Minghe left the Blood Sea and headed straight for the East Sea, for Mount Fangzhang was located there.
To be precise, Mount Penglai, Yingzhou Island, and Mount Fangzhang were all in the East Sea.
However, the system had only provided the coordinates of one of the three islands this time. Minghe was not greedy; obtaining one was already good enough.
The journey from the Blood Sea to Mount Fangzhang was long. Even a Hunyuan Golden Immortal could not arrive in an instant.
Minghe was not in a hurry either. Along the way, he admired the scenery, stopping and going as he pleased. He watched the sun and moon, the stars, heaven and earth, and all living beings, and an indescribable feeling arose within him.
In this life, he was completely different from his previous one. In his previous life, he had merely been a mortal with only a few decades of lifespan, and he had still needed to toil for a living.
He had muddled through the mortal world, ignorant of the Great Dao and its ultimate truths. It could be said that he had drifted through his entire life in a daze.
But in this life, he was different. The moment he was born into the world, he had stood at an extraordinarily high starting point.
In this life, he had gained the most supreme pursuit of all: seeking the Dao.
The Great Dao stretched endlessly; he would seek it high and low.
Only the Great Dao was the supreme pursuit of this life, and also the ultimate pursuit.
Other than the Dao, there was nothing to seek and nothing worth lingering over.
Thus, stopping and going along the way, Minghe finally arrived at the East Sea after several thousand years.
Standing before the East Sea and looking out, he saw a vast ocean ahead, a world made entirely of water.
Towering waves crashed against one another, surging and roiling. The sea seemed boundless and immeasurable, unfathomably deep and endlessly vast.
The East Sea was the territory of the Dragon Clan, but even the Dragon Clan could not claim complete control over it.
After all, the Dragon Clan had long since declined and no longer held its former position as overlord.
The Dragon Clan had even split into many branches. The four largest branches each controlled one sea: the East Sea, South Sea, West Sea, and North Sea.
Among them, the East Sea was the most honored, for it was the ancestral land of the Dragon Clan, the place where the Dragon Clan had first originated.
However the Dragon Clan might be, Minghe had no intention of causing trouble here. He would find Mount Fangzhang, explore it, and then leave.
He would not disturb the Dragon Clan of the East Sea.
Following the system's guidance, Minghe spent another hundred or so years traveling. Finally, he stopped above a broad expanse of sea.
This was where Mount Fangzhang was located. Yet at this moment, Mount Fangzhang was hidden.
A grand array covered the island, allowing it to conceal itself and obscure heavenly secrets. It could not even be discovered through divination.
Minghe let out a long breath and made a grasping motion. A treasured sword appeared in his hand.
This sword was one of Minghe's two great swords—the Yuantu Sword.
Holding the Yuantu Sword, Minghe infused it with magic power and slashed out. In an instant, one became two, two became three, and three became infinity.
Countless dense sword qi shot forth, blanketing the heavens and covering the entire stretch of sea before him.
The void was cleaved apart, revealing the immortal island.
Under Minghe's sword strike, Mount Fangzhang could no longer remain hidden and emerged from the void.
This island was a perfectly square island, usually concealed within the void.
With the grand array shrouding it as well, no one could see through it.
But now, it had become Minghe's possession. Minghe smiled faintly and swept the Yuantu Sword through the air once more.
A sharp sword gleam, capable of piercing all things, sliced open a breach in the grand array surrounding Mount Fangzhang.
Minghe slipped through that opening and entered Mount Fangzhang.
The moment he entered Mount Fangzhang, Minghe immediately sensed incomparably rich Innate Spiritual Qi.
Mount Fangzhang was simply a supreme holy land for cultivation.
According to legend, this island had been a Chaos Fragment that fell into the East Sea when Great God Pangu split open heaven and earth, eventually forming the island.
Minghe also sensed that a massive Spirit Vein had condensed beneath the island's soil.
In the Primordial World, any place possessing such a Spirit Vein would be a Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.
Mount Fangzhang was enormous, and all manner of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures grew everywhere. Even Minghe could not help clicking his tongue in admiration.
Naturally, Minghe had no intention of letting these Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures go. He even planned to take away the enormous Spirit Vein beneath the ground.
After all, the island was in the East Sea and Minghe could not take it with him, so naturally he would take whatever he could from it.
With a thought from Minghe, one avatar after another continuously emerged from his body.
These avatars were also Blood God Sons, formed from Minghe's own blood.
"Go!"
At Minghe's command, these Blood God Son avatars immediately scattered in every direction, searching for all kinds of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and taking them all away.
They scraped the land bare, stripped the sky clean, and passed through like locusts, leaving not a single blade of grass behind.
Minghe himself continued deeper into Mount Fangzhang.
He had already sensed that the island's greatest treasure lay in its deepest reaches.
It seemed to be the aura of some kind of spiritual root.
Minghe had been around spiritual roots for a long time, so he was somewhat sensitive to their aura.
"I wonder what kind of spiritual root it is." Minghe muttered, full of anticipation.
His steps appeared slow, yet he moved as swiftly as fleeting light and passing shadows.
Before long, Minghe arrived at the depths of Mount Fangzhang, and a spiritual root truly appeared within his sight.
The first thing Minghe thought upon seeing this spiritual root was that it was impossible.
By his understanding, this spiritual root simply should not have appeared here.
Yet the sight before him fiercely proved him wrong.
It truly was this spiritual root.
The Hollow Willow Tree.
As everyone knew, the Hollow Willow Tree was Yang Mei's true form.
But had Yang Mei not already left the Primordial World? Why had he left his true form behind?
Minghe was utterly puzzled, yet he had no choice but to accept this fact.
A towering willow tree grew before him. Its willow branches swayed gently, seeming to radiate rings of light.
The light was silvery white and seemed to contain some profound mystery. Ripples even appeared within it.
Those ripples were the void itself. The originally formless void actually showed tangible traces as the willow branches swayed.
Everything demonstrated that this willow tree was far from ordinary.
And indeed, the Hollow Willow Tree was one of the Ten Top Innate Spiritual Roots of the Primordial World.
It was naturally extraordinary.
Moreover, it contained the Way of Space.
No matter what, this spiritual root was a tremendous opportunity for Minghe.
"Eh!"
Suddenly, Minghe seemed to notice something else. With a flash of his body, he arrived directly beneath the tree.
Beside the Hollow Willow Tree, there was unexpectedly a pond.
The pond held less than half a pool of water, and the water radiated three-colored light.
It was clearly anything but ordinary.
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