Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root

After putting away the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram and the Jade Disc Fragment, Lu Yuan turned his gaze toward this secret realm.

Having lost the support of the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram, the secret realm's aura immediately withered. If not for the power of the earth veins sustaining it, it would likely collapse and perish before long.

Looking at the Profound Yellow essences, the pure and turbid qi, and the many related spiritual objects that had evolved within the secret realm, Lu Yuan's thoughts stirred. "This secret realm can still be put to good use. If I can preserve it, my future dojo will gain another resource site. I cannot allow it to collapse and perish!"

After pondering for a moment, Lu Yuan used the spiritual objects and precious materials within the secret realm as ingredients to refine and lay down a set of Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Immortal Array.

Though its effects were inferior to those of the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram, it barely reached half its former standard.

This was not because Lu Yuan's attainments in the Dao of formations were exceptionally astounding.

After all, when the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram supported the secret realm, it had merely unconsciously emitted a wisp of spiritual radiance. The Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Great Array refined by Lu Yuan, on the other hand, took the earth veins as its foundation and drew upon the power of the land.

No matter what, this earth-vein secret realm had been preserved!

Gazing at the secret realm before him, Lu Yuan nodded in utmost satisfaction. He then turned and departed, heading for the next place where dragon veins converged.

The second convergence of dragon veins lay atop a mountain cliff, where pure and turbid qi swirled in mist yet remained as distinct as the Jing and Wei Rivers.

Innate Pure Qi and Innate Turgid Qi each occupied one side of the cliff, colliding between its two sides.

Within this Pure Turgid Secret Realm, Lu Yuan discovered two Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Roots: the Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus and the Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruit.

The Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus bloomed in six grades. It flowered once every ten thousand eight hundred years, and each kalpa could nurture six Grade One lotus flowers.

However, those six Grade One lotus flowers were all acquired in nature. To become Innate Spiritual Roots, they had to be nurtured with Epoch Creation.

Lu Yuan held no hope for that for the time being. After all, the Heavenly Dao only bestowed Epoch Creation once every five kalpas.

Only Great Luo Dao Lords and even Great Divine Ability Users were qualified to obtain it!

As for those below the Great Luo Dao Lord realm, their chances of obtaining Epoch Creation were slim.

The Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruit was formed from the gathered essence of Turbid Sha qi, and it could bear twenty-four Innate Spiritual Fruits every kalpa.

Though these Innate Spiritual Fruits were nurtured from the essence of Turbid Sha qi, they were rich in the Power of Creation. They were peerless spiritual medicines for tempering the physical body. Even Great Luo Dao Lords could benefit from them to some extent.

Much less Lu Yuan, who was presently only at the Middle Stage Heavenly Immortal realm!

Looking at the twenty-four Innate Spiritual Fruits hanging from the spiritual root, Lu Yuan joyfully picked half of them and placed them within the Spirit Platform Secret Realm of his Purple Mansion Ancestral Aperture.

As for the Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus, there were twelve Grade One lotus flowers in the pool, and Lu Yuan likewise picked half of them.

As a spiritual root nurtured by Innate Pure Qi, the Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus was a supreme treasure for increasing one's mana and nourishing one's soul.

With these two Innate Spiritual Roots, Lu Yuan could be considered to possess a modest fortune even among Mid-grade and High-grade Innate God-Demons.

After refining a Guardian Immortal Array to protect this Pure Turgid Secret Realm, Lu Yuan turned and headed toward the third convergence of dragon veins.

The Innate Spiritual Treasure and Innate Spiritual Roots from the first two locations had given Lu Yuan a tremendous surprise, involuntarily raising his expectations for the treasures at the third convergence of dragon veins.

The third convergence of dragon veins was unexpectedly located on an Immortal Island in the middle of the great river within the Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

After stepping onto the Immortal Island, Lu Yuan swiftly found the convergence of dragon veins according to the sensation from the Innate Grand Formation.

Before he even drew near, he caught wave after wave of a delicate fragrance that calmed his mind.

