These were not bad either, but even combined, they were worth less than the poorest Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Root.
Not to mention that the Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus was among the very best of the Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Roots.
Sighing inwardly, Yuan Yan pondered for a moment, then took out the spirit jade he had previously harvested and refined several Postnatal Spiritual Treasure jade boxes. He stored away all the mature lotus seeds, spiritual root fruits, and mature spiritual items, along with every Innate Spiritual Treasure.
As for the fifteen Innate Spiritual Roots?
He left them alone, allowing them to continue growing within the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven.
He even planted the Wisdom Fruit Tree he had obtained from Mount Buzhou within the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven.
Afterward, he focused all his attention on the World-Sealing Stele, refining and gaining deeper control over it while waiting for Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling to arrive and join him.
In less than twenty thousand years, Yuan Yan had not only completely refined the World-Sealing Stele, but also made several arrangements within the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven.
He left behind an imprint of his true spirit and separated a strand of his primordial spirit, using a section of Innate Five-Colored Bamboo to refine a clone at Taiyi Golden Immortal Perfection.
Although this clone was far inferior to Dao bodies such as Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling, unable to cultivate, forced to remain dormant most of the time, and weak in combat—
If a powerful enemy discovered the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven and tried to force their way in, triggering the protective formation, this clone would awaken. It could then control the Primordial Formation against the enemy and defend the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven.
The Yinyang Grotto-Heaven was uniquely blessed by nature, having produced numerous Innate Spiritual Roots and Innate Spiritual Treasures. Its protective formation was naturally no ordinary one. If activated to its fullest extent, even a Primordial Golden Immortal might not be able to break it.
But as everyone knew, an unattended Primordial Formation changed in a highly mechanical manner. Once someone grasped its patterns, it could be easily broken.
With someone controlling it, however, things were different. The Yinyang Grotto-Heaven's protective formation could change unpredictably. Breaking it would require either profound mastery of formations or absolute strength. Even if Yuan Yan's clone could not unleash all of the Primordial Formation's power, it could certainly block any expert below the Primordial Golden Immortal realm.
That was enough!
Enough to ensure that when the many Innate Divines entered Mount Buzhou in the future to seek treasures, his home would not be raided and his many Innate Spiritual Roots would not be lost.
During this time, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling also arrived one after another.
They had climbed Mount Buzhou from different directions, and the distances they traveled had been roughly the same.
But because their cultivation realms were lower than Yuan Yan's, their climbing speed naturally could not compare to his.
Moreover, under Pangu Pressure, they could not climb to the same height as Yuan Yan.
Once they reached their limits, they naturally stopped actively drawing in and resisting Pangu Pressure. Without Pangu Pressure suppressing them, their climbing speed naturally increased greatly.
Thus, they did not arrive at Mount Buzhou's summit much later than Yuan Yan.
At this time, the group gathered within the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven. Their minds were linked, so each knew of the others' gains. They all brought out their harvests, preparing to redistribute them.
It had to be said that although Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling were merely Yuan Yan's "three selves" Dao bodies, their fortune was not bad either.
If Yuan Yan had not been fated with the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven and obtained its many Innate Spiritual Roots and Innate Spiritual Treasures, his harvest would have been inferior to theirs.
For example, Yuan Jie had obtained the High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures Yinyang Cauldron and Cosmos Pearl, the High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root Dream Millet, the Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Root Bloodsoul Fruit Tree, and the Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Taiyin Vase.
For example, Yuan Lun had obtained the Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure Life-and-Death Wheel, the High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure World Cauldron, and several Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
For example, Yuan Ling had obtained the High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures Illusory World Painting and Earth Spirit Pearl, the Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Root Mind-Misleading Lotus, and several Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures.
However, although they had obtained many Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots, not all of them suited their respective Great Daos. Only by redistributing them and placing them in the hands of those best suited to them could their benefits be maximized.
Yuan Yan redistributed all the Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots.
Yuan Yan himself received treasures suited to his Great Dao, such as the Yinyang Mirror, Yinyang Cauldron, Four Symbols Formation Flags, and Yinyang Twin-Bloom Lotus.
Yuan Jie received treasures suited to his Great Dao, such as the Cosmos Pearl and World Cauldron.
Yuan Lun received the Life-and-Death Wheel, the Earth Spirit Pearl, and numerous Mid-Grade and Low-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots.
Yuan Ling received treasures suited to his Great Dao, such as the Illusory World Painting, Dream Millet, and Mind-Misleading Lotus.
Although redistributing the treasures this way would certainly leave one Dao body at a disadvantage, they were all parts of the same self, so there was nothing worth caring about.
After redistributing the treasures in their possession, Yuan Yan and the other three did not linger long within the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven.
They all left the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven and returned to Mount Buzhou, searching around its summit.
They searched for tens of thousands of years, scouring the area around Mount Buzhou's summit. Only after going more than ten thousand years without finding any opportunity did the four finally stop.
The four separated and descended the mountain in the four directions of east, south, west, and north, each taking a different route from the one he had taken when arriving.
At the beginning of their descent, Yuan Yan and the others did as they had while climbing Mount Buzhou, spreading out their divine senses to inspect and search every region they passed through. They collected heavenly treasures while searching for Primordial Formations, hoping to obtain more Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spiritual Roots.
However, whether their fate with the mountain had ended or for some other reason, they searched for tens of thousands of years without finding any worthwhile treasures.
Moreover, Yuan Yan, Yuan Lun, Yuan Jie, and Yuan Ling all sensed faintly that it was time to leave Mount Buzhou. Even if they continued searching there, they likely would not gain any further opportunities.
Upon developing this vague feeling, the four were neither surprised nor stubbornly determined to keep searching Mount Buzhou for treasures. Instead, they all accelerated their descent and returned to the mountainside in only a thousand years.
Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling encountered no obstacles along the way. Another thousand years later, they had all left the range of Mount Buzhou.
Outside Mount Buzhou's range, without Mount Buzhou suppressing heaven, earth, space, and time, a Great Firmament Golden Immortal could tear through space and cross it swiftly to reach any location in the Primordial World, provided they had coordinates.
(Of course, that location could not be sealed by the power of the Great Dao, contain a Great Dao domain like Mount Buzhou, or be blocked by a Primordial Formation.)
Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling naturally would not spend several epochs or even longer slowly flying there. Instead, they all tore open space and headed toward the western, northern, and southern continents respectively.
Although they did not have precise coordinates for the western, northern, and southern continents, they did not care. After tearing open space, they relied entirely on their instincts to leave the Infinite Void.
They believed that, as Top-Tier Innate Divines blessed with immense Fortune, the places they arrived at would suit their wishes.
Even if they did not, it did not matter. At worst, they could spend a few more moments tearing through space and crossing it again. After several attempts, they would eventually reach where they wished to go.
Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling traveled without incident, but when Yuan Yan reached Mount Buzhou's mountainside, he suddenly stopped and looked into the distance.
At that spot, heaven and earth seemed perfectly integrated, without the slightest discordance. It also seemed to hold no heavenly treasures, much less a Primordial Formation guarding any Innate Spiritual Treasure or Innate Spiritual Root.
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