Three Immortal Islands, Twelfth-Grade World-Cleansing White Lotus

The instant they stepped into the white mist, the sound of waves behind them vanished.

Though Qing Xuan and Qing Yi were still holding each other's hands, the mist swallowed both their figures whole.

As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but an endless grayish white expanse.

Qing Yi raised her hand, and a Sea-Calming Divine Pearl sank into the seawater beneath the reef.

The pearl's radiance entered the Water Veins, connecting to the vast waters of the entire East Sea, while the remaining twenty-three divine pearls returned to her side.

Qing Xuan also left a mark from the Purple-Gold Ruler upon the reef.

It was no ordinary mark, but the true scale that the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler had set for this space.

This time, Qing Yi did not try to distinguish the ever-changing scenery before her.

All twenty-three Sea-Calming Divine Pearls began to turn at once, drawing in a thread of genuine East Sea water from beyond the great formation.

The slender stream flowed into the white mist, sometimes veering left, sometimes folding back, and even appearing behind them without warning.

Yet no matter how the great formation folded space, that thread of seawater remained connected to the Sea-Calming Divine Pearl outside.

Qing Yi pointed forward with two fingers, and the waterline instantly turned into a surging tide, rushing ahead along the gap fixed in place by the Heaven-Measuring Ruler.

At last, the white mist split apart.

The two did not pause, following the tide across that spatial fissure.

The last Sea-Calming Divine Pearl left outside also became a streak of light, returning to Qing Yi's side before the fissure closed.

The next moment, the boundless white mist suddenly dispersed.

Before them lay an independent world, isolated from the East Sea by the great formation.

Beneath the sea of clouds, three ancient islands stood upon the azure sea in a three-talents formation.

They were called islands, but each was as vast as a continent. Mountain ranges rose and fell deep within the clouds, countless Water Veins crisscrossed between them, and dense innate spiritual energy gathered into clouds and rosy haze that nearly covered the entire sky.

The two exchanged a glance and descended together toward the nearest island.

At the island's edge, an ancient stone stele weathered by endless years stood silently atop a cliff.

There were no ordinary words upon its surface. Only Great Dao divine patterns intertwined naturally, ultimately transforming into two characters before their eyes.

Penglai.

Only then did the final trace of doubt in Qing Xuan's heart completely fade.

Strange peaks stretched across the island, ancient trees blotted out the sky, and patches of spiritual herbs could be seen growing between cliffs and mountain streams.

Some of those spiritual herbs had grown for who knew how many years. Their branches and leaves breathed out innate spiritual light, and any one of them would have been enough to draw countless living beings into a struggle if placed outside.

Yet neither of them hurried to collect them one by one.

Deep within Penglai, divine light in gold, silver, and purple reflected across the sea of clouds. Even from tens of millions of miles away, it was too conspicuous to ignore.

Following the tricolored divine light, the two crossed Penglai. Before long, an ancient Lotus Pond nestled amid the mountains finally appeared before them.

Within the pond, golden sunlight, silver moonlight, and purple starlight intertwined and flowed without mixing, while an incomparably rich vitality filled the entire valley.

And at the very center of the Lotus Pond, a flawless white Twelve-Petaled Lotus Platform bloomed quietly.

The White Lotus was immaculate, untouched by dust.

Simply standing there, it seemed to shut out all the filth between heaven and earth.

Qing Xuan stopped, and an unconcealed glimmer of delight finally appeared in his eyes.

Three Lights Divine Water.

Twelfth-Grade World-Cleansing White Lotus.

No wonder so many legends about the Three Immortal Islands had been passed down in later generations.

"We finally found it."

Qing Xuan looked at the White Lotus, his tone carrying a rare hint of emotion.

This time, Qing Yi did not mention the previous nine islands again. She merely nodded lightly. "We truly didn't come for nothing."

