"Thank you, Immortal Elder!" A Duo carefully put away the jade talisman.
Jiang Yun nodded, bid A Duo farewell, mounted the Baleful Qilin, and set off on his journey once more.
This time, Jiang Yun's destination was the heart of Mount Buzhou!
Another twenty years passed!
Jiang Yun traveled all the way, sometimes gathering immortal herbs and spiritual roots, sometimes suppressing and killing demonic creatures to collect their flesh and blood.
He actually found another two Acquired Spiritual Roots!
One was the Middle-Grade Houtian Spiritual Root, the Postnatal Seven-Colored Flower. Planted within a cave abode, it had the effect of gathering spiritual energy!
The other was a High-Grade Acquired Spiritual Root called Sword Heart Grass. It grew one foot every thousand years and matured at three feet.
It was an excellent material for refining Houtian Spirit Treasures!
Its stalks could be cut and refined into Flying Swords!
They were incomparably sharp!
Twenty years later, Jiang Yun finally arrived halfway up the truncated Mount Buzhou!
Ahead lay a dense, ancient wilderness forest.
Yet farther ahead, there was nothing at all but rock and earth!
A terrifying pressure that made one suffocate emanated from the mountain itself!
"Pangu Pressure!"
Jiang Yun's expression turned solemn as he dismounted from the Baleful Qilin.
"Jiang Yun, a living being of later generations, is grateful for Great God Pangu's magnificent and benevolent feat of splitting heaven and earth and transforming his body into all things!"
"I pay my respects here!"
Facing Mount Buzhou, Jiang Yun respectfully bowed three times!
In the unseen depths, an indescribably profound feeling arose in his heart.
"Great fortune awaits me at the summit!"
Jiang Yun hesitated no longer. Descending from the clouds, he began to climb the mountain on foot!
Gale winds howled! Baleful energy filled the air!
The terrifying Pangu Pressure seemed intent on crushing both his body and Primordial Spirit into nothingness!
Yet Jiang Yun was delighted rather than alarmed!
"Excellent!"
As he resisted the pressure, he tempered his body.
At the same time, he slowly absorbed the pure baleful energy of this place to cultivate the Dark-Baleful Calamity Sovereign Body!
One thousand li!
Five thousand li!
Ten thousand li!
Jiang Yun had neither direction nor goal. He merely followed that indescribably profound feeling in his heart and pressed onward!
At every moment, he used Pangu Pressure to temper himself!
Looking inward, the divine light within his eight hundred and forty million acupoints grew ever dimmer and more restrained.
This was not a sign that Jiang Yun's cultivation had regressed or that he had suffered grave injuries.
Quite the opposite.
The Great Dao was simplest!
This phenomenon showed precisely that Jiang Yun's foundation had become solid to an utterly horrifying extent!
And so, he walked for more than three consecutive years!
Jiang Yun had long since lost track of exactly how far he had traveled.
It seemed that Pangu's will watched over him. On Mount Buzhou, he had not encountered a single danger!
All terrifying phenomena and perilous places had passed him by!
One had to know that this place had been the main battlefield of the ancient War of Witches and Demons.
Around twenty quasi-saint great powers alone had fallen here!
As for living beings below quasi-saints but above Heavenly Immortals, their numbers had reached into the hundreds of millions!
The resentment and baleful energy left behind after so many beings died had long since formed countless dangerous regions.
One day!
As Jiang Yun walked, a sudden roar erupted from within his body!
It was as though some kind of shackle had been shattered!
Boom—!!!
A terrifying surge of dharma power far surpassing that of a Peak Mysterious Immortal erupted!
All eight hundred and forty million acupoints trembled in unison!
The Golden Immortal Dao Fruit formed as naturally as water flowing into a channel!
His Primordial Spirit swelled! His dharma power surged!
Though he was only at the Early Golden Immortal realm, in terms of dharma power alone, Jiang Yun was no weaker than a Peak Taiyi Golden Immortal!
After breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm!
Jiang Yun felt his entire body relax, and the influence of that terrifying Pangu Pressure weakened considerably.
