A Sudden Windfall

In the blink of an eye, space shifted, and Yuan Yan arrived in a small world.

He spread out his divine sense and searched the small world for a while, quickly gaining a preliminary understanding of it.

At this moment, Yuan Yan did not rush to seek out the innate spiritual treasures and innate spiritual roots nurtured within this small world. Instead, he first came to its center, where the World-Sealing Stele stood, intending to refine it first.

Once that was done, this small world would be his for the taking! Even if someone intruded, he could wield the power of the grotto-heaven and its protective formation against them.

Perhaps this grotto-heaven was fated with him. In less than a hundred years, Yuan Yan had easily begun refining the World-Sealing Stele and closed the realm gate.

Having refined the World-Sealing Stele, Yuan Yan now knew every detail of this grotto-heaven, including every treasure it had nurtured.

At once, delight filled Yuan Yan's face!

The harvest this time was far beyond his expectations. It had already greatly surpassed everything he had gained from spending two or three yuanhui painstakingly climbing Mount Buzhou in search of treasures.

This grotto-heaven had nurtured one supreme-grade innate spiritual root, two high-grade innate spiritual roots, six mid-grade innate spiritual roots, ten low-grade innate spiritual roots, one high-grade innate spiritual treasure, and three low-grade innate spiritual treasures.

Beyond that, there were rare treasures such as Yin-Yang Sourcewater, Primordial Chaos Divine Soil, Nine-Turn Life-and-Death Grass, Yin-Yang Nirvana Flower...

Yuan Yan had no impression of that supreme-grade innate spiritual root. It seemed that, in the original course of fate, no great cultivator had obtained it, nor had it ever become renowned.

It was called the Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus. Its yin and yang lotuses were born together, each blooming with ten petals, and contained forty-six innate divine restrictions. Even if the yin and yang lotuses were separated, each would still be a supreme-grade innate spiritual root containing thirty-eight innate divine restrictions.

As for the two high-grade innate spiritual roots, six mid-grade innate spiritual roots, and ten low-grade innate spiritual roots—

Two of the high-grade, four of the mid-grade, and eight of the low-grade roots were also Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses, born from the seeds of the Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus.

Among them, low-grade Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses bloomed with one petal and contained ten innate divine restrictions; mid-grade ones bloomed with four petals and contained twenty-two innate divine restrictions; high-grade ones bloomed with seven petals and contained thirty-four innate divine restrictions.

The Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus was exceedingly profound. Each time, it bore only two lotus seeds, one yin and one yang, and they required a hundred yuanhui to mature.

If the two mature seeds it bore were consumed by the same person, they could easily comprehend the Great Dao of Yin and Yang, condense a Da Luo Dao Fruit, and break through to Da Luo Golden Immortal.

Of course, breaking through with the Yin-Yang Great Dao contained in the mature seeds was not the same as comprehending one's own Dao. Their future prospects would be limited, and they might remain stuck at the early stage of Da Luo Golden Immortal forever.

If one yin and one yang mature lotus seed were instead consumed separately by a woman and a man, then either their cultivation realms had to be deep enough to forcibly refine them, or they would explode and die, or yin and yang would unite and mutually complement each other.

If yin and yang united and complemented one another, both people could comprehend the Great Dao and break through to Da Luo Golden Immortal.

However, likewise, if they had not comprehended their own Dao, their future prospects would remain limited, and they might spend their entire lives stuck at the early stage of Da Luo Golden Immortal.

As for the mature lotus seeds borne by low-grade, mid-grade, and high-grade Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses, their effects were similar to those borne by the supreme-grade Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus. They merely matured far more quickly and were much less effective.

Among them, low-grade Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus seeds required three yuanhui to mature, mid-grade seeds required ten yuanhui, and high-grade seeds required thirty yuanhui.

Mature seeds from high-grade Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses could help one comprehend the Great Dao of Yin and Yang and break through to Da Luo Golden Immortal, though success was not guaranteed. Mature seeds from mid-grade Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses could help one comprehend perfected Yin-Yang laws and break through to Taiyi Golden Immortal, while the mature seeds from low-grade Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses could not even guarantee that.

