The Green Lotus Blooms

Watching Gulanxiu leave, the Barbarian Hammer King muttered to himself, "I wonder if that kid can break through those dragons' blockade and enter the Dragon God Tower. With his willpower, once he gets inside, he should at least climb to the eighth floor and become an eighth-level Dragon Blood Warrior, reaching nine times the gene level and a body 256 meters tall. With that foundation, plus the Blood Warrior boost, he'll have a huge advantage when he breaks through to immortality!"

Gulanxiu didn't hear the Barbarian Hammer King's last words. Back in reality, he had returned to his monotonous, boring routine of cultivating, fishing, and hunting Blood Demons every day.

In the blink of an eye, another eight hundred years passed. Holding a Bloodfall Crystal in his hand, Gulanxiu sliced open his arm once more and said softly, "Success or failure rests on this one move! If this doesn't work, I'll just give up for now. I'll look for another chance to upgrade later!" With that, he cut his arm and pressed the Bloodfall Crystal inside.

Gulanxiu never expected that a mission on the Bloodfall Continent would waste a thousand years of his time.

The main problem was that the Green Bud was too voracious. Since its last upgrade, it had devoured 999,999 Bloodfall Crystals without any change. Although Gulanxiu vaguely felt that one more crystal might make it bloom, he wasn't certain.

So, before attempting to fuse this millionth crystal, Gulanxiu made up his mind: if this one still couldn't make the Green Bud bloom and upgrade, he would temporarily abandon the effort. He'd try again when the opportunity arose later.

But fortunately, persistence paid off. When the last Bloodfall Crystal was absorbed by the Green Bud, the bud in Gulanxiu's sea of consciousness suddenly burst into dazzling green light.

It quickly began to spin within his sea of consciousness.

As the bud spun, it slowly grew larger and extended outward. After a moment, the Green Bud fully bloomed, revealing a lush green lotus hovering at the center of Gulanxiu's sea of consciousness.

The lotus petals were arranged in three layers, and within the innermost layer sat a small lotus platform. Sensing the green lotus in his mind, Gulanxiu felt a blood-deep connection, as if the lotus were a part of his own body.

Just then, the green lotus erupted with intense light, instantly breaking out of Gulanxiu's sea of consciousness and manifesting in the outside world.

Once outside, the lotus grew with the wind, expanding to a hundred meters in size. A beam of green light shot into the sky, instantly purifying all the baleful qi within a ten-thousand-meter radius.

Gulanxiu was now seated on the lotus platform.

The lotus slowly closed again, reverting to its bud form.

Inside the bud, streams of green energy continuously condensed and seeped into Gulanxiu's body, constantly reshaping it.

At that moment, Gulanxiu felt nothing but comfort and gradually drifted off to sleep...

Ten thousand meters away from Gulanxiu, in a large pit, a Realm Lord with a face full of long fur suddenly spotted a green glow not far ahead.

The Realm Lord exclaimed in surprise, "What's that?" He quickly moved into the range of the green light.

As soon as he entered the green light's area, the Realm Lord felt an instant relaxation. Under the influence of the baleful qi in the Ancient God Ruins, cultivators here were always filled with killing intent, even if not fully corrupted, and would fight at the slightest provocation.

But stepping into this green light zone, the Realm Lord felt his mind suddenly calm. All distracting thoughts vanished, and even his thinking seemed to speed up slightly.

In just a few breaths, the Realm Lord reached the closed lotus. Staring at the massive, glowing green lotus before him, a flicker of greed passed through his eyes. He hurried forward, trying to collect the lotus into his internal world.

But no matter what he tried, he couldn't move the lotus an inch.

The Realm Lord let out a bitter laugh. "Looks like I can't keep this treasure to myself. Although the baleful qi here is dense and few people come, it'll inevitably be exposed over time. What a pity for such a treasure!"

As he spoke, he took out a token-like communication device and contacted his teacher, a great elder of the Immortal Temple.

The Immortal Temple was located at the core of the Ancient God Ruins.

The land stretched vast and desolate, with mountain ranges rising and falling, interspersed with swamps, lakes, forests, and giant pits. Within a region spanning tens of millions of kilometers, baleful qi vortices could be seen everywhere—on mountaintops, deep in lakebeds, at the bottom of pits, or suspended in midair.

At the core of each baleful qi vortex was a dazzling red sun.

Within this tens of millions of square kilometer area, there were exactly 10,081 blood-red baleful qi vortices.

They varied in height, size, and location.

These 10,081 vortices were scattered across the sky, lakes, peaks, and deep valleys, naturally forming a unique pattern.

"Rumble~~~"

"Screech!"

"Roar!"

It sounded like an ancient beast howling across eons of time, echoing through this region.

At the center of the 10,081 baleful qi vortices stood an ancient temple, spanning about a million kilometers, composed of black and red. Its surface was covered in intricate carvings—beast roaring scenes, battles of Immortal Gods. Surrounded by the 10,081 vortices at its core, the ancient temple exuded an aura of antiquity.

How large was this ancient temple, covering a million square kilometers? An ordinary life planet would seem tiny compared to it.

The temple was comparable in size to a star!

At that moment, in a majestic hall at the center of the Immortal Temple, an old man in a blood-red robe, radiating an aura of evil, was jolted awake from his cultivation. Looking down at the message on his communicator, he exclaimed, "What is this thing? Even a World Level Peak can't move it—it must be something remarkable, worth a personal visit!"

With that, he stood up and walked out. Once outside the hall, his figure vanished from the spot. If any expert proficient in Space Law had witnessed this, they would have gasped in shock—this was a King-level peak, using Teleportation, one of the three ultimate techniques of Space Law.

In just a few breaths, after several consecutive teleports, the old man arrived at the location of the Green Lotus. Seeing the lotus radiating green light for ten thousand meters, he trembled with excitement and exclaimed, "It's a heavy treasure!"

The fur-faced Realm Lord beside him quickly asked, "Teacher, what is a heavy treasure?"

The old man had now regained some composure, though still excited, no longer trembling. Lowering his voice, he said, "A heavy treasure is an extremely precious artifact! Even during the peak of the Bloodfall Continent, only the most powerful God Kings were qualified to use heavy treasures. After the ancient war, when the God Kings fell, all the heavy treasures on our Bloodfall Continent were snatched away by the despicable Extraterrestrial Race. Our continent hasn't seen a heavy treasure in countless years. Morrison, discovering this heavy treasure is a great merit. When we return to the Immortal Temple, I will reward you handsomely!"