Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner

Primordial World, East.

After leaving the valley where the jade-green spirit fruits grew, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi continued eastward.

Over several Epoch Cycles, the two crossed countless mountains and rivers.

Their goal on this journey was to find a Dharma-protecting spirit treasure truly suited to Qing Yi.

Ordinary spiritual items naturally could not catch their eyes.

Qing Xuan possessed the Twelve-Petal Creation Azure Lotus and had traveled with Hongjun, discussing the Dao for many years. He already had a sufficient understanding of Innate Spirit Treasures.

Qing Yi's origin was derived from the Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus.

A spirit treasure capable of bearing her Great Dao and accompanying her on the path to Great Luo had to at least be compatible with her own origin.

Though the Primordial World was vast, truly top-tier Innate Spirit Treasures had never been found everywhere.

As the two traveled east, they did not deliberately search every valley and Innate Grand Formation.

Every top-grade spirit treasure carried its own Cause and Effect and destined affinity.

Without sufficient destined affinity, even if they turned the entire East upside down, they might not find a spirit treasure suited to Qing Yi.

One day.

The two crossed an ancient river so broad that neither shore could be seen.

Qing Yi, who had been moving calmly forward, suddenly stopped.

Qing Xuan stopped as well and looked at the girl. "What is it?"

Qing Yi did not answer immediately.

She lowered her head and looked at the endlessly rushing water beneath her feet.

A moment later, an extraordinarily faint azure Dao aura emerged from the depths of the river, then swiftly vanished.

Had Qing Yi not stopped of her own accord, even with Qing Xuan's cultivation, it would have been difficult for him to notice that fleeting change amid the vast Water Veins.

Qing Yi extended her hand, and a wisp of Creation aura fell from her fingertips into the river.

The entire river suddenly fell silent for an instant.

Then, another wisp of azure Dao aura rose from the depths.

This time, the response was far clearer than before.

A sense of closeness from the same origin traveled along Qing Yi's Creation Great Dao.

"There's something below."

Qing Yi lifted her eyes. "It shares my origin."

Qing Xuan's gaze sharpened slightly. This sensation had never appeared before. Only after they truly entered this ancient Water Vein had Qing Yi's Creation Origin formed a connection with the existence deep within the river.

The two did not hesitate and entered the water together.

The river's surface soon resumed its rushing flow. The deeper they went into the Water Veins, the denser the surrounding spiritual energy became.

Yet beneath that flourishing spiritual vitality, there had always been an extremely heavy trace of baleful ferocity.

Only after passing through several layers of natural space did they finally see the source of this Water Vein.

It was an innate land that had nearly been torn apart completely.

At the center of the earth, a bottomless rift ran across the Ancestral Vein.

The origins of countless rivers were drawn toward the rift and continuously plunged downward, only to be forcibly held up by azure radiance that enveloped heaven and earth.

Baleful ferocity surged beneath the rift.

Within the azure radiance, countless lotus phantoms appeared and vanished, while an ancient azure banner stood at the center of heaven and earth.

Its surface spread like a lotus leaf, wholly verdant and jade-like, with ten thousand azure lotuses surrounding it.

With only a slight flutter in the wind, boundless clear light descended, suppressing the baleful ferocity endlessly pouring from the rift.

The instant Qing Yi entered this innate land, the ancient azure banner suddenly shook violently.

The lotuses filling the sky all turned toward her.

The Creation Origin within Qing Yi's body awakened in response.

Behind her, the phantom of a Twenty-Four-Grade Creation Green Lotus slowly bloomed.

The two auras, both originating from the Chaos Green Lotus, echoed with each other, and the entire innate land was instantly enveloped in boundless clear Creation light.

Qing Xuan had already recognized the spirit treasure before him.

The Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner, born from a green lotus, was one of the Five Directional Primordial Flags and likewise a Supreme Innate Spirit Treasure.

After the Chaos Green Lotus shattered, one lotus leaf received the innate wood qi of the East and was eventually nurtured into this treasure. No wonder Qing Yi felt such a powerful connection to it.

Whether in origin or Great Dao, this Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner seemed as though it had been born to belong to her.

As Qing Yi looked at the ancient banner, an unmistakable fondness appeared in the girl's eyes for the first time.

