Spiritual Treasure: Five Elements Spiritual Ring

After the excitement of finding the origin of the Dao passed, Luo Qing calmed down.

He became a little worried again.

Judging by the location of the five-colored divine light, it was precisely within the Five Elements Tribe, eight thousand zhang underground in the center of the Thick Earth Tribe's basin.

That's nearly 25 kilometers deep.

As a Heavenly God, Luo Qing could naturally descend 25 kilometers underground without issue.

However, he was a fire-attribute Heavenly God and wasn't proficient in earth-elemental escape techniques like earth evasion.

It would be difficult to sneak into the depths of the Thick Earth Tribe's underground without being detected by the many earth-attribute gods of the Five Elements Tribe.

If he were exposed, he would certainly have no share in whatever was gestating there, whether it was a spiritual treasure or an Innate God.

"Hmm, five-colored divine light?"

After calming down, Luo Qing used the Eye of the Great Dao to sense it carefully again.

Besides the origin of fire, which Luo Qing was most familiar with, the other four origins—gold, wood, water, and earth—were also present.

"This is actually a place where the five elements converge," Luo Qing exclaimed.

No wonder the ancestors of the Five Elements Tribe moved here!

Perhaps the ancestors didn't discover the origin-gestating land hidden underground.

But the Five Elements Tribe, born from the five elements, had a natural instinct to be close to the origin of the five elements.

It was likely that they had subconsciously sensed that this place was beneficial for the development of the Five Elements Tribe, which led them to settle here.

"With the convergence of the five elements, there should be a connection point to the origin land deep within the magma of Crimson Flame Mountain."

Having figured this out.

Luo Qing no longer hesitated. He immediately left his cave dwelling, using the excuse of cultivating spiritual fire, and entered a branch fire vein of the Crimson Flame Mountain's dormant volcano.

As a fire-attribute deity, Luo Qing was like a fish in water within the magma of Crimson Flame Mountain.

Using the detection capabilities of the Eye of the Great Dao, Luo Qing, cloaked by a third-tier Concealment Immortal Artifact, journeyed deep into the fire vein.

Five thousand zhang below the volcanic magma, Luo Qing searched for a month with the help of the Eye of the Great Dao.

He finally found a branch fire vein leading to the five elements origin land.

Following the magma river of the branch fire vein, Luo Qing smoothly arrived at the depths of eight thousand zhang underground beneath the Thick Earth Tribe.

Finally, he reached an underground cavity the size of a football field.

The fire vein of Crimson Flame Mountain, the water vein of the Northern Great River, the gold vein of the West, the wood vein of the East, and the earth vein in the center.

The vital energy of the five veins finally converged in this small underground cave.

As soon as Luo Qing entered the cave, the pure vital energy of the five elements began to fluctuate with his breathing.

"Such pure essence of the five elements!"

Luo Qing took a deep breath of the vital energy within the cave, and his internal magic power rippled slightly.

With a sigh of admiration, Luo Qing quickly held his breath.

He was here to find the five elements origin land, not to cultivate.

If he disturbed the vital energy of the five elements here, no one knew what would happen.

Luo Qing didn't want any unexpected complications.

The cave was not large, only about the size of a football field, and was completely visible.

Luo Qing knew that the five elements origin land was hidden in an unknown space.

Daring not to be careless in the slightest, he set up the re-refined Concealment Immortal Artifact. The re-repaired and re-refined Five Elements Arena was also deployed within the cave.

Luo Qing then activated his portable Defense Immortal Artifact for protection and took out nearly 20 Blazing Thunder Pearls he had refined over the past century.

What the five elements origin land might gestate could be an Innate Spiritual Treasure, or it could be an Innate God.

If it were an Innate God or an Innate Sacred Being, even though it hadn't emerged yet, if it had already gained sentience, it would still have the power to retaliate against an external enemy.

With all preparations made, his eyes shone with a blue light.

"Found it!" Luo Qing exclaimed with joy in his heart.

At the center of the cave's ceiling, a spatial rift was concealed by a primal concealment formation.

He did not approach immediately.

For this type of primal concealment formation, its strength generally increased in proportion to the quality of the gestating item.

If he attacked forcefully, Luo Qing, as a mere Heavenly God, might not be able to break through the guardian formation.

Fortunately, Luo Qing possessed the Eye of the Great Dao. Once this trivial primal guardian formation was fully analyzed, breaking it would be as easy as flipping one's hand.

At this point, Luo Qing was no longer in a hurry.

He patiently analyzed the Innate Great Formation, memorizing every detail.

Once the analysis was complete, Luo Qing would be able to replicate the formation.

Thirty years!

Luo Qing spent a full thirty years on the guardian formation before he fully understood the entire Innate Guardian Great Formation.

This made Luo Qing both happy and surprised.

He was happy that the formation's grade was high enough, meaning the origin of the things it nurtured must be substantial.

He was surprised, however, that he worried the nurturing entity might be a top-tier Innate God or an Innate Sacred Being.

Beings of that level, even if they hadn't emerged yet, could easily kill a Heavenly God.

"Now that things have come to this, there's no turning back. I can only take a gamble!"

Luo Qing took a deep breath, his eyes resolute as he slashed his saber towards a weak point in the Innate Great Formation.

"Buzz!"

With just a casual strike, Luo Qing easily shook the entire formation.

His eyes flickered, and Luo Qing struck the weak point of the formation nine more times.

With a crack like shattering glass, a three-foot-wide opening appeared on the surface of the guardian formation.

Luo Qing rejoiced and instantly transformed into a streak of firelight, entering the unknown space behind the formation through the opening.

In just a flash, after Luo Qing disappeared, the guardian formation resumed its operation, and the shattered opening repaired itself.

