Chapter 390: The Divine Object Conceals Itself

Innate treasures containing primordial Qi are rare.

Innate treasures are nearly Dao itself; only those born at the dawn of the Great Dao, or those born near the Dao, possess innate spiritual essence.

For example, the Nine-Colored Vital Earth obtained by Zhang Jian earlier.

Zhang Jian's figure darted swiftly through the void, his vast primordial spirit and divine sense locking onto that flying innate spiritual essence, yet he saw that innate spiritual essence seemed to follow an inexplicable resonance, all the way into the Two Realms region, rapidly traversing the earth veins.

Zhang Jian mobilized a portion of the earth's primordial power to begin slowing the speed of that innate spiritual essence's evasion, but this thread of innate spiritual essence evaded with extreme speed within the earth.

Before he mobilized the earth's primordial power to encircle it, it had already fled into the central part of the Two Realms region, within a vast and desolate mountain range.

This is the Boundary Ridge Mountain Range at the center of the Two Realms region.

This mountain range originates from the Barbaric Wasteland region and extends all the way to the center of the Two Realms region, nearly dividing the Two Realms region in two.

The mountain range is primordial and vast.

It still retains a portion of its ancient appearance.

Since ancient times, the Boundary Ridge Mountain Range has been home to many extraordinary individuals, and ancient species in the mountains are not few, not lacking in formidable ancient remnants, even to the point of divine beast bloodlines.

This is also a treasure land many cultivators enjoy exploring.

For example, the Four Immortals of the Barbaric Wasteland, renowned throughout Dongxuan Shenzhou, reside within the Boundary Ridge Mountain Range.

Zhang Jian's figure appeared before the Boundary Ridge Mountain Range, gazing at the towering mountain range before him, his expression calm.

His vast primordial spirit and divine sense remained locked onto that thread of qi, moving swiftly.

Boundary Ridge Mountain Range, Withered Wood Cliff

This is the abode of the Nine Heavens True Lord Xin Ziqi, one of the Four Immortals of the Barbaric Wasteland.

Upon the exquisite Withered Wood Cliff stands another magnificent palace, radiating a layer of magnificent immortal light, its power profound and weighty.

It is said this immortal palace was brought in from beyond the realm by the Nine Heavens True Lord Xin Ziqi after her exile as a banished immortal, and this treasure possesses boundless divine power.

Yet before Withered Wood Cliff remains a stretch of ancient wolf-infested forest in its primordial state.

Here, spiritual essence is abundant, and rare flowers and strange grasses are plentiful.

Conversely, the number of active ancient rare species around is even greater.

From time to time, cultivators mistakenly enter this place, but most end up as food for the strange species below; only a few with deep fortune enter and emerge unharmed after gathering one or two immortal herbs.

These rumors spread, adding a layer of mythical legend to this place.

Within the Nine Heavens Palace.

At this moment, the Nine Heavens True Lord Xin Ziqi is refining her Dharma; before her is a pearl emitting bright luster, within which countless heavenly and earthly spiritual essences surge, and primordial qi circulates.

This is the Northern Star Pearl.

Beside the Northern Star Pearl are several other objects emitting intense immortal light.

One is a suit of armor flowing with intense radiance and fierce power.

One is a peculiar treasure resembling a crescent blade, though it is clearly damaged and incomplete.

Another is a resplendent golden carriage, its entire body covered in golden patterns, as if forged from the radiance of the great sun, like the blazing sun itself, emitting vast and surging power.

Around the immortal palace at this moment, soul-summoning banners are scattered everywhere.

The Nine Heavens True Lord's gaze is calm; at this moment, she forms hand seals, and streams of light envelop these treasures in the void, as if reflecting the long river of time.

A power pierces through them, seeking to search the depths of the long river of time, to draw forth a certain intangible phantom from heaven and earth, but after a moment, from the deep darkness, a intense killing intent emerges, and she feels in the depths of her brow a great terror; in an instant, a intense immortal light surges in the depths of her brow.

It seems to be a strange flower, its cold core exhaling a chilling gleam, instantly blocking an intangible backlash; she seizes the opportunity to escape.

"Still not working!"

She opens her eyes, her pupils rippling with waves.

Though she knows hope is slim, a thread of sorrow still arises in her heart.

Perhaps the old acquaintance she seeks has truly perished completely.

