White Tiger Divine Medicine

Majestic Kunlun stretched vast and boundless, pressing across the six directions and spanning the eight horizons.

It was an endless expanse of primordial wilderness, stretching beyond sight.

What mortals saw of the Kunlun Mountain Range was only a corner of it, a mere offshoot of the true Kunlun Mountain.

Only upon setting foot in Kunlun did one realize how small one was.

It was like an immense starry sky, with every mountain rising to a staggering height.

Clouds veiled the peaks, chaotic qi drifted through them, and the air held the breath of heaven and earth first being split apart.

Seen from above, it resembled a sleeping Great Dragon. Countless immense peaks formed its spine, winding through a thousand turns as it lay coiled there in all its splendor.

It could truly be called a Pure Land where dragons rose.

This extraordinary terrain was the ancestor of ten thousand mountains and veins, the root of every mountain and land. It had reached the limit this world allowed, worthy of being one of the Origin Divine Mountains of the entire universe.

Li Ming had killed the Dark Supremes of Kunlun Mountain. No one dared utter a word, much less stand up for them.

Instead, cheers erupted across the universe. The sound rang through the stars, and countless people shouted the Demon Venerable's name!

It proved that with enough strength, one would naturally inspire awe and worship.

Of course, some might simply have suffered too much under Kunlun Mountain's Supremes and were gloating over their fate.

The Dark Supremes in the Forbidden Zones watched Li Ming enter Kunlun Mountain, then fell asleep once more.

They had no power to stop Li Ming, let alone the courage to seize his treasures.

"Worthy indeed of an Origin Divine Mountain of the universe!" Li Ming entered Kunlun Mountain again, studied it closely, and could not help exclaiming.

Its terrain had truly reached the limit the Heavenly Emperor allowed.

Were it not for this world's restrictions, this place might well have become a true Ascension Land.

Li Ming had originally intended only to refine the Heavenly Demonic Saber here, but the magnificent sweep of the landscape made him decide to claim the place for himself.

A place this good should not go to waste. He had no intention of giving it up.

As for whether Emperor Zun would covet it and try to take it one day?

"If Emperor Zun really dares to come for it, I'll punch him to death!"

"Emperor Zun's Immortal Ascension Cauldron really is brittle. It seems to have been smashed once at the End of the Mythology Era, then reassembled, only to be smashed again in the Divine War at the End of the Primordial Era."

"Later, when battles broke out, the Divine Organization of Emperor Zun's Ancient Heavenly Court used its fragments again and again."

"By the time the Feixian Star Road to Immortality opened, the cauldron had finally been put back together, only to be blown apart again."

"That broken cauldron is no use to Emperor Zun anyway. He might as well not refine it. What a piece of junk."

The more Li Ming thought about it, the more he wanted to complain.

In that case, his Heavenly Demonic Saber would take the first chance to claim the opportunities this place offered.

Li Ming strode onward. Ancient trees towered along his path, their ages impossible to guess, yet none had become members of the Demon Race.

Some reached into the clouds and stood as tall as mountains. It was incredible.

Thick vines, like giant dragons, coiled around several mountains at once, green and vigorous.

Everywhere he looked, life flourished.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

The ground trembled faintly as heavy footsteps sounded all around.

A group of enormous creatures appeared in the distance. Each stood dozens, even hundreds, of feet tall, like a mountain in its own right.

Some resembled giant apes, with horns on their foreheads, blood-red bodies covered in thick fur, and eyes that shone like two little suns.

Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled around others.

Still others looked like the ten Dark Supremes.

Clearly, they were all members of the Kunlun Immortal Race.

Sensing their ancestors' deaths, they howled in grief.

When they sensed Li Ming's arrival, they shook from head to toe. Some fled wildly, some howled in frenzy, while others dropped to their knees, trembling with fear.

Li Ming thought back to the original story. After Emperor Zun attacked Kunlun Mountain, defeated the Kunlun Immortal Race, and killed the Dark Supremes, he had not wiped out their descendants. He had let them leave and hide on Feixian Star.

In Emperor Hengyu's era, two Quasi-Emperors had even emerged from their ranks to contend with him, only to be killed.

Their descendants had wielded the Lunar Saint Emperor's Human Emperor Seal in an attempt to kill Jiang Yifei.

With that in mind, Li Ming judged the Kunlun Immortal Race to be a vindictive lot.

