Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree

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Alright, let us return to the main story and talk about Yuan Tian's current situation.

A hundred years had flown by in a hurry. Yuan Tian had already fully 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, the more skills one had, the less one was burdened. Yuan Tian was simply being thorough, understanding formations from every angle.

After a hundred years of comprehension, the Innate Five-Element Formation before him was now a place Yuan Tian could enter and leave as he pleased. He twisted and turned through the formation a few times before vanishing from sight, having already entered its depths. Naturally, this was on the premise that the formation had not launched an attack. Otherwise, anyone could enter the formation, but whether they could avoid injury was another matter entirely.

The moment he entered the Five-Element Formation, Yuan Tian sensed an abundant, pure Five-Element spiritual qi—one that could be absorbed directly without refinement. One had to know that spiritual qi did not become one's own mana merely by being absorbed into the body and circulated through a cultivation art. Of course it was not that simple. The spiritual qi drawn into one's body still needed to be refined, and different cultivation arts refined it at different speeds. In the current Primordial Wilderness, systematic cultivation arts were generally nonexistent, or there were only a few low-grade ones. Thus, of the spiritual qi they absorbed, perhaps not even one part in ten could truly become mana. Some were worse off still, managing one part in a hundred, or even one part in a thousand. With such efficiency, how could they rapidly raise their cultivation? Therefore, in the early Primordial Wilderness, cultivators generally advanced rather slowly.

Yuan Tian was unlike the others, whose spiritual qi conversion rates were low. In truth, because the Ninefold Soul-Origin Mystic Art was a top-tier cultivation art, Yuan Tian's conversion rate was at least eighty percent. Moreover, the spiritual qi where his true body resided had only recently transformed from Primordial Chaos Qi into Innate Spiritual Qi, making it exceptionally pure. Even so, the restriction of possessing a hundred times the mana of those in the same realm slowed Yuan Tian's cultivation speed. Naturally, this was only compared to the clan leaders of the Primordial Three Clans. Compared with ordinary Innate Lifeforms, Yuan Tian's cultivation speed was still extremely fast.

The Five Elements Space Yuan Tian now occupied was filled with abundant, pure Five-Element spiritual qi. Feeling that rich spiritual qi, Yuan Tian could not help wanting to cultivate again. His previous cultivation and absorption had been too terrifying, causing the spiritual qi in the space where he had been to replenish somewhat too slowly. Thus, in terms of spiritual qi density alone, the space Yuan Tian was currently in held even denser spiritual qi than the space where he had undergone Transformation. Fortunately, Yuan Tian had not forgotten his purpose. He had entered to see whether there was anything that threatened Penglai Island at present.

This Five Elements Space was not very large, only about a hundred kilometers across. It could be said that nothing within it could escape Yuan Tian's naked eye or Divine Sense. Apart from one enormous tree, there was nothing else in the entire space. Naturally, spiritual qi did not count. Yuan Tian knew that the Innate Five-Element Formation outside the space existed to protect this great tree before him.

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

The moment Yuan Tian saw this tree, he already knew its origins. It was said that within Primordial Chaos there had once been a supreme treasure named the Chaos Green Lotus. The Chaos Green Lotus first used the Primordial Mystic Qi within itself to nurture Pangu, injuring its own vital essence in the process. Then, when Pangu opened the heavens, it suffered grievous damage from the opening of heaven and transformed into countless Innate Spirit Treasures. Its twenty-four lotus petals became twenty-four pieces of the Jade Disc of Creation, upon which the three thousand Great Daos were recorded. They later fell into Hongjun's hands, and he used them to comprehend the Dao. The Chaos Green Lotus's five leaves became the ten Innate Spirit Treasures known as 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; 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 stalk 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 natal essence had combined with Innate Five-Element Qi during the opening of heaven to become a Spiritual Root between heaven and earth—the Spiritual Root before Yuan Tian, the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree. Though the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree was not among the ten great Innate Spiritual Roots, it was not much weaker than them and could be considered a Top-Tier Innate Spirit Root.

The Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree was similar to the Ginseng Fruit among the ten great Innate Spiritual Roots: both blossomed and bore fruit, and their fruits could be consumed.

Yet the two were also different. The Ginseng Fruit blossomed once every three thousand years, bore fruit once every three thousand years, and required another three thousand years to ripen. It took a full ten thousand years before it could be eaten. The Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree blossomed once every five hundred million years, bore fruit once every five hundred million years, and required another five hundred million years to mature; it took at least two billion years before it could be eaten. In ten thousand years, the Ginseng Fruit only bore thirty fruits. If someone fortunate enough to obtain one merely smelled it, they would live three hundred and sixty years; if they ate one, they would live forty-seven thousand years. In two billion years, the Five Elements Fruit only bore twenty-five fruits. The twenty-five fruits belonged respectively to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, with five fruits of each attribute. Though they did not prolong life, every fruit could help its eater better comprehend the Five-Element Law. Eating a golden-yellow fruit allowed one to better comprehend the Gold Law, while eating five different Five Elements Fruits allowed one to better comprehend the laws of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Thus, the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree was not a Ginseng Fruit, yet surpassed a Ginseng Fruit. The Ginseng Fruit could only increase one's lifespan and mana, while the Innate Five-Element Fruit Tree could help one comprehend laws. As the saying went, cultivation arts were easy to cultivate, but laws were hard to comprehend. Once cultivators reached a certain level, a long lifespan was no longer a problem. As for mana, with countless years of life, would one fear lacking mana? The hardest thing to cultivate was still laws. With laws, would one fear lacking mana?

If a multiple-choice question appeared in the Primordial Wilderness—laws, mana, or lifespan—eighty percent would choose laws, and 99.999 percent of the rest would choose mana. As for lifespan, please, what the Primordial Wilderness lacked least was time. If they did not lack time, that meant they did not lack lifespan. Who would choose such a tasteless thing? Naturally, they would choose what benefited them most.

Daluo Golden Immortals were known as Immortal Great Perfection, meaning they had reached the limit of immortals. If they wished to advance further and reach Quasi-Sage—the Primordial Unity Realm—the best method was to comprehend laws. It could be said that above Quasi-Sage, further advancement required comprehending laws. Only the higher one's laws, the higher one's cultivation could become. Though one could advance to Quasi-Sage without comprehending laws, that required boundless mana to forcibly break through the restrictions on one's cultivation. This generally suited cultivators who specialized in the physical body, such as the Witch Clan. As long as the Witch Clan's mana was sufficient, they could advance to Quasi-Sage. Yet throughout history, aside from the Twelve Ancestral Shamans, only a small number 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 laws. That was an advantage.

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