"This is... a Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Root, Purple Sun Bamboo!"
Jiang Yun's eyes lit up!
An Innate Spiritual Root!
This was one of the most precious treasures in the Primordial World!
This Purple Sun Bamboo took a thousand years to take root, a thousand years to sprout, and a thousand years to mature!
Only after another three thousand years could it split and grow a new stalk of Purple Sun Bamboo!
Its bamboo body was incomparably hard and contained Purple Sun energy, making it an excellent material for refining magical treasures!
Jiang Yun looked around. He had no idea how many tens of thousands of years this cave abode had been abandoned.
The Purple Sun Bamboo on the back mountain had grown densely, with over a hundred stalks already standing there!
"I struck it rich! This is a huge win!"
What delighted Jiang Yun even more was that beneath the bamboo grove, he discovered another treasure!
A clump of earthy-yellow divine soil that radiated an endlessly heavy aura!
"Innate Wu Earth Essence!"
This was a top-tier earth-element treasure, ranked only below the legendary Nine Heavens Resting Soil!
It was one of the finest soils for cultivating spiritual roots!
With it, the Purple Sun Bamboo could be transplanted and continuously produced in the future!
"What a place! What an opportunity!"
Jiang Yun did not hesitate and immediately decided to cultivate here for a time while refining the treasures needed to set up a formation!
First, he carefully collected most of the Innate Wu Earth Essence, leaving a portion behind to nourish the bamboo grove.
Then, he selected eighty-one of the oldest Purple Sun Bamboo stalks.
What he intended to refine this time were the formation banners for the "Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Misty Cloud Formation"!
The Purple Sun Bamboo contained Purple Sun energy, making it a perfect match!
Jiang Yun sat cross-legged, summoned True Fire, and began refining treasures.
Time was not counted in the Primordial World.
The years drifted by, and ten years passed in an instant.
For cultivators of the Primordial World, ten years were no more than the flick of a finger.
On this day, flames soared into the sky within the cave abode!
Boom—!
Before Jiang Yun floated eighty-one crimson banners, their surfaces flowing with purple flame patterns as they emitted terrifying pressure!
The Fire Cloud Banners had been forged!
"Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time."
Jiang Yun shook his head.
These eighty-one Fire Cloud Banners had been refined from Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Root Purple Sun Bamboo. Because the refinement had been rushed, each had only reached the grade of a Mid-Grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure.
A formation composed of Mid-Grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures was already quite formidable.
Yet Jiang Yun was not disappointed.
They had been refined from Purple Sun Bamboo; their foundation was there.
As long as he nourished them day and night with his mana, they would naturally improve over time and would eventually become a set of High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasures!
A grand formation made from High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasures would definitely allow Jiang Yun's strength to soar in a short time.
One had to know that aside from the lineages of Saints, the magical treasures used by ordinary Grand Unity Golden Immortals were generally only at the level of High-Grade Houtian Spirit Treasures.
And during these ten years of treasure refinement, Jiang Yun's gains had gone far beyond that!
A notification sounded in his mind as expected!
[You refined treasures on Nameless Immortal Mountain and comprehended the Innate Purple Sun True Intent within the Purple Sun Bamboo day and night...] [You deeply felt that the "Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Misty Cloud Formation" was more than sufficient for trapping enemies but lacked killing power!] [You modified the formation and incorporated Purple Sun True Intent... You created a formation—the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Fire Cloud Formation!] [You comprehended the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Fire Cloud Formation. Combined with the cultivation method "True Yang Record," you drew inferences from one instance to another...] [You created a supreme divine ability—Purple Sun True Fire!]
Another formation and another divine ability!
Jiang Yun's heart settled completely!
This "Purple Sun True Fire" was an improved version of the divine ability of that Ancient Demon God!
This fire could draw upon that wisp of Purple Sun power born at the first rise of the great sun. It was incomparably blazing and tyrannical beyond measure!
Its might was vast, and it could restrain all demons and evil creatures!
Meanwhile, the "Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams Fire Cloud Formation" added the boundless killing power of Purple Sun True Fire to the original trapping formation!
