Primordial Gourd Vine Appears, Another Choice

Taiyi and Dijun feasted on the barbecue until their mouths were slick with grease, both thoroughly satisfied.

Afterward, the two brothers each raised their cultivation-related doubts and compared notes, resolving quite a few questions.

As for the issues they could not resolve for the time being, neither brother dwelled on them too much and simply set them aside.

Three hundred years later, Dijun returned to his own bedchamber to continue cultivating.

Taiyi likewise shut the gates of Taiyi Palace and resumed his secluded cultivation.

But not long after Taiyi sat down, a strange sound made him pause, delight appearing on his face.

"Ding dong. Detected that Hongjun's lecture is about to end. The Primordial Gourd Vine, one of the ten great Primordial Spiritual Roots, is about to mature. At this critical moment, please make the correct choice in accordance with the Homebody Choice System."

"Choice One: Follow the original course of Primordial Wilderness history. Leave the Sun Palace, head to Buzhou Mountain, and take part in dividing up the Primordial Gourd Vine. Reward: Three Lights Divine Water Treasure Vase, a top-grade Primordial spiritual treasure."

"Choice Two: Stay home, remain cautious, stay hidden in the Sun Palace, and diligently cultivate the Sun Law, becoming a practitioner of the stay-hidden Dao. Reward: Five-Needle Pine, one of the ten great Primordial Spiritual Roots."

"Choice Three: Monopolize the entire Primordial Gourd Vine. Snatch it and run. Reward: Death Seeker title (Put on the badge, love no one: Wherever you are, bloody storms are bound to arise)."

Looking at the three choices displayed by the system, Taiyi's mouth twitched as he stared blankly.

Especially the third choice. It was not asking him to court death—it was genuinely sending him to his death!

What was the Primordial Gourd Vine?

It was not merely one of the ten top-grade Primordial Spiritual Roots.

It was also connected to Nüwa's later attainment of Sainthood.

Therefore, the Primordial Gourd Vine could be regarded as Nüwa's sacred vessel for attaining Dao.

If Taiyi went and stole Nüwa's opportunity to attain Dao now, he would definitely become locked in a fight to the death with the Fuxi-Nüwa siblings of Phoenix Perch Mountain.

Forget about continuing to hide peacefully on the Sun Star and cultivate diligently. Whether he could even stay alive would be a question.

Nüwa was far from as simple as she appeared on the surface.

As the first female Sage in the Primordial Wilderness to prove Dao and become a Sage, how could she possibly be some naive sweet girl?

Moreover, the karma tied to the Primordial Gourd Vine involved every one of the era's most formidable figures.

Laozi, Yuanshi, Tongtian—the Three Pure Ones—Nüwa, Red Cloud Hermit...

And that cheat-like existence, Hongjun Daozu!

Legend had it that the final purple-black Chaos Treasure Raising Gourd was in Hongjun Daozu's hands.

This was because the final purple-black Primordial gourd contained a minor Chaos world capable of nurturing Chaos Spiritual Treasures!

But Chaos objects were not permitted to exist in the Primordial World. Thus, the moment the Primordial Gourd Vine appeared, it suffered a ruthless purge at the hands of the Heavenly Dao.

Before it could even complete its transformation, the Heavenly Dao had already arranged everything clearly, and it was divided cleanly among Laozi and the other six.

Otherwise, as one of the ten top-grade Primordial Spiritual Roots, why could Primordial Spiritual Roots such as the Primordial Bitter Bamboo and Primordial Willow transform and appear in the world, even cultivating until they attained Dao, while the Primordial Gourd Vine could not transform into a Primordial Dao Body?

Was it not because it had been plotted against by the Heavenly Dao and turned into an object meant to answer a calamity?

That was also why the Heavenly Dao repeatedly launched great calamities.

The Primordial World did not permit the existence of people that powerful!

Existences that were too powerful would become variables within the Primordial World and disrupt the normal operation of the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World.

For a Heavenly Dao with such a strong desire for control, that was intolerable.

