As Yuan Yan pondered inwardly, he sped toward the center of the immortal island while fully spreading out his divine sense to search every corner of this mysterious island for the whereabouts of its boundary stele.
He knew clearly that once he found the island's boundary stele and completely refined it,
he would not only immediately learn the island's name, but also become its master, gaining full control over its protective grand formation and a complete understanding of every treasure it had nurtured.
Before long, Yuan Yan neared the island's center. An ancient, unadorned stone stele instantly entered the range of his divine sense. Upon it were carved four unfathomably profound innate Dao patterns: "Yingzhou Immortal Island." Their aura was ancient and weighty.
Clearly, this was the boundary stele of Yingzhou Immortal Island. This island was Yingzhou Immortal Island, one of the Three Immortal Isles Overseas. Once he completely refined this boundary stele, he would have full control over all of Yingzhou Immortal Island.
With a flash, Yuan Yan instantly teleported before the boundary stele of Yingzhou Immortal Island. Sitting cross-legged, he poured his divine sense into the stele without reservation and began refining this core boundary stele of the immortal island.
Time passed swiftly like a fleeting white colt.
In the blink of an eye, three thousand years had passed.
Yuan Yan slowly opened his eyes. He had already refined the boundary stele of Yingzhou Immortal Island and become its master.
Using the authority of the immortal island, Yuan Yan took in at a glance the distribution of the Innate Spiritual Treasures, Innate Spiritual Roots, and all manner of rare treasures across the island.
"Yingzhou truly holds a great treasure. I never expected it to be this one!" Delight flashed through Yuan Yan's eyes.
With a thought, his figure nearly vanished in an instant, appearing at a hidden location on Yingzhou Immortal Island.
He stopped in midair, and the first sight before him was a vast lake shrouded in misty vapor.
Brilliant golden, silver, and purple divine radiance rose from the lake's surface. Innate Dao charm washed over him, rich and profound beyond measure.
At the center of the lake, a Twelfth-Rank White Lotus was slowly blooming. Its lotus platform was sacred and pure, cleansing all turbid qi in its surroundings. Its pressure was restrained, yet impossible to ignore.
Besides it, more than twenty White Lotuses grew across the lake's surface, brimming with vitality and covering the entire lake.
Three were Ninth-Rank White Lotuses, nine were Sixth-Rank White Lotuses, and twelve were Third-Rank White Lotuses.
"Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus!" Yuan Yan recognized the origins of the Twelfth-Rank White Lotus at a glance.
It was a lotus platform transformed from one lotus seed of the Chaos Supreme Treasure, the Chaos Azure Lotus. It was a Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasure containing forty-eight Innate Divine Restrictions. It could suppress Fortune, and its defensive power surpassed even the Primordial Five Directional Banners. Legend held that it could almost rival an Innate Supreme Treasure.
What delighted Yuan Yan even more was that the lake water was actually the exceedingly rare Three Lights Divine Water of heaven and earth. Together with the lake full of innate White Lotuses, this opportunity was nothing short of heaven-defying.
The Three Lights Divine Water consisted of three different divine waters: the golden Sunlight Divine Water, the silver Moonlight Divine Water, and the purple Starlight Divine Water.
When used separately, each divine water was among the most poisonous things in heaven and earth.
Sunlight Divine Water could wear away flesh, blood, sinews, and bones; Moonlight Divine Water could corrode the Primordial Spirit and soul; Starlight Divine Water could devour and dissolve the true spirit and consciousness.
Yet when the three were combined, they became an incomparably rare divine substance in the Primordial World.
Not only was it the supreme divine water for planting and cultivating Innate Spiritual Roots and Postnatal Spiritual Roots, accelerating their growth and maturity and healing damaged Innate Spiritual Roots and Postnatal Spiritual Roots,
it was also a supreme healing treasure. With enough Three Lights Divine Water, even if a Great Firmament Golden Immortal suffered severe Dao Injuries, or a Primordial Golden Immortal's Innate Imperishable True Spirit was damaged or even more than half worn away, they could still recover with ease.
