Chapter 107: Post-Heaven Spiritual Root Xun Wood Seedling, Treasure Hunting in the Ruins with Bowls Full (Seeking Subscriptions, Seek

"Clang!"

The tripod was unstable, and the lid was instantly unsealed, only to be knocked flying by the Dao Pills that had already come to life within the tripod.

In an instant, brilliant divine radiance erupted from the tripod, and a stream of Yin and Yang Two Qis shot straight upward, transforming into a black dragon and a white tiger in the void above, reflecting each other's brilliance.

For a time, the sounds of dragon roars and tiger howls were incessant.

With immortal light and auspicious vapors, ten thousand rays of rosy clouds, and the Aura of the Yin and Yang Dao Pills blending with the void, there appeared a continuous display of various phenomena: ornate canopies and tassels, cloud-patterned fungi and precious lotuses, and the intertwining of dragons and tigers.

Amidst the pleasant sounds of immortal music, the Dao Pills, having gained spirituality, were like startled fish, darting out of the pill tripod and dancing across the sky, seeking a path to escape.

Yet, they were captured by Fang Longye and the other two using various methods.

Yunque Wang activated a small, mutton-fat white jade bottle in her hand, and the Dao Pills dropped into the bottle's mouth one by one like fish entering water.

Gu Huojin operated a jade bowl of his own; with just a downward flick, he gathered up the swarm of dancing Dao Pills.

With a tinkling sound, the shimmering Yin and Yang Dao Pills leaped and collided within the jade bowl, striking the walls with a crisp, melodious sound.

Yet, they could not escape the restraint of the jade bowl's invisible force.

Above Fang Longye's head, a gourd radiating seven-colored light rotated slightly, and the Dao Pills filed one after another into the gourd's mouth.

Then, the gourd stopper sealed itself automatically, and one could only hear the constant clattering of the pills hitting the inner walls of the gourd.

Fang Longye shook it a few times, and it immediately fell silent.

After gathering all the immortal pills, they tallied them up: a total of one hundred and twenty.

"That is truly quite a lot!" Yunque Wang beamed with joy.

"This is because the senior Honghu who refined these originally intended them to be Dragon Tiger Treasure Pills. With his cultivation at the Taiyi Realm, it is not surprising that a single furnace could produce one hundred and twenty such pills."

Gu Huojin explained with a smile.

He sighed slightly: "To be able to use the essence of a Post-Heaven Spiritual Treasure to nurture and refine them into Yin and Yang Dao Pills is truly a miraculous stroke of fortune. The probability of this happening is so low that even one in a million would be an overestimation~"

Not to mention, it is already a tall tale that mere immortal pills could autonomously absorb the essence of a Superior Spiritual Treasure-grade pill tripod to nurture themselves.

Even if one were to artificially extract the essence of a Post-Heaven Superior Spiritual Treasure to nurture immortal pills, it would be impossible to cause them to undergo such a transformation.

This furnace of Dragon Tiger Treasure Pills being able to transform into Yin and Yang Dao Pills by chance is purely the work of heaven's craftsmanship.

To try to artificially replicate this transformation is simply wishful thinking.

The three of them left the Pill Room and conducted another round of looting.

During this time, Fang Longye even searched everywhere to see if there were any missed opportunities or fortunes.

For example, hidden secret techniques or the like; however, under his "Gaze Through Walls" ability, he discovered he had overthought it.

This Cave Abode ruin was merely a place for someone to stay, not a place of inheritance specifically meant to spread immortal fate.

Let alone hidden secret techniques, not even a single cultivation method or divine ability remained.

Just as Gu Huojin said after noticing his actions, the most precious treasures of this Taiyi Realm Honghu were naturally carried with him.

They had long since been lost to some corner of the world along with his demise.

Therefore, one should not force it; being able to have these gains is already quite good.

……

Lamp shadows on plain flowers, the void moon upon the steps.

No sun in the window's shade, frost cold and snow congealed.

Beneath the faint high platform, tripod smoke curled, heavy and unmoving.

Fang Longye and his party sat in a circle, with misty clouds rising from their crowns, gathering into various phenomena above.

Pearls intertwined and flowed, spinning incessantly around the group.

Each of these pearls was a Sumeru Space they had opened up.

Inside were all kinds of treasures.

According to their agreement, they divided them up.

The Superior Spiritual Treasures naturally all fell into the hands of Fang Longye, Gu Huojin, and Yunque Wang.

These Yin and Yang Dao Pills, after some heated debate, were finally distributed according to the agreement.

Fang Longye and the other two each received twenty-four Yin and Yang Dao Pills.

Longxiang Wang, Mingxue Wang, Meng Huai, and Lu Zhu each received 12 Yin and Yang Dao Pills.

Even though Fang Longye had previously said he did not care about the gains in the Pill Room, he could not help but feel a pang of regret.

"It's fine, after leaving the ruins, I can at least make another haul," Fang Longye comforted himself.

Facts proved that he still cared very much about these immortal pills; he had truly slapped his own face.

After that came the distribution of Spiritual Treasures and rare items below the superior grade, which involved another round of negotiation.

Fang Longye also felt a surge of joy in his heart for his own gains.

Yes, he indeed could not use that many Spiritual Treasures. But he was not a loner, and furthermore, he planned to open a Yaofang.

Naturally, he did not mind having too many treasures.

The remaining spiritual objects, divine materials, spiritual medicines, ordinary weapons, and armor—all sorts of miscellaneous items—were also fully settled after the subsequent competition.

