Chapter 1029: Washing the Body with Yellow Springs to Open the Divine Treasury

Just as Li Zhong was about to touch the exchange list, he was pressed on the shoulder by Qian Chen.

On the exchange list in front of him, the dragon and phoenix seals writing the loan agreement instantly faded, and the original loan agreement quietly changed into a gift agreement. Before Li Zhong could react, he saw five hundred moral points added to his temporary account.

"This is my private money..." Qian Chen's voice quietly entered his ears: "Act a little more like it!"

"You borrowed five hundred moral points?" Qian Chen said loudly: "Think clearly. Unlike the other treasuries, that promise is borne by the Liuzhen as a whole. This loan from the Lord of Samsara, although the fifty-thousand moral point interest-free total quota is shared by all of you, it is specifically guaranteed and mortgaged in your individual names! In the future, when repaying the debt, it will all be calculated on your individual heads!"

Li Zhong was slightly surprised, but his expression returned to composure in an instant.

He just nodded: "These are all good things on it! Since there is no interest, why not borrow?"

"If it weren't for the opportunity borrowed by the Senior this time, without proof or interest, to be able to borrow such a generous amount of resources, where in the world is there such a good thing?"

"The money borrowed from other treasuries is for military use, but the total borrowed from this treasury can always be used on oneself!"

Li Zhong smiled slightly and acted as a shill, clarifying the logic.

The Liuzhen military leaders only heard a glimpse of it, and their eyes lit up.

If it were borrowing money for the public army, individual mortgage would naturally make people hesitate, but if the money were borrowed for themselves, it looked much fairer.

Even Tan Wuchen's brows relaxed; his Buddhist sect's loans were nine out and eleven back!

Li Zhong borrowed one percent of the quota so decisively, which even made people look at him with higher regard, revealing considerable courage.

Immediately, someone rushed to sign the loan agreement.

Several military leaders took a turn, and half of the fifty-thousand quota was soon gone. Cao Xuanwei hurriedly pressed the exchange list and borrowed the remaining twenty thousand moral points...

And by this time, Qian Chen had long since led Li Zhong away!

The secret treasury on the fifth floor was two springs, one was muddy yellow mud water, and the other was a scarlet blood spring.

"This Demon Dao treasury requires those who enter to pass through two difficulties..." Qian Chen pointed to the two springs: "Those two springs are the famous 'Blood Sea' and 'Yellow Springs' of the Nine Heavens!"

"Blood Sea, Yellow Springs!" Li Zhong naturally knew these two famous things.

The Blood Sea goes without saying, the two orthodox branches of the Demon Dao—