Innate Netherworld Ghost Willow

Luo Qing's complexion looked terrible. Anyone would feel awful after discovering a Cave Heaven only to find it on the verge of collapse.

But there was no time to grieve. Luo Qing had not realized that there were still other people behind her!

Under the Eye of the Great Dao's investigation, Luo Qing had already discovered where the Cave Heaven's core was.

It was also the center of the entire Cave Heaven, where the Grievance Fiend Qi was at its densest.

Daring not to delay, Luo Qing flew rapidly toward the center of the Cave Heaven.

The Cave Heaven World was a hundred thousand li in diameter—not especially large, but not small either.

However, after only a moment, Luo Qing flew into a dark and gloomy valley.

Luo Qing stood above the clouds, frowning as she looked at the valley below.

The baleful qi was so dense that it was almost liquefied, and the resentment within it was exceptionally intense, faintly giving off an uncomfortable feeling.

Whether god or immortal, all living beings instinctively resisted and disliked baleful qi and the resentment of the dead.

However, the Grievance Fiend Qi in the valley was truly a little too powerful.

Luo Qing did not know what sort of tragic event had occurred here to brew such a massive amount of Grievance Fiend Qi.

With a flash of her figure, she descended toward the valley below.

This place was the core of the Cave Heaven.

Perhaps because the Bone-Scraping Wind and the great array outside were protecting it, no protective array had been established inside the valley.

Luo Qing entered the valley with ease.

"Huh? So many tiger bones!"

The moment she landed, Luo Qing realized that something was wrong.

The valley covered only about a hundred li, yet more than a hundred tiger-shaped skeletons lay scattered across the ground.

They ranged from several dozen zhang to more than a thousand zhang in size.

The instant she saw the tiger bones, Luo Qing immediately connected them to many things.

To the west, there was the Bone-Scraping Wind outside the Cave Heaven, and there was a pile of tiger bones!

Only afterward did Luo Qing realize that this Cave Heaven might have been a hidden base of the Wind Spirit Tiger Clan, which had been wiped out in the past.

Looking at the resentment entwined around the tiger bones, mixed with traces of cursing power,

how could Luo Qing fail to understand?

The Wind Spirit Tiger Clan had been cursed to death by a powerful member of the Fierce Beast Clan, resulting in the annihilation of the entire clan.

"No wonder the Wind Spirit Clan became extinct!"

Luo Qing had always been puzzled before. Completely exterminating an entire race was extremely difficult.

So long as a few descendants of the Wind Spirit Clan escaped, it would not be difficult for them to pass down their bloodline.

But if they had been cursed to death and their bloodline had been tainted by a curse, it was entirely possible for the bloodline of the whole clan to be severed.

"This should have been one of the Wind Spirit Clan's refuges back then. There probably won't be any shortage of treasures!"

At this thought, Luo Qing's eyes immediately lit up.

Her divine sense swept across the outskirts of the valley before heading toward its deepest core.

The deepest part of the valley was shrouded in a mass of mist-like Netherworld Turbid Qi. Even Luo Qing's divine sense could not penetrate it in the slightest.

However, Luo Qing was an Innate Fire God. This turbid qi could block her divine sense, but it could not stop her true body.

Innate Crimson Fire enveloped her entire body, and Luo Qing charged straight into the Netherworld Grievance Fiend Qi.

The moment the filthy qi touched the Innate Crimson Fire, it was immediately burned and purified, unable to invade Luo Qing in the slightest.

After passing through the dense mass of Grievance Fiend Netherworld Qi, a lake three li in diameter appeared before Luo Qing.

Luo Qing's eyes, however, were firmly fixed on a massive willow tree a hundred zhang tall on a small island in the center of the lake.

Its branches and crown were luxuriant, completely covering the entire small lake.

Strands of Netherworld Qi coiled around the willow tree's branches and leaves.

The mass of Netherworld Baleful Qi around the lake was clearly the work of this tree.

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

The moment she saw the tree, information about it was firmly imprinted in Luo Qing's mind.

Luo Qing's mind instantly went blank.

But wasn't this place a refuge of the Wind Spirit Clan?

How had a high-grade Innate Netherworld Ghost Willow been planted here?

