Chapter 193: Fusang and Moon Laurel Offer Spiritual Branches

Regaining his composure and sensing the changes within himself, Fang Longye's brow was filled with joy.

With a wave of his hand, a sharp edge slashed toward the firmament, slicing the space open and revealing a massive rift that could not heal for a long time.

He felt the divine ability he had gained after smelting the origin of the Zhanxian Gourd into his body.

Fang Longye revealed a satisfied smile.

It was not in its power, but in the profound mystery of this divine ability.

This slash appeared ordinary, but in reality, if anyone were to endure this strike, they would discover its unspeakable profundity.

When this divine ability was unleashed, there was no warning, nor would it give anyone a chance to react.

It was as if the moment the killing intent arose, the attack arrived; one slash and it hit. The thought was the cause, the injury was the effect; where there is a cause, there must be an effect, and it cannot be changed.

This kind of near-conceptual attack was beyond imagination, involving time, space, and causality, making it difficult to describe clearly in words.

And this was the characteristic of the Zhanxian Gourd: once the flying blade was raised, it must see blood before returning.

Through a secret method, Fang Longye had smelted a strand of origin from this Innate Spiritual Treasure into his body, naturally gaining a similar divine ability.

Likewise, the spiritual treasure that was almost two sides of the same coin with him—the 'Two Instruments Divine Gourd'—naturally gave birth to new changes under the feedback gained from this smelting.

Fang Longye's heart stirred, and a celebration cloud the size of an acre appeared above his head; a Red Jade Gourd emerged from the floating and sinking of the celebration cloud, rising unsteadily.

It circled around him, as joyful as a bird dancing.

Finally, it landed in his palm.

The exterior of the gourd remained almost unchanged, but the Dao Rhyme and Divine Light displayed around its body had undergone changes.

One could see its Dao Rhyme and Divine Light interacting with heaven and earth, the resulting halo constantly changing colors, unspeakably profound.

It appeared to have the seven colors of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and violet, but in reality, it returned to Chaos, possessing only the two paths of black and white, with the revolution of heaven and earth constantly changing.

The true meaning of the Taiji Two Instruments was revealed completely.

As for its interior, Fang Longye tossed it casually toward the void; the Red Jade Gourd rose like a stream of light, swaying and dancing.

Afterward, the mouth of the gourd opened slightly, and a sky-covering killing intent immediately permeated the area.

It filled the universe and permeated time and space.

It was merely a slight test, and he had not truly activated the 'Two Instruments Divine Gourd'.

Yet one could already see that the killing power of this treasure gourd had increased by an unknown number of times.

Afterward, the treasure gourd immediately retracted its aura and submerged back into the celebration cloud.

This Zhanxian Gourd was itself an Innate Spiritual Treasure containing Innate Killing Spiritual Light, having swallowed an unknown amount of innate killing intent.

After the ten Golden Crows met with disaster, it was further refined by Di Jun with great Dharma power to enhance its might; it was truly one of the few supreme killing treasures in heaven and earth.

The 'Two Instruments Divine Gourd' received the nourishment of the creation after smelting its origin and accidentally fused with a wisp of its innate killing intent, naturally increasing its killing power greatly.

Sensing the transformation of the 'Two Instruments Divine Gourd', Fang Longye was overjoyed and said: "Strike while the iron is hot~ What needs to be done next is to engrave talismans inside it to generate Post-Heaven Divine Prohibitions to raise the grade of the spiritual treasure."

Not to mention that he had obtained many new talismans during these days; with the status and strength of Lu Ya, it was impossible to be lacking in this regard.

……

Tang Valley Secret Realm.

Golden flames and red brilliance condensed into three-legged Golden Crows of various sizes, dancing gracefully.

In the center of the sea of fire, the incredible Fusang Wood rose from the ground, straight into the darkness.

The dragon-like branches were covered in blossoms, appearing as if red flames were burning, a brilliant expanse.

All around the Fusang Wood, one could say there were auspicious clouds and treasure-light generating radiance, glowing with fiery colors, and auspicious sounds of wonderful music.

And amidst this Divine Light and auspicious mist, this avatar of Lu Ya sat upright on a stone platform outside the palace, holding up his palm with great interest to observe it closely.

He was not looking at his own palm, but at a universe world within his palm.

It was precisely the world he had opened up at Fang Longye's request earlier.

When he saw that Fang Longye had successfully smelted that origin from the Zhanxian Gourd, a strange light immediately shone in his eyes, and he nodded slightly.

As the owner of the Zhanxian Gourd, he knew better than anyone the ferocity of this spiritual treasure. That Fang Longye could succeed in one go, even with his helping hand at the end, still made him take notice.

Just at this moment, Lu Ya suddenly raised his head and looked not far to his left.

He laughed aloud: "You finally arrived! Fellow Daoist Moon Laurel is truly dawdling~"

To the left, at a distance of about a hundred feet, space was faintly tearing, and ripples of time and space were spreading out in circles and layers, as if a fish were leaping out of water.

The next moment.

With a loud bang, a cyan-white spiritual wood of unknown size crashed over.

It struck spiderweb-like rifts into the space. The pearly white color reflected over, immediately suppressing the surrounding red-bright golden flames until they were nearly extinguished.

The originally red-gold void was instantly shrouded in moonlight. The scorching temperature also dropped instantly, and the surroundings became cool.

A cold, feminine voice came: "You old fossil, I had to pick and choose to select the best branch on my body to send to you. And yet I am still called a dawdler~"

Lu Ya smiled without a word.

He merely waved his Whisk, instantly shrinking the Moon Laurel spiritual branch, which was of unknown size, to the size of a chopstick, and gathered it in his hand.

Afterward, he thanked her aloud: "Thank you for your trouble, Fellow Daoist!"

"Hmph!"

A coquettish huff, and then there was no more movement.

Lu Ya naturally knew that this old friend had already returned.

He did not mind, merely weighing the Moon Laurel spiritual branch in his hand, and with a flip of his palm, a Fusang spiritual branch appeared, which he sent into the universe in his palm along with the other.

At the same time, he said to Fang Longye in the world within his palm: "Little friend, the things you wanted, I have sent them to you."

His words carried a hearty laugh and were full of kindness; his gaze flickered, not paying attention to Fang Longye's reaction, but secretly pondering in his heart.

This Fusang spiritual branch and Moon Laurel spiritual branch were not what he had intended to gift from the beginning.

Rather, they were the treasures requested by this little friend after he had finished reading the list of treasures he had handed over.

However, he was even willing to damage his own Spirit Treasure, specifically extracting its origin to gift it, let alone some inconsequential branches of his main body.

Including the Moon Laurel branches, it would only take a few words of persuasion.

As long as this little fellow is truly the heir to the legacy left behind by Xihuang after his transcendence.

Then he would have made a massive profit.

……

Lunar Star.

A Moon Laurel Divine Wood, vast to the point of being inconceivable, occupied more than half of the Lunar Star.

The tree shadows danced, its branches and leaves like a canopy, with the Milky Way pouring into it; the sky full of starlight and the Lunar Star's moonlight intertwined, the frost-colored light clear and bright.

Between the grinding of blue and white, a cold gloom pressed upon one.

At a first glance, it seemed warm yet heavily cold, as if the accumulated snow had not yet melted.

It was truly a land covered in jade, like a world of glazed glass.

Quiet, desolate, and far removed from the mortal dust.

A magnificent palace stood amidst the lunar disc, crystalline and translucent, suffused with an inexplicable color.

Human footprints were sparse.

Moon Laurel blossoms drifted down, the ground filled with a dense fragrance, exuding a cold and secluded silence.

A beautiful woman in palace attire, draped in moonlight, paced through the magnificent palace while cradling a snow-white jade rabbit.

Occasionally, when Moon Palace Chang'e encountered her, they would all address her as Palace Mistress and bow gracefully.

She was none other than the most mysterious Great Divine Ability holder in the Heavenly Court—Lunar Star Lord.

She arrived beneath the Moon Laurel Wood, standing before this Innate Spiritual Root, gazing out at the entire myriad worlds of the heavens.

In her eyes was a power of insight, as if she could see through everything.

Stroking the snow-white little ball in her arms, this Lunar Star Lord sighed and said, "An eventful autumn indeed!"

Truly, this is the most magnificent and grand era of the Honghuang!

It has only just begun, yet even the legacy left by Xihuang, that transcendent being, has seemingly appeared in the world! Heh~ She suddenly raised her head and chuckled softly.

An eventful autumn is exactly what is needed! With one hand holding the snow-white jade rabbit and the other caressing her own main body, the Moon Laurel Wood, she thought to herself, "I wonder if I will have the chance to completely take human form in this era~"

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(End of this chapter)