Creation Green Lotus

Not long after continuing onward, Zhang Shuai halted once more on a relatively open patch of gravel less than a hundred zhang from the bronze giant tower, his eyes bursting with incredulous delight!

A strangely shaped plant stood alone atop a massive dark-red rock that radiated a warm aura.

The plant stood about two chi tall, its entire body seeming to have been forged from scarlet gold. Its branches were vigorous and coiled like dragons, and at its peak grew a fist-sized fruit resembling a tiny sun!

Golden flame-light flowed across the fruit's surface, while three faintly visible mysterious patterns circled around it. It emanated incomparably pure solar essence, along with vigorous life force capable of nourishing the very origin of the soul!

Merely breathing in a trace of the aura it gave off made Zhang Shuai feel as though his blood and qi had become more active.

"Three-Yang Scarlet Gold Fruit!"

He immediately recognized it. This was a nine-star mid-grade immortal material, one of the nine spiritual materials required for the Nine-Turn Spirit-Splitting Avatar Scripture.

Zhang Shuai was overjoyed. He had encountered another spiritual material so soon. Including the Soul-Eating Nether Orchid he had obtained earlier, he had already found two of them.

However, beside that Three-Yang Scarlet Gold Fruit stood an extraordinarily majestic giant bird.

The bird resembled a crow, yet it was far more imposing and massive. Even standing still, it was over a zhang tall. Its feathers were not black but instead gleamed with a dark-golden metallic luster.

Most remarkably, it possessed three legs and stood steadily atop the rock. Its beak was hooked, its gaze sharp as lightning. Every glance it cast carried an aura of nobility, majesty, and fiery heat. It even bore some resemblance to the Three-Legged Golden Crow from Dragon Kingdom myth