Chapter 1575: Gourd Vine, Bodhi Tree, Investiture of the Gods

After quickly refining the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, Li Zhangsheng took out several Strange Treasures of varying ranks to test them.

Before long, Li Zhangsheng had his answer.

If it were a Supreme Langhuan Treasure of the same rank as the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, it could temporarily increase power by fifty percent; if they were Low Grade, Mid-grade, or Superior Quality Langhuan Supreme Treasures, the power could be increased by seventy percent; and for Strange Treasures not of the Langhuan Supreme Treasure level, the power could be doubled.

It seemed that Strange Treasures not of the Langhuan Supreme Treasure level provided the greatest increase, but the gap between them and the other two was very obvious; even with a larger bonus, the disparity actually became even greater.

There was no help for it; this was a gap in the initial base.

Li Zhangsheng expressed great satisfaction with the effect of the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, then immediately looked at the second Supreme Langhuan Treasure.

This was a book glowing with golden light, with the three ancient seal-script characters "Investiture of the Gods" written on the cover.

Upon seeing the name of the book, Li Zhangsheng immediately became excited, because this was precisely the Heaven Book he had been longing for.

With the Investiture of the Gods, Li Zhangsheng could be considered to have gathered the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Books; not only could he better govern the Three Realms, but he could also significantly speed up the cooldown time of the Heaven Earth Human Three Pearls.

At the same time, the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Books each had their own wonderful uses and could continuously earn merit.

The Heaven Book could enfeoff the 365 righteous Gods of the eight divisions of the Heavenly Court, whether they were gods in the flesh or spirits, to separately manage various departments, arrange the celestial cycle, inspect good and evil in the human world, and report the merits and deeds of the Three Realms.

The Earth Book was not only a supreme treasure of defense but also the Earth Membrane, which could comb through the world's ley lines and accelerate the progress of the world.

The Human Book went without saying; it recorded the names of all humans and animals in the mortal world, including the lifespan and underworld lifespan of every person and other living creature, mainly used for controlling life and death. Except for Emperors, the life information of all beings from birth to death was contained within it.

In addition, the three books each had auxiliary Strange Treasures: the Heaven Book's God-Beating Whip, the Earth Book's Heavenly Treasure Mirror, and the Human Book's Judge's Brush. Although their ranks were not as high as the three books, they could maximize the effects of the three books.

Among them, the whip on the remains of the Heavenly Emperor was the God-Beating Whip.

The God-Beating Whip was three feet, six inches, and five fen long, with twenty-one sections, each section having four talisman seals, totaling eighty-four talisman seals. The God-Beating Whip was mainly used to strike those named on the Investiture of the Gods, specifically for managing the Gods.

As for the remaining treasures, although they were also high-quality items, they were of no use to Li Zhangsheng, though they could be used to reward those with merit.

Of course, Li Zhangsheng also obtained the Heavenly Emperor's Space Ring.

The Heavenly Emperor's Secret Realm was easy to handle; he just needed to merge it into his own Secret Realm.

As for the remains of the Heavenly Emperor, they could only be buried with grand rites.

Before that, Li Zhangsheng began to inspect the Heavenly Emperor's Secret Realm.

Under the guidance of Xuanming, Li Zhangsheng arrived at the location of the most important Medicine Garden.

As a Supreme Being who had lived for over ten thousand years and governed a realm, the Heavenly Emperor naturally did not lack Low-Grade Top-Tier Spirit Roots.

Like the Human Emperor, the Heavenly Emperor also possessed two Low-Grade Top-Tier Spirit Roots.

One was a Bodhi Tree over a thousand meters tall, emitting a golden light.

The Bodhi Tree was also a great help to Monster Tamers; it could help Monster Tamers dispel distracting thoughts, clear the mind and sharpen the eyes, and sitting under the Bodhi Tree for a long time would make one become transcendent and refined.

Of course, Li Zhangsheng was already transcendent and refined, but the effects of dispelling distracting thoughts and clearing the mind and eyes were still effective for him, allowing him to think about problems better.

