Pure World White Lotus

Yellow Dragon drew the Merit Auspicious Cloud into his Primordial Spirit. In an instant, the laws of the Great Dao between heaven and earth became astonishingly clear to him. It was as if something had wrapped around him all this time, preventing him from seeing the world as it truly was.

Yellow Dragon hurriedly examined the Merit Auspicious Cloud he had just absorbed. Less than a tenth remained. There was no need to guess: the Heavenly Dao had used the other nine-tenths to offset the karmic debt he bore as a member of the Dragon Race.

Yellow Dragon could only accept it with a rueful smile. After a hundred thousand years of hard work, he had finally paid off the Dragon Race's debt on his shoulders.

From that, he could tell the Dragon Race as a whole still carried a staggering amount of karmic debt. It might remain unpaid through countless calamities, even until the Primordial World shattered.

"At least there's a little left." He looked at the merit remaining in his Primordial Spirit.

Though less than a tenth remained, he still had merit to his name and the protection of the Heavenly Dao.

He could now travel the Primordial World.

Yellow Dragon was imagining his travels, wondering whether to visit Kunlun or Mount Buzhou first.

Suddenly, a stirring arose in his heart, as though something had formed a faint connection with him. He quickly stilled his mind and focused on the sensation, spreading his Primordial Spirit to search the surroundings.

After a moment, Yellow Dragon traced the sensation to beneath the main peak of Penglai Immortal Island. Something there seemed to be drawing him toward it.

Following the sensation, Yellow Dragon traveled down along the Earth Veins beneath Penglai Island's main peak. At last, he reached their deepest point. Within the range of his Primordial Spirit stood an immortal lotus rooted in the Earth Veins, its faint white Spirit Light holding open a space several dozen yards across.

As he entered the space beneath the lotus, he felt a pure, immaculate presence fill the air. All was peaceful and still.

Yellow Dragon studied the immortal lotus and carefully checked the surroundings. Once he was sure there was no danger, he extended his Primordial Spirit to examine it.

Without meeting any resistance, his Primordial Spirit entered the lotus's source and left his mark.

Information appeared in Yellow Dragon's Primordial Spirit, revealing the lotus's origins. It was none other than the legendary Pure World White Lotus.

The Pure World White Lotus had been born on Penglai Island and later obtained by the Eastern Duke. After the battle between the Celestial Court and the Demon Race, the Eastern Duke had fallen and the Celestial Court had been destroyed. The Chaos Bell had also shattered the Pure World White Lotus into two pieces, one large and one small, which vanished into the Spatial Turbulence.

The Pure World White Lotus had extraordinary origins and could conceal itself from heavenly divination. Since it had also fallen from its twelve-petal rank, Di Jun, Taiyi, and the other innate divinities had not spent the considerable effort needed to find it.

Standing before the Pure World White Lotus, Yellow Dragon looked at the immortal lotus, now reduced to nine petals. It, along with the Creation Azure Lotus, Karma Fire Red Lotus, Merit Golden Lotus, and World-Destroying Black Lotus that had vanished with the Demon Ancestor, had all been born when Lotus Seeds from the Chaos Azure Lotus merged with the forces of creation unleashed at the opening of heaven and earth.

Yet according to legend, none of those five immortal lotuses had met a particularly good end.

The Creation Azure Lotus grew on Mount Buzhou, the Primordial World's foremost divine mountain. It bloomed with twenty-four petals before the Three Pure Ones obtained it and transformed it into three supreme-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures: Laozi's Coiling Dragon Cane, Yuanshi's Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, and Tongtian's Green Duckweed Sword.

The twelve-petal World-Destroying Black Lotus vanished without a trace during the Demon Ancestor Luohu's great battle with Dao Ancestor Hongjun. It had never appeared again.

During the Investiture of the Gods, Mosquito Daoist, who was born in the Blood Sea, drained three petals from the Merit Golden Lotus, leaving it with only nine.