He had his own way of dealing with people like that.

A flash of saber light swept across the sky.

Blood rained down.

Beast kings, Quasi-Emperors, Great Saints—it made no difference. All turned to ash.

In the blink of an eye, the so-called Kunlun Immortal Race had been wiped clean away. There would never be a Kunlun Remnant Race.

Such was the sorrow of the weak.

No one spoke up for them.

Some might think Li Ming had been too cruel.

But to Li Ming, the so-called Kunlun Immortal Race were nothing more than beasts that had oppressed the Human Race of the Primordial Ancient Star.

Only with their deaths could the Human Race on the Primordial Ancient Star enter an age of prosperity.

Seen that way, Li Ming considered himself not cruel but a hero of the Human Race.

So he killed them with a clear conscience, without the slightest burden on his mind.

Li Ming pressed on and soon reached the deepest part of Kunlun Mountain.

The terrain there startled even him.

More than ten thousand peaks stood clustered together, enclosing an immense valley.

Each peak resembled a dragon's head. Though the shapes were indistinct, the outlines of dragons could still be seen.

"So that's it!"

"No wonder Emperor Zun and Netherworld Venerable managed to refine the Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains so quickly in the original story!"

"The Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains had existed all along!"

"It was only after the Immortal Dao Runes on them were worn away that those two reactivated them!"

Li Ming studied the Immortal Treasure Map in his hand. Every peak depicted on it was shaped like a dragon's head, naturally formed and lifelike.

He looked at the peaks ahead. Their dragon-head shapes had grown indistinct, yet Immortal Dao Runes still gleamed upon them.

Clearly, Kunlun Mountain must also have been an Origin Divine Mountain that had fallen into this world from the Immortal Domain.

The Immortal Dao Runes gleaming on it might well be proof.

Though the dragon heads were indistinct, each had an opening at the front that breathed in and out like a dragon's mouth, drawing in and releasing essence.

Immortal qi billowed there and gathered in the valley, lending it an unfathomable air.

How had those ten thousand peaks been activated in the original story?

Emperor Zun and Netherworld Venerable had nourished them with the life essence of one Ancient Life Star after another, stripping entire planets of their life essence and opportunities.

They had awakened each Dragon-Head Peak and turned them into treasures of the mortal world, giving them true divine wills.

So these ten thousand peaks really had been born naturally from heaven and earth.

If they had needed the combined power of many ancient stars to form, they could never have been completed in so short a time.

Li Ming opened his Heavenly Eye and studied them closely.

More than ten thousand Dragon Veins lay beneath the ground, with only the dragon-head-shaped peaks rising above its surface.

The essence of heaven and earth flowed from their openings toward the Immortal Ascension Ground at the center.

Even Li Ming could not help exclaiming at the sight.

The Kunlun Immortal Race had occupied a fine place indeed. No wonder Emperor Zun had risked everything to attack Kunlun Mountain.

The terrain here was truly extraordinary.

It genuinely held the hope of nurturing an immortal.

It would take the utmost efforts of who knew how many planets to revive these dragon heads and bring forth the sight of ten thousand dragons soaring into the sky. One could only imagine how much spiritual energy they had to draw in and release here.

All the essence flowing from them went toward nurturing the treasure in the central Immortal Ascension Ground.

"Good thing I came early!"

"Otherwise, I'd have arrived to find a landscape where Emperor Zun's Ancient Heavenly Court had destroyed nearly all the Immortal Dao Runes."

"With so many Immortal Dao Runes here, turning the Heavenly Demonic Saber into an Immortal Weapon will come naturally!"

"There's no need to deliberately activate these dragon mountains!"

Li Ming gazed at the ten thousand Dragon-Head Mountains. Giant dragons coiled and soared, while thousands upon thousands of Great Dragons raised their heads and roared, all formed from dragon qi.

The center of the valley lay in a haze, radiating every kind of Immortal Light.

In the valley, Li Ming saw numerous Medicine Kings, each crystalline and dazzling, each filling the air with fragrance.

He had not expected such extravagance. So many Medicine Kings had been nurtured, only to be left growing here.

With a sweep of his hand, Li Ming picked them all.

Though they were no longer of much use to him, they would still be crisp and refreshing eaten like radishes.

He could eat these Ancient Medicine Kings and reminisce about harder times, remembering the delight he had felt whenever he found one back when he was weak.

