The Taiyi Dao Treasury, the Dao Comes to Nothing!

After Qin Lu carefully collected the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, he turned his gaze to other parts of the ancestral hall. On the left and right sides of the ancestral hall, there were several jade platforms.

On the jade platform, more than thirty items were enshrined. Due to the special restrictions that provided them with Spiritual Qi, even after a long time, these treasures had not lost their spirituality.

Of these thirty-odd items, nine are Seventh-Tier Profound Heaven Immortal Artifact!

The most precious piece among them was a top-grade Jade Stone artifact, its entire body a deep, dark yellow, carved with a relief of a Qilin.

Qin Lu sensed it briefly and quickly figured out its details. This high-grade immortal artifact was called: Ancient Qilin Jade!

This treasure, forged from the essence of a Qilin demon immortal, can conjure up a Qilin demon immortal to aid you in battle simply by being offered up.

The strength of the Qilin Demon Immortal is linked to the cultivation level of the caster. The stronger the caster, the stronger the Qilin Demon Immortal that can be created, which can be comparable to a Golden Immortal!

With Qin Lu level, if he were to fully activate it, he should be able to conjure up a senior Mystic Immortal, plus True Devil Immortal whose physical body is comparable to Golden Immortal.

In this way, Qin Lu will be able to contend with three Golden Immortal in a short period of time!

This Ancient Qilin Jade may not be as useful as the Soul-Annihilating Bell, but overall it is still slightly better.

It must be said that the Daoist scriptures left behind by a being close to the Daluo are truly a grand achievement, as they were divided into twenty-four pieces of Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow after the fall of the Great Luo realm.

This is only one-twenty-fourth of the total; it's unimaginable just how powerful this River Dao Taiyi must have been in his lifetime...

As for the other eight immortal artifacts, there are two mid-grade immortal artifacts, a giant earthen-yellow shield, and a string of turquoise Jade Stone beads.

Both of them are defensive immortal artifacts. Qin Lu plans to give these two to Qin Zheng and Qin Daoran. They have only been immortals for a few years and are not as difficult to kill as Soul Immortal, so they will use them to protect their lives.

As for the last six low-grade immortal artifacts, their quality varied greatly. Qin Lu didn't like any of them and put them into the clan's treasury for later generations to choose from.

As for the other twenty-odd magical items, most of them were precious spiritual materials.

Fallen Star Sand, Illusory Dream Water, and River Mountain Root —these spiritual materials are mostly used for refining weapons or alchemy, and are of no use to Qin Lu.

They can only be temporarily stored in the clan treasury as a facade.

When cultivators who practice the Dao of Refining can use it for refining in the future, it will be allocated and selected.

Overall, it is of considerable value.

However, the most useful items are the Ancient Qilin Jade and several other immortal artifacts, which greatly enhance the Qin Humans Race's current strength and directly boost the combat power of the three True Immortal of the Qin Humans Race.

In comparison, the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow, which has extremely high usage restrictions, is indeed quite ordinary. The Qin Humans Race is not lacking in geniuses at present; those with a spiritual light of seven, eight, or nine inches are everywhere.

Talent is the cornerstone of becoming an immortal, but what the geniuses of the Qin Humans Race truly lack is a destiny for immortality, a world without a master!

But for someone like Li Ping'an, let alone the resources needed to become an immortal, they can elevate their aptitude to its limit...

That's merely the foundation for the Qin Humans Race's geniuses.

The ultimate goal they pursued throughout their lives was nothing more than the starting point that the Qin Humans Race had from birth—a world of difference.

A few months later--

Li Ping'an obtained the Heaven Pillar Mountain Marrow he had been dreaming of. With this treasure, the bottleneck that had trapped him for many years in the Spirit Transformation Middle Stage would be broken without any effort.

In recognition of the Li Clan's contributions, the Qin Clan indeed bestowed upon them a special power, granting it a subordinate plane to the Li Clan's Immortal Clan, thus greatly enhancing their prestige!

At this moment, the Li Clan was overjoyed. The lively celebration lasted for several months, with the entire clan rejoicing and shouting for the Great Qin Empire!

And in the Endless sea of stars.

Qin Yuan'an and Yu Lu Zheng a glance and both sighed, feeling a sense of regret and helplessness for this group of ignorant people.

If becoming an immortal were really that easy, then these rising stars would have reached the Spirit Transformation in just a thousand years and become immortals long ago!

Aptitude is merely a stepping stone on the path to immortality...

"That Li Ping'an probably doesn't know how difficult it is to become an immortal. He's already over three thousand years old, and in a few hundred years he'll be four thousand."

Even if he improves his aptitude and reaches the Spirit Transformation Perfection at four thousand years old, what then? He still needs to comprehend the core of the Grotto-Heaven and the multiple branches of the Great Dao he needs.

"We still need resources to create a complete, semi-finished world, and we still need to find enough of the world's origin..."

"Although he possesses Qin Humans blood and has a lifespan of several thousand years, he only has ten thousand years left. It will be difficult for him to become an immortal."

Lu Zheng sighed with regret, "Let's not even talk about whether Li Chang'an can become an immortal."

Both he and Qin Yuan'an possessed spiritual light exceeding eight inches in aptitude, and were only a little over a thousand years old at the time. They might reach the Spirit Transformation Perfection in less than two thousand years.

Especially considering Qin Yuan'an's Qin Humans bloodline, whose lifespan is still 13,000 to 14,000 years, he wouldn't dare guarantee that he could become an immortal within those 13,000 to 14,000 years...

Let alone Li Ping'an, improving his aptitude is far from enough to become an immortal; it can only be considered a basic ticket to immortality.

"This is all Heavenly Fate, it's destiny."

"All we can do is leave our mark, our legacy, in our short lives..."

"Perhaps ten thousand years from now, a hundred thousand years from now, a destined person will inherit our mantle, inherit our will, and ultimately ascend the path to immortality."

"We, as cultivators at the Spirit Transformation, are ultimately nothing more than mortals. Millions of years from now, we will be nothing more than a handful of dust..."

"But now that we've embarked on the path of the mundane, we must see it through to the end."

"If the Great Dao is not achieved, if our resolve to follow it is not firm, and if Heavenly Fate does not favor us, then there will be successors to continue the path to immortality for us."

Qin Yuan'an looked down upon the mortal world and gazed upon the vast territory of Great Qin. In the torrent of this era, they would eventually become nameless figures in history.

The Great Way is so difficult to find!

Countless geniuses exist throughout the myriad realms, but how many can truly become immortals and ancestors?

In the end, it was all just Huang Liang dream, turning to dust and ashes.

Even this life is but a fleeting millennium, so why taint it with the myriad sorrows of this world? The past cannot be recaptured, but the future holds countless ages, and all those on the path of the heavens will have their own responsibilities...

Qin Yuan'an and Lu Zheng felt a heavy weight in their hearts, but they couldn't express it.

Cultivating the Tao, cultivating the Tao—I wonder to what extent one must cultivate before one can attain enlightenment! Perhaps one will never even touch it in one's entire life, and will forever be filled with regret.

Perfect happiness and smooth sailing are ultimately fairy tales; regret is the common reality and the main theme of the world...

This regret is not only for the Qin Humans, but also for all races and peoples of the heavens.

Throughout the heavens, countless people pursue the path to immortality their entire lives, yet never attain it. Every advancement in their realm is built upon countless corpses...

Those are all regrets, all failures who fell on this path to immortality, and all sacrifices for the next person to follow.