A ripple stirred faintly in space, and Xie Fang immediately noticed it with his keen senses.
"This is a Spatial Array!"
Xie Fang's heart burned with excitement, because he knew what this meant!
Three Immortal Islands were full of treasures, which was why the Ten Directions Sky Covering Great Array protected them. And now he had discovered another Spatial Array hidden on the island. With one array nested inside another, there had to be a supreme treasure here!
As soon as the thought crossed his mind, Xie Fang hurried to the spot where the spatial ripples had appeared. He focused his senses, and as surging magical power rose from his body, a crystal-clear array immediately revealed itself!
"Be refined by me!"
This array was naturally much smaller than the Ten Directions Sky Covering Great Array. With Xie Fang's cultivation at the Late Golden Immortal level, he could certainly refine it.
However, it would still take time.
Time flowed on, and another five hundred years passed.
On this day, Xie Fang's magical power surged against the array.
Suddenly!
The Golden Ruler Shadow rang out with a deep hum, and the array shattered in response!
At once, a beam of white light burst out of the array and shot straight into Xie Fang's heart!
Inside the array was a small lake. Its shimmering surface reflected three colors: gold, silver, and purple. At the very center of the lake stood a White Lotus Platform bearing thirty-six flowers and a total of one hundred and eight petals. It shone with white light, and bathing in that radiance brought an overwhelming sense of peace to the mind.
The beam of white light from earlier had come from this lotus platform.
"A White Lotus Platform, one hundred and eight petals, thirty-six flowers..."
Xie Fang was thrilled. It wasn't hard to guess the origins of this White Lotus Platform!
After all, throughout the entire history of the Primordial World, there were only a few famous lotus platforms.
With three flowers and nine petals per grade, this lotus platform had reached the highest rank of twelve grades!
It could only be the most mysterious Pure World White Lotus of the Primordial World!
In the ancient days of creation, Pangu, the Great God who opened heaven and earth, had been nurtured by the Creation Green Lotus. Later, when he opened heaven and earth, the Creation Green Lotus shattered, and its six seeds became six lotus platforms.
They were the Creation Green Lotus, the Merit Golden Lotus, the Karma Fire Red Lotus, the Reincarnation Purple Lotus, the World Destroying Black Lotus, and the Pure World White Lotus!
The Creation Green Lotus was an Innate Supreme Treasure of thirty-six grades. It was not tolerated by the Heavenly Dao, and after it shattered, it became three supreme treasures.
They were the Dragon Head Ruyi Scepter, the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and the Qingping Sword, held by the Three Pure Ones!
The saying from later generations, "The red flower, white root, and green lotus leaf—all three teachings were one family," came from this.
The other five lotus platforms weren't as blessed as the Creation Green Lotus. Each had only twelve grades and was a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, containing forty-eight Forbidden Seals and its own unique powers and abilities.
The Merit Golden Lotus had fallen into Hongjun's hands. After he attained the Dao, he bestowed it upon the Two Sages of the West as a treasure to suppress the fortunes of the Western religion.
The World Destroying Black Lotus had been obtained by Luohu, the Demon Ancestor, and vanished without a trace after his death.
The Karma Fire Red Lotus was the accompanying treasure of Styx Patriarch, hidden in the Sea of Blood.
The Reincarnation Purple Lotus was said to have been obtained by Houtu of the Witch Clan. In the end, she used it to complete the Heavenly Dao, transforming herself into reincarnation. It was the treasure with which Houtu attained the Dao!
Only the Pure World White Lotus had always remained mysterious, with no one knowing where it was!
And the White Lotus Platform Xie Fang saw before him was, no matter how he looked at it, the Pure World White Lotus!
"I never would've guessed! Two supreme treasures were hidden on Penglai Immortal Island, one of the Three Immortal Islands!"
Xie Fang's heart burned with excitement. He hadn't forgotten that his true form was the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, which counted as a supreme treasure in its own right.
