Each Reaped Their Own Rewards

The Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus naturally went to him for his own use.

As for the three Ninth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotuses, they were High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures containing thirty-six Innate Divine Restrictions. Their defensive power was no weaker than that of ordinary Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, perfectly making up for Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling's lack of top-tier defensive treasures. They were ideal for the three of them to use for protection against enemies.

Furthermore, as the four of them traveled through the Primordial World, conflicts were unavoidable. Even he could not guarantee that he would never be injured. With Three Lights Divine Water, they had an extra safeguard.

As for the remaining World-Purifying White Lotuses and Three Lights Divine Water, Yuan Yan decided to leave them all on Yingzhou Immortal Island and retrieve them whenever they were needed in the future.

Yingzhou Immortal Island was one of the Primordial World's top Cave Heavens and Blessed Lands. Although he already had the Yinyang Grotto-Heaven as his personal Daoist sanctuary, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had yet to acquire high-grade sanctuaries of their own. Yingzhou Immortal Island could serve as one of their cultivation grounds.

Since he intended to keep this place for his own use, he naturally would not drain it dry and damage its origin.

He would only take some of the divine water and high-grade lotus platforms. The island's Primordial Formation and Earth Vein origin could still continuously gather Three Lights Divine Water, while the remaining Innate Lotus Platforms could continue producing Primordial Lotus Seeds.

Under the restrictions of heaven and earth's laws, the World-Purifying White Lotus could still cultivate another fifteen low-grade Innate Spiritual Roots.

The Three Lights Divine Water Pool had originally reached its limit after nurturing so many Innate Lotus Platforms. However, since he had taken away the four strongest ones, it could naturally cultivate another fifteen low-grade primordial white lotuses.

Moreover, even if it could no longer cultivate Innate Lotus Platforms in the future, these Primordial Lotus Seeds were still rare divine treasures, equivalent to the fruit of Innate Spiritual Roots. Consuming them could cleanse one's essence, qi, and spirit, purify inner demons and distracting thoughts, keep the mind eternally lucid, and even assist cultivators in comprehending the Purification Dao. Their benefits were endless.

After arranging the opportunities before him and distributing the three Ninth-Rank white lotuses, Yuan Yan's thoughts stirred. He suddenly recalled his three Dao Bodies and wished to learn of their movements over the past several thousand years, as well as the opportunities each had found.

Without the slightest hesitation, obscure Dao fluctuations circulated around Yuan Yan. Following the unseen connection, he crossed endless time and space and linked his mind with Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling. In but an instant, everything the three had experienced, encountered, and gained over the past several thousand years became vividly clear within his mind.

"Hahaha—good! Very good!" Yuan Yan laughed heartily to himself, unable to conceal his delight.

This time, not only had he reaped abundant rewards, but Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling had as well.

Among them, Yuan Jie had found one of the Primordial Five Directional Banners in the frigid reaches of the North Sea: the Northern Dark Water-Control Banner.

This banner had transformed from a leaf of the Chaos Azure Lotus. It contained forty-eight Innate Divine Restrictions and was a Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasure, possessing supreme might over all waters, obscuring Qiankun, rendering all techniques incapable of invasion, and driving away every evil.

Looking across the entire Primordial World, aside from Innate Supreme Treasures and the four top-tier Innate Lotus Platforms, no other treasure could rival it in defensive power.

Meanwhile, Yuan Lun had found the Innate Spiritual Treasure Mountain-Driving Whip in the region of Eastern Peak Mount Tai.

This whip contained forty-two Innate Divine Restrictions and was a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure. It could sense the direction of the earth and its veins, wield the power of Earth Veins, move mountains and fill seas, and shake Qiankun. It was not only an offensive Innate Spiritual Treasure, but also a supreme treasure for regulating and repairing Earth Veins. For them, who wished to continue cleansing and restoring the Primordial World, its wondrous uses and value were no less than those of an ordinary Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasure.

As for Yuan Ling, he had obtained treasures such as the Grand Illusory Mirror and the Mirage Dragon Pearl on the Northern Continent.