The moment Luo Qing entered the space behind the formation, it was as if he had traversed space.

His vision blurred, and Luo Qing found himself inside a colorful space spanning ten miles.

The Five Elements' vital energy, as if liquefied into flowing water, permeated the entire space, emitting the light of the Five Elements and drifting and flowing freely within it.

Within the Eye of the Great Dao.

The entire space seemed to possess five centers of origin for the Dao.

The vital energies of Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth each formed a vortex, slowly revolving around the Five Elements' origin at the center.

"Hiss!"

This time, Luo Qing was truly shocked. He inhaled a mouthful of pure Fire vital energy and nearly set his tongue ablaze.

It wasn't surprising that Luo Qing was so shocked.

"Five Innate Spiritual Treasures, and a whole set of Five Elements Spiritual Rings at that!" Luo Qing shouted madly in his heart.

At that moment, Luo Qing's head was spinning, as if an ordinary person from his previous life had suddenly been hit with ten million cash.

Originally, Luo Qing had only thought that this place was nurturing a single spiritual treasure with Five Elements attributes.

He never expected the surprise to be fivefold.

Not one Five Elements Spiritual Treasure, but five single-attribute spiritual treasures.

"Low-grade spiritual treasure, Fire Spirit Ring!"

"Low-grade spiritual treasure, Earth Spiritual Ring!"

"Gold Spiritual Ring, Water Spiritual Ring, Wood Spiritual Ring!"

Luo Qing excitedly swept his divine sense, and the nurturing Innate Spiritual Treasures automatically provided feedback.

"A complete set of low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, the Five Elements Spiritual Rings!"

Even without analyzing with the Eye of the Great Dao, Luo Qing automatically received the information about the spiritual treasures.

However, because the spiritual treasures were still in the process of being nurtured and had not yet fully formed and emerged, their functions were unknown.

Normally, finding unformed spiritual treasures meant he could steal their Origin of the Great Dao, which should have been a joyous occasion.

But amidst his joy, Luo Qing felt a faint sadness.

Seeing Revert to Innate within reach, and about to achieve the body of an Innate God.

Luo Qing found himself coveting a complete set of Five Elements Spiritual Treasures.

Yet, if he were to steal the Origin of the Great Dao from even one of the Five Elements Spiritual Rings, the spiritual treasure would likely be downgraded to a treasured artifact.

And the Five Elements Spiritual Rings might lose the chance to combine into one.

"Alas! They say it's good to have your cake and eat it too, but I'm just being greedy!"

Luo Qing sighed, knowing he was being overly sentimental.

He hadn't even become an Innate God yet, and he was already thinking about future spiritual treasures.

"Forget it, so be it! In the future, I might not lack the ability to refine Innate Spiritual Treasures."

Suppressing the greed in his heart, Luo Qing used his Eye of the Great Dao to meticulously scan the five nurturing spiritual treasures.

The origins of the five spiritual treasures were of comparable size, each about three times larger than the origin of a low-level Innate God.

Luo Qing estimated that the origin power of these five spiritual treasures should be roughly equivalent to that of a mid-level Innate God.

"My innate bloodline is from the Crimson Flame Tribe, belonging to the fire attribute. Since I have a choice, it's best to achieve the status of an Innate Fire Attribute God."

Without much thought, Luo Qing decided on the origin of the Dao he would fuse with.

Before, he had thought that if there were no other options, he would fuse with whichever origin of the Dao he found.

Now that he had a choice, Luo Qing still felt most closely connected to the Great Dao of Fire.

As for fusing two, or even more, and unifying the Five Elements.

Luo Qing hadn't even considered such a notion.

Unifying the Five Elements into a single Five Elements Great Dao wasn't a simple matter.

In the Primordial Era, there were many supreme experts who walked a single Great Dao, and many who walked multiple Great Daos.

But no one who unified the Great Dao of the Five Elements had ever been heard of in the Primordial Era's billions of years, showing just how profound the matter was.

Luo Qing only wanted to Revert to Innate. Walking a single Great Dao, or cultivating multiple Daos, were things to consider only after reaching the Golden Immortal or Taiyi realm.

The Innate origin had an influence, but not a significant one.

Having chosen the origin of fire, Luo Qing immediately calmed down.

Within the Five Elements space, he began to conceive the framework of Innate Runes for a fire attribute Innate God.

To fuse with an origin of fire equivalent to a mid-level Innate God, the Divine Body Luo Qing designed had to match the rank of a mid-level Innate God.

Luo Qing hadn't analyzed a mid-level Innate God before, but thankfully, it wasn't a major issue.

He only needed to design a general framework, not meticulously fill in every detail.

The moment he Reverted to Innate, as long as the overall framework was sound, the origin of fire would naturally communicate with the Great Dao of Fire to sublimate and fill in the Divine Body and rank.

It was as if time stood still within the Five Elements space. Luo Qing sat there for decades.

Finally, the corners of Luo Qing's mouth curved upwards, and he opened his eyes.

A flash of green light flickered in Luo Qing's eyes as the illusory projection of a fire god's Divine Body and a rank Dharma Form appeared before him.

The fire Divine Body had a dragon's head, a human's body, and a dragon's tail. Between a pair of dragon horns on its head, a ball of crimson flame burned.

The rank Dharma Form also had a dragon's head, a human's body, and a dragon's tail. Two clusters of crimson flames burned on its dragon horns, and a pair of crimson flame pythons were coiled around its arms.

After a few seconds of thought, Luo Qing named the Divine Body and Dharma Form.

Luo Qing spoke:

"Innate Crimson King Divine Body! Innate Crimson King Dharma Form!"