Huang Tian drew upon the boundless merit of the Huang Tian Realm and began infusing it into the Third-grade Golden Lotus in his hand. A hazy golden glow of merit radiated from the lotus, while an invisible yet palpable power steadily grew stronger.
The Nine-Rank Merit Golden Lotus had originally been the Twelfth-grade Merit Golden Lotus. The Twelfth-grade Merit Golden Lotus had formed from a lotus seed of the Chaos Green Lotus. During the Investiture of the Gods War, when Saint Jieyin used the Twelfth-grade Merit Golden Lotus to suppress Guiling Holy Mother, Mosquito Daoist devoured three of its grades. From then on, the Twelfth-grade Merit Golden Lotus had fallen to the ninth grade.
As a Supreme-grade Innate Spirit Treasure, the Merit Golden Lotus possessed formidable power in its own right. After Pangu created heaven and earth, it had also been tainted by a trace of merit from the opening of heaven, becoming one of the rare merit spirit treasures in the world.
Every Innate Spirit Treasure contained an Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light. No matter how powerful an attack was, it could not damage an Innate Spirit Treasure in the slightest. This was why so many powerful immortals and Buddhas pursued Innate Spirit Treasures. As long as the Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light remained, their spirit treasures would never be damaged. That was where they surpassed Acquired Spirit Treasures. If an Acquired Spirit Treasure was destroyed, one either had to find the materials and refine it anew or simply discard it.
An hour later.
The Third-grade Golden Lotus in Huang Tian's hand absorbed enough Heavenly Dao Merit and rose directly from the third grade to the fourth grade, advancing from a Mid-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure to a High-grade Acquired Spirit Treasure.
Before Huang Tian could even celebrate, Qian Renxue excitedly snatched