A Century of Wandering

After Lin Yan traveled tens of thousands of miles further, he discovered another peculiar lotus in a swamp filled with miasma.

The lotus grew in the black mud, but its petals were pure white, with a golden light at its center, appearing exceptionally sacred in the polluted environment.

[Pure World White Lotus (Seedling), Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Root. Born in the most impure and turbid land, yet blooms the purest and cleanest flower. The young form can purify miasma and poisonous fog. The lotus seeds contain the vitality of creation, a sacred item for healing. Its growth cycle is extremely long, taking ten thousand years to bloom and another ten thousand years to bear seeds.]

Lin Yan's eyes widened. A Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Root! This was a treasure. Although it was just a seedling, its potential was limitless. Lin Yan quickly released his Earth Spirit Seal, simultaneously mobilizing the Great Earth Origin within his body, and absorbed the entire mud swamp, along with the Pure World White Lotus seedling, into the internal space of the Earth Spirit Seal.

This treasure seal was not only integrated for attack and defense, but it also had a small internal space that could be used to store items. Moreover, this small space was filled with extremely dense Earth Element Origin, making it more than sufficient for temporarily storing these spirit plants and spirit creatures.

Besides plants and minerals, Lin Yan had also encountered many rare beasts along the way. There were "Illusion Butterflies" with wings as vibrant as a rainbow, capable of releasing hallucinogenic powder; and "Treasure Seeking Rats" that were small and mouse-like, could burrow extremely fast, and fed on spirit stones. However, these small spirit beasts, upon seeing Lin Yan from afar, had all fled in alarm.

In order to understand the true situation of the outer area of the canyon in more detail, Lin Yan chose not to use escape techniques to travel. For most of the time, he walked on foot. The information displayed in the simulator was, after all, just data and could not show the real scene. After walking all the way, he truly gained a direct understanding of the true appearance of the Primordial World.

Thus, Lin Yan walked and stopped, spending nearly a hundred years to thoroughly investigate the area around the canyon.

A hundred years was but a fleeting moment in the Primordial World. But for Lin Yan, the sights and experiences of these hundred years made him feel the barbarity and cruelty of the Primordial World for the first time.

Harsh environments such as raging miasma zones, boiling poisonous swamps, and erupting Earth Fire Torrents were everywhere.

In addition to these natural harsh environments, the ubiquitous fierce beasts and fierce plants also brought immense ecological disasters to this land.

He had once seen the mountain-sized "Earth Splitting Demonic Rhinoceros" from afar, its single step causing the earth to crack and miasma to surge to the sky;

He had also encountered swarms of "Corpse Soul Crows," which resembled vultures but had bone wings. Wherever they circled, vegetation withered and life vanished.

There were also "Spirit Devouring Vines" stretching for dozens of miles, writhing like living creatures, dragging all passing life forms underground and draining their vital blood.

Over the past century, he had seen countless such incidents.

For the fierce creatures whose strength was comparable to his, or even slightly weaker, Lin Yan showed no mercy, fully utilizing his nature of bullying the weak and fearing the strong. He would unleash the Earth Spirit Seal, its yellow light as heavy as a mountain, smashing the fierce beast until its bones were broken with a single blow. The Wutu Divine Light would sweep over, eradicating the miasma foundation that fierce plants relied on for survival.

When encountering difficult fierce beasts, he would also use the terrain, set up ambushes with formations, and trap them. When he encountered creatures he absolutely couldn't defeat, he would burrow into the ground and escape using the Earth Escape Technique inherent to the Earth Dragon Clan. He fully implemented the strategy of "fight if you can win, run if you can't."

And with every battle, he gained something. He had collected an unknown amount of remains from fierce beasts and fierce plants.

Besides fierce beasts and fierce plants, he did not let go of spirit beasts and spirit plants either. A corner of the Earth Spirit Seal's internal space was specially developed by him into a small "spirit plant garden." The Star Tear Orchid, a few "Clear Heart Bamboo" that he was fortunate enough to find, and the most important seedling, the "Pure World White Lotus," were all placed here.