Once the grand formation was activated, the eighty-one Fire Cloud Banners unfurled like blazing clouds as heavenly fire descended upon the world!
Not only could it trap enemies, but it also gained dangerous killing power. Its might had increased by far more than several times!
Jiang Yun was confident that with this formation and the Eight Trigrams Cloudlight Handkerchief, even an ordinary Taiyi Golden Immortal would likely perish on the spot if caught within!
"What a haul!"
Jiang Yun rose to his feet and gathered every medicinal herb on the immortal mountain, including the spiritual ganoderma and immortal ginseng, leaving not a single one behind.
These were all excellent materials for alchemy and could not be wasted.
Once the Investiture of the Gods Calamity passed and Innate Spiritual Energy degraded into acquired spiritual energy,
even a single stalk placed outside would become a rare spiritual medicine that countless living beings would fight desperately over.
After searching meticulously and confirming that nothing had been missed, Jiang Yun went to the back mountain.
He erected a grave for that Demon God, took a ten-thousand-year jade stone to serve as a tombstone, and buried that notebook beneath it.
Jiang Yun bowed respectfully three times before the nameless stone monument.
"This junior, Jiang Yun, accidentally entered this place and received Senior's inheritance and spiritual root."
"I will remember Senior's Karma."
"This junior has no way to repay you. If Senior's True Spirit still remains and you are able to reincarnate, then if Jiang Yun achieves anything in the future, I will certainly find a way to guide Senior back onto the path of cultivation!"
The immortal path was long, and one had to contend for the Great Dao!
The key lay in the word "contend"!
A person with the temperament of a doormat could never travel far on this road.
But one should remember a favor for a thousand years!
All he sought was a clear conscience.
Jiang Yun still could not bring himself to do something as shameless as eating from someone's bowl, then smashing it and cursing them afterward!
After paying his respects, Jiang Yun added several handfuls of earth to the grave. Only after taking one last look at the immortal mountain did he turn and leave.
The moment he exited the formation around Nameless Immortal Mountain...
he sensed violent fluctuations of spiritual energy coming from a thousand miles away!
Mixed within them were the terrified cries of the Human Race and the roars of demons.
"Are demons causing trouble?"
Cultivation and experience were both training and the practice of the Dao, allowing one to accumulate Merit!
So he followed the fluctuations and hurried over.
Before long, Jiang Yun arrived at the bank of a vast river stretching a thousand miles.
The sight along the riverbank was horrific!
A pitch-black Flood Dragon, a hundred zhang long, was stirring up wind and waves by the shore!
It opened its blood-filled maw and swallowed more than a dozen members of the Human Race in one bite!
The Human Race village by the river fled in panic, their cries shaking the heavens. This Flood Dragon possessed the cultivation of a True Immortal!
"Vile beast! How dare you!"
Jiang Yun flew into a rage at the sight and immediately moved to stop it.
The evil Flood Dragon had been enjoying its bloody meal when it was interrupted, and it flew into a furious rage!
"Roar! Where did this brat come from, daring to stop Lord Flood Dragon from eating!"
Jiang Yun stood in the air, staring coldly at it.
"You vile beast, Karmic Power coils around you, and your sins are grave! Today, you are fated to meet your tribulation!"
"Hahaha! A mere nobody like you dares speak such wild words! Die!" The evil Flood Dragon laughed madly. Though its words were arrogant, it could not see through Jiang Yun's true strength.
Its vigilance had already risen to the utmost. It opened its mouth and spat out a black Flood Dragon Pearl, surrounded by vengeful souls as it smashed toward him with a sky-reaching stench.
The moment it attacked, it used its strongest killing move!
Jiang Yun snorted softly.
With a thought, the Eight Trigrams Cloudlight Handkerchief flew out instantly!
Whoosh—!
The treasure handkerchief expanded with the wind, covering the sky and sun as endless mist billowed forth, instantly trapping the evil Flood Dragon and its Flood Dragon Pearl within!
No matter how the Flood Dragon Pearl struggled, it could not break through the mist!
No matter how the evil Flood Dragon crashed about within the mist, it could not escape in the slightest!
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