First was the Primary Seed of the Meritorious Golden Lotus!
It contained the Meritorious Golden Lotus Origin. If planted, it could cultivate a Ninth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus—not for any other reason.
It was because, in the Primordial World, nine was the ultimate and twelve was perfection. At any given time, only one Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus could exist!
In other words, so long as the Western Sect's Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus existed, a second one would never appear!
"However..."
A thought stirred in Zhao Gongming's mind. If he remembered correctly, after Mosquito Daoist was released during the Investiture of the Gods Cataclysm—
He first devoured Junior Sister Gui Ling, then ran to the Western Lands and bit away three ranks from their Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus, causing it to plummet in rank and become a Ninth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus!
If he cultivated the Primary Seed of the Meritorious Golden Lotus in his hand into a Ninth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus, then perhaps he could strike later and prevail!
Once the Western Sect's Meritorious Golden Lotus fell in rank and had yet to recover, he could seize the moment and grow his own into a Twelfth-Rank Meritorious Golden Lotus in one fell swoop.
By then, the Western Sect's lotus would become the "counterfeit" instead!
The more Zhao Gongming thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Of course, there was still a long time before the Investiture of the Gods.
With that thought, he casually tossed it into the Myriad Heavens World.
Besides the Primary Seed of the Meritorious Golden Lotus, the remaining Bodhi Branch and Bitter Bamboo Leaf were both treasures for comprehending the Dao, with astonishing effects in assisting enlightenment.
"Haha, Brother Gongming, who would've thought you were actually the Interception Sect's foremost disciple!"
"Even the Two Western Sages suffered