Innate Calabash Vine Recognizes Its Master

Dijiang laughed.

"Of course!"

He immediately activated his Law of Space, which swept toward Wu Tian. Wu Tian instantly felt an incomparably profound force of spatial transformation.

There was only a flash before his eyes.

He had already appeared inside the valley, before the Innate Calabash Vine!

When he had viewed it from afar,

Wu Tian had not realized how enormous the Innate Calabash Vine was. Now that he examined it closely, he cried out in shock.

Countless vines of the Innate Calabash Vine resembled coiling dragons, ancient and powerful as they climbed over the cliff face, nearly covering the entire mountainside. Every leaf was emerald green, like a piece of jade!

A gentle breeze passed by.

The leaves swayed, immediately gleaming with treasure light and rustling like softly chiming jade...

Seven calabashes hung from it.

They radiated different lights and spiritual auras!

The first two calabashes had already matured. The first gleamed with purple light and contained Innate Yang Qi. It had originally been obtained by Taiqing.

Taiqing extracted the Yang Qi within it.

The remaining calabash was refined into the Purple-Gold Gourd, becoming the treasure used by Taiqing's good corpse—Lord Taishang—to store pills and medicine!

The second calabash was black and contained Innate Yin Qi. It had originally been obtained by Tongtian. Its Yin Qi was likewise extracted and given to Taiqing to complete the Yin-Yang Qi, which he merged into his own Great Dao.

Afterward, Tongtian refined the blue calabash's empty shell into the Water-Fire Gourd, another formidable magic treasure...

Wu Tian then looked toward the other five calabashes. The five immature calabashes each shimmered with the light of the Innate Five Elements.

As for where these Five Elements calabashes ended up,

Zhen Yuanzi obtained the green Wood calabash. He later gave it to Shennong, the reincarnation of a fragment of Hongyun's true spirit, and it became the Shennong Five Grains Gourd!

Hongyun obtained the red Fire calabash.

He refined it into the Nine-Nine Soul Scattering Gourd!

The yellow Earth calabash was obtained by Nüwa, who refined it into the Demon Summoning Banner that would later gather all demons...

Di Jun obtained the white Metal calabash.

During the Witches and Demons War, Di Jun used the white calabash to gather the essence and qi of fallen Witch Clan members, refining it into the famed Flying Dagger of Decapitation, which was later passed to Lu Ya.

It became tremendously famous in Investiture of the Gods!

The final blue Water calabash was obtained by Yuanshi. He later used this treasure to gather the Three Lights of the sun, moon, and stars, refining them into the extremely famous Three Lights Divine Water...

"So..."

"Should this Innate Calabash Vine actually be called the Innate Yin-Yang Five Elements Calabash?"

Wu Tian muttered inwardly.

Thinking of the fates of these calabashes, even those that had not fully matured later became renowned magic treasures of the Primordial Wilderness. That showed just how precious they were!

"But...

"They're all mine now!"

Wu Tian could not help laughing.

Even the calabash vine that would play an enormous role in creating humans in the future, gaining much merit from the creation of humanity, belonged to Wu Tian!

"Right..."

"Nine Heavens Breathing Earth!"

Thinking of the creation of humans,

Wu Tian hurriedly looked toward the roots of the calabash vine. It was said that the Nine Heavens Breathing Earth Nüwa used to create humans had been obtained from where the Innate Calabash Vine grew...

After Wu Tian carefully investigated,

he indeed found a clump of Breathing Earth beneath the roots of the Innate Calabash Vine, shining with Nine-Colored Light. Its immensely heavy Earth-element power was constantly being absorbed by the Innate Calabash Vine!

Wu Tian's heart stirred.

His mana immediately surged forth and descended upon the Nine Heavens Breathing Earth. He took out a small piece, and just as the legends said, the Breathing Earth rapidly grew...

It quickly returned to its original size!

However, Wu Tian also discovered that the Nine Heavens Breathing Earth could not grow from nothing. It needed to absorb the spiritual essence of heaven and earth, consuming the surrounding spiritual energy.

