Not only was the island itself protected by an Innate Formation, but numerous innate restrictions were also scattered throughout its grounds.
Without a doubt, places guarded by innate restrictions were bound to yield incredible treasures.
And on Fangzhang Immortal Island, the greatest innate restriction naturally belonged to the summit of the divine mountain at the island's center.
Xuanjian named that divine mountain, which was even more towering and vast than Mount Wuyi: Mount Tianzhu!
Locking his gaze onto the summit of Mount Tianzhu, Xuanjian took a single step forward. Spatial ripples flowed as his figure vanished abruptly, crossing an unknowable distance in one stride to appear directly atop Mount Tianzhu.
At the level of a Hunyuan Golden Immortal or Quasi-Saint, distance had lost all meaning.
Places that would take Golden Immortals or Taiyi Golden Immortals thousands or even tens of thousands of years to reach were, no matter how distant, merely a snap of the fingers for beings of this caliber.
In Honghuang, beings like Hunyuan Golden Immortals and Quasi-Saints, who stood between immortals and Saints, shared a collective designation: Great Almighty Beings!
As the name implied: those possessed of vast divine abilities, boundless Dharmic powers, and reaching everywhere without limit.
Ahem, back to business. After reaching the summit of Mount Tianzhu, Xuanjian struck out directly and shattered the innate restriction guarding this place.
Unlike an Innate Formation, an innate restriction was inherently disposable; breaking it was of no consequence.
The innate restriction shattered like a mirror, its innate runes scattering across the ground before dissolving into space, as if they had never existed.
And within this innate restriction lay a celestial pool.
Composed of gold, silver, and purple, shifting and alternating to display the brilliance of sunlight, moonlight, and starlight, it was a three-colored celestial pool!
With Xuanjian's discernment, he recognized at a single glance what sort of treasure this three-colored celestial pool was.
“A top-grade innate divine substance—Three Lights Divine Water!”
Xuanjian’s eyes widened, and he exclaimed, “There’s actually an entire pool of Three Lights Divine Water here!”
Indeed, the water shifting through three colors in this celestial pool was none other than the legendary sacred healing elixir of Honghuang—Three Lights Divine Water!
Three Lights Divine Water was a divine water condensed from the essences of sunlight, moonlight, and starlight.
Sunlight was ultimate yang, capable of wearing down the physical body.
Moonlight was ultimate yin, capable of corroding the Essence Soul.
Starlight was chaos, capable of dissolving the true spirit.
Divided, the three were lethal poisons; combined, they formed the foremost sacred healing medicine in Honghuang!
Even Saints possessed very little of it in reserve.
Not only could Three Lights Divine Water heal wounds and save lives, but using it to irrigate spiritual roots was also immensely beneficial!
In the future, during the Journey to the West era, when Monkey Brother toppled Zhenyuanzi's Ginseng Fruit Tree, though it was set upright again, its spirituality was lost and its origin gravely damaged. Just as it was on the verge of withering away, Bodhisattva Guanyin arrived with a few drops of Three Lights Divine Water, and merely those few drops revived the Ginseng Fruit Tree.
From this, one could see just how immense the nourishing effect of Three Lights Divine Water was on spiritual roots.
Earlier, during the battle over the Innate Gourd Vine, Xuanjian had triggered a system task where one of the option rewards was ten thousand fang of Three Lights Divine Water!
Yet at that time, Xuanjian had chosen the even more precious Chaos Primeval Soil.
Yet who could have thought that so soon after, Xuanjian would find Three Lights Divine Water on his own!
And what's more...
“This pool of Three Lights Divine Water... is far more than ten thousand fang!”
Xuanjian probed the volume of divine water in the pool with his Essence Soul, arriving at an astonishing figure in the end: ten million fang!
“Hiss!”
Even with Xuanjian’s composure, he could not help but suck in a breath of innate spiritual qi and gasp, “If this were put up for auction, wouldn't the myriad races of Honghuang go completely mad over it?!”
A sacred healing medicine, a divine water to nourish spiritual roots—an exceptional treasure that even Saints would hoard by the drop if they had the chance.
Xuanjian was certain that if he put Three Lights Divine Water up for sale, countless cultivators and the myriad races of Honghuang would fight frantically for it!