Her eyes gradually fill with a bleak sorrow, which after a moment turns into resolve.

At this moment, her expression stirs; the nine-leaf purple millet grass deep in her brow suddenly drops a thread of purple light into her brow's primordial spirit depths, greatly enhancing her primordial spirit's spiritual awareness.

This millet grass was originally a spiritual flower used for divining heavenly secrets; to grow nine leaves and bloom purple is to be utterly extinct between heaven and earth.

Such an immortal stalk is a heaven-earth immortal treasure accompanying the Nine Heavens True Lord Xin Ziqi's primordial spirit reincarnation, and also what she carried in life.

At this moment, the immortal stalk's spiritual light surges into her primordial spirit and divine sense, and she immediately feels a vague, magnificent, inexplicable vast primordial spirit and divine sense sweeping across from deep within the earth of Withered Wood Cliff.

That primordial spirit and divine sense is extremely obscure, yet extraordinarily vast and astonishing.

"Which ancient immortal passed by?"

The Nine Heavens True Lord Xin Ziqi's jade visage shows a hint of astonishment.

At the same time, the nine-leaf purple millet light flows and turns, and her primordial spirit also reflects a trace of the innate spiritual essence of a treasure.

A flicker of surprise crosses her eyes, and in an instant her figure transforms into flowing light, swiftly following that thread of innate spiritual essence; she is also not one to fear trouble.

One thousand two hundred li beyond Withered Wood Cliff lies another area shrouded in great mist.

This is an extremely dangerous place.

Around this place year-round are several ferocious valleys, whose depths constantly emit countless bone-scraping yin winds.

Moreover, many terrifying rare species lurk around, among which the Iron-Armed Golden Ape clan stands out.

Among the Four Immortals of the Barbaric Wasteland, the Ape Emperor True Lord is of the Iron-Armed Golden Ape clan, and his dojo, the Ancient Yue Cave, is nearby.

Zhang Jian's figure pursues that thread of innate spiritual essence, and after a moment arrives at a peculiar mountain peak.

This mountain towers into the clouds, as if piercing straight into the heavens.

Layers of intense yin winds surround it, even reaching gang winds.

Zhang Jian's figure appears within the gang winds; these intense gang winds swirl in the sea of clouds, as if able to blow away any cultivator's form, so much so that cultivators are unwilling to rashly enter.

Terrifying heavenly thunder also coils around.

As far as Zhang Jian's gaze reaches, he can see not just one kind of overpowering thunder light.

Even to the point that there is also the rather rare Divine Thunder of Elemental Magnetism, Divine Thunder of the Heavenly Gang, Divine Thunder of Cold Ice, and Divine Thunder of the Gentle Wind.

These divine thunders are fully sufficient to be compared in power with the Three Caverns Divine Thunder.

Zhang Jian and Zhou Sen emanated a layer of faint immortal light; they had not used any defensive-type immortal arts of the primordial spirit, but relied solely on the power of their immortal bodies to directly traverse the void, reaching the mountaintop in a moment.

At this time he also saw the escaping strand of innate spiritual mechanism.

It was a strand of golden spiritual light.

It resembled a swimming golden serpent, the golden light flowing and turning, the entire body full of spirituality, and in an instant it merged into a large stone deep within the mountaintop.

"Innate Geng Metal Spirit!"

Seeing that dense golden spiritual light, Zhang Jian's eyes moved slightly, and in his mind arose the origin of a special heaven-earth divine object.

The Innate Geng Metal Spirit is usually formed when a portion of the heaven-earth Geng Metal qi gathers in the spiritual apertures, and only after a long time of heaven and earth does it nurture into a spiritual object; without millions of years it is difficult to form.

Deep within the Tongshan Dao Tradition there exists the presence of the Innate Geng Metal Spirit.

Among them, a representative example is the Winged White Tiger clan.

However, most of this clan are merely spiritual forms nurtured from ordinary Geng Metal spirit veins, and few are called Innate Geng Metal Spirit.

Those that exist have long since attained the Dao, following their ancestors into the heavenly realms beyond the world.

But when Zhang Jian's gaze fell upon that large stone, he was slightly startled; after looking closely, his eyes moved and he laughed.

"Marvelous, I never imagined that in heaven and earth there would still be such a wondrous object nurtured here!"

"It seems this object is indeed where my true opportunity lies!"