Deep within West Kunlun Immortal Mountain stood a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root—Huangzhong Li.
The spiritual tree was ancient and vigorous, its branches and leaves overflowing with innate spiritual energy, while a faint hum of Dao Rhyme echoed from within its trunk.
Among all Top-grade Innate Spiritual Roots, Huangzhong Li had the longest growth cycle and bore the fewest fruits.
It blossomed once every ten thousand years, bore fruit after another ten thousand years, and only matured after yet another ten thousand years. Each time, it produced only nine fruits, making it exceptionally precious.
Yet its effects were equally extraordinary. After a Taiyi Golden Immortal consumed one, they could immediately condense their Three Flowers and break through to become a Great Luo Golden Immortal.
However, such hastily achieved Great Luo Golden Immortals lacked an understanding of laws and belonged to the weakest tier among Great Luo Golden Immortals.
Even so, the combat strength of a Great Luo Golden Immortal could not be underestimated.
It was precisely because of the Huangzhong Li Queen Mother of the West had accumulated over several Yuanhui;
that Dong Wangong had been able to gather, in a short time, a group of Great Luo Golden Immortals needed for the Ten Thousand Immortals Array.
Putting together that entire setup had nearly drained Queen Mother of the West's reserves. Now, she only had thirty fruits left as her final stockpile.
In the past, whenever Queen Mother of the West visited East Kunlun to discuss the Dao, she would bring the Three Pure Ones some Huangzhong Li as gifts.
Among the Three Pure Ones, Laozi excelled at pill refinement, and Huangzhong Li fruits were excellent ingredients.
Now that she needed to seek the Three Pure Ones' protection, Queen Mother of the West naturally did not dare be negligent;
she took