Innate Wood Element Vital Qi

After considering it carefully, Lu Yuan decided to keep three First-grade Purple Green Vital Qi Lotuses and see whether he could obtain Epoch Creation in the future, nurturing this Postnatal Immortal Root into an innate item.

As for the Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits, Lu Yuan picked all thirty-six of them and stored them in the Spirit Platform Secret Realm within his Purple Mansion Ancestral Aperture.

After collecting six First-grade Purple Green Vital Qi Lotuses and thirty-six Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits, Lu Yuan turned and departed atop an auspicious cloud, utterly satisfied, a trace of a smile flashing through his eyes.

These Innate Spiritual Items were enough to sustain three to five Kalpas of his cultivation. Of the six First-grade Purple Green Vital Qi Lotuses, twelve Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits, and Life Spirit Fruits he had picked last time for his own cultivation, he had used only three First-grade Purple Green Vital Qi Lotuses and four Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits.

Of the remaining Innate Spiritual Items, when he took Shangqing Tongtian Daoist as his master, he had presented nine Life Spirit Fruits to the Three Pure Daoists.

He gave Senior Brother Daoist Duobao, Second Senior Sister Saint Mother Jin Ling, and Immortal Elder Nanji one Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus, two Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits, and one Life Spirit Fruit each.

The final two Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruits were given to White Crane Boy and the Water Fire Boys.

As thoughts turned in his mind, Lu Yuan headed toward the Immortal Island where the Tree of Life stood atop the third dragon vein. The twelve Life Spirit Fruits he had picked last time had all been given away.

This time, he intended to properly savor the fresh Life Spirit Fruits he picked, keeping them all for his own cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, Lu Yuan had ascended the Immortal Island and headed straight for the Tree of Life at its center.

What met his eyes was still that towering emerald ancient tree, soaring into the clouds in magnificent splendor. Jade-green radiance flowed across its crown, emitting dense life force.

The moment he arrived at the center of the Immortal Island, Lu Yuan smelled that enticing fragrance. A Kalpa had passed, and the spiritual fruit's aroma had grown even richer and mellower!

His auspicious cloud descended beside the immortal pool. Lu Yuan walked up to the Tree of Life spiritual root, picked twelve Life Spirit Fruits, placed them in a wooden box made from the Tree of Life's branches, and stored them in the Spirit Platform Secret Realm within his Purple Mansion Ancestral Aperture.

After picking the Innate Spiritual Fruits, Lu Yuan found two locations beside the Innate Spiritual Root, the Tree of Life, where the spiritual essence was especially dense. He then took out the Black Gourd and the Three-Petal Green Lotus, two Innate Spiritual Items, from the Spirit Platform Secret Realm within his Purple Mansion Ancestral Aperture.

Looking at the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus, whose spiritual light was faint and weak, Lu Yuan inwardly lamented. The Black Gourd lacked sufficient fortune and was not meant to be born into the world. Had he not nourished it with Three Lights Divine Water back then and continually watered it with Liquid of Life afterward, it would likely have long since fallen into the Houtian class!

As for the Three-Petal Green Lotus, it was an Innate Spiritual Item formed from a portion of the origin of the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Twenty-Four-Petal Creation Green Lotus, after merging with a shriveled, lusterless lotus seed carrying the power of lightning.

Both of these Innate Spiritual Items had nearly perished at birth. Lu Yuan had continuously cultivated them with Three Lights Divine Water and Liquid of Life, and after a hundred thousand years of nourishment, their rank had stabilized at that of Low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.

"Still, if I want to cultivate and nourish the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus into a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and a Twelve-Petal Creation Green Lotus, I may not get my wish even after the Witch-Demon Calamity ends..."

With a silent sigh, Lu Yuan set up formations at the two locations rich in spiritual essence, drawing in the Life Essence from the immortal pool. He also separated off a thread of the power of the Innate Grand Formation, the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Qi Grand Formation, to envelop the two formations.

Thus, drop after drop of Life Essence fell upon the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus after being drawn in and refined by the formations, while that thread of the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Qi Grand Formation's power continuously scattered wisps of Innate Primordial Qi.