Furthermore, apart from being directly consumed to assist in comprehending laws and the Great Dao, mature lotus seeds borne by Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses could also be cultivated into spiritual roots.

However, whether due to the restrictions of the Heavenly Dao or some other reason, the number of innate spiritual roots that could be cultivated was limited: only one supreme-grade root, at most two high-grade roots, at most four mid-grade roots, and at most eight low-grade roots.

From then on, even if Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus seeds were used for cultivation, they could only yield postnatal spiritual roots and would no longer count among the innate.

It was precisely because of this that, though countless yuanhui had passed since the Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus first took form, the Yin-Yang Sourcewater pool was not overflowing with lotuses. There were only fifteen innate Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses.

And precisely because of this, after the number of innate roots had reached its limit, the mature lotus seeds borne by the Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses no longer fell off on their own.

The mature lotus seeds on the fifteen Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses had been nurtured over an immense span of time, and their quality and effects had risen to an even higher level.

Apart from the Yin-Yang Twin-Bloom Lotuses, the remaining four innate spiritual roots and four innate spiritual treasures were—

The mid-grade innate spiritual roots Spirit-Nurturing Tree and Five-Colored Bamboo; the low-grade innate spiritual roots Fire Date Tree and Water Pear Tree; the high-grade innate spiritual treasure Four Symbols Banner; and the low-grade innate spiritual treasures Duality Hairpin, Primordial Unity Pendant, and Water-Fire Sword.

Among them, the fruits of the innate spiritual roots Spirit-Nurturing Tree, Fire Date Tree, and Water Pear Tree had never been harvested. Having been nurtured for far too long, their quality and effects had increased greatly.

The Five-Colored Bamboo had multiplied into an entire bamboo forest. Although it did not count among the innate, it was still an excellent material for refining postnatal spiritual treasures.

As for the four innate spiritual treasures, there was nothing worth mentioning about the three low-grade ones. In Yuan Yan's hands, they could only become ornaments or collectibles. Only the high-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Four Symbols Banner, deserved mention.

It was not a single treasure, but a complete set, respectively representing the sun, lesser yin, lesser yang, and lunar yin. It contained the Four Symbols Formation, and even Yuan Yan could make considerable use of it. If he and his Three-Selves Dao Bodies each held one banner and joined forces to form the formation, even a Da Luo consummate cultivator without a suitable treasure would likely be troubled.

Furthermore, rare treasures within the grotto-heaven such as Yin-Yang Sourcewater, Primordial Chaos Divine Soil, Nine-Turn Life-and-Death Grass, Yin-Yang Nirvana Flower... could not be overlooked either.

For instance, although Yin-Yang Sourcewater was not among the ten great innate divine waters of the Primordial World, it was no weaker than Three Lights Divine Water when it came to nurturing and cultivating spiritual roots. In healing, it was only slightly inferior to Three Lights Divine Water.

For instance, Primordial Chaos Divine Soil was a type of chaotic soil with extraordinary effects for planting spiritual roots, no weaker than divine soils such as Nine Heavens Breath Soil and Myriad Things Soil.

For instance, the effects of Nine-Turn Life-and-Death Grass defied the heavens. Even a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal suffering severe Dao injuries and left with only a wisp of true spirit could rapidly recover after consuming it.

After taking stock of the treasures within the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven, Yuan Yan could not help but sigh with emotion.

This truly was a sudden windfall! The treasures he had painstakingly acquired while climbing Mount Buzhou were likely not even a quarter of this haul.

After all, although he had obtained many heavenly materials and earthly treasures, they were basically useless at his current level. Yet he had gained very few innate spiritual treasures, innate spiritual roots, and special rare treasures that were truly useful to him.

In total, he had obtained only two high-grade innate spiritual treasures, one mid-grade innate spiritual treasure, one low-grade innate spiritual treasure, and one mid-grade innate spiritual root.

Among them, the high-grade innate spiritual treasures were the Yinyang Mirror and Taiji Daoist Robe; the mid-grade innate spiritual treasure was the Duality Void-Stepping Boots; the low-grade innate spiritual treasure was the Water-Sealing Pearl; and the mid-grade innate spiritual root was the Wisdom Fruit Tree.