"The Pure World White Lotus can cleanse worldly desires and stabilize the Primordial Spirit. It lets cultivators fear no karmic fire and advance rapidly in cultivation. It also possesses immense defensive power!"
With that thought, Xie Fang immediately decided to put the lotus platform away.
His true form, the Primordial Sky Measuring Ruler, possessed tremendous offensive power, but its defenses were comparatively weak. The Pure World White Lotus could make up for that shortcoming perfectly.
After putting away the Pure World White Lotus, Xie Fang suddenly noticed dozens of shining pearls beneath the platform!
Each pearl was about the size of a fist, arranged in the shape of a lotus. Xie Fang counted thirty-six in total.
"Why do these look a bit like Sea-Calming Pearls?"
Xie Fang picked one up and examined it, uncertain.
It was said that the Sea-Calming Pearls belonged to Zhao Gongming in later generations. But Zhao Gongming had only twenty-four of them. During the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, they were eventually taken from him and passed through several hands before reaching Randeng. Randeng transformed them into the Twenty-Four Heavens, giving them immense power!
"Could there have originally been thirty-six Sea-Calming Pearls, with Zhao Gongming only getting some of them?"
Xie Fang studied them for a while but couldn't figure them out, so he simply put them all away.
After finishing that, his gaze was drawn to the lake water, which shimmered in three different colors.
The lake stretched about three or four li across and gleamed gold, silver, and purple.
Its surface glittered. Xie Fang tentatively used his magical power to sense the water and immediately realized there was something extraordinary about it!
"Could this damn thing be Three Lights Divine Water?!"
Xie Fang's eyes lit up!
Legend had it that Three Lights Divine Water consisted of golden Sunlight Divine Water, silver Moonlight Divine Water, and purple Starlight Divine Water.
Separated, each of the Three Lights Divine Waters had its own effect.
If golden Sunlight Divine Water touched a living creature, it could wear away its flesh, blood, bones, and sinews!
Silver Moonlight Divine Water could directly corrode the Primordial Spirit and soul!
As for Starlight Divine Water, it could dissolve a being's true spirit and spiritual sense!
But when all three kinds of divine water were combined, they became the greatest holy medicine in the Primordial World, capable of curing any poison deemed "incurable"!
It was even said that Three Lights Divine Water could bring the dead back to life and restore flesh to bare bones!
As far as Xie Fang knew, the Three Lights Divine Water should have belonged to Primordial Lord of Heaven. He had once given some to Cihang Daoren. During the Journey to the West Calamity in later generations, Sun Wukong knocked over Zhen Yuanzi's Ginseng Fruit Tree. Cihang Daoren, who went by the name Guanyin Bodhisattva, used just a few drops to bring the tree back to life!
The Ginseng Fruit Tree was known as one of the Ten Great Spiritual Roots between heaven and earth. Countless immortals had been powerless to do anything about it!
Yet Guanyin had revived it with just a few drops of Three Lights Divine Water. That alone showed how powerful the water was!
And now, right before Xie Fang, lay an entire lake of Three Lights Divine Water!
"I've struck it rich—really struck it rich..."
Xie Fang was overwhelmed with excitement. A surging wave of power swept out, instantly collecting all the Three Lights Divine Water!
"My cultivation is still too low to refine the Stone Stele quickly. The Three Immortal Islands won't appear in the world anytime soon anyway, so I might as well take a trip through the Primordial World and enjoy the sights. I can also see whether there are any ferocious beasts left there and hunt them for Experience Points."
Xie Fang considered the matter. There were quite a few sentient creatures on the island, but most of them weren't very powerful. Killing them wouldn't earn him many Experience Points, and it wasn't worth the time.
The Primordial World was vast, filled with countless living beings and many powerful experts. If he took a trip through it, finding prey for Experience Points would be easy.
Besides, now that the Pure World White Lotus protected him, even if he couldn't defeat his opponent, at least his life wouldn't be in danger!
"Then it's settled. I'll achieve Form Manifestation as soon as possible, then take a trip through the Primordial World!"
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