Under the combined effects of Life Essence and Innate Primordial Qi, the faint spiritual light on the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus within the formations began to gleam in fine, shimmering threads!

Watching the Black Gourd and Three-Petal Green Lotus gradually recover, Lu Yuan's eyes brightened slightly. Though this recovery was slow, time was the cheapest thing in the Primordial World.

He had already obtained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and possessed an endless lifespan. So long as he did not become embroiled in a calamity or suffer another's schemes, he could live until Heaven and Earth were destroyed.

To spend several Epochs of painstaking effort in exchange for a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure gourd and a Twelve-Petal Creation Green Lotus—this deal was incomparably worthwhile!

Only because Lu Yuan possessed the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root, the Tree of Life, and could obtain an enormous quantity of Life Essence was he able to seize this opportunity.

Was this not why, on Buzhou Mountain, Shangqing Tongtian Daoist had allowed Lu Yuan to pick the Black Gourd, while Grand Pure Daoist bestowed the Three-Petal Green Lotus upon him?

After arranging everything, Lu Yuan turned his gaze to the Innate Spiritual Root, the Tree of Life. He planned to gather Innate Wood Element Vital Qi around the spiritual root.

It had already been a hundred thousand years since he picked the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit on Buzhou Mountain.

During this time, while his magical power and cultivation realm had improved, he had also made great progress in condensing the Five Qi within his chest.

At the Sanqing Daoist Field on Kunlun Mountain, he had illuminated the Divine Treasuries of his spleen and lung apertures, then used the vast amount of Innate Earth Element Vital Qi he had obtained on Kunlun Mountain to condense the earth-element qi among the Five Qi in his chest.

As for the metal-element qi of the Lung Aperture Divine Treasury, perhaps he simply lacked the affinity for it. Lu Yuan searched all over Kunlun Mountain without finding any, leaving him no choice but to use the slow grinding of water against stone, separately condensing the Innate Metal Element Vital Qi within Innate Spiritual Qi.

Though this action consumed time, it was still a reliable method.

After all, if one asked which region in the Primordial World possessed the richest Innate Metal Element Vital Qi, it was undoubtedly the Western World.

One could casually find an ordinary Spirit Land secret realm where Innate Metal Element Vital Qi was exceedingly abundant!

But Lu Yuan certainly could not cross more than half the Primordial World and travel to the Western World merely to condense a strand of Innate Metal Element Qi.

At present, the Witch and Demon Clans of the Primordial World were sharpening their blades, each carving out its own sphere of influence and waging campaigns against the myriad races and living beings. Slaughter continued without cease Between Heaven and Earth.

Even though he had obtained the Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and cultivated an Immortal Lord body, crossing more than half the Primordial World to the Western World at such a time would not be safe.

Separately condensing Innate Metal Element Vital Qi from Innate Spiritual Qi was a slow grind, but its strength lay in its reliability.

Over these years of absorbing and exhaling Innate Metal Element Vital Qi, Lu Yuan had already filled four-tenths of the Lung Aperture Divine Treasury. In another thirty to fifty thousand years, he would be able to condense Innate Metal Element Qi.

As for the Kidney Aperture Divine Treasury, Lu Yuan possessed a large amount of Three Lights Divine Water. Among the varieties of Innate Water Element Vital Qi in Heaven and Earth, how many could compare to the purity of Three Lights Divine Water?

And for the Liver Aperture Divine Treasury and its Innate Wood Element Vital Qi, Lu Yuan naturally thought of the spiritual root, the Tree of Life.

One had to know that the Tree of Life was a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root born in response to the Great Dao of Life, and naturally contained a vast amount of Innate Wood Element Vital Qi.

Gathering Innate Wood Element Vital Qi beside the Tree of Life would surely yield twice the result with half the effort!

As the thought flashed through his mind, Lu Yuan took out an emerald-glazed immortal bottle. Forming hand seals, he sent a stream of magical power into it and controlled this Houtian Immortal Artifact to collect Innate Wood Element Vital Qi.