Two Little Green Willows

Besides resolving the hidden dangers within himself, Yuan Tian had also transformed his true body into three Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures and gained three Life-bound Spirit Treasures. It could be called an unexpected delight. After Yuan Tian finished weathering the heavenly tribulation, he thought of the two Little Green Willows. Yuan Tian now grew on an island. Aside from him, there seemed to be no other living beings. Even if the two Little Green Willows, who had already developed intelligence, were counted, there were only three of them.

"Little Green Willows, it's time I went to see them." When Yuan Tian underwent Transformation, he had moved the two Little Green Willows aside. Now was the time to visit these two Little Green Willows who would one day share a father-son or father-daughter relationship with him.

With a thought, Yuan Tian arrived beside the two Little Green Willows. What Yuan Tian had used was not Teleportation. With his current cultivation and his grasp of Spatial Law, he was not yet capable of using Teleportation. This was the Primordial World, after all, and the space of the Primordial World was incomparably solid. Unless one reached the Quasi-Sage realm, one could forget about tearing open a spatial rift in the Primordial World. To use Teleportation in the Primordial World, aside from the future Sages, only those who had comprehended Teleportation within Spatial Law could do so. In the entire Primordial Wilderness, among those who were not Sages, the only one who truly seemed capable of using Teleportation was Ancestral Shaman Dijiang. The rest were merely exceptionally fast. Even Dijiang would need to reach the Quasi-Sage level, advancing into the Ancestral Shaman realm, before he could use Teleportation. Even after reaching Quasi-Sage, Dijiang would not dare use Teleportation casually. Therefore, Yuan Tian had no way of using Teleportation yet. What he had just used was simply his own speed. Yet Yuan Tian was too fast. Based on Spatial Law and Speed Law, he had created a divine ability—Endless Distance. With one step, he crossed one hundred ninety thousand li. Naturally, as Yuan Tian's cultivation deepened, this speed could continue increasing.

Endless Distance was unlike the Buddhist Sect's Somersault Cloud, which required a somersault. That looked far too ugly. Only monkeys liked doing somersaults; otherwise, Sun Wukong would not have been the only one in the entire Buddhist Sect to carry Somersault Cloud forward. Moreover, one somersault of the Somersault Cloud was only one hundred eight thousand li, and that was fixed—the legendary constant speed. No matter how high one's cultivation was, one could only reach one hundred eight thousand li. Yuan Tian's Endless Distance had no such limitation. He could now travel one hundred ninety thousand li in a single step, and as his cultivation increased, he would grow faster and faster. One day, he might even surpass Teleportation.

Enough idle chatter. Yuan Tian arrived beside the two Little Green Willows. Calling them Little Green Willows was relative. Compared to trees of later ages, neither their size nor their height was small. These two "Little Green Willows," as Yuan Tian called them, stood ten meters tall, roughly the height of a three-story building. It would take at least two burly men to wrap their arms around either one. They were indeed not small. Of course, compared to Yuan Tian's true body, they were still tiny—extremely tiny. Yuan Tian's true body was a million zhang tall.

"Unfortunately, these two Little Green Willows are still too weak to communicate with me." Although the two Little Green Willows had already developed intelligence, they still could not converse with Yuan Tian. Yuan Tian planned to preach the Dao to them, helping them undergo Transformation sooner. Yuan Tian acted as soon as he thought of something, and he had already begun.

"Above are the soul spirits, below lies the Gate of Origin; lesser yang to the left, greater yin to the right. Behind is the hidden gate, before is the Gate of Life. Exhale the sun, inhale the moon, preserve the breath. The four qi combine, the constellations divide; purple mist rises and falls amid the three plain clouds. Irrigate the five blossoms and plant the Spiritual Root; seven fluids flow through the caverns and rush between the huts. Gather purple, embrace yellow, enter the cinnabar field; light shines within the dark chamber, illuminating bright yang."

"The five elements drive each other and return to one; three and five combine their qi, forming the ninety-nine joints. One may conceal the earth and turn back the eight arts; crouching oxen and secluded towers arrange themselves in ranks. Three brightnesses emerge in splendor at the boundary of life and death; the inner chamber's spirit images contend with sun and moon. The father is called Mud Pill, the mother Female One; the three lights blaze and enter the child's chamber. Preserve the mysterious truth, and all things are complete; the spirit and essence of one body must not be lost."