Worried that he would interfere with the calabash vine's maturation,

Wu Tian did not continue collecting it after taking a small piece. Instead, he began considering how to refine the Innate Calabash Vine, at the very least leaving his own mark upon it...

After pondering briefly,

Wu Tian extended his soul power toward the Innate Calabash Vine. The vine seemed to possess intelligence, and countless leaves rustled loudly!

The seven calabashes also lit up.

In an instant, they used the powers of Innate Yin and Yang and the Five Elements to wear away Wu Tian's soul power...

"Eh..."

"It's actually rejecting me?"

Wu Tian was somewhat speechless.

He immediately stopped and pondered silently. After a moment, regardless of whether the Innate Calabash Vine could understand him, he softly said,

"Innate Calabash Vine!"

"I can tell you that meeting me today is also your opportunity. Heaven and earth have their limits. How can they tolerate an existence like you, complete with Innate Yin and Yang and the Five Elements?"

"If we had not met today..."

"Then you would surely be unable to escape the fate of being divided apart in the future!"

The Innate Calabash Vine seemed to understand.

Its countless swaying leaves abruptly stilled, and the light upon them dimmed. A sorrowful aura even spread from the entire Innate Calabash Vine...

Among the Primordial Wilderness's Ten Innate Spiritual Roots,

not one had attained the Dao in a perfect form. For example, Great Immortal Yangmei was a "hollow-hearted" willow, while Zhen Yuanzi had not transformed from the Ginseng Fruit Tree's original body!

Others, such as the Fusang Tree and Moon Laurel Tree,

were all the more imprisoned upon the Sun Star and Moon Star because their original forms were too powerful and perfect, unable to transform and emerge at all...

The Innate Calabash Vine possessed intelligence.

Hearing Wu Tian say this, it immediately sensed something, as though it had perceived its own future fate!

Seeing this,

Wu Tian smiled again and said,

"I am of the Orthodox Pangu Lineage, favored by Fortune... Since we have met by fate today, if you are willing to acknowledge me as your master, I will surely do my utmost to protect you in the future!"

"What do you say?"

As he spoke, Wu Tian simply activated his Pangu True Form.

A gray phantom suddenly appeared and instantly overlapped with his physical body. Pangu's aura spread in all directions...

As Pangu's aura emerged,

even Mount Buzhou faintly responded!

Outside the great formation, the Ancestral Witches were instantly astonished as they looked toward Wu Tian.

"What's going on?"

Just now, Wu Tian had been muttering to the Innate Calabash Vine, and they had been wondering whether the vine could understand him.

Now, he had directly summoned his Pangu True Form.

The Pangu True Form flashed and vanished.

Wu Tian returned to his original bearing!

He merely wanted to prove his identity, not use the Pangu True Form to beat the Innate Calabash Vine into submission and forcibly suppress it.

Then,

a scene that delighted Wu Tian appeared:

Countless leaves swayed as if nodding in agreement. He also sensed a stream of benevolent spiritual essence. Then, the tenderest tip of the foremost branch on the most important vine flew toward him.

Like a green flood dragon!

"Whoosh!"

It shot toward Wu Tian's arm.

Wu Tian did not react in time. The Nine Revolutions Mystical Art abruptly began circulating, and his physical strength instinctively rebounded, directly knocking the branch away...

At once,

the Innate Calabash Vine sent out a grievance-filled ripple!

Only then did Wu Tian understand what it meant. He hurriedly extended his arm, suppressed his body's rebounding force, and said with a laugh,

"Haha..."

"Again, again!"

The Innate Calabash Vine finally pierced him.

Wu Tian only felt his blood and qi draining away. Looking again at the Innate Calabash Vine, he saw that its jade-green vine had already been stained red, growing like blood vessels!

At the same time,

a profound connection formed between him and the Innate Calabash Vine. Wu Tian also clearly felt the vine's affection for him...

"No wonder blood recognition of a master is so popular. It really is useful!"

Wu Tian withdrew his arm.

He could not help sighing inwardly!