In the late stage of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, a sweep of his divine sense immediately covered hundreds of millions of miles around West Kunlun.
A Divine Pool was filled with dense immortal energy, its waters pouring down from the Ninth Heaven above.
And in the center of the Divine Pool, a towering Flat Peach Tree stood in plain sight!
"Mo Wu, one million eight hundred thousand miles to the northwest. Stop when you see a Divine Pool!"
At Xie Fang's command, Mo Wu immediately galloped off on all fours, clouds forming beneath his feet as he raced through West Kunlun.
Before they even reached the Divine Pool, they could already smell a faint, sweet fragrance.
The fragrance cleared the mind and sharpened the senses!
Following the direction of the scent, Mo Wu galloped onward, and at last they reached the Divine Pool.
"Master, we're here."
Mo Wu snorted and gazed intently at the pool with his tiger eyes. The dense Spiritual Qi emanating from the Flat Peach Tree in its waters filled him with excitement.
"Master, there's even a Spiritual Root here!"
Xie Fang nodded, looked up at the tall fruit tree already laden with fist-sized peaches, and said, "This is the Ren Water Flat Peach, one of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots. There's only one tree. It takes ten thousand years to flower, another ten thousand to bear fruit, and yet another ten thousand for the fruit to ripen. Each time, it produces only thirty-six peaches."
These were memories passed down by the Heavenly Dao; they couldn't be false.
According to the original history of the Primordial World, Hongjun would obtain this treasure. Once the war between the Lich tribes ended, Hongjun would bestow this Spiritual Root upon Queen Mother of the West to guard the Celestial Palace.
By then, however, the Ren Water Flat Peach would have already been divided and propagated into three thousand six hundred trees.
Of course, the peaches from those propagated trees were naturally no match for the complete Ren Water Flat Peach, which had yet to be divided!
"Where I go, what I see becomes mine!"
Xie Fang didn't hesitate in the slightest. With a sweep of his hand, a Silver Giant Hand appeared out of thin air, gripped the towering, thousand-zhang-tall Flat Peach Tree, and yanked it up with all its might!
With the cultivation of a late-stage Grand Unity Golden Immortal and a body of tremendous strength, collecting an Innate Spiritual Root was as easy as could be!
"All done. Let's go!"
Xie Fang stuffed the entire Flat Peach Tree into his spatial storage, climbed onto Mo Wu, and took to the clouds.
His divine sense had swept across West Kunlun, and there was nothing else worth his attention. So he left without another word!
West Kunlun lay in the western part of the Primordial World, not far from the western Spiritual Veins. Since he'd come all this way and obtained one of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots, the Ren Water Flat Peach, how could Xie Fang forget that the west held plenty of other treasures?
For one thing, there were the Spiritual Veins that Luohu would destroy in later ages. How many more Experience Points would he gain if he bathed in them?
Since he'd come all this way, Xie Fang had no intention of returning empty-handed!
So, riding Mo Wu, Xie Fang headed straight for the west!
Not long after Xie Fang left, a white-haired, white-bearded Daoist appeared out of thin air.
"The Heavenly Dao guided me here, saying a Spiritual Root would appear. Could this be the place?"
The Daoist flicked his Whisk and immediately sensed the lingering wisps of misty energy beneath the Flat Peach Tree that had been pulled out.
"Oh no. Could someone have taken it?"
The Daoist furrowed his brows slightly. Feeling the Spiritual Qi in the pool gradually fading away, he raised his left hand, and a Purple Jade Pendant appeared in his palm!
The pendant was about as large as a bowl, suffused with purple mist and radiating an indescribably mysterious aura.
The only flaw was a walnut-sized hole in the Purple Jade Pendant.
If Xie Fang had seen the pendant in the Daoist's hand, he would certainly have recognized the walnut-sized piece missing from it as the very fragment he possessed!
The Jade Disc of Creation!
This man was Hongjun!
Following the Heavenly Dao's guidance, Hongjun had come here in search of the Ren Water Flat Peach Spiritual Root. Discovering that someone had beaten him to it, he instinctively took out the Jade Disc of Creation and began divining its whereabouts.
But gradually, Hongjun's brow furrowed.
He discovered that despite being a Quasi-Saint and holding the Jade Disc of Creation, his divination yielded only one result: no such person could be found!
It seemed someone had obscured the secrets of Heaven!
"Anyone capable of obscuring the secrets of Heaven must be extraordinarily powerful. Who could it be? Luohu? Yin-Yang? Qiankun? Or Yang Mei?"
Unaware that he'd already made someone else take the blame for him, Xie Fang was now in the Western World.
Before the war between Dao and Demon, the western continent's Spiritual Veins had been abundant, and auspicious signs could be seen everywhere. The moment he entered the Western World, Xie Fang felt a wave of comfort wash over him. At the same time, he sensed faint fluctuations from a formation!
"People say the Western World was full of treasures before its Spiritual Veins were destroyed. I didn't believe it before, but now I do..."
Following the fluctuations from the formation, Xie Fang looked over and, sure enough, found a naturally formed array concealed there.
"Master, there's a formation here. There must be a treasure inside!"
Mo Wu had spotted the formation too. When he saw that Xie Fang was looking toward it, he immediately stopped and called out.
Xie Fang nodded. "Since we've found it, we can't leave without taking a look. Let's go inside and see what kind of treasure it is!"
"G-go inside?"
Mo Wu was stunned for a moment. Wasn't the usual procedure to refine the formation first?
"Master, this kind of innate formation formed naturally and has immense power. We—"
Before Mo Wu could finish, Xie Fang tore open space and shifted straight into the formation.
"What did you say?"
Only then did Xie Fang hear Mo Wu's words. He turned his head and asked.
Mo Wu was dumbfounded. Before he'd even figured out what was happening, his master had already brought him into the formation!
What realm was his master's cultivation at, exactly?
"N-nothing..."
Mo Wu stammered out a reply, his heart filled with awe.
Ever since he'd first met Xie Fang, the only time he'd seen him fight was when he killed three Fire Kirins. After that, Mo Wu had carried Xie Fang everywhere, and Xie Fang hadn't shown off any abilities.
Now, having witnessed his master's Spatial Divine Ability, Mo Wu's admiration surged like a mighty river, endless and unstoppable...
"The treasure here is extraordinary. Don't just stand there—move!"
Seeing Mo Wu lost in admiration, Xie Fang rapped him on the head. Mo Wu immediately snapped out of it and carried Xie Fang onward!
The formation was enormous, and the place where Xie Fang sensed the treasure was exceedingly strange.
It was divided into two distinct realms. One was filled with immortal energy and bathed in rosy light; the other was dim and shrouded in murderous aura!
At the point where the two realms met, two long rods, one bright and one dark, continuously absorbed the immortal energy and murderous aura from both realms!
"These are... the Yin-Yang Rods!"
Xie Fang's eyes widened. According to his memories, they were a pair of Innate Spiritual Treasures with extraordinary power. The Yang Rod could strike gods and immortals, while the Yin Rod could subdue souls!
It could be said that beneath the Twin Yin-Yang Rods, every living being in the Primordial World had to bow their head!
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