As for the first choice...

Leaving the palace was impossible.

It would be impossible for him to leave the palace in this lifetime!

Only by hiding safely in the Sun Palace could he barely survive.

Although Taiyi greatly coveted the reward for the first choice: the Three Lights Divine Water Treasure Vase.

As the all-purpose divine water of the Primordial World,

Three Lights Divine Water was practically a universal remedy.

Whether for healing injuries or supplementing one's cultivation, it was an invaluable tool.

Not to mention that this was a treasure vase capable of producing Three Lights Divine Water!

With such a useful treasure, saving lives, healing wounds, restoring magical power and cultivation, and advancing one's Dao would all become ridiculously easy in the future.

But the same remained true: leaving the palace to join the scramble involved consequences that were far too great and could easily entangle him in karmic bonds.

That did not fit Taiyi's original intention of hiding in the Primordial World until he became invincible before leaving the palace.

After employing the process of elimination, Choices One and Three were immediately crossed out.

Thus, Taiyi only had the second choice left.

There was no helping it. This Homebody Choice System was a shut-in through and through.

Any choice that did not conform to a shut-in's way of doing things could very likely trigger unknown and terrifying consequences.

Taiyi did not want to take that risk.

"System, I choose Choice Two."

With a thought, the Homebody Choice System had already confirmed Taiyi's choice and issued the accompanying reward.

Taiyi did not hesitate. He directly took this choice's reward from the system storage.

The Five-Needle Pine, one of the ten top-grade Primordial Spiritual Roots.

Though the Five-Needle Pine was not particularly famous, its precious effects were no less than those of Ginseng Fruit.

It changed once every five thousand years, requiring a total of fifteen thousand years for one season of fruit to mature.

Its fruits were divided among the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, with ten of each type, for a total of fifty fruits.

Eating one fruit of each of the five types would gather the qi of the five elements and allow one to make a breakthrough in a single stroke, sparing countless years of arduous cultivation.

Even Taiyi could not help but be moved by such a treasure.

Among the three choices, it was the second most precious treasure.

For Taiyi and Dijun, whose cultivation was still shallow, it was exactly the sort of thing that suited them perfectly.

And although the Homebody Choice System challenged Taiyi's fragile nerves with every choice,

Have to say, as a system for a shut-in, it was truly considerate.

Just look.

For this choice reward, the Five-Needle Pine, a Primordial Spiritual Root, it had directly given him a fully mature Primordial Spiritual Root.

"Primordial spiritual fruits of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. These really are good things!"

"They will save my brother Dijun and me countless years of sitting in meditation and cultivating."

"We can free up our energy and time for other matters."

Taiyi toyed with the Five-Needle Pine in his hand, then plucked all fifty mature five-element spiritual fruits.

He placed them in specially made jade vessels.

With a casual wave, he sent the Five-Needle Pine, the Primordial Spiritual Root, into the world independently opened up by the World Tree—the Jianmu Divine Tree.

The moment the Five-Needle Pine's roots touched the soil, they automatically extended, burrowing deep into the space created by the Jianmu Divine Tree and greedily absorbing the world's Primordial Spiritual Energy.

It was worth mentioning that the world independently opened up by the Jianmu Divine Tree was merely an empty world, with nothing inside.

The reason it now possessed Primordial Spiritual Energy, soil, mountains, rivers, earth veins, and so on was entirely because Taiyi had refined the Primordial Spiritual Energy of the Primordial Wilderness and moved it inside.

Creating things from nothing consumed a great deal of magical power, so Taiyi had only given the world within the Jianmu Divine Tree some preliminary decoration for now.

He had not gone to great lengths to expend magical power moving more things inside.

"But it is enough for this Five-Needle Pine, the Primordial Spiritual Root, to recover its vitality!"

"Once another fifteen thousand years pass, it will bear five-element spiritual fruits again."

Looking at the Five-Needle Pine swaying gracefully in the world-space of the Jianmu Divine Tree, Taiyi chuckled to himself.