Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus

Kunlun Mountain.

Tianlu had accidentally entered an Xiantian Array and found a hidden world within.

There were no towering ranges like those outside on Kunlun Mountain, nor any vast sea of clouds churning in the distance. There was only a Creation Space so utterly tranquil it seemed to still the world itself.

The dense Xiantian Spiritual Qi had condensed into liquid, falling in endless droplets like a fine drizzle and nourishing this hidden blessed land.

At the very center of this blessed land stood a pool about a zhang across.

The pool shimmered with gold, silver, and violet, the three colors entwined.

The pool held no ordinary spiritual spring. Instead, it radiated three strange lights, each utterly different from the others, yet dependent on them.

The golden liquid gave off a terrifying aura that could dissolve blood, essence, bone, and flesh. Its light blazed like the scorching sun.

The silver liquid carried an eerie pulse that corroded the Primordial Spirit and soul, like a cold, clear moon.

The violet liquid contained a deadly intent that devoured the true spirit and its thoughts, like the depths of the starry sky.

Each of these three liquids, taken alone, was a deadly poison feared throughout the Primordial World. Even a Daluo Golden Immortal who accidentally touched one would meet a grisly end, body and Dao destroyed.

Yet when the golden, silver, and violet waters intertwined according to some wondrous law of Creation, their extreme death and toxicity reversed in an instant, becoming the purest and most boundless vitality in the Primordial World.

Above the pool floated a lotus, verdant from root to tip, with twenty-four layers of petals.

It seemed sculpted from the purest Law of Creation in existence, every petal inscribed with intricate, profound Xiantian Dao patterns.

Strands of clear Qi of Creation streamed down from its lotus throne, shining in concert with the three-colored divine water below as they unfolded endless cycles of life and death.

It hovered there in silence, as if suppressing the fortune and Creation of this world.

Xiantian Spiritual Qi was dense here. As Tianlu floated in, carrying the auspicious aura of a Heaven and Earth Auspicious Beast, the verdant lotus throne trembled faintly.

A translucent green vine emerged from beneath its base and lightly touched Tianlu's majestic antlers.

Tianlu, who had been sleeping soundly, suddenly felt something stir against his forehead and leisurely opened his eyes.

It was the sensation of pure Qi of Creation brushing his skin, warm and wondrous.

When the lotus throne sensed that Tianlu had awakened, its vine vanished at once.

Perched on Cloud Treasure, Tianlu stared blankly at the scene before him. He raised his tiger-pawed forelimbs and rubbed his eyes hard, his heart surging with disbelief.

Had he seen that right?

The golden, silver, and violet waters in the pool intertwined, death giving way to life, their vitality so immense it was hard to believe. Was this really the legendary supreme healing medicine of the Primordial World, the Three Lights Divine Water?

And was that lotus throne the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus?

Tianlu drew a deep breath. There could be no mistake about that dense Qi of Creation.

Though he had never seen the real thing, the memories inherited from his Xiantian bloodline told him this was the Three Lights Divine Water and the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus.

At the thought, Tianlu recalled his Innate Divine Ability. His own opportunities and blessings truly surpassed those of others. His heart filled with delight.

The Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus was no ordinary Xiantian Supreme Treasure. It had been formed from a mature seed of the Thirty-Six Petal Chaos Green Lotus, which had once nurtured Great God Pangu in the days of Chaos.

It contained the most fundamental Great Dao of Creation in the Primordial World and bore the supreme fortune of the world's creation.

According to the workings of the unseen Heavenly Secrets, the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus could not be tolerated by the Primordial World's Heavenly Dao. At some point in the future, it was destined to split into three, becoming Taiqing Laozi's Dragon-Coiling Flat Cane, Yuqing Yuanshi's Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and Shangqing Tongtian's Green Duckweed Sword.

These were the destined Dao-proving treasures of the Pangu Orthodox Lineage, meant for the three Heavenly Dao Saints of the future.

Yet now, an opportunity so heaven-defying it could rewrite fate lay quietly before him.

Even the Xiantian Spiritual Treasures destined for the Three Pure Ones had found their way to him.

Excitement glimmered in Tianlu's eyes as he rose from Cloud Treasure, a mid-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure.

Then he went closer, trying to figure out how to put away the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus.

The Creation power contained within the Xiantian Supreme Treasure was as heavy as a vast world. Ordinary spatial abilities could not bear its terrifying depths. Trying to take it by force would only get him blasted apart by the clear Qi of Creation it exuded.

Tianlu circled the Three Lights Divine Water pool twice, his two translucent feelers swaying slightly.

After thinking it over, he had a plan.

As a strange species of the Primordial World—the first Pixiu, the Auspicious Beast of Heaven and Earth—he possessed a life-bound divine ability all his own.

Pixiu devoured all things without letting them escape, its insides containing Qiankun and Creation.

His belly naturally held a wondrous space.

It was no ordinary storage pocket, but a source-world within him, woven from pure Law of Space and Law of Devouring. It could contain all things in the Primordial World and shield them from every attempt to divine their whereabouts.

At the thought, brilliant auspicious light burst from Tianlu's body, and his calf-sized form swelled with the wind in an instant.

Ten zhang, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand!

In the space of a single breath, Tianlu became a towering giant that seemed to prop up the heavens, stretching across the Xiantian Array like an ancient divine mountain.

Without the slightest hesitation, he thrust his enormous body forward and swallowed the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus into his wondrous space.

The lotus did not even stir in resistance. It slid down Tianlu's throat and settled safely in the deepest reaches of the boundless space within him.

Tianlu burped.

A wisp of pure, concentrated clear Qi of Creation spilled from the corner of his mouth, scattering into lotus-shaped phantoms in the air.

Tianlu smacked his lips. Feeling the satisfying weight in the space within his belly, he narrowed his eyes in contentment.

His gaze shifted downward to the pool, a zhang across.

After a moment's thought, Tianlu decided to toss the Three Lights Divine Water in as well.

This was the supreme healing medicine of the Primordial World, capable of bringing the dead back to life and restoring flesh to bare bones. Even if the Primordial Spirit and true spirit shattered, as long as a trace remained, a single drop of Three Lights Divine Water could drag them back from the Return Ruins.

Leaving a treasure like this here would be a dreadful waste.

At the thought, Tianlu's massive jaws parted slightly, and he sucked in a sharp breath.

In an instant, a terrifying spatial storm swept through the air.

The pool water, its gold, silver, and violet lights entwined, became a three-colored water dragon and poured into Tianlu's gaping mouth.

Once he had done all this, Tianlu's ten-thousand-zhang body rapidly shrank until he was once again the harmless-looking size of a calf.

Then Tianlu returned to Cloud Treasure, the mid-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, lay down, and drifted off to sleep.

Though Tianlu seemed to have fallen asleep, he was actually refining the Xiantian restrictions within the Twenty-Four Petal Creation Green Lotus.