"That's about enough, it's time to go back." Lin Yan stood on a bare mountain peak, gazing in the direction of the canyon. A hundred years of wandering made him miss his noisy younger brothers and the peaceful and comfortable atmosphere at home even more.

However, just as he was preparing to set off back, the system's warning sound in his mind suddenly rang out sharply:

[Warning! Detected abnormal agitation of earth vein energy three thousand miles ahead. A large-scale Earth Qi Eruption is predicted! The core of the eruption contains a mixture of high-concentration Chaos Fiendish Energy and Innate Spiritual Qi. Danger Level: High!]

"Earth Qi Eruption? Miasma and spiritual energy erupting simultaneously?" Lin Yan found it strange. He had never seen spiritual energy and miasma erupt at the same time.

"When things are abnormal, there must be a demon. Why not go and take a look?" Driven by curiosity, Lin Yan decided to investigate. He used the Earth Escape Technique and silently crept towards the location of the warning.

Soon, he arrived at the edge of the Earth Qi Eruption area. The scene before him made him gasp.

In a vast basin ahead, the earth was violently churning and rising. Countless thick pillars of qi shot out madly from underground. These pillars were of a Weird Color, half of them the murky, inky Destruction Sha Qi, and the other half pure, dense Innate Spiritual Qi.

The two diametrically opposed energies intertwined, clashing and annihilating each other, yet bizarrely achieving a dynamic Balance. They emitted a deafening roar.

In the core eruption zone, space had been distorted by the two energies. Deep, bottomless ravines split the ground, and the rampant Energy Turbulence tore everything around to shreds. Even from a distance, Lin Yan could feel the terrifying, world-destroying power.

"Good heavens, if I got caught in that, I'd probably turn to dust," Lin Yan clicked his tongue inwardly, no longer daring to approach. He found a huge rock and secretly observed from behind it.

He tried to examine the system's atlas, but the feedback was [Unable to Identify].

"Even the atlas can't identify it?" Lin Yan's heart stirred. The system's Primordial Basic Knowledge Atlas could only identify Mineral Deposits of lower grades or ordinary life forms. Once the atlas showed "Unable to Identify," it often meant the item was of very high grade, beyond the atlas's recognition scope.

Lin Yan vaguely felt that he might have stumbled upon a great Treasure this time. So, he decided to wait patiently for a few days to see what kind of Treasure was about to emerge.

This earth-shattering Earth Qi Eruption lasted for three full days and nights. When the last pillar of qi slowly retracted underground, the basin gradually returned to calm. All that remained was a giant pit over a thousand zhang in diameter and bottomless, along with a strange smell in the air that hadn't completely dissipated, a mixture of pure Spiritual Qi and pungent Sha Qi.

After waiting for another half a day and confirming there were no further dangers, Lin Yan Carefully descended to the bottom of the pit.

Deep at the bottom of the pit, treasure light flickered faintly. There was even a peculiar suction force, as if it were drawing in the surrounding Sha Qi and Spiritual Qi, slowly converging beneath the ground.

"As expected, there's something good!" Lin Yan summoned the Earth Spirit Seal to protect himself, launched his Innate Divine Ability, and burrowed underground.

He didn't know how long he burrowed downwards before Lin Yan suddenly fell into a spacious area. In the center of the space, an Item was suspended in mid-air, enveloped in a soft and strange light.

Lin Yan observed closely and found that the object within the light cluster was an Octagonal Disc, only palm-sized. Its material was neither gold nor jade, but seemed like stone or wood, with incredibly complex patterns covering its surface.

Most miraculously, the front of the disc emitted wisps of pure Spiritual Qi, while the back emitted wisps of rampant Sha Qi. The Spiritual Qi and Sha Qi were clearly separated and did not mix.