The Grand Illusory Mirror was a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with forty-five Innate Divine Restrictions. Although the Mirage Dragon Pearl was postnatal in nature, it contained a portion of the Mirage Dragon's origin.

Both had originally belonged to the top-tier Innate Fiendgod, the Mirage Dragon. Yet during the middle to late stages of the Calamity of Ferocious Beasts, before the Mirage Dragon had broken through to the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, he encountered Beast Sovereign Shen Ni and was slain after being defeated in battle.

Before his death, the Mirage Dragon had sought a sliver of survival by voluntarily separating a thread of his true spirit. He fled with his companion treasure, the Grand Illusory Mirror, and a portion of his Primordial Origin, then detonated his physical body to hold Shen Ni back.

Yet unexpectedly, during his escape, he was struck after Shen Ni locked onto him with the God-Slaying Spear. His final wisp of true spirit was completely ground away, leaving only the Grand Illusory Mirror and the Mirage Dragon Pearl drifting through the Infinite Void for countless years before finally falling into Yuan Ling's hands.

In other words, all four of them now possessed Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures of their own.

He had not made the wrong choice in claiming the opportunities he sensed and being willing to continue cleansing and restoring the Primordial World for them.

After savoring his joy for a while longer, Yuan Yan's expression shifted slightly. Through their unseen connection, he sent a thought to Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling, conveying the exact location of Yingzhou Immortal Island and the method of entering and leaving it, then instructed them to come quickly and join him.

Before long, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling crossed the void and entered Yingzhou Immortal Island.

Seeing that the three had arrived, Yuan Yan did not waste words. He immediately took out the three Ninth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotuses and gave one to each of them, then granted each of them some Three Lights Divine Water as well.

Afterward, they inventoried and collected the various treasures contained within Yingzhou Immortal Island together.

Although, apart from the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus, Yingzhou Immortal Island had not nurtured any more Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures or Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Roots,

it possessed quite a few low-, mid-, and high-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, as well as low-, mid-, and high-grade Innate Spiritual Roots.

Yuan Yan did not care much for the vast majority of them. Only four treasures truly caught his eye:

First, twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls.

In his previous life, there had been rumors that the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls did not number merely twenty-four, but thirty-six in total. Of these, twenty-four had been obtained by Dao Ancestor Hongjun and later acquired by Tongtian at Treasure-Distribution Cliff during the distribution of treasures at Purple Firmament Palace. After becoming a saint, Tongtian bestowed them upon his foremost outer disciple, Zhao Gongming. As for the remaining twelve, their whereabouts had always been unknown.

He had never expected the rumor to be true, nor that the missing twelve Sea-Calming Divine Pearls had been hidden within Yingzhou Immortal Island.

However, although the Sea-Calming Divine Pearls numbered thirty-six, they were not, as rumored, a half-step Innate Supreme Treasure or an Innate Supreme Treasure. They were merely Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasures.

A single Sea-Calming Divine Pearl was a Mid-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure containing sixteen Innate Divine Restrictions. When twelve were gathered, they formed a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-six Innate Divine Restrictions. When twenty-four were gathered, they formed a Supreme-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with forty-four Innate Divine Restrictions.

Once all thirty-six were gathered, they would become a Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasure containing forty-eight Innate Divine Restrictions.

Second, the Primordial Pure-Spirit Tea Tree. It was a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root containing thirty-two Innate Divine Restrictions and bearing one hundred and eight leaves. It could cleanse inner demons, condense the primordial spirit, and aid sudden enlightenment.

Third, the Innate Spiritual Treasure Wood Spirit Pearl. Although it was only a High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure with thirty-six Innate Divine Restrictions, if he could find the Water Spirit Pearl, Fire Spirit Pearl, and Metal Spirit Pearl and combine them with his Earth Spirit Pearl to complete the Primordial Five Spirit Pearls, they would form a Top-Tier Innate Spiritual Treasure accompanied by the top-tier Primordial Formation, the Primordial Five-Element Formation.