Qing Xuan had heard in his previous life that when separated, Sunlight Divine Water could wear away flesh, blood, bones, and marrow; Moonlight Divine Water could corrode primordial spirits and souls; and Starlight Divine Water could even dissolve True Spirits.

But when the three were combined, they became one of the foremost healing treasures in the Primordial World.

Yet just as the two reached the edge of the Lotus Pond, a layer of pure white light swept out from the lotus platform.

A wisp of Qing Xuan's magical power, which had fallen before him, was dissolved completely by that white light with almost no resistance.

The Twelve-Petaled White Lotus in the pond merely swayed gently, then completely shielded the entire Lotus Pond beneath the white light.

Qing Xuan said, "It has quite the temper."

Qing Yi did not mind. She stepped into the Lotus Pond and immediately pressed down with one palm, causing all twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls to rise at once.

The tricolored watery radiance that had been flowing endlessly through the pond instantly froze. The Twelve-Petaled White Lotus seemed to sense danger, and pure white light surged toward Qing Yi like a tide.

A layer of azure radiance bloomed beneath Qing Yi's feet.

Wherever the white light passed, the azure light constantly dissolved, yet it was constantly reborn from the pond water.

Between birth and extinction, the flowers, grass, ancient trees, and plants throughout the valley swayed together as vast intent of Creation gathered in response.

Qing Yi never stopped walking.

The Purifying World White Light could wash away outside power, so she let the Creation it washed away be reborn time and again.

At that moment, Qing Xuan laid the Hongmeng Measuring Heaven Ruler across the Lotus Pond.

Purple-gold divine light descended in every direction, pressing the ever-expanding Purifying World White Light back into the Lotus Pond and protecting the surrounding valley and Earth Veins.

At last, Qing Yi arrived before the White Lotus.

The young woman's slender hand fell directly upon the Twelve-Petaled Lotus Platform.

Dazzling white light illuminated the entire Penglai Island in an instant. This silent contest lasted for a long time before gradually subsiding amid the azure light filling the sky.

The white lotus platform that had originally occupied nearly half the Lotus Pond slowly shrank, eventually becoming only about a foot across and resting in Qing Yi's palm.

It had not yet been completely refined, but it could no longer break free from Qing Yi's Creation Great Dao.

At the same time, the twenty-four Sea-Calming Divine Pearls swept across the Lotus Pond, collecting most of the Three Lights Divine Water into the inner worlds within the pearls. Only a small portion of the pond water and the Water Veins beneath the pond were left behind to continue nourishing the Lotus Pond.

Qing Xuan put away the Heaven-Measuring Ruler and came to Qing Yi's side, his gaze falling upon the White Lotus in her hand.

Creation Green Lotus, Pure World White Lotus, Karma Fire Red Lotus, Merit Golden Lotus, World-Destroying Black Lotus.

At present, he and Qing Yi already possessed the Creation Green Lotus and the Pure World White Lotus.

The World-Destroying Black Lotus was in Luohou's hands, while the Karma Fire Red Lotus might perhaps be found by trying their luck at the Blood Sea.

After taking the Twelfth-Grade World-Cleansing White Lotus and the Three Lights Divine Water, Qing Xuan and Qing Yi went on to Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou.

The three great islands existed within the same great formation. Since they had already opened a gap from Penglai, they no longer needed to traverse the sea of mist again to enter the other two islands.

Several thousand more years passed. At the center of Fangzhang Island,

five mountain peaks surrounded a valley. Red, azure, yellow, white, and black clouds gathered without dispersing, and from high above, they resembled a naturally formed Five Elements Dao Diagram.

At the center of the Dao Diagram stood an ancient pine tree ten thousand zhang tall.

Its branches did not spread freely like those of ordinary pine trees, but were clearly divided into five directions.

Upon pine needles of five different colors flowed the Dao rhythms of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Pinecones roughly a foot in size were protected amid the five-colored clouds.

Qing Xuan landed beneath the tree and looked up for a long while.

"Five-Needle Pine."