Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree

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All right, let's get back to the main story and talk about Yuan Tian's current situation.

A hundred years had passed in a flash. Yuan Tian had already thoroughly comprehended this top-tier grand formation—the Innate Five-Element Formation. Never mind whether Yuan Tian could set up such a grand formation now; at the very least, he had mastered the "knowledge," hadn't he? As the saying went, too many skills never weighed one down. Yuan Tian was simply being thorough, learning about formations from every angle.

After a hundred years of contemplation, the Innate Five-Element Formation before him posed no obstacle to Yuan Tian. He could enter and leave it freely. Yuan Tian twisted and turned through the formation several times before vanishing from sight, having entered its interior. Of course, that was only because the formation had not launched an attack. Otherwise, anyone could enter the formation, but whether they could avoid being harmed was another matter.

The moment he entered the Five Elements Space, Yuan Tian sensed an abundant, pure Five-Element spiritual aura—one that could be absorbed directly without refinement. One had to know that spiritual aura did not simply become one's own mana after being drawn into the body and circulated through a cultivation technique. That was not how it worked. The spiritual aura absorbed into the body still needed to be refined, and different cultivation techniques refined it at different speeds. In the current Primordial Wilderness, systematic cultivation techniques were generally nonexistent, and most beings possessed only a few low-grade techniques. They might convert less than one-tenth of the spiritual aura they absorbed into actual mana. Some were even worse, converting less than one-hundredth, or even one-thousandth. With such efficiency, how could they rapidly improve their cultivation? Thus, during the early Primordial Wilderness, cultivators generally advanced rather slowly.

Yuan Tian was unlike the others, whose spiritual aura conversion rates were low. In fact, because the Ninefold Soul-Origin Mystic Art was a top-tier cultivation technique, his conversion rate was at least eighty percent. Furthermore, the spiritual aura where his true body was located had only recently transformed from Primordial Chaos qi into innate spiritual aura, making it exceptionally pure. Even so, the limitation of possessing a hundred times the mana of those at the same realm slowed Yuan Tian's cultivation speed. Naturally, this was only in comparison to the leaders of the Primordial Three Clans. Compared with ordinary Innate Lifeforms, Yuan Tian still cultivated very quickly.

The Five Elements Space Yuan Tian currently occupied was filled with abundant, pure Five-Element spiritual aura. Feeling this dense aura, Yuan Tian could not help wanting to cultivate again. His previous cultivation had absorbed too much, causing the spiritual aura in the space where he had been to replenish somewhat too slowly. Thus, in terms of spiritual aura density alone, the space Yuan Tian currently occupied contained even denser spiritual aura than the place where he had first taken form. Fortunately, Yuan Tian had not forgotten his purpose. He had entered to see whether there was anything that threatened Penglai Island.

This Five Elements Space was not very large, spanning only about a hundred kilometers in every direction. It could be said that nothing within it could escape Yuan Tian's naked eye or Divine Sense. Other than a massive tree, there was nothing else in the entire space—spiritual aura did not count, of course. Yuan Tian knew that the Innate Five-Element Formation outside existed to protect the great tree before him.

The great tree stood less than a kilometer from Yuan Tian. It was truly enormous. Though it was not as large as Yuan Tian's true body, it still stood several thousand zhang tall, and its trunk was likely nearly ten kilometers in diameter. The tree was brimming with Five-Element spiritual aura. Amid its emerald leaves hung twenty-five fruits, each three zhang tall. They looked somewhat like apples from later generations. Every fruit was a single color, and there were five different colors in total: golden yellow, green, blue, red, and orange. There were five fruits of each color, making twenty-five fruits altogether.