Yet Qing Xuan did not immediately step forward to claim the spirit treasure.

The world behind him slowly unfolded. His gaze passed beyond the lotuses filling the sky and settled upon the rift running across the Ancestral Vein.

A moment later, Qing Xuan saw the current state of this innate land clearly.

"It isn't trapped here. It's suppressing this Ancestral Vein."

During the Fierce Beast Tribulation, a branch of this Eastern Water-Wood Ancestral Vein had been torn apart by baleful ferocity.

The Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner had originally been nurtured here.

After the Ancestral Vein broke, it used its own origin to suppress the rift, preventing the entire Water Vein from falling completely underground.

Though the Fierce Beast Tribulation had now ended, the Ancestral Vein had yet to fully recover.

If they directly took away the Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner, then without the suppression of its clear light, this entire innate land would immediately collapse.

Not only would this ancient river be severed, but the water-and-wood spiritual vitality across billions of miles would likewise be devoured by baleful ferocity.

Qing Yi saw this as well and quickly made her decision. "Let's repair this place first."

"Alright."

With a raised hand, Qing Xuan summoned the Twelve-Petal Creation Azure Lotus from the center of his world, where it descended above the rift in the Ancestral Vein.

The instant the lotus pedestal bloomed, the Water Vein origins that had been continuously falling immediately halted.

A complete world manifested behind Qing Xuan.

Sun and moon rose, mountains and rivers spread out, and the Four Seas surged.

The Water Vein origins drawn toward the rift no longer continued to fall. Instead, they were borne by his World Dao and circulated once more through the Four Seas of his world.

Qing Xuan stepped into the rift.

The World Dao spread in all directions with him, forcibly holding up this Ancestral Vein that had been shattered for countless years.

"Qing Yi," Qing Xuan called.

Qing Yi already understood his intention.

The girl in green walked before the rift and gently placed one hand upon the shattered Ancestral Vein. Boundless Creation Great Dao surged from within her.

The baleful aura left behind by the Fierce Beasts began to dissipate.

Vitality returned to the Ancestral Vein, which had nearly dried up, and broken water-and-wood Dao patterns reconnected amid the clear Creation light.

Qing Xuan was responsible for bearing it; Qing Yi was responsible for reshaping it.

The two Great Daos of World and Creation intersected once more, yet they were no longer merely illusory scenes evolving from their discussions of the Dao. They truly acted upon a shattered Ancestral Vein of the Primordial World.

Qing Xuan's world bore all the force released as the Ancestral Vein collapsed.

Under the support of that world, Qing Yi nurtured the ruined water-and-wood origin anew.

Withering and flourishing.

Destruction and life.

The Ancestral Vein once torn apart during the Fierce Beast Tribulation completed a true cycle of destruction and rebirth through their Great Daos.

Withered vegetation along the way sprouted anew, and countless spirit roots regained their vitality at the same time.

Having lost the target it needed to suppress, the Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner, which had stood at the center of heaven and earth for countless years, finally rose slowly.

Ten thousand azure lotuses bloomed around the ancient banner. All the azure radiance gathered into a long river and came voluntarily before Qing Yi.

Qing Yi extended her hand.

The Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner shrank accordingly and fell into her palm.

This Supreme Innate Spirit Treasure swayed gently, and an azure lotus bloomed beneath Qing Yi's feet on its own, making her green dress appear all the more clear and ethereal.

Qing Yi lowered her head to look at the ancient banner in her palm, then lifted her eyes toward Qing Xuan, who still stood at the center of the Ancestral Vein.

Qing Xuan withdrew the World Dao, and the Twelve-Petal Creation Azure Lotus returned behind him.

"Looks like we didn't come east for nothing this time." Qing Xuan was in an excellent mood.

Seeing this, the girl in green curved her brows slightly. "Qing Xuan, why are you happier than I am?"

The young man in green rarely made a joke. "Wasn't I worried that when we fight later, you wouldn't have a spirit treasure and would let us down at a critical moment?"

The girl in green looked puzzled. "Why wouldn't I have one? Isn't yours mine too?"

Qing Xuan: ???!!!

Looking at the girl's clear yet naturally cool brows and eyes, Qing Xuan somehow felt that Qing Yi seemed to be up to something.