Yellow Central Plum (Please Keep Reading!)

"Earth Spirit Pearl? Fire Spirit Pearl? Wind Spirit Pearl? And Water Spirit Pearl?"

Looking at the four spirit pearls floating before him, Shi Mo, having roughly refined them, suddenly understood. "No wonder this innate spiritual root, the Banana Tree, could grow Banana Fans with earth, wind, water, and fire attributes. It was because these four spirit pearls gathered the energies of earth, wind, water, and fire."

"Although these four spirit pearls are only mid-grade innate spiritual treasures, the innate spiritual root Banana Tree, nourished by the pure energies of earth, wind, water, and fire that they drew in, actually produced three high-grade innate spiritual treasure-level Banana Fans." Shi Mo looked again at the black and gray Banana Fans in his hands. "However, in order to nurture these three Banana Fans, this innate spiritual root Banana Tree exhausted its origin power and withered away. What a pity!"

Shi Mo's main body put away the two Banana Fans and the four spirit pearls with a flick of his hand, then entered the depths beneath Mount Buzhou through its main earth vein and arrived within Mount Buzhou's internal space.

"The energy here is almost stagnant, and those Chaos Divine Patterns on the stone walls can also isolate fluctuations of aura. If my good corpse avatar had not possessed such keen senses, it would have been difficult for him to detect the aura of Pangu's essence blood hidden within those jade spheres."

Shi Mo swept his gaze across the jade-like stone walls around him before turning to Nebula Daoist, his good corpse avatar, who sat cross-legged in midair.

Nebula Daoist's aura was surging. He had completely transformed into a body of flesh and blood, and Shi Mo even felt that his physical body was stronger than his own main body's.

"Main body," Nebula Daoist said as he opened his eyes, his almost tangible gaze sending ripples through the space before him.

Immediately afterward, Nebula Daoist rose to his feet and stepped into Shi Mo's main body.

"Hmm?" Shi Mo shuddered all over at once, feeling his blood and qi boil as his skin visibly flushed red.

The power of Pangu's essence blood can actually affect my main body's physical form. Startled by the way the energies of his good corpse avatar and main body merged and influenced one another, Shi Mo's spirits suddenly lifted. Right, bloodlines can merge, and physical bodies can affect one another. If I can raise all three corpse avatars to the peak Quasi-Sage level through body refinement in the future, then merge them with my main body, perhaps a quantitative change can bring about a qualitative transformation. This... may very well be the most crucial step toward proving the Dao through strength and becoming a Saint.

Filled with delighted anticipation, Shi Mo waited until the aura around him stabilized, then discovered that the physical bodies of both his main body and good corpse avatar had indeed strengthened considerably.

These jade sphere fragments that once stored Pangu's essence blood were also formed from the essence of Pangu's bones. What excellent materials! If I can refine them into my Heavenly Stellar Cloud Sword, it will surely become a top-tier supreme-grade innate spiritual treasure, perhaps even no weaker than Tongtian's personal Green Lotus Sword.

Shi Mo then looked at the white jade-like fragments floating around him. With a wave of his hand, he summoned the Infinite Umbrella and collected them all.

But the truly good stuff is still above! Shi Mo looked up as he spoke and saw a round tunnel stretching straight upward, its end nowhere in sight.

Shi Mo shot into the sky. Even though he had now obtained Pangu's essence blood and was no longer affected by the pressure of Pangu's lingering aura within Mount Buzhou's belly, he still flew for quite some time before reaching the end of that segmented tunnel.

"Is that the Chaos World outside?" Shi Mo frowned at the gray exit ahead, where faint, violent aura fluctuations could be felt. After a brief hesitation, he stepped out.

In the next instant, Shi Mo found himself seemingly transported into the Chaos beyond the Primordial World, with nothing but an expanse of gray before his eyes.

This place seemed completely isolated from the outside world. Space, time, and all kinds of energy were in disarray.

If an ordinary Daluo Golden Immortal rashly entered this place, they would likely become lost at once, perhaps even be severely injured or torn apart by the violent energies here.

Yet for Shi Mo as he was now, this environment was instead like water to a fish. It could not affect or harm him in the slightest.

No, this isn't the Chaos. It only looks very similar to it, but it lacks the endless Chaos energy found within the Chaos. Shi Mo quickly realized that this was not the true Chaos.

At the same time, Shi Mo soon noticed the faintly visible, profound and intricate Chaos Divine Patterns around him. "What a complex Innate Chaos Restriction! It seems I guessed correctly. Whatever exists here is definitely extraordinary."

After sensing and investigating for a while, Shi Mo soon arrived at an area where the chaotic gray energy was thin. There, he saw a massive tree entirely golden in color growing ahead.

The great tree's golden bark covered twisted, intertwined branches. Its leaves, like gold itself, shimmered and shifted with brilliant multicolored radiance. A haze of colorful misty energy surrounded it, constantly evolving and transforming into Chaos currents. It was an astonishing sight.

More remarkable still, golden lotus flowers bloomed all across the tree, hanging down like lotus lamps as golden light flickered and flowed across them. There were nine in total.

"A golden tree, lotus flowers, and a Chaos-like environment evolving around it..." When Shi Mo saw the scene before him, his eyes soon burned with excitement and his breathing grew slightly heavier. "Yellow Central Plum? The legendary Yellow Central Plum that blooms after one epoch, bears fruit after another epoch, and takes yet another epoch to ripen before it can be eaten? A single fruit can allow someone to directly attain Daluo Golden Immortal! This is one of the most exceptional innate spiritual roots in the Primordial World!"

"For an innate spiritual root to create a phenomenon of Chaos evolution around itself, one could well imagine the profundities contained within its origin. No wonder it possesses such unbelievable effects, allowing a cultivator to directly comprehend the Dao and attain Daluo Golden Immortal."

Shi Mo stared greedily at the Yellow Central Plum before him, marveling inwardly. This is truly the ultimate rare treasure in the Primordial World for aiding cultivation, comprehending the Heavenly Dao, and raising one's realm. It is far more precious than the leaves of the Enlightenment Tea Tree. Ginseng fruits and Peaches of Immortality can only grant longevity. Compared to the Yellow Central Plum, they are utterly inferior.

Such a spiritual root could probably only be nurtured on Mount Buzhou. But how am I supposed to move it away? The environment of my Nine Tripod Iron Fork Mountain may not be suitable for its growth. Shi Mo could not help feeling troubled and helpless. Am I supposed to leave it here? Who knows who might benefit from it later! Mount Buzhou is the Three Pure Ones' sacred ground. There seems to be a saying that this Yellow Central Plum belongs to Yuanshi Tianzun.

But since I found it first, there's no reason to let him have it. Whether I can keep it alive or not, I'll take it back first.

Having made up his mind, Shi Mo gritted his teeth and summoned the Northern Xuanyuan Water-Control Banner. Together with the soil around it, which contained a dense innate Xirang aura, he swept up and enveloped the Yellow Central Plum, moving it away.

As the Yellow Central Plum vanished, the chaotic Chaos energy around it gradually faded, while that mysterious Chaos restriction also slowly weakened and disappeared.

"Go!" Looking at the Mount Buzhou massif shrouded in misty vapor, Shi Mo willed it and grabbed the Northern Xuanyuan Water-Control Banner, which had shrunk while wrapping the Yellow Central Plum. Then he flashed into the passage and vanished into Mount Buzhou's belly.