Kunlun Immortal Realm

Above Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain, the tribulation vortex dispersed, and the dark clouds filling the sky transformed into beautiful auspicious clouds radiating boundless light.

At the same time, golden lotuses sprang from the ground within the cave. Where the stone pillar had once stood, atop a jade platform—

Shi Mo's form, bathed in golden light, solidified into a handsome young man dressed in white, barefoot, with loose black hair and a face as fair as jade.

"Finally. I've finally taken human form," Shi Mo said, unable to hide his delight as he looked at his transformed body, his eyes shining.

Then, with a stretch of his hand, the dark-red Wind-Fixing Pearl descended from above his head and landed in his palm. With a thought, he drew it into his body.

"Good thing this Ice Lotus wasn't destroyed." Shi Mo drifted down from the jade platform and landed beside the cold pool in the corner of the cave. Looking at the Ice Lotus within, its gleam shifting and cold aura curling around it, he could not help but sigh in relief.

I wonder what wondrous use this Ice Lotus has? As Shi Mo pondered this, he had no time to study it. Instead, he turned his gaze toward the jade platform shimmering with light.

The light passed through the passage connecting to the mountaintop that had been blasted open by the final tribulation lightning, shining directly upon the jade platform and forming a bright halo around it.

Shi Mo's eyes lit up. He soared straight into the sky, passing through the luminous passage and arriving atop the main peak of Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain in the blink of an eye.

At a glance, the nine perilous peaks around him, shaped like icy cones, stood out vividly.

The equally precipitous main peak was lush and green along its cliffs, surrounded by mist and haze. What a tranquil immortal mountain abode!

In the distance, mountain ranges rose and fell in endless layers, stretching beyond the eye. Their majestic grandeur truly left Shi Mo shaken.

"As expected of West Kunlun. Even a single mountain in this Primordial World is so vast. I wonder how boundless the entire Primordial World must be?"

"Hmm? Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain seems..." As Shi Mo looked around, sensing something, he waved his hand and summoned the Wind-Fixing Pearl, causing the void to tremble.

At once, ripples flickered around the nine perilous mountains. It was as though an enormous net of sigils enveloped the entirety of Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain.

"An Innate Chaos Restriction? No wonder this is a place that gave birth to a top-grade innate spiritual treasure. No wonder I cultivated here for so long without even a single bird flying in to disturb me."

Shi Mo naturally had his own guess regarding that enormous net of sigils.

Drifting down from the summit, Shi Mo looked at the strange and unfamiliar flowers, grasses, and trees growing along the main peak's cliffs. Filled with curiosity, he felt as though his horizons had been greatly broadened.

"Is that... a Ginseng Baby?" Shi Mo suddenly stopped in midair and looked at an enormous ginseng plant on the slope. It was as thick as an adult's leg, more than half of it protruding from the soil, and it seemed to possess all four limbs. He could not help but marvel.

"Such a huge ginseng really does look like a baby. How long would it have to grow to become this large? A ten-thousand-year ginseng?"

"And fruit trees... Is this Vermilion Fruit?" The farther down the mountain he went, the gentler the slope became, and the more numerous, larger, and varied the trees were. Drawn by the red, infant-fist-sized fruits growing on one fruit tree, Shi Mo drifted over, picked one, and popped it into his mouth.

The red fruit melted as soon as it entered his mouth, carrying an indescribably fresh, sweet flavor. Then it transformed into a scorching energy that flowed into Shi Mo's abdomen.

"What pure fire energy. It seems to be a fire-attributed spirit fruit."

As Shi Mo slowly drifted down to the foot of the mountain, he saw that the vegetation in the valley below was even more luxuriant.

A fan-shaped lingzhi growing from a cliff face was entirely dark purple, with a purple glow flowing across it. It stood half a man tall.

"Th-this is lingzhi? Do spiritual herbs in the Primordial World all grow this large?"

Shi Mo's eyes had truly been opened. Jade stones and minerals of every color, embedded in or scattered across the valley floor and the stone walls on either side, could be seen everywhere.

"As expected of an immortal mountain and blessed land. It's simply covered in treasures!" After studying and pondering for a while, Shi Mo roughly figured out the Innate Chaos Restriction that enveloped all of Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain. Then he returned to the naturally formed cave and used the jade platform to escape into the underground spiritual vein.

"I want to see just how vast West Kunlun's earth vein network really is."

Traveling through one of the underground main spiritual veins, Shi Mo seemed to merge with the earth vein spiritual energy itself. Through the earth vein network, he quickly arrived at a main spiritual vein on the outskirts of the network, which had previously been somewhat unclear to his senses.

"It seems my jade body is naturally suited to earth escape techniques. Traveling through earth veins feels like a fish returning to water."

With this thought in mind, Shi Mo used the Wind-Fixing Pearl to sense the surroundings and soon detected an earth vein network spanning a much wider range.

"After taking human form, the range of the earth vein network I can sense has indeed become much larger. So many main spiritual veins—this truly is West Kunlun. And it seems that in places with more main spiritual veins, there are fewer severed spiritual veins between them, making them much easier to reconnect and repair."

Next, Shi Mo began reconnecting and repairing the earth vein network across an even wider area around Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain.

Who knew how much time passed? As Shi Mo traveled through the earth vein network, continuously reconnecting and repairing it while absorbing and refining earth vein spiritual energy to replenish his depleted magical power, he gradually moved far away from Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain.

"Hmm? What a thick main spiritual vein! Could this be the main earth vein spiritual vein of all West Kunlun?"

After reconnecting who knew how many earth vein networks and traveling through them for who knew how long, Shi Mo suddenly sensed a thick main spiritual vein winding like a dragon.

Curiously entering that main spiritual vein, Shi Mo soon saw a great mass of roots extending deep into it.

"Growing atop a main spiritual vein... Could this be an innate spiritual root?" Shi Mo's heart grew hot at the thought. He hurried out of the spiritual vein and arrived on the ground where the spiritual root grew.

"What dense heaven and earth spiritual energy! This place is..." The moment Shi Mo emerged, dense innate spiritual energy rushed toward him.

Before Shi Mo lay a breathtaking immortal realm, like a paradise beyond the mortal world.

In particular, the pool atop a snow peak shrouded in immortal mist, as well as the vast peach grove in the valley basin below, were so pure and beautiful that they made one intoxicated.

And Shi Mo was standing deep within that peach grove.

Looking at the vast peach grove before him, Shi Mo even spotted several football-sized peaches that had fallen to the ground at some unknown time. He could not help but pause. "What a huge peach grove. Where is this?"

"With so many peach trees, there must be several thousand of them. So many peaches have fallen to the ground... Could this be unclaimed land?" Shi Mo stepped forward and picked up a peach, raising an eyebrow.

"I don't know how long it has been lying here, yet it hasn't rotted at all. It looks as though it was freshly picked. As expected of an immortal spirit fruit. Could this place preserve freshness on its own?"