Most of all, he remembered how happy he had been to eat one.

The ten thousand Dragon-Head Mountains were somewhat indistinct in shape, but the Immortal Dao Runes flashing upon them and the dragon might they radiated were astonishing.

Everything had formed naturally, as though carved by the hands of spirits.

Dazzling precious herbs grew on the Dragon-Head Mountains, though the Dark Supremes of Kunlun Mountain had already picked most of them.

Even what remained was remarkable.

Li Ming saw precious herbs like coral and pearls and picked them without ceremony.

The Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains could certainly be used to refine Extreme Dao Weapons, perhaps even Immortal Weapons, but Li Ming would not turn them into a weapon.

To refine such a place of Fortune into a weapon would be a genuine waste.

This was a place where immortals could be nurtured.

In the original story, both the White Tiger Divine Medicine and the Ginseng Fruit Tree had been here.

As Li Ming walked, he searched for any sign of those medicines.

And Emperor Zun's Humanoid Immortal Medicine—had that perhaps been found here too?

Ancient Medicine Kings grew everywhere, and Li Ming gathered plenty without hesitation.

Before long, an unusual fragrance reached his nose.

Its distinctive scent made his heart jolt.

"Which Immortal Medicine is that?"

"The Ginseng Fruit Tree?"

"The White Tiger Divine Medicine?"

"The Humanoid Divine Medicine?"

With a whoosh, a streak of white light flashed past, trailing waves of fragrance.

It was the White Tiger Divine Medicine!

The White Tiger Divine Medicine could fly through the sky and burrow through the earth. Possessing a hazy awareness, it instinctively avoided all strangers.

It moved extremely fast and, seemingly in a panic, fled at once.

The White Tiger Divine Medicine looked like a small white tiger. White leaves crowned its head, crystalline and brilliant as white jade, while its roots moved like legs as it fled frantically.

On seeing Li Ming, it did not come forward to follow him. Instead, it clasped its paws together repeatedly, looking terrified.

The White Tiger Divine Medicine drew in the essence of the sun and moon and radiated boundless vitality.

It was an Immortal Medicine through and through.

Now it trembled before Li Ming.

"Ungrateful wretch! You don't know what's good for you!"

"As the Heavenly Venerable of this age, I should have an Immortal Medicine willingly following me. Yet you worthless thing dare refuse me? Dare run away?"

Li Ming swept out a hand and lightly slapped the medicine with a smack.

He had controlled his strength to avoid killing the White Tiger Divine Medicine.

Even so, Li Ming's tremendous power sent the medicine spinning wildly like a top.

Tears streamed down its face.

Then the White Tiger Divine Medicine knelt, bowed deeply, and begged Li Ming to take it in.

"That's more like it!"

"Following the Heavenly Venerable of this age is an honor for you!"

"How could you run? That was terribly rude to me!"

"Remember this from now on: unless I let you run, you don't run!"

Immortal Medicines were extremely useful to Li Ming. He certainly did not want to kill one.

But the White Tiger Divine Medicine had failed to appreciate his offer, so it needed to be taught a lesson.

After giving the medicine a thorough beating there, Li Ming received its profuse thanks and its vow to follow him to the death.

Li Ming considered it, then picked up the White Tiger Divine Medicine, placed his mark upon it, and put it in his Bitter Sea.

There it could keep the Divine Peach Tree and the True Dragon Elixir company.

The Immortal Ascension Ground of Kunlun described in the original story had been a mystery that made every reader want to explore it for themselves.

Now Li Ming had arrived.

More than ten thousand peaks enclosed a vast valley.

From an opening in each dragon-shaped peak, radiance poured like a waterfall and converged on the center.

The Immortal Pool at the center blazed with countless rays of divine light.

Immortal qi swirled everywhere, and divine radiance billowed upward. It truly was a wonderful place.

Li Ming could sense that the Immortal Dao Runes here also held a killing intent that made the heart quail.

These Immortal Dao Runes must have formed naturally.

After falling into this world, they had been subjected to its Grand Dao Suppression and had gradually transformed into its Grand Dao Runes.

He could see threads of Great Dao Divine Patterns in the void, fine and intricate, interweaving into one universe-like trajectory after another and spreading through every corner of the valley.

