Innate Netherworld Ghost Willow

Luo Qing's expression was grim. Anyone would be upset to discover a grotto-heaven, only for it to be on the verge of collapse.

But there was no time for sadness. Luo Qing wasn't alone, with others behind him!

Under the scrutiny of the Eye of the Great Dao, Luo Qing had already located the core of the grotto-heaven.

It was also the center of the entire grotto-heaven, the place where the malevolent energy was most concentrated.

Without daring to waste any time, Luo Qing flew rapidly towards the center of the grotto-heaven.

A grotto-heaven world with a diameter of one hundred thousand li – not large, not small.

In just a moment, Luo Qing arrived within a dark and eerie valley.

Luo Qing hovered in the sky, frowning as he looked down at the valley below.

The malevolent energy was so dense it was almost liquefying, and the resentment within was exceptionally strong, giving off a subtle sense of discomfort.

Both gods and Immortals instinctively recoiled from and disliked malevolent energy and the resentment of dying beings.

However, the resentment and malevolent energy within the valley were indeed a bit too potent.

Luo Qing had no idea what kind of tragic event had occurred here to brew such a massive amount of malevolent and resentful energy.

His figure flickered, and he descended towards the valley below.

This was the core of the grotto-heaven.

Perhaps because the exterior was protected by the Bone-Shattering Wind and a grand formation, no guarding formation was set up within this valley.

Luo Qing easily entered the valley.

"Huh? So many tiger bones!"

As soon as he landed, Luo Qing noticed something was amiss.

This valley occupied an area of only about a hundred li, yet scattered across the ground were over a hundred white tiger skeletons.

They varied in size from tens of zhang to a thousand zhang.

The moment he saw the tiger bones, Luo Qing's mind raced.

The west, the Bone-Shattering Wind outside the grotto-heaven, a pile of tiger bones!

Luo Qing belatedly realized that this grotto-heaven might have been a secret base for the Wind Spirit Tiger clan, which had been annihilated long ago.

Looking at the strands of curse power intertwined with the resentment clinging to the tiger bones.

Luo Qing finally understood.

The Wind Spirit Tiger clan had been wiped out by a powerful being from the Fierce Beast clan who had cursed them.

"No wonder the Wind Spirit Clan went extinct!"

Luo Qing had always been puzzled before. It was incredibly difficult to completely exterminate a race.

As long as a few descendants of the Wind Spirit Clan escaped, it wouldn't be hard to pass down their bloodline.

But if they were cursed, and their bloodline carried a curse, it was entirely possible to sever a clan's bloodline.

"This place should have been a refuge for the Wind Spirit Clan back then. I imagine there should be no shortage of treasures!"

With this thought, Luo Qing's eyes lit up.

He swept his divine sense across the outer areas of the valley and headed towards the innermost part.

The core of the valley was shrouded in a misty, murky energy. Even Luo Qing's divine sense could barely penetrate it.

However, Luo Qing was an Innate Fire God. While this murky energy could block his divine sense, it couldn't stop his true form.

The Innate Crimson Fire on his body enveloped him, and Luo Qing plunged headfirst into the Netherworld resentful and malevolent energy.

As soon as this murky energy came into contact with the Innate Crimson Fire, it was immediately burned and purified, unable to harm Luo Qing in the slightest.

Passing through the dense mass of resentful, netherworld energy, a lake about three li in diameter appeared before Luo Qing.

But Luo Qing's gaze was fixed on a giant hundred-zhang-tall willow tree on a small island in the center of the lake.

Its canopy was lush and dense, completely covering the entire small lake.

Wisps of netherworld energy swirled around the willow tree's branches and leaves.

The mass of netherworld malevolent energy surrounding the lake was clearly the work of this tree.

"High-grade Innate Spiritual Root, Netherworld Ghost Willow!"

The moment he saw this tree, its information was firmly imprinted in Luo Qing's mind.

Luo Qing's mind went blank for a moment.

But wasn't this place supposed to be a refuge for the Wind Spirit Clan?

Why would a high-grade Innate Netherworld Ghost Willow be planted here?

However, Luo Qing's Azure Light Eyes flared, and he immediately discovered something unusual.

This Innate Netherworld Ghost Willow was a bit strange; it actually bore strong traces of the rules of wind.

Innate spiritual roots possessed their own sentience. Sensing Luo Qing's probe, it immediately transmitted a faint spiritual light of information to him.

Luo Qing swept his divine sense over the scene, and the images within the spiritual light flashed by rapidly, like a movie.

In just a few breaths, Luo Qing understood.

He murmured, "So that's how it is!"

He was indeed not mistaken; there were traces of the origin of wind on this Netherworld Ghost Willow.

This was because, two thousand years ago, this Innate Ghost Willow was originally a wind-attribute Innate Spiritual Root.

It was even a top-tier wind-attribute Innate Spiritual Root, the Innate Verdant Wind Willow, a companion spiritual root of the Wind Spirit Tiger Ancestor.

The birth of the Wind Spirit Clan was also not unrelated to this spiritual root.

It was also because of this that the spiritual root suffered a great calamity.

Its connection to the Wind Spirit Clan was too close; they were interdependent.

And two thousand years ago, the Wind Spirit Clan was completely cursed to death.

This place, serving as the burial ground for the last descendants of the Wind Spirit Clan, had gathered the resentment of the entire Wind Spirit Clan.

The intensity of the resentment from the annihilation of an entire race formed from the Four Primordial Spirits can be imagined.

Endless vengeful energy entangled the Innate Verdant Wind Willow, the companion spiritual root of the Wind Spirit Clan.

It forcefully twisted a wind-attribute Innate Spiritual Root into a Netherworld Ghost Willow.

This caused the tree spirit's sentience to drop sharply, its origin damaged, and it was reduced to a top-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

Luo Qing could only grasp a superficial understanding of the complex inner workings.

However, the origin attribute of a top-tier wind-attribute Innate Spiritual Root was forcibly changed to the Netherworld attribute.

This involved more than just the resentment from the annihilation of the Wind Spirit Clan.

This was not something Luo Qing could investigate for the time being.

At this point, Luo Qing's face finally showed immense joy.

Regardless of its attribute, this was a genuine top-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

Its value was absolutely extraordinary!

Furthermore, from the spiritual light images of this tree, Luo Qing discovered other astonishing things.

With shining eyes, Luo Qing instantly appeared on the small island in the center of the lake.

Looking around, this lake island, about one kilometer in diameter, besides having an Innate Spiritual Root planted on it.

Beneath the willow tree, there were densely packed nearly a hundred giant oval eggs, each about half a meter in diameter.

"The Tiger Clan gives birth to live young, right? Why are the Wind Spirit Clan oviparous!"

A strange thought flashed through Luo Qing's mind.

Luo Qing's eyes instantly fixed on the only two of the hundred tiger eggs that still held life.

These hundred tiger eggs were specially transported out by the Wind Spirit Clan during their life-or-death crisis.

Even the Innate Verdant Wind Willow was hastily transplanted by the Wind Spirit Tiger Ancestor when it knew the Wind Spirit Mountain Range could not be defended.

They had originally hoped for the Wind Spirit descendants to rise again, but in the end, they were still annihilated.

Their bloodline was cursed, and a hundred unborn Wind Spirit Tiger cubs died in the womb.

Of the remaining two tiger eggs, one exuded a vigorous Metal White Tiger aura.

The other was surrounded by Netherworld Profound Tiger energy, absorbing and expelling immeasurable turbid energy.

"Metal White Tiger! Netherworld Profound Tiger!"

One alive, one dead. One yin, one yang.

In this desperate situation for the Wind Spirit Tiger Clan, two top-tier Innate Beast Gods had miraculously gestated.

Even Luo Qing couldn't help but marvel inwardly.

"Could these be the children of the Wind Spirit Tiger Ancestor!"

Luo Qing speculated in his heart, otherwise, ordinary Wind Spirit Tiger descendants would likely find it difficult to survive under the curse.

Although these two tiger eggs survived, they no longer carried the bloodline of the Wind Spirit Clan.

"I don't care whose eggs these are! From now on, they all belong to me!"

Luo Qing smiled joyfully. Getting a top-grade Innate Spiritual Root and two unborn top-tier Innate Beast Gods for free was an immense fortune.