However, Luo Qing's Azure Light Eyes burst into radiance, and she immediately noticed something unusual.

There was something wrong with this Innate Netherworld Ghost Willow. Traces of dense Wind Laws actually remained on its body.

An Innate Spiritual Root possessed its own Spiritual Nature. Upon sensing Luo Qing's investigation, it immediately sent a faint information Spiritual Light toward her.

Luo Qing swept over it with her divine sense, and the images within the Spiritual Light flashed past rapidly like a film.

After only a few breaths, Luo Qing suddenly understood.

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

She had indeed seen correctly. Traces of the Wind Origin truly existed within this Netherworld Ghost Willow.

That was because this Innate Ghost Willow had originally been a wind-attributed Innate Spiritual Root two thousand years ago.

Moreover, it had been a top-grade wind-attributed Innate Spiritual Root—the Innate Verdant Wind Willow, the companion Spiritual Root of the Wind Spirit Tiger Ancestor.

The birth of the Wind Spirit Clan had also been closely related to this Spiritual Root.

For that very reason, this Spiritual Root had suffered a calamity.

Its relationship with the Wind Spirit Clan had been too close; they could be said to have been mutually dependent.

Two thousand years ago, the Wind Spirit Clan had been completely cursed to death.

As the final burial ground of the Wind Spirit Clan's last descendants, this place had gathered the resentment of the entire Wind Spirit Clan.

The intensity of the resentment from the complete annihilation of a race born from the Four Spirits of Heaven-Opening could be imagined.

Endless Grievance Fiend Qi had become entangled around the Innate Verdant Wind Willow that had accompanied the Wind Spirit Clan.

It had forcibly twisted an Innate Wind Spiritual Root into a Netherworld Ghost Willow.

This caused the tree's Spiritual Nature to greatly diminish and damaged its origin, reducing it to a high-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

The complicated truth behind this was something Luo Qing could only understand superficially.

But for a top-grade Innate Wind Spiritual Root to have its innate attribute forcibly changed into a Netherworld Attribute—

there was certainly more involved than the resentment of the Wind Spirit Clan's annihilation.

For now, this was not something Luo Qing could investigate.

At this point, a look of wild joy finally appeared on Luo Qing's face.

Whatever attribute the Spiritual Root had, it was still a genuine high-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

Its value was absolutely extraordinary!

Moreover, from the images in the tree's Spiritual Light, Luo Qing had discovered something else remarkable.

Luo Qing's eyes shone brightly as she instantly appeared on the small island in the center of the lake.

Looking around, the lake island was about one kilometer in diameter. Apart from an Innate Spiritual Root being planted there,

nearly a hundred enormous oval eggs, each about half a meter in diameter, were also piled densely beneath the willow tree.

"Aren't tigers viviparous? How is 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 possessed life force.

These hundred Tiger Eggs had been specially transported out when the Wind Spirit Clan faced a life-or-death crisis.

Even the Innate Verdant Wind Willow had been hurriedly transplanted after the Wind Spirit Tiger Ancestor realized that the Wind Spirit Mountain Range could not be defended.

They had originally hoped that the Wind Spirit descendants would rise again, but who could have known that the entire clan would still be annihilated in the end?

Their bloodline had been cursed, and the hundred unborn Wind Spirit Tiger Clan members had died in the womb.

Of the two remaining Tiger Eggs, one overflowed with vigorous Geng Metal Qi.

The other was surrounded by Netherworld Qi and breathed in and out boundless Turbid Baleful Qi.

"Metal White Tiger! Netherworld Profound Tiger!"

One living and one dead, one yin and one yang.

In this dead land of the Wind Spirit Tiger Clan, two top-grade Innate Beast Gods had miraculously been born.

Even Luo Qing could not help secretly marveling at it.

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

Luo Qing speculated inwardly. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for ordinary descendants of the Wind Spirit Tiger Clan to survive beneath the curse.

Although these two Tiger Eggs had survived, they no longer possessed the bloodline of the Wind Spirit Clan.

"I don't care who laid you! From now on, you're both mine!"

Luo Qing smiled delightedly. She had picked up a high-grade Innate Spiritual Root and two unborn top-grade Innate Beast Gods for free—this opportunity was truly incredible.