“Good thing I chose the Chaos Primeval Soil instead of the Three Lights Divine Water back then, or I would have lost out big time.”
“Hm? That's...”
At that moment, Xuanjian’s Essence Soul discovered an object at the center of the celestial pool.
It was a holy and flawless white lotus, translucent and lustrous like jade. Blooming with twelve petals, enveloped in swirling treasure glow and accompanying spiritual light, the laws of the Great Dao of Purification flowed within it—profound, unfathomable, sacred, solemn, and peerlessly magnificent.
“It really is here.”
Beholding this white lotus, the corners of Xuanjian's mouth curved slightly upward, a smile surfacing in his eyes. “A top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and top-grade Innate Spiritual Root—the Twelve-Petaled Purifying White Lotus!”
“One of the five innate lotuses, capable of suppressing karmic luck, purifying filth, cleansing karmic transgressions, enhancing comprehension, and boasting peerless defense!”
Earlier, Xuanjian had guessed that the Twelve-Petaled Purifying White Lotus, which had never appeared before, might be on Fangzhang Immortal Island, but he had not been certain.
As for now...
His guess had been spot-on.
Xuanjian arrived before the Twelve-Petaled Purifying White Lotus and gently plucked it from the pool of Three Lights Divine Water.
Once detached from its roots, the white lotus felt cool and delicate in his hand, smooth and comfortable to the touch. Xuanjian instantly felt his mental clarity heighten, his Essence Soul relaxing into supreme tranquility.
“Is this the Purifying White Lotus's ability to enhance comprehension?” Xuanjian mused. “I haven't even refined it yet, but merely holding it produces such a pronounced effect. Gotta say, it truly is an offspring of the Chaos Green Lotus.”
Top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure +1.
Xuanjian, who already possessed a heap of top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, acquired yet another.
Right at that moment, Xuanjian noticed that the petals of the Purifying White Lotus were trembling faintly, like a shy little girl feeling flustered before a stranger.
Noticing this, Xuanjian muttered, “Hm? Could this Purifying White Lotus have already awakened sentience?”
A spiritual treasure giving birth to sentience was by no means an uncommon occurrence.
Many spiritual treasures and supreme treasures that had existed for ages or possessed extraordinary origins had developed sentience.
However, when faced with a sentient spiritual treasure, ninety percent of cultivators would choose to wipe out its sentience. This made wielding the spiritual treasure far more convenient and secure, eliminating any risk of the treasure turning on its master.
Yet certain beings might permit the spiritual treasure's sentience to remain.
Cultivators like Taiyi and Taiqing, for instance.
The Chaos Bell possessed sentience of its own; otherwise, following Taiyi's fall, it would not have chosen to flee deep into the primal chaos, never to show itself again.
“So you've gained sentience... that makes things a bit tricky.”
Hearing Xuanjian's low murmur, the petals of the Purifying White Lotus trembled even more violently.
As if terrified that Xuanjian was about to wipe out its sentience.
Sentient minds that were newly born and utterly inexperienced were mostly naive, ignorant, and exceptionally timid by nature.
The Purifying White Lotus was currently in a state of utter panic and dread.
However, Xuanjian's next words set the Purifying White Lotus at ease.
Xuanjian said, “Very well. Our meeting is destined.
“If you are willing, tremble your petals three times, and in the future, I will find a way to help you take humanoid form.
“If you don't tremble, this poor Daoist will assume your sentience is incomplete and refine you into a spiritual treasure.”
The moment those words were spoken, the Purifying White Lotus froze for merely two and a half seconds before frantically shaking its petals.
Far more than three times.
It shook so fast it left afterimages.
“Haha.”
Pinching the Purifying White Lotus, Xuanjian chuckled heartily, “You little thing actually have quite a high intellect.
“Fine, fine. This poor Daoist keeps his word. If the opportunity arises in the future, I shall find a way for you to transform and shed your body as a spiritual treasure and spiritual root.
“Though for a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure to take humanoid form... that might be quite difficult.”
Shaking his head, Xuanjian stored the Twelve-Petaled Purifying White Lotus into his Essence Soul.
Then he took out the Treasure-Gathering Gold Basin...
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