Upon smelling that fragrance, Lu Yuan was overjoyed. Even the two Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Roots, the Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus and the Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruit, had not possessed such an effect!

He had only caught the fragrance of those Innate Spiritual Roots after reaching their side.

His eyes narrowing slightly, Lu Yuan could not help secretly guessing, "This Innate Spiritual Root may be a High-grade Spiritual Root!"

As his thoughts raced, Lu Yuan quickened his pace and arrived at the center of the Immortal Island.

What entered his sight was a jade green ancient tree that towered into the clouds, magnificent in its myriad aspects and emitting dense life force.

Emerald radiance flowed across its crown, while Life Origin runes circulated through every root and branch.

Forty-eight Innate Spiritual Fruits hung from the ancient tree, exuding an enticing fragrance. Even from afar, one could sense the abundant life force contained within them.

"A Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root?"

Lu Yuan's pupils contracted slightly as he stared at the Innate Spiritual Root before him in shock, unable to put his excitement into words.

A Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root's status was comparable to that of a Quasi-Sage, on par with the Great Divine Ability Users of the current Primordial World. Without fate, one could not glimpse even the slightest trace of it.

Even mighty cultivators with the foundations of Innate Sacred Beings or top-tier Innate God-Demons coveted them without end.

Throughout the Primordial World, most Top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots that had emerged into the world had fallen into the hands of supreme powers, who used them to suppress their own destiny.

It was only because Top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots were suppressed by the Heavenly Dao, making it difficult for them to develop intelligence without a heaven-shaking opportunity, that this was so. Otherwise, given their supreme status and essence, once they transformed, they would inevitably possess the foundations of the most exceptional Innate Sacred Beings.

This was not Lu Yuan's baseless speculation. One of the future Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao, Western Sage Zhunti, was said to have transformed from the Innate Bodhi Tree.

From this, one could see just how defying heaven the foundations and aptitude of a transformed Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root would be!

Looking at the ancient-tree spiritual root before him, Lu Yuan was overjoyed. At this moment, he gained a trace of insight into the previous Failed Transformation of the Pure Turgid God-Demon.

"Looks like this Pure Turgid God-Demon could not bear such towering fortune. Its destiny and fate were simply not strong enough!"

His gaze shifted slightly as Lu Yuan fell into thought.

Among the three convergences of dragon veins in this Cave Heaven Blessed Land were two Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Roots—the Purple Green Vital Qi Lotus and the Profound Yin Extreme Fiend Fruit—one High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the Profound Yellow Pure Turgid Diagram, one Jade Disk of Creation fragment, and the Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root ancient tree before him.

One had to know that every Innate Spiritual Treasure and Innate Spiritual Root was among the most precious treasures of the Primordial World. Those without Great Destiny, Great Opportunity, and great merit could not enjoy such treasures.

Even those with the foundations of Innate God-Demons, born with the fate of heaven and earth bestowed upon them, had to expend a portion of that fate for every Innate Spiritual Treasure or Innate Spiritual Root they possessed.

Once he exceeded that limit, if his destiny and blessings proved insufficient, his own fate would suffer a backlash.

If he weathered that backlash, then his blessings and destiny would grow, and he would naturally be qualified to continue possessing Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots.

This was the principle behind "the treasures of Heaven and Earth belong to the virtuous"!

Who counted as the virtuous? Only those with Great Destiny, great merit, or Great Divine Ability Users!

His former self, the "Pure Turgid God-Demon," had been an Innate God-Demon nurtured from the first strand of Innate Pure and Turbid Qi Between Heaven and Earth. Yet he had merely been an ordinary Mid-grade Innate God-Demon.

Among the multitude of Innate God-Demons and Innate Sacred Beings in the Primordial World, his destiny and blessings ranked only slightly below average.

Naturally, his fate was not enough to claim so many Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots within this "Cave Heaven Blessed Land"!

Thus, at the moment of Manifestation and Birth, his fate was at a low ebb and his luck was poor. He had crashed headfirst into Rahu's self-destruction of the Western Ley Lines and the upheaval of the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao.