Each Reaped Their Own Rewards

As for the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus, there was no need to say more. He would use it himself.

The three Ninth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotuses 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 defensive treasures. They were ideal for the three to use in protecting themselves and fending off enemies.

Moreover, as the four of them traveled through the Primordial World, disputes were unavoidable. Even he could not guarantee that he would never be injured. With the Three Lights Divine Water, they had one more layer of insurance.

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

Yingzhou Immortal Island was one of the Primordial World's foremost grotto-heavens and blessed lands. Although he already had Yinyang Grotto-Heaven as his own Daoist sanctuary, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling still lacked exclusive high-grade cultivation grounds. Yingzhou Immortal Island could serve as one of their cultivation sanctuaries.

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

Having taken only some divine water and high-rank lotus platforms, the innate formation and earth-vein source here could still continuously condense Three Lights Divine Water, while the remaining innate lotus platforms could continue producing innate 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 nurturing so many innate lotus platforms had originally already reached its limit. However, since he had taken away the four strongest innate lotus platforms, it could naturally cultivate another fifteen low-grade innate white lotuses.

And even if it could no longer cultivate innate lotus platforms in the future, these innate lotus seeds were still rare divine treasures, equivalent to the fruits of innate spiritual roots. Consuming them could cleanse one's essence, qi, and spirit, purify inner demons and stray thoughts, keep one's mind eternally clear and serene, and even assist cultivators in comprehending the Dao of Purification. Their benefits were endless.

After arranging the opportunity before him and allocating the three Ninth-Rank White Lotuses, Yuan Yan's thoughts stirred. He suddenly recalled his three incarnations and wished to know where they had been 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 intangible connection, they crossed endless time and space and linked his mind with those of Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling. In but an instant, the experiences, encounters, and gains of the three over the past several thousand years all became clear within his mind.

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

This time, not only had he gained greatly, 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 lands of the Northern Sea: the Northern Dark Water-Control Banner.

This banner was transformed from a leaf of the Chaos Azure Lotus. It contained forty-eight innate divine restrictions and was a pinnacle innate spiritual treasure, possessing the supreme might to command all waters, shroud Qiankun in haze, repel all techniques, and drive away every evil.

Across the entire Primordial World, apart from innate supreme treasures and the four top-grade innate lotus platforms, no treasure could stand shoulder to shoulder with it in defensive power.

Yuan Lun, meanwhile, 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. Not only could it sense the direction of Heaven and Earth's earth veins and command their power, it could also move mountains and fill seas, shaking Qiankun itself. It was both an offensive innate spiritual treasure and a supreme treasure for regulating and restoring earth veins. For them, who wished to continue cleansing and restoring the Primordial World, its wondrous uses and value were in no way inferior to ordinary pinnacle innate spiritual treasures.

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 pinnacle innate God and Devil, the Mirage Dragon. However, in the middle-to-late stages of the Calamity of Ferocious Beasts, before the Mirage Dragon had broken through to the Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal realm, it encountered Beast Sovereign Shen Ni. After a fierce battle, it was defeated and perished.

Before dying, in pursuit of a slim chance at survival, the Mirage Dragon took the initiative to separate a thread of its true spirit, wrapping it together with its companion supreme treasure, the Grand Illusory Mirror, and a portion of its innate origin as it fled. It then self-destructed its physical body to hold Shen Ni back.

Yet unexpectedly, it was struck by Shen Ni's God-Slaying Spear during its flight. Its final wisp of true spirit was utterly ground away, leaving only the Grand Illusory Mirror and Mirage Dragon Pearl to drift through endless void for countless years before finally falling into Yuan Ling's hands.

In other words, all four of them now possessed their own supreme-grade innate spiritual treasures.

His choice to seize the opportunities he sensed and willingly continue cleansing and restoring the Primordial World had not been wrong.

After rejoicing for a while longer, Yuan Yan's expression shifted slightly. Through their intangible connection, he sent out a thought, transmitting the exact location of Yingzhou Immortal Island and the method of entering and leaving it to Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling, telling them to come quickly and meet with him.

Not long afterward, Yuan Jie, Yuan Lun, and Yuan Ling crossed the void and entered Yingzhou Immortal Island.

Seeing the three arrive, 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 gave each of them some Three Lights Divine Water as well.

Afterward, they took stock of and collected the various treasures contained within Yingzhou Immortal Island together.

Although Yingzhou Immortal Island had not produced any additional supreme-grade innate spiritual treasures or supreme-grade innate spiritual roots apart from the Twelfth-Rank World-Purifying White Lotus,

it possessed quite a few low-grade, mid-grade, and high-grade innate spiritual treasures, as well as low-grade, mid-grade, and high-grade innate spiritual roots.

Yuan Yan did not care much for the overwhelming majority of them. The only treasures that truly caught his eye were four items:

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 them, twenty-four had been obtained by Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and Tongtian had acquired them at Treasure-Distribution Cliff during Purple Firmament Palace's distribution of treasures. After becoming a Saint, he bestowed them upon his foremost outer disciple, Zhao Gongming. The remaining twelve, meanwhile, had always been missing.

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 there were thirty-six Sea-Calming Divine Pearls, they were not, as the rumors claimed, half-step innate supreme treasures or innate supreme treasures. They were merely pinnacle 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 assembled, they would become a pinnacle innate spiritual treasure containing forty-eight innate divine restrictions.

Second: the Primordial Pure-Spirit Tea Tree. This was a high-grade innate spiritual root containing thirty-two innate divine restrictions. It bore one hundred and eight leaves, capable of cleansing inner demons, refining the Primordial Spirit, and aiding 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, then gather them together with his Earth Spirit Pearl to form the Primordial Five Spirit Pearls, they would become a pinnacle innate spiritual treasure and come with the pinnacle innate formation, the Primordial Five-Element Formation.