before you continue