Di Jiang Houtu did not try to keep Jiang Yuan. After personally seeing him off from the Pangu Temple, she watched him climb the mountain and leave.
"Does Your Highness have business to attend to at Mount Buzhou?"
Seeing that Jiang Yuan chose to climb the mountain on foot instead of using his supernatural powers to return directly to the Heavenly Court, the Heavenly Fox who had come with him asked curiously.
Mount Buzhou is the first and highest divine mountain in the Primordial World. Even though Jiang Yuan Present Incarnation the Great Dao Honored Rank Fruit and is no longer an ordinary person, it would still take him about a thousand years to climb this mountain on foot.
In other times, let alone a delay of a thousand years, even a delay of ten thousand or a hundred thousand years wouldn't have drawn much criticism.
But things are different now. Di Jun and Tai Yi are waiting for Jiang Yuan to return and report. If he stays here for a thousand years, even if Di Jun doesn't say anything, he will definitely scold him for being insensible.
"There seems to be an opportunity for me within Mount Buzhou, and I need to search carefully. As for the Heavenly Court, rest assured, I have already sent an avatar back to explain the situation, and the Heavenly Emperor and the others will understand."
Jiang Yuan replied while observing the surrounding situation.
The world is vast, but nothing is greater than his opportunity. Therefore, he will never leave Mount Buzhou before obtaining that opportunity. As for Di Jun, one avatar is enough to handle him.
"Chance?"
Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Fox fell silent. Opportunities were indeed quite important, and these things had a time limit. Missing this one was enough to prove that he was not destined for such an opportunity, and there would be no next time.
"By the way, I don't need these nine Innate Origin Pearls, so I'll give them to you as items for severing your corpse."
Suddenly remembering something, Jiang Yuan took out nine of the twelve Innate Origin Pearls he had just acquired and gave them to the Heavenly Fox beside him.
Metal, wood, water, fire, earth; wind, rain, thunder, and lightning—these are the nine elements that Jiang Yuan gave to the Heavenly Fox. Why nine, and not all of them? Because the Heavenly Fox only has nine tails, not twelve.
The Heavenly Fox is a naturally born nine-tailed white fox. Her nine tails correspond to nine attributes: metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning.
For the Heavenly Fox, these nine tails are like Kong Xuan's Innate Five-Colored Divine Light; they are not simply tails, but both her innate divine power and her innate spiritual treasure.
Based on this, the object that the Heavenly Fox chose to sever her corpse was her innate tail.
It must be said that the Heavenly Fox chose the perfect object for severing her three corpses. Using her tail to support them was the most suitable choice for her, and the fusion would be incredibly convenient in the future, without encountering any obstacles.
However, there is a problem: her nine tails are not powerful enough, only equivalent to Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
As for the treasures for severing corpses, although the first choice is Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, the requirement is three of them, and they must all be of the same origin.
Although the Dao Ancestor did not explicitly state it, after years of research by powerful beings in the Primordial World, it was discovered that the key to achieving Dao by Slashing Three Corpses Dao Attainment lies in the Innate Spiritual Treasure that can contain the Three Corpses, which must simultaneously meet three conditions:
Three Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, all of the same origin.
The reason for choosing Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure is its immense power.
As we all know, the power required to break through to the Hunyuan Realm is extremely vast. If one relies solely on one's own arduous cultivation without external assistance, even accumulating millions of years' worth of magical power would likely be far from sufficient.
Even the weakest of the Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure is equivalent to the Quasi-Saint Realm of his cultivation. Three Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure are equivalent to three Quasi-Saint Realm at the peak of their cultivation.
If you can get their help when you break through to the Hunyuan Realm, then you don't need to worry about not having enough power.
That's why it's said that the best choice for the item used to sever the corpse is Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. The requirement of three items corresponds to the three households. Since a person has three corpses, he would need three Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.
As for why the three treasures must be of the same origin, that's even simpler. The purpose of severing the corpse is for future fusion.
If the three treasures for severing corpses are not of the same origin, then it will be difficult to fuse them later. If things go wrong, they will be stuck in the Three Corpse Perfection realm forever, with no hope of advancing to the Hunyuan Realm realm.
Although Heavenly Fox never spoke of her predicament, Jiang Yuan wasn't blind; how could he not see that she had only found one of the three items needed to sever a corpse?
Previously, due to a lack of resources, there was no way to resolve the issue, so even if Jiang Yuan was discovered, it could only be ignored.
But now, the Innate Origin Pearls he obtained from the Wu Clan is perfectly compatible with the Heavenly Fox, and is the very item she desperately needs to sever her corpse.
Seeing this, Jiang Yuan could no longer ignore it. Coincidentally, he didn't need the item either, so he gave the nine that the Heavenly Fox needed to her.
"Give it to me?"
"This is too valuable, I can't accept it."
Upon hearing this, the Heavenly Fox was first shocked, and then repeatedly refused.
It's too precious. Although nine Innate Origin Pearls are not as valuable as two thousand beads, and cannot be considered top-tier Innate Spiritual Treasure, they are still excellent.
Even if Jiang Yuan dared to give her such a treasure, she wouldn't dare accept it. She was afraid it would cause the Emperor Xi Empress Wa to misunderstand, thinking that she had used her innate divine power to bewitch Jiang Yuan in order to break through to the next level.
"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. This treasure isn't given to you for free. I'll help you today so you can help me in the future."
Jiang Yuan laughed, saying that although he was generous, he wasn't so generous as to give away Supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure unconditionally.
Everything he did was for the future.
It should be understood that the Heavenly Fox cultivates the Path of Innate Myriad Phenomena, which can be considered a branch of the Path of Creation and the Dao of Primordial Qi.
Based on the nine kinds of Innate Primordial Qi, it evolves into all phenomena of the Zhou Heaven.
Once the Heavenly Fox has mastered this path, Jiang Yuan will only need to cultivate with her to further perfect his own Path of Creation and Pangu, thereby causing his cultivation to surge.
If it weren't for this benefit, why would Jiang Yuan be so generous? He can get back double the advantage from Heavenly Fox today in the future; what's there to be stingy about?
"Then I won't stand on ceremony."
Upon hearing this, Heavenly Fox accepted the treasure Jiang Yuan had given her without hesitation.
She understood Jiang Yuan's meaning perfectly well, and had no intention of refusing. In fact, when Emperor Xi asked her to protect Jiang Yuan, and she didn't refuse, it was already destined that this matter would come to pass.
Otherwise, given Emperor Xi's status, he could have easily placed her elsewhere; why would he have put her next to Jiang Yuan?
She could guess what the Emperor Xi meant, but she didn't refuse. She certainly wouldn't refuse today.
"In that case, you've obtained two of the three items for slaying corpses. The remaining one, barring any unforeseen circumstances, should be in the Demon Race Treasury, and is called the Zhou Heaven Myriad Phenomena Diagram."
"This is difficult to plan, but fortunately you have plenty of time to prepare it slowly."
After Heavenly Fox accepted the treasure, it meant that the relationship between the two had become closer, so Jiang Yuan continued to ponder for her.
If dual cultivation is to be practiced, then the higher the Heavenly Fox's cultivation level, the greater the benefits it will bring.
"Alas, this treasure is not easy to obtain. The Heavenly Emperor must know how important this treasure is to me, so given his nature, he will definitely use it to control me and make me serve him."
Upon hearing this, Heavenly Fox frowned and sighed.