The moment Yuan Tian saw the tree, he already knew its origin. In Primordial Chaos, there had once been a Supreme Treasure called the Chaos Green Lotus. The Chaos Green Lotus first used the Primordial Mystic Qi within itself to nurture Pangu, damaging its own vital essence. Then, when Pangu opened the heavens, it suffered severe damage from the creation of the world and transformed into countless Innate Spirit Treasures. Its twenty-four lotus petals became twenty-four pieces of the Jade Disc of Creation, which recorded the three thousand Great Daos. They were later obtained by Hongjun, who used them to comprehend the Dao. Five leaves of the Chaos Green Lotus became the ten Innate Spirit Treasures: the Five-Colored Five-Direction Flags—the Central Wuxing Apricot-Yellow Flag, Western Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Flag, Southern Earth-Leaving Flame-Light Flag, Eastern Plain-Colored Cloud-Realm Flag, and Northern Mystic-Origin Water-Control Flag—as well as the Heaven-Earth Cauldron, Twelve-Petaled Lotus Throne, Landscape and Society Map, River Chart and Luo Writing, Heavenly Book (Investiture of the Gods), Earth Book, Netherworld Book (Book of Life and Death), Red Embroidered Ball, while its lotus stem became the God-Slaying Spear.

Yet the world only knew that the Chaos Green Lotus had transformed into countless Spirit Treasures. They did not know that a trace of its innate essence had combined with Innate Five-Element Qi during the opening of the heavens and become an Innate Spirit Root between heaven and earth. It was the Spirit Root before Yuan Tian—the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree. Though the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree was not among the ten great Innate Spirit Roots, it was not much weaker than them. It was a top-tier Innate Spirit Root.

The Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree was similar to the Ginseng Fruit among the ten great Innate Spirit Roots. Both flowered and bore fruit, and their fruits could be eaten.

However, the two were also different. The Ginseng Fruit Tree bloomed once every three thousand years, bore fruit once every three thousand years, and required another three thousand years to ripen. It took nearly ten thousand years before its fruit could be eaten. The Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree bloomed once every five hundred million years, bore fruit once every five hundred million years, and required another five hundred million years to mature. At least two billion years were needed before its fruit could be eaten. The Ginseng Fruit Tree bore only thirty fruits every ten thousand years. If one was fortunate enough to smell one, one could live for three hundred and sixty years; eating one granted a lifespan of forty-seven thousand years. The Five Elements Fruit Tree bore only twenty-five fruits every two billion years. The twenty-five fruits belonged to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, with five fruits of each attribute. Though they did not extend one's lifespan, every fruit could help its eater better comprehend the Five-Element Law. Eating a golden-yellow fruit would help one better comprehend the Gold Law, while eating the five different kinds of Five Elements Fruit would help one better comprehend the laws of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Thus, the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree was not the Ginseng Fruit Tree, yet it surpassed the Ginseng Fruit Tree. The Ginseng Fruit could only increase lifespan and mana, but the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree could help one comprehend laws. As the saying went, cultivation techniques were easy to practice, but laws were difficult to comprehend. Once cultivators reached a certain level, a long lifespan was no longer an issue. As for mana, with countless years to cultivate, would they still fear lacking mana? Laws were the hardest thing to cultivate. Once one had laws, would one still fear lacking mana?

If a multiple-choice question appeared in the Primordial Wilderness, asking one to choose between laws, mana, and lifespan, eighty percent would choose laws. Of the rest, 99.999 percent would choose mana. As for lifespan, come on—the Primordial Wilderness lacked nothing but time. If they did not lack time, then they did not lack lifespan. Who would choose such a useless thing? Naturally, they would choose what benefited them most.

Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals were called Immortal Great Perfection, meaning they had reached the limit of immortals. If they wished to advance further and become Quasi-Sages, entering the Primordial Unity Realm, then the best method was to comprehend laws. It could be said that above the Quasi-Sage realm, further advancement required comprehending laws. The higher one's comprehension of laws, the higher one's cultivation could become. Though it was possible to advance to Quasi-Sage without comprehending laws, that required boundless mana to forcibly break through the limits of one's cultivation. This was generally suited to cultivators who specialized in the physical body, such as the Witch Clan. As long as the Witch Clan had sufficient mana, they could advance to Quasi-Sage. Yet throughout history, aside from the Twelve Ancestral Shamans, only a handful of Great Witches had barely entered the Quasi-Sage realm. Even so, although the Witch Clan did not cultivate laws, they were born able to wield them. That was an advantage.

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