Although Yuan Tian's preaching did not produce falling heavenly flowers, golden lotuses blooming from the earth, or auspicious clouds gathering from all directions like a Sage's, every word was a jade pearl, pointing directly to the heart. The most obvious sign was that the Green Willows before him seemed as though they had been injected with chicken blood. Not only did they keep growing taller, but their cultivation rose just as quickly as their height.

The sight made Yuan Tian endlessly envious. His own cultivation advanced painfully slowly. Time in the Primordial Wilderness truly was worth nothing. In what seemed like the blink of an eye, Yuan Tian had preached for three thousand years. The two Green Willows before him had grown to a hundred zhang tall, and their cultivation had reached the Earth Immortal realm. Of course, with their current cultivation, it was impossible for them to undergo Transformation. To transform, they would need to wait until at least the Primordial Unity Golden Immortal realm. Yuan Tian would not help them transform in advance, because that would affect their future achievements. Thus, if they wanted to undergo Transformation, they would probably have to wait until the Dragon-Phoenix Tribulation ended.

"Father! Father!"

Yuan Tian had been thinking about the two Little Green Willows' Transformation when two childish voices suddenly entered his Divine Sense. One sounded like a boy, the other like a girl. "Hm? Is that you?" Those who called him father seemed to be none other than the two Little Green Willows before him.

"Yes, Father." The two Little Green Willows seemed quite happy and showed no shyness at all. Once their cultivation had reached the Earth Immortal realm, they had unlocked their own inheritances and learned of their origins. The man preaching the Dao before them was their father.

Being suddenly called father left Yuan Tian quite unaccustomed to it. In his previous life, Yuan Tian had still been an innocent virgin. He had never even dated before directly upgrading into a father. How many steps had been skipped in between? At the very least, he should have dated someone first. No wonder he found it hard to adapt. Anyone would have found it hard to adapt.

"Oh, you two little fellows can already speak to me through Divine Sense? Why do you call me Father?" Though being suddenly called father made Yuan Tian feel very awkward, he finally had two "people" to "talk" with. Yuan Tian was still very happy. After all, he had not chatted with anyone for nearly two billion years. Even if he cultivated every day, anyone would eventually find that unbearable.

"Yes, Father. When our cultivation reached the Earth Immortal realm, we unlocked our inheritances. From those inheritances, we learned that you are our father." This was the little boy's voice, explaining Yuan Tian's question.

"Oh." Yuan Tian knew about inheritances, since he possessed one himself. Such inheritances were rather mysterious. As far as Yuan Tian knew, in the Primordial Wilderness, Innate Lifeforms were born with inheritances of their own, but the time at which they unlocked them varied. Generally speaking, the earlier one unlocked an inheritance, the greater the benefits of that inheritance. Yuan Tian had unlocked his inheritance as soon as he was reborn into the Primordial Wilderness. At that time, he had possessed only the cultivation of a Primordial Spirit, not even reaching the Mortal Immortal realm—lower than the two Green Willows' current realm. In fact, most Innate Lifeforms in the Primordial Wilderness needed to reach the Heavenly Immortal realm before unlocking their innate inheritances under normal circumstances. Yuan Tian had not expected these two Little Green Willows to unlock theirs at the Earth Immortal realm. Their future achievements could be said to be boundless. Of course, that was nonsense. Once Innate Spirit Roots underwent Transformation, how many of them achieved little? Even if they merely endured, they could endure their way to the Quasi-Sage level, provided they did not die young.

And so, Yuan Tian chatted with the two Little Green Willows in question-and-answer fashion. In the blink of an eye, a hundred years passed. Yuan Tian and the two Little Green Willows had become familiar with and understood one another, and the initial sense of unfamiliarity between them had vanished. Mainly, Yuan Tian had lost that initial sense of unfamiliarity. The two Little Green Willows had never felt unfamiliar toward him in the first place.

Immortals really could talk. Had anyone ever seen people chat for a hundred years straight?

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