This Formation surpassed the Ultimate Dao Array Patterns but had not yet become an Immortal Array. It had clearly come from the Immortal Domain, only to fall in power after being suppressed by this world.

The surviving Immortal Dao Runes made that clear.

The Formation must have been astonishing. Once triggered, its destructive power would be immense.

Li Ming had destroyed the Extreme Dao Formation of Kunlun Mountain's ten Dark Supremes, but he had not deliberately damaged this naturally formed Formation.

These things were bound to the land's ley lines; tug one hair, and the whole body moved. If he damaged them carelessly, Li Ming could hide in the Bronze Immortal Hall and survive the calamity, but the Ancient Medicine Kings growing here would probably turn to flying ash.

Li Ming could sense that although no Formation Spirit had yet been born here, the Grand Dao Laws were still powerful enough to make even his heart pound with alarm.

Clearly, the surviving Immortal Dao Runes were what made him feel threatened.

Cultivating here would certainly benefit him enormously.

Li Ming planned to stay and contemplate the Dao for a while.

The Primordial Era Formation here, along with its surviving Immortal Dao Runes, would undoubtedly offer him insight.

Although he had found only the White Tiger Divine Medicine, not the Humanoid Divine Medicine or the Ginseng Fruit Tree, Li Ming was already more than satisfied.

Li Ming strode forward and soon reached the true Immortal Pool.

This Immortal Pool really was shaped like a placenta. No wonder it was a place that nurtured Immortal Weapons.

A tear had now opened in the placenta. Clearly, the Kunlun Immortal Bell must have remained here until recently.

The lingering aura was proof enough.

He opened his Heavenly Eye and blew away the ten thousand rays of rosy light.

When the light dispersed, Li Ming soon discovered an image of the Kunlun Immortal Bell formed entirely from Immortal Dao Runes.

The sight filled Li Ming with shock and delight.

He had never imagined that this place had actually imprinted the Kunlun Immortal Bell's Immortal Dao Runes.

He carefully took it out of the Immortal Ascension Pool and set it aside, intending to study it closely.

The pool was about one zhang in length, width, and depth. He could not tell what material it had been made from.

Inside, rosy light blazed brilliantly. The essence of heaven and earth was so dense it could not disperse; it had even become liquid and gathered there.

Li Ming casually tossed the Heavenly Demonic Saber inside.

The Heavenly Demonic Saber sank quietly to the bottom of the pool, and all manner of mysterious patterns began imprinting themselves upon it.

Birds, beasts, fish, insects, the sun, moon, and stars...

Gradually, they sharpened from a blur into clarity.

"I never expected this pool to have such an astonishing effect."

"The Heavenly Demonic Saber has only just been placed inside, and it's already evolving toward an Immortal Weapon at breakneck speed."

"Of course, that's partly because the Heavenly Demonic Saber has devoured the Origin Essence Blood of many Supremes and been forged with countless precious materials. But the pool's effect must not be underestimated."

Li Ming watched the changes in the Heavenly Demonic Saber with burning eyes.

He wanted to witness with his own eyes how it evolved from an Extreme Dao Weapon into a true Immortal Weapon.

Before long, Li Ming saw the damaged placenta close again.

It became a true placenta and began to nurture what lay within.

He could sense a strange power inside it.

On the walls of the pool were threadlike webs, every strand crystal clear and flowing with Immortal Light. Like the blood vessels of a living creature, they pulsed with every breath.

They truly seemed alive, brimming with an incomparably powerful vitality.

After the Heavenly Demonic Saber was placed inside, the surrounding Dragon-Head Peaks grew clearer and clearer, more and more lifelike.

As though awakened, they streamed with rosy mist.

Immortal Dao Runes flowed across them.

The Immortal Liquid flowing from their mouths carried Immortal Dao Runes.

As they flowed out, they continuously nourished the Heavenly Demonic Saber.

It truly had the power to seize the Fortune of heaven and earth and nurture an Immortal Fetus.

This place had not yet been destroyed, unlike later, when it would be damaged once during the Divine War and again by the Ruthless Empress.

Later still, Ye Fan would expend great effort trying to restore it.

But Li Ming could now sit back and reap the rewards.

After Kunlun Mountain fell from the Immortal Domain into this world, the Dark Supremes there had not dared touch this place because the Kunlun Immortal Bell occupied it.

Now all the Fortune and opportunities here had fallen into Li Ming's hands instead.