Break Through Life and Death to See the Great Way; Nine-Turn Divine Art Forges the Future (Continued)

You had to know, last time she had possessed a Water Dragon at the Perfection of the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, only to be slain by Yun Xiao.

So this time, Wumo had learned her lesson. She planned to possess a Qilin at the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, one capable of bearing more of her avatar's power.

That way, there would be no chance of failure.

But how could a Qilin capable of achieving the Great Luo Dao be an idiot?

"Y-You... fellow Daoist, I-I-I've never seen you in the Q-Qilin Clan before!"

As Wumo was pondering, a man landed nearby. His eyes roamed up and down her, and he looked as though he was about to drool.

"A Five Elements Qilin?"

Feeling the man's aura, Wumo immediately guessed his identity.

Then she observed the Qilin before her without giving anything away.

His eyes were shifty, his tongue stumbled over his words, and he even grinned and picked his ear as he spoke.

What a coincidence. Wasn't he exactly the perfect target she had been searching for?

"F-Fellow Daoist, why aren't you saying anything?" the Five Elements Qilin continued to stammer.

"I'm not of the Qilin Clan. I'd merely heard of the Qilin Clan's great reputation at Buzhou Mountain and came to pay a visit."

Wumo smiled softly. Her peerless beauty left the Five Elements Qilin staring, eyes wide.

"Th-Then, I-I can take you to the Qilin Ancestral Land for a t-tour?"

"There's no rush to see the ancestral land. I feel that we're fated to meet, fellow Daoist. Why don't we find somewhere secluded and discuss the Dao first?"

"Th-That sounds wonderful!"

The Five Elements Qilin was overjoyed and hurriedly led Heavenly Consort Wumo toward his cave.

In the Primordial Wilderness, time passed without notice.

On this day, the Huang Zhong Plum burst into radiant light. Nine glistening fruits hung from its branches, each marked with profound Daoist talismans. Their rich fragrance seemed to promise enlightenment and immortality with just one breath.

The nine Huang Zhong Plums had fully ripened!

Yun Xiao waved her hand and carefully picked the nine fruits. In an instant, Dao Sound rumbled through the air, and the spiritual energy across Yingzhou Island grew even richer.

"These are supreme-grade innate spiritual fruits. With the Great Dao of Pills, they can be refined into Nine-Turn Golden Elixirs, perhaps even more powerful elixirs."

"Unfortunately, my cultivation isn't high enough yet. Using them to make pills would only waste their energy. I'd be better off consuming them directly."

Watching the nine fruits in her hand, Yun Xiao's eyes shone as she decided how to use them.

The Huang Zhong Plum bloomed after ten thousand years, bore fruit after another ten thousand, and ripened after yet another ten thousand.

After thirty thousand years, nine more fruits would ripen.

Thirty thousand years seemed like a long time, but in the Primordial Wilderness, it passed in the blink of an eye.

Besides, she had the Time Flow Restriction, which could greatly shorten the time it took the Huang Zhong Plum to ripen.

By the time she reached the realm where she could refine Nine-Turn Elixirs, the Huang Zhong Plum would likely have borne fruit several times over.

Rather than store them away, she might as well address her immediate needs.

For example, achieving the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm!

With that thought, Yun Xiao didn't hesitate. She swallowed one of the Huang Zhong Plums.

Boom!

The next moment, indescribable magical power erupted from within her, instantly filling every corner of her body and swelling it like a balloon.

"Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique."

Yun Xiao remained composed. The technique formed a vortex in her sea of consciousness, continuously absorbing the Huang Zhong Plum's boundless magical power.

Before long, her swollen body had returned to normal.

"Hmm—"

At the same time, nine acres of Auspicious Cloud gathered above her head. Three flower buds rested upon it, still tightly closed, casting down countless glimmers of light.

These were the Heaven, Earth, and Human Flowers.

Once the three flowers gathered atop her head and fully bloomed, she would achieve the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm!

But after opening slightly, the three flowers stopped growing.

"Again!"

Yun Xiao parted her lips and swallowed another Huang Zhong Plum.

"Hmm—"

The three flowers slowly unfurled, their auras profound: as lofty as the heavens, as weighty as the earth, and as indomitable as humanity.

Yun Xiao swallowed another fruit.

The three flowers continued to bloom. Each exquisite petal looked as though it had been steeped in snowy radiance and carved over countless eons.

Then came the fourth fruit, the fifth... all the way to the ninth.

By then, Yun Xiao had refined all nine Huang Zhong Plums. Her surging magical power, like a starry river rolling backward, was continuously devoured by the Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique, then transferred to her Primordial Spirit and passed on to the three flowers atop her Auspicious Cloud!

It was a wondrous cycle, as though it transcended heaven and earth and formed a system of its own.

"The Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique is terrifying!"

Yun Xiao's gaze was clear. Glimmers from the three flowers fell onto her shoulders, sending ripples of Dao Rhyme through the air.

Indeed, the Nine Revolutions Primordial Technique was far too heaven-defying.

A single Huang Zhong Plum contained magical power comparable to that of a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

And yet, even that wasn't enough to advance the technique!

One could only imagine how terrifying Yun Xiao's magical power would become once she reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm after consuming all nine fruits!

"Hmm—"

After all nine Huang Zhong Plums had been fully refined,

a dazzling Green Light shot from Yun Xiao's Primordial Spirit, piercing through space. A faint feeling of transcendence beyond the Five Elements suddenly surfaced in her heart.

Immediately afterward, the three flowers atop her Auspicious Cloud bloomed one after another, expounding indescribable Dao Sound.

One petal, two petals, three petals, four petals...

Only when all three flowers had opened to nine petals did they gradually settle.

One petal, one world; one world, one rank; one rank, one Dao.

Now that all three flowers had bloomed with nine petals, the three flowers atop Yun Xiao's head were all of the Nine-Rank level!

Nine was an ultimate number in the Primordial Wilderness.

There could be countless Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortals, but at most nine Saintly positions.

There could be countless cultivation techniques, but only one Nine Revolutions Divine Technique.

Even the Huang Zhong Plum, the foremost supreme-grade innate spiritual root, bore only nine fruits.

So Yun Xiao's Nine-Rank Three Flowers had already reached the limits of the Primordial Wilderness.

In other words, her future potential would reach the highest realm the Primordial Wilderness could sustain!

As far as she could remember, only the Three Pure Ones seemed to have possessed flowers like these.

As for Hongjun, there were no records of his.

"With Nine-Rank Three Flowers, I'll at least be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Three Pure Ones in the future."

Yun Xiao murmured, just as she was about to study the mysteries of the three flowers.

"Hmm—"

A Small Black Stone Bead suddenly flew out of her body. The next moment, a sea of purple energy surged from within it and poured entirely into the three flowers!

The black stone bead had flown out on its own, without any prompting from Yun Xiao, releasing a mighty torrent of purple energy into the three flowers atop her head.

"What!?"

Yun Xiao's heart jolted. As if sensing something, she abruptly looked up!

Above her Auspicious Cloud, the three flowers that had settled were suddenly stained by the purple energy—and then they bloomed with new petals!

Ten petals!

Eleven petals!

Twelve petals!

At that moment, all three flowers of Heaven, Earth, and Human bloomed with twelve flawless petals. They swayed gently above the Auspicious Cloud like the most exquisite works of art in the world!

"Twelve-Rank... Perfected Three Flowers!"