The quantity of Three Lights Divine Water in this entire lake was astonishing. It was enough to restore tens of thousands of heavily wounded, dying Great Firmament Golden Immortal Early Stage cultivators to peak condition, and could also return several Primordial Golden Immortal Fullness cultivators on the verge of death to their prime.
As for the more than twenty White Lotuses in the lake, all of them were Innate Spiritual Roots and could also be regarded as Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Among them, the three Ninth-Rank White Lotuses contained thirty-six Innate Divine Restrictions and were High-Grade Innate Spiritual Roots, their defensive power no weaker than ordinary Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures; the nine Sixth-Rank White Lotuses contained twenty-four Innate Divine Restrictions and were Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Roots; the twelve Third-Rank White Lotuses contained twelve Innate Divine Restrictions and were low-grade Innate Spiritual Roots.
Without exaggeration, this lake of Three Lights Divine Water and this pool of World-Purifying White Lotuses alone were worth far more than the total value of every treasure he had obtained before.
Yuan Yan suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and raised a hand, drawing the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus toward himself.
Without the slightest hesitation, he sent his divine sense into it and initially branded it with his divine sense and true spirit.
Only then did Yuan Yan understand why so many innate White Lotuses could be nurtured here.
From the source information conveyed by the World-Purifying White Lotus, he learned that four immature lotus seeds and one mature lotus seed of the Chaos Azure Lotus had resonated and merged with different Great Daos of the Primordial World, evolving into the Twelfth-Rank Karmic Fire Red Lotus, Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus, Twelfth-Rank World-Destroying Black Lotus, Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus, and Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus—these five Innate Lotus Platforms.
All five Innate Lotus Platforms could nurture lotus seeds, and those lotus seeds could likewise be cultivated into Innate Spiritual Roots.
Naturally, this was also restricted by the laws of heaven and earth. It was impossible to endlessly cultivate Innate Spiritual Roots from lotus seeds. In theory, each of the four Twelfth-Rank Innate Lotus Platforms could cultivate at most three high-grade Innate Lotus Platforms, nine mid-grade Innate Lotus Platforms, and twenty-seven low-grade Innate Lotus Platforms. The Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus could theoretically cultivate at most one Twelfth-Rank Supreme-Grade Innate Lotus Platform, three high-grade Innate Lotus Platforms, nine mid-grade Innate Lotus Platforms, and twenty-seven low-grade Innate Lotus Platforms.
But theory was theory, and reality was reality!
For a Twelfth-Rank Innate Lotus Platform to mature and bloom to the twelfth rank, it required not only an immense span of time, but also vast amounts of nourishment. Then, to nurture lotus seeds, and for those lotus seeds to reshape themselves and bloom to the ninth rank, likewise required immense time and nourishment.
Without sufficient time and enough nourishment, it was simply impossible to cultivate more Innate Lotus Platforms.
For example, the Meritorious Golden Lotus and World-Destroying Black Lotus had long been acquired by Hongjun and Rahu respectively. After refining them, they kept them within their bodies for nurturing. Separated from the nourishment of innate waters and soil, they would never expend their origin to nurture lotus seeds;
likewise, the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus was divided among the Three Pure Ones for their opportunities as soon as it matured and bloomed at the twenty-fourth rank. It never had the chance to nurture lotus seeds or cultivate Innate Lotus Platforms.
Looking across the Primordial World, the only ones that truly had the chance to nurture lotus seeds and cultivate large numbers of Innate Lotus Platforms were the World-Purifying White Lotus and Ancestor Minghe's Twelfth-Rank Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
Yet without the nourishment of this lake of Three Lights Divine Water before him, even with Minghe's great opportunity, it would have been extraordinarily difficult for him to cultivate such a quantity of Innate Lotus Platforms.
At this moment, Yuan Yan held the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus in his hand. Lowering his gaze to the lotus shadows filling the lake, he fell into thought, considering how to handle this opportunity.
After pondering for a moment, Yuan Yan came to a decision. He took away the three Ninth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotuses as well, along with less than one-tenth of the Three Lights Divine Water.
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