The Karma Fire Red Lotus had fared best. It had remained undamaged in Ancestor Minghe's hands.

The information Yellow Dragon received from the Pure World White Lotus showed that, after falling to nine petals, it had been destined to remain in Penglai Immortal Island's Earth Veins. Over the long ages, it would disperse its Great Dao Source to reconnect the Earth Veins, purify the baleful and foul Qi on the island, and restore the immortal island.

The immortal lotus had a spirit of its own. Penglai Immortal Island had nurtured the Pure World White Lotus, and the lotus would repay it by exhausting its source to restore the island.

That was why Penglai Island would become a haven for unaffiliated cultivators in later ages.

But Yellow Dragon had come. He had reconnected the Earth Veins, cleared away the baleful and foul Qi, planted countless innate plants, and restored Penglai Immortal Island's vitality. The lotus no longer needed to exhaust its source to restore the island. Its ordained fate had changed, leaving it a chance to survive.

Thus, after Yellow Dragon restored the island's vitality, their karmic connection prompted the Pure World White Lotus to send out a faint call and draw him there. It then let him leave his mark on its source with ease.

After taking possession of the Pure World White Lotus, Yellow Dragon retraced his route to Penglai Immortal Island's main peak. There, he carved out a simple cave dwelling and a Lotus Pond. He planted the Nine-Rank Pure World White Lotus in the pond and cast a spirit-rain technique to nourish it.

Although the rain Yellow Dragon conjured was rich in Innate Spiritual Energy and life force, it could only slow the loss of the Pure World White Lotus's source. It could not restore the lotus completely.

Watching strands of its source dissipate, Yellow Dragon painfully took out one and a half drops of the Creation Origin he had saved. After a moment's thought, he sent the half drop into the Pure World White Lotus and put the whole drop away again.

As the Pure World White Lotus absorbed the half drop of Creation Origin, its source abruptly stopped dissipating. Even so, it remained on the verge of losing another petal.

Seeing that its source had stabilized and that it had begun rapidly absorbing the spirit liquid in the Lotus Pond, Yellow Dragon had no choice but to cast the Sweet Dew Technique more often.

The Pure World White Lotus had only just stopped losing its source and needed vast amounts of Innate Spiritual Energy to recover. It absorbed the Sweet Dew, rich in Innate Spiritual Energy and life force, the instant it touched its petals. Yellow Dragon kept casting until his Magic Power ran out, then stopped to meditate and recover.

He looked again at the Pure World White Lotus in the Lotus Pond.

After absorbing so much spirit liquid, the white lotus's spiritual vitality slowly rose. Its entire form grew more sacred and pristine, while the aura of the Dao of Purification spread around it.

Several hundred years passed in a flash. The Pure World White Lotus's source finally stabilized at nine petals. Restoring it to its original twelve was all but impossible.

"The two Sages of the Western Sect lost three petals from their twelve-petal Merit Golden Lotus when Mosquito Daoist, an innate being born in the Blood Sea, drained it. It never recovered after that. Even Sages couldn't fix it."

A dragon had to learn to be content.

For restoring Penglai Immortal Island, Yellow Dragon had received merit from the Heavenly Dao and a Nine-Rank Pure World White Lotus comparable to an Innate Supreme-Grade Spirit Treasure. Fortune had certainly favored him.

He stored the immortal lotus together with its Lotus Pond, then took out a drop of Creation Origin and let it fall into Penglai Immortal Island's Earth Veins. The power of the Earth Veins gathered and grew, and tiny Spirit Veins began to form within the mountains across their reach.

Before leaving Penglai Immortal Island, he cast the Sweet Dew Technique one last time, nourishing the entire island. He made sure the newly formed Spirit Veins had begun drawing in and releasing Innate Spiritual Energy, slowly increasing the island's spiritual vitality.

With that done, he revealed his thousand-yard dragon form and plunged into the sea.

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