World-Purifying White Lotus

As Yuan Yan pondered in secret, he sped toward the center of the immortal island while fully spreading his divine sense, searching every corner of the mysterious island for traces of its boundary stele.

He knew full well that once he found the island's boundary stele and thoroughly refined it,

he would not only immediately learn the island's name, but also become its master, gaining complete control over its protective grand formation and a thorough understanding of every treasure the island had nurtured.

Before long, Yuan Yan approached the center of the island. An ancient, unadorned stone stele instantly entered the range of his divine sense. Upon it were engraved four unfathomable 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. So long as he thoroughly refined this boundary stele, he would be able to completely control all of Yingzhou Immortal Island.

With a flash, Yuan Yan instantly teleported before Yingzhou Immortal Island's boundary stele. He sat cross-legged, thrusting his divine sense into the stele without holding anything back as he began refining this core boundary stele of the immortal island.

Time slipped away like a white colt passing through a crack.

In the blink of an eye, three thousand years had passed.

Yuan Yan slowly opened his eyes. He had already refined Yingzhou Immortal Island's boundary stele and become the master of Yingzhou Immortal Island.

Through the authority of the immortal island, Yuan Yan took in at a glance the distribution of the island's innate spirit treasures, innate spirit roots, and all manner of rare treasures, grasping it all clearly.

"Yingzhou truly hides a great treasure. I never expected it to be this treasure!" A glint of delight flashed through Yuan Yan's eyes.

With a thought, his figure moved almost as though teleporting, and he instantly appeared in a hidden corner of Yingzhou Immortal Island.

He stood in the air. The first thing that met his eyes 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, mysterious beyond mystery.

At the center of the lake, a Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus was slowly blooming. Its lotus throne was sacred and pure, cleansing all turbid qi around it. Its pressure was restrained, yet it drew the eye.

Beyond that, more than twenty white lotuses grew scattered across the lake, bursting with vitality and covering its entire surface.

Among them were three Ninth-Rank White Lotuses, nine Sixth-Rank White Lotuses, and twelve Third-Rank White Lotuses.

"Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus!" Yuan Yan recognized the origins of that Twelfth-Rank White Lotus at a glance.

It was a lotus throne transformed from one lotus seed of the Chaos Azure Lotus, a Chaos supreme treasure. It ranked among the finest innate spirit treasures and contained forty-eight innate restrictions. It could suppress fortune, and its defensive power surpassed even the Innate Five Direction Flags. Rumor had it that it was almost comparable to an innate supreme treasure.

What delighted Yuan Yan even more was that the entire lake was filled with the rare Three Lights Divine Water, along with a 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: golden Sunlight Divine Water, silver Moonlight Divine Water, and purple Starlight Divine Water.

When used separately, any one of the three divine waters was among heaven and earth's most poisonous substances.

Sunlight Divine Water could wear away flesh, tendons, and bones; Moonlight Divine Water could corrode the Primordial Spirit and soul; Starlight Divine Water could devour and dissolve true spirit and consciousness.

Yet when the three merged as one, they became a divine substance rarely found in the primordial world.

Not only was it the supreme divine water for planting and cultivating innate spirit roots and acquired spirit roots, accelerating their growth and maturation and healing damaged innate and acquired spirit roots,

it was also a supreme healing treasure. With enough Three Lights Divine Water, even if a Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal suffered severe Dao injuries, and their innate indestructible true spirit was damaged or even more than half worn away, they could easily recover—not to mention a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

The reserves of Three Lights Divine Water in the vast lake before him were astonishing. They were enough to restore tens of thousands of critically wounded early-stage Great Luo Golden Immortals to their peak condition, and could also return several Great Perfection Primordial Chaos Golden Immortals on the verge of death to their peak.

As for the more than twenty white lotuses in the lake, they were all innate spirit roots and could also be regarded as innate spirit treasures.

The three Ninth-Rank White Lotuses contained thirty-six innate divine restrictions and were high-grade innate spirit roots, their defensive power no weaker than ordinary top-grade innate spirit treasures; the nine Sixth-Rank White Lotuses contained twenty-four innate divine restrictions and were mid-grade innate spirit roots; the twelve Third-Rank White Lotuses contained twelve innate divine restrictions and were low-grade innate spirit roots.

It was no exaggeration to say that this lake of Three Lights Divine Water and this pool of World-Purifying White Lotuses alone were worth far more than all the treasures he had obtained before combined.

Yuan Yan suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and raised a hand, drawing the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus toward him.

Without the slightest hesitation, he extended his divine sense into it and initially branded it with his divine sense and true spirit.

Only then did Yuan Yan understand why this place could nurture so many innate white lotuses.

From the source information conveyed by the World-Purifying White Lotus, he learned that the four immature lotus seeds and one mature lotus seed of the Chaos Azure Lotus had each resonated and fused 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—five innate lotus thrones.

All five innate lotus thrones possessed the ability to nurture lotus seeds, and those lotus seeds could likewise be cultivated into innate spirit roots.

Naturally, this was also constrained by the laws of heaven and earth. It was impossible to endlessly cultivate innate spirit roots from lotus seeds. In theory, each of the four Twelfth-Rank innate lotus thrones could cultivate at most three high-grade innate lotus thrones, nine mid-grade innate lotus thrones, and twenty-seven low-grade innate lotus thrones. The Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus, in theory, could cultivate at most one Twelfth-Rank top-grade innate lotus throne, three high-grade innate lotus thrones, nine mid-grade innate lotus thrones, and twenty-seven low-grade innate lotus thrones.

But theory was theory, and reality was reality!

For a Twelfth-Rank innate lotus throne to mature and bloom at the Twelfth Rank, it required not only an immense span of time, but also vast nourishment. Afterward, it had to nurture lotus seeds, and for those lotus seeds to be reshaped and bloom at the Ninth Rank likewise required immense time and vast nourishment.

Without enough time and enough nourishment, it was simply impossible to cultivate more innate lotus thrones.

For example, the Meritorious Golden Lotus and the World-Destroying Black Lotus had long since been acquired by Hongjun and Rahu respectively. After refining them, they took them into their bodies to nourish them. Having left the nourishment of innate waters and soil, they would never expend their source to nurture lotus seeds.

Likewise, the Twenty-Fourth-Rank Creation Azure Lotus had barely matured and bloomed at the Twenty-Fourth Rank before the Three Pure Ones divided its opportunity among themselves. It never had a chance to nurture lotus seeds or cultivate innate lotus thrones.

Looking across the primordial world, only the World-Purifying White Lotus and Ancestor Minghe's Twelfth-Rank Karmic Fire Red Lotus truly had the opportunity to nurture lotus seeds and cultivate large numbers of innate lotus thrones.

Yet without the nourishment of this entire lake of Three Lights Divine Water, even if Minghe possessed great fortune, it would have been exceedingly difficult for him to cultivate such a number of innate lotus thrones.

At this moment, Yuan Yan held the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus in his hand. He lowered his gaze to the lotus shadows filling the lake and fell into thought, considering how to deal with this opportunity.

After pondering for a moment, Yuan Yan made up his mind. He collected the three Ninth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotuses, then took away less than one-tenth of the Three Lights Divine Water.