Even the entire palace was dismantled and distributed by them one by one. After all, many parts were paved with spiritual materials.

Likewise, the large aquatic banyan tree that supported the palace did not escape the list of items to be distributed and fell into Fang Longye's hands.

This was no ordinary aquatic banyan tree; strictly speaking, it was not a banyan tree at all, but a type of Spiritual Root—Xun Wood. ……

Above the marsh, a single flat boat.

Fang Longye stood upon it, examining the towering giant tree before him.

Its developed roots were plunged into the water, continuously absorbing water vapor, and thousands of aerial roots proliferated from it, a single tree forming a forest.

With lush branches and leaves, its large canopy spread out like a green island emerging from the marsh.

It looked too much like a large aquatic banyan tree! However, just as a Honghu can be a swan, a swan can never be a Honghu.

This giant tree, similar in appearance to a water banyan, is precisely a seedling of "Xun Wood"!

"Xun Wood" is a great tree from mythology.

The *Classic of Mountains and Seas: Classic of Regions Beyond the Seas, North* from a past life states: "Xun Wood is a thousand miles long; it is located south of Juying, growing on the northwest of the river."

There is also the *Classic of Mountains and Seas Illustrations and Eulogies: Classic of Regions Beyond the Seas, North* which says: "Vast is the Xun Wood, growing by the river; its branches rise a thousand miles, reaching up to the clouds and sky; its shade hangs over the four poles, covering the Abyss of Yu below."

This is a type of divine tree.

A Phoenix does not land in a place without treasures, and since the swan goose is of the Phoenix Clan, the place where it rests is naturally extraordinary.

This is also a unique ability of the Feathered Tribe: choosing a Spiritual Root to bond with, treating it as a Companion Spiritual Root to promote mutual growth.

It can be considered a life-bound Spiritual Root.

Just as the Phoenix is to the parasol tree. As a type of Phoenix-kind, the swan goose likewise requires a spiritual tree to accompany it.

And as a water-attribute Phoenix bird, what it chose was naturally a water-attribute Spiritual Root—Xun Wood!

However, the one before our eyes is merely a seedling produced by its Companion Spiritual Root.

But it is still extremely extraordinary.

The first Xun Wood in heaven and earth was an Innate Spiritual Root.

Although the Xun Wood in the hands of that swan goose was only a Second Generation Xun Wood, it could not be counted as an Innate Spiritual Root.

But by conversion, this Xun Wood seedling that Fang Longye has already refined is, at the very least, the grandchild of an Innate Spiritual Root, and its quality is still extremely extraordinary.

This information naturally came to him after he refined this Xun Wood seedling.

Beings above the Golden Immortal level have already entered the Dao. If there are no accidents, the traces they leave behind in heaven and earth can last for a long time.

This swan goose of the Taiyi Realm spent quite a long time lingering on this Xun Wood seedling.

The Dao Rhyme traces that the Xun Wood seedling became stained with during this period contain quite a lot of information.

Fang Longye manifested the auspicious clouds above his head, and seal script characters flew about, merging with this Xun Wood seedling whose canopy was like a green island.

Boom—

This giant tree, about several miles high—a Xun Wood seedling ranked as a Post-Heaven Spiritual Root—rose up from thin air.

Its massive, long roots stretched out, almost without end.

It brought about monstrous waves, stirred up the wind and clouds, and ripples of water surged in circles all around.

Finally, it hung in mid-air.

It slowly shrank, until in the end, it was less than palm-sized, suffused with rich spiritual energy, and was put away by Fang Longye.

He looked at the crowd who were waiting for him.

Fang Longye straightened his clothes and smiled: "Alright, sorry to have kept you all waiting. It is time for us to leave!"

Yunque Wang smiled brightly: "After such a treasure hunt, everyone has gained a great deal, so what is there to be in a hurry about?"

Fang Longye smiled without a word.

Inside and outside the formation, there are quite a few people who are anxious!

Meng Huai looked around the perimeter and frowned, saying: "I don't know when those dense and numerous formation nodes outside grew back again. Surely we don't have to break through the barriers again just to get out, do we?"

Hearing this, the group of demon immortals also frowned immediately.

Seeing this, Yunque Wang chuckled, waved her hand, and said: "It won't come to that~"

Having said that, she summoned the Jade Talisman Sword Order and activated it with her mind.

Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong—

Instantly, in the void, a sound of water rang out, not like the sound of marshes or lakes.

Like clouds leaning against a mountain, like a stream washing white stones, in an instant, strange seal script characters paved the ground beneath everyone's feet, coming from all directions and presenting the appearance of a halo.

Looking closely, the seal script characters seemed real yet illusory, dark and mysterious on the surface, dense and numerous, with large circles enclosing small circles, and small circles enclosing even smaller ones; they were concentric circles one after another, stopping abruptly when they reached the feet of the group.

Immediately, water light shimmered and clouds permeated. The group's vision blurred, and when they could see clearly again, they had already left the ruins.

They stood on the cliffs on both sides of the entrance to the ruins.

The chubby Lu Zhu looked around, let out a breath, and rubbed his eyes: "Finally out! Now I can go back and have a good sleep!"

Feeling the contract oath that had been lingering in his heart, which would completely dissipate in three days' time.

Fang Longye waved at Ao Ying, who had been waiting not far away, while secretly thinking to himself: "I'm afraid you will have a hard time getting a good sleep!"

Yesterday's second chapter~ Sorry for being late!

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