The only pity was that the Bodhi Tree, like the Fusang Tree, did not produce fruit and could only be used for artifact refining; it was rumored that the main material for the Supreme Langhuan Treasure, the Seven-Treasured Tree, was the Bodhi Tree.

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng looked at the second Low-Grade Top-Tier Spirit Root.

Compared to the tall Bodhi Tree, this one was very small; it was a green vine with six brilliant gourds hanging on it, one each of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, and blue.

From the feedback of his Mental Power, these six mature gourds all emitted the aura of Langhuan Supreme Treasures.

"Gourd Vine!"

Li Zhangsheng's eyes could not help but light up, and he released the Purple Gold Gourd from his Consciousness Sea.

Ever since entering the Medicine Garden, the Purple Gold Gourd had been trembling; clearly, it had once been nurtured by the Gourd Vine.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the Gourd Vine appeared, and it had nurtured seven gourds in total, but only the Purple Gold Gourd had matured, while the other six were still young at the time, some even just flower buds.

At that time, the Heavenly Realm had not opened, the Heavenly Court had not been built, and the layout was similar to two years ago, divided into nine major regions, each with an Emperor sitting in command.

Unlike other Low-Grade Top-Tier Spirit Roots, the seven gourds nurtured by the Gourd Vine could be said to be natural Langhuan Supreme Treasures, and each had wonderful uses, which could effectively improve an Emperor's means and survival ability, not to mention the Gourd Vine itself.

Thus, in order to fight for the Gourd Vine, the nine Emperors all came out, and in the end, the Heavenly Emperor obtained the purple gourd, while the Gourd Vine went missing, disappearing into thin air.

Based on the effects of the purple gourd, the Heavenly Emperor eventually refined the Purple Gold Gourd, which could nourish Alchemical Pills.

Now that the Gourd Vine appeared in the Heavenly Emperor's Secret Realm, Li Zhangsheng did not believe that the Heavenly Emperor at that time possessed such ability; after all, according to the records of the Heavenly Emperor, he was not even an Emperor Rank at that time, and it was impossible for him to snatch the Gourd Vine under the watchful eyes of the Emperors.

Since the Heavenly Emperor had obtained the Gourd Vine but did not pick the gourds, it was obvious that before the Heavenly Emperor fell, the six gourds on the Gourd Vine had still not matured, ultimately benefiting Li Zhangsheng for nothing.

Even after tens of thousands of years, only five of the remaining six gourds had matured, and the cyan gourd was still in the process of gestation, but judging from the energy fluctuations, the green gourd was not far from maturity, even if "not far" here had to be calculated in thousands of years.

These five matured gourds had all reached the Mid-grade Langhuan Supreme Treasure level, and with a little refining, it would not be difficult to advance them further.

In addition to the two Low-Grade Top-Tier Spirit Roots, there were also quite a few mid-to-low grade Top-Tier Spirit Roots.

Among them was an Immortal Apricot Tree, and the Immortal Apricots on it had already matured; they could be given to Demon Pets with slow speed to effectively improve their explosive power.

As for the remaining mid-to-low grade Top-Tier Spirit Roots, quite a few were Ten Branches of the World Tree, but they were of little use to Li Zhangsheng.

Li Zhangsheng also checked the mineral veins, Energy Pool, Dragon Lair, and resource points in the Secret Realm; they were inevitably inferior to the Heavenly Emperor Secret Realm, but it was still a considerable harvest.

After spending some time, Li Zhangsheng began to merge the Heavenly Emperor's Secret Realm.

The Heavenly Emperor's Secret Realm barely maintained the Grotto-Heaven level, and the area gap with Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm was huge, so the difficulty of merging was naturally very small; it only took some World Power to completely merge them into one.

Merging the Heavenly Emperor's Secret Realm only slightly increased the area of Li Zhangsheng's Secret Realm, and there was still a long way to go to reach his goal.

Soon, Li Zhangsheng returned to the Heavenly Court with Xuanming, preparing to use the Investiture of the Gods to increase his rule over the Heavenly Court.

(End of this chapter)