He had now arrived in a mountain hollow, not far from the broken summit.
An utterly pitch-black cave appeared before Jiang Yun.
Even with the divine sense of his current Golden Immortal Dao Fruit, he could not see through the cave's interior!
But!
With the cave's appearance, the summons deep within Jiang Yun's heart intensified more than tenfold!
A voice frantically told him!
"Go in!"
"Fortune! A heaven-defying opportunity is inside!!"
Jiang Yun drew a deep breath and did not rashly enter.
Instead, he respectfully bowed three times in every direction around him.
"I am grateful for Great God Pangu's guidance!"
Only after finishing his bows did Jiang Yun step into the cave.
The cave was not so dark that one could not see one's hand, as Jiang Yun had imagined.
Instead, faint light glimmered within, enough to see by.
A narrow passage led downward, straight into the mountain's interior.
Following the feeling in his heart, Jiang Yun made his way down through the cave.
After walking for roughly a hundred li, a bend appeared ahead.
"Buzz!"
Treasure light flickered faintly!
Jiang Yun's heart stirred as he rounded the bend!
His view suddenly opened up!
A natural limestone cave, roughly three mu in area and more than ten zhang high, appeared before him!
Treasure light overflowed within the cave!
The aura of the Four Symbols permeated the air, constantly evolving earth, wind, water, and fire!
At the very center of the cave grew an incomparably miraculous spiritual root!
"This is?!"
Jiang Yun's pupils abruptly constricted!
"A Supreme Primordial Spiritual Root!!"
"The Banana Tree!!"
Jiang Yun recognized it at once!
In the past, when the Chaos Green Lotus shattered, one of its fragments transformed into the Supreme Primordial Spiritual Root, the Banana Tree!
Legend had it that the Banana Tree originally possessed four leaves, which embodied earth, wind, water, and fire!
Among them, the Fire Fan had been taken by Taiqing Laozi, while the Wind Fan had fallen into Ancestor Minghe's hands!
After that, the Banana Tree vanished from the Primordial World.
Who would have thought that the spiritual root's main body had been hidden within Mount Buzhou all along!
Jiang Yun's gaze fell upon the only two remaining banana leaves on the tree!
One was earthy yellow and heavy!
The other rippled with emerald waves!
"The Earth and Water Banana Leaf Fans!"
"Both are Upper-grade Xiantian Spiritual Treasures!!"
The moment Jiang Yun spoke!
Buzz—!
The two Banana Leaf Fans trembled in unison, detached on their own, transformed into two streams of light, and flew straight into Jiang Yun's hands!
A feeling of linked hearts and mingled bloodlines arose within him!
"Destined Spiritual Treasures!"
Jiang Yun was ecstatic!
"They were meant to be mine!!"
Jiang Yun put away the two precious fans, then carefully transplanted the Banana Tree into the Mountain River Pearl.
With a single wave of the Earth Banana Fan, it possessed the power to move mountains.
Not only could it drive mountain ranges away, it could also manifest the great mountains of the Upper Three Realms and suppress enemies from above.
With a single wave of the Water Banana Fan, it could command all waters and transform them into a vast ocean.
It was not only these two Banana Leaf Fans.
This Banana Spiritual Root was extraordinary as well.
After the first four Xiantian Spiritual Treasures it bore were plucked, the Banana Spiritual Root would continue to produce more.
Every ten thousand years, it could yield four fans of earth, wind, water, and fire.
Every leaf would be at the level of a High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasure.
Even for Taiyi Golden Immortals, they were rare treasures.
Better still, they would continue without end.
They would be perfect for Jiang Yun to use in nurturing his future sect members and disciples.
They were truly invaluable!
But just then!
Jiang Yun froze.
"The premonition in my heart hasn't dissipated yet?!"
"Could there still be something deeper inside?!"
Suppressing the shock in his heart, Jiang Yun continued onward through the cavern!
He walked for an unknown distance.
A second limestone cave appeared!
The instant he clearly saw the scene within!
Even Jiang Yun, despite his firm Dao heart, could not help but be slightly moved.
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