Chapter 705

"This shouldn't be the end of my Immortal Mountain. My Immortal Mountain stood high above, looking down upon the eight regions of the lower realm for countless ages. Even in the upper realm, my Immortal Mountain remained an undying power—how could it have fallen to such a state?"

"We offended someone we shouldn't have. That wastrel really deserved to die—why did he have to offend the disciple of this divine spirit? Now he's brought disaster upon our Qin Zu."

"We'll offer compensation, we'll apologize—would that be alright? Killing us won't do you any good."

The crowd of Qin Zu members was shocked, terrified, and felt despair.

Just then, a voice rang out in the void: "I beg the senior to forgive us. The people of our Qin Zu are willing to make restitution—please only extinguish the senior's thunderous wrath."

This voice was ethereal, yet powerful, surpassing that of a Venerable—it was also a divine spirit.

Fang Yu's gaze looked toward a spot in the Divine Spirit Valley. There stood an ancient tree, imbued with the rhythm of the great Dao, its whole body flowing with radiant clouds, but its leaves were sparse, scattered like ornaments across the dragon-like trunk, with petals drifting down.

Beneath that tree was a person clad in golden battle armor, serene and tranquil. The petals falling from the ancient tree drifted all around him, giving him an utterly transcendent air.

The man beneath the tree looked young, seemingly only in his twenties. His voice carried a magnetic quality, with a special rhythm to it.

"This junior is Qin Yifan. My true body has already entered the upper realm—this is my projection. Greetings, senior."

This divine spirit did appear quite courteous.

"Are you of Qin Yining's lineage?"

Fang Yu's gaze looked at the divine spirit beneath the tree. Of course he could tell that the person before him was not his true body either—it was also a projection.

In this world, the more powerful a cultivator, the harder it was to descend from the upper realm to the lower realm—much like how the immortals of the Eternal Life Realm found it difficult to descend to the mortal world.

If the difficulty of ascending from the lower realm to the immortal realm is one, then the difficulty of descending from the immortal realm to the lower realm is one million. Basically, once one ascended, it was impossible to reach the mortal world. Of course, if one cultivated to the realm of Heavenly Sovereign—the realm of the King of Heaven—then one would no longer be affected by such things and could move freely between the immortal realm and the mortal world.

"Yes, you could say that."

The divine spirit projection named Qin Yifan said.

"This lower realm's Immortal Mountain is already in terrible shape. Originally I planned to suppress all of them ruthlessly, but for my disciple's sake, I won't slaughter them all. However, this lower realm's Immortal Mountain needs to change lineage. The cultivators of your lineage are quite decent. Of course, all the treasures of this Immortal Mountain must also be handed over."

Fang Yu's gaze sized up Qin Yifan as he said lightly.

"Yes, senior."

Qin Yifan nodded.

"Since that's the case, then the matter can barely be considered resolved."

Fang Yu spoke, his gaze turning to the other Qin Zu members kneeling on the ground. "This time you were fortunate to keep your lives. If there is a next time, no one in heaven or on earth will be able to save you. Do you understand?"

"Yes, yes, yes."

All the Qin Zu members knelt on the ground, all answering in assent.

They finally breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts—at last they could survive this time.

"I'm still too merciful. If it were Junior Brother Fang Han or Yang Daxiang, I'm afraid all these people would have been reduced to slaves, or executed."

Fang Yu, seeing that all the Qin Zu members were answering in assent, did not execute them.

However, the treasury accumulated by Immortal Mountain over many years would be plundered.

The treasury of Immortal Mountain—generally speaking, most of it was of little use to Fang Yu. Of course, there were also some rare treasures of heaven and earth, such as Chaos Soil, which was quite excellent and had some use for Fang Yu as well.

Chaos Soil was no ordinary thing—it surpassed divine materials in the ordinary sense, was exceedingly rare in the world, and could only be encountered by chance, not sought, because it was born in the age of Chaos and contained the breath of Chaos, capable of refining supreme treasures.

After Fang Yu obtained this Chaos Soil, it could aid him in cultivating a supreme divine ability within the Great Chaos Art—not bad at all.

Shi Hao's gaze, however, went wide. Materials his master had no use for were divine materials to him—glittering and brilliant, wreathed in auspicious clouds, surging with misty radiance, with astonishing fluctuations of divine power.

These were all excellent materials for refining artifacts—not to be missed.

"Hm?"

In one corner, Shi Hao also spotted a small piece of remnant bone, lustrous white and smooth, no more eye-catching than divine materials, yet it shocked him—because this bone was identical to the bone of the Primordial True Understanding from the Stone Village lands.

The Primordial True Understanding was of tremendous help to him, propelling him further along the path of cultivation. Now, seeing an identical bone delighted Shi Hao.

He took out the half piece of bone he had unexpectedly auctioned for in the Stone Kingdom imperial city, and joined the newly obtained bone to it—they truly fit together perfectly.

But it was still incomplete—one small piece was missing.

"Still need one more piece—is that the other piece of the Primordial True Understanding?"

Unfortunately, it was still incomplete—still missing one small piece.

Shi Hao was somewhat curious. Willow God had said the Primordial True Understanding had three parts in total—upper, middle, and lower. The first part was Divine Guidance, which some titans of the upper realm had seen. The second part was Transcendence, which was in the lower realm—this was also the reason many titans wanted to descend to the lower realm.

Could this be the second part, the Transcendence part? Shi Hao didn't think it seemed so.

But regardless, after obtaining all three bone pieces, one should be able to see what it truly was.

In the treasury of Immortal Mountain, there were also other rare materials—some of which could even be used in the Eternal Life Realm to refine top-grade treasure artifacts, or even low-grade Dao artifacts. Fang Yu also collected some of these materials.

He was the senior disciple of Yuhua Sect, so of course he had to care for the disciples of Yuhua Sect. Whether the disciples of the sect had treasure artifacts or elixirs—such matters had to be kept in mind, rather than learning from someone like Hua Tiandu, who was clearly a person of Yuhua Sect yet spent every day at Grand Unity Gate and never came out. That was very improper.

Anyone with eyes could see you were Grand Unity Gate's dog, not of one heart with Yuhua Sect—and you still wanted to be the Zhang Sect Supreme of Yuhua Sect?

"Oh? Five-Colored Soil—what a fine treasure!"

Just then, a tower burst forth from Shi Hao's body, letting out a strange cry.

In the treasury area ahead, there was a stone basin flowing with five-colored divine light, making the little tower drool as it rushed over at top speed.

"Don't!"

Shi Hao stopped it, because within the Five-Colored Soil there was also a plant with five leaves in total, each leaf resembling a baby's palm, each of a different color.

"Could this be Immortal Mountain's sacred medicine—the Five-Element Tree?"

Shi Hao was curious.

"In the lower realm it can only be grass. Only if it goes to the upper realm might it become a tree. But even as grass, it is still a sacred medicine—and it hasn't been sucked dry in one breath by that creature."

The little tower knew more, knowing that this was indeed Immortal Mountain's Five-Element Tree—nearly dead, with hardly any divine essence left.

That Kunpeng earlier was simply too voracious. For this sacred medicine to have survived was already difficult.

"What a treasure—a true sacred medicine. Hopefully it can be revived."

Shi Hao was overjoyed and collected this sacred medicine.

Back then, his parents had come seeking a few leaves of this very medicine, only to be refused. Not only that, his parents had been imprisoned—and remained so until now.

And now, under his Master's lead, he had stormed the Undying Mountain and carried the entire plant away.

"If this thing is brought to the Upper Realm, it can surely transform into a Five-Element Tree—its value would be immeasurable!"

The little pagoda commented.

Fang Yu, however, did not care. After all, he cultivated the Great Five Elements Art; as long as he was willing, he could bestow upon any plant the status of a sacred medicine.

He was not very interested in the herbal plants of the Undying Mountain, but was rather more interested in some of the rare materials here.

All in all, it was a decent haul.

"Hm?"

Fang Yu suddenly gave a soft exclamation, his gaze looking beyond the void. With a shift of the Great Void Art, he took Shi Hao and left the Qin Clan's treasury, and in a single stride, they were several thousand li away.

A Primordial Treasure Realm had manifested here, emanating intense ripples.

A Primordial Treasure Realm is a peculiar world—an independent small world forcibly squeezed out when the Primordial World was cleaved open after the creation of heaven. Because its origin was damaged, it froze forever, ceasing to expand further. And because they ceased growing in the Primordial era, they are called Primordial Treasure Realms.

Within a Primordial Treasure Realm, there are also many powerful races, no different from the world outside, and each Primordial Treasure Realm is exceedingly rare. The moment one appears, it draws countless titans scrambling to enter and seek treasure.

Each of these Primordial Treasure Realms may contain pre-creation runes, and even Chaos treasures, lead dancers, and all manner of creations.

And now, a Primordial Treasure Realm had appeared here.

Fang Yu's gaze looked forward, and he saw a familiar existence deep within this newly opened Primordial Treasure Realm.

Willow God.

The Willow God had actually left the Stone Village area, going out into the wider world to seek opportunities.

Her fortune was tremendous—she had encountered an opening Primordial Treasure Realm. Now her branches numbered over two thousand, and within each branch there seemed to be a small world.

Around her were many orbs of light, blazingly radiant orbs that together formed a resplendent divine disc.

Within each orb of light there seemed to be a deity, endlessly chanting scriptures, then prostrating themselves in worship before her.

Three thousand worlds, three thousand deities—it seemed as though the gods of all three thousand realms were prostrating in worship before the Willow God alone.

The present-day Willow God was growing ever more powerful, her bearing truly matchless under heaven.

"Come."

This Willow God seemed to have also noticed the arrival of Fang Yu and Shi Hao, and spoke.

"I didn't expect to encounter an opportunity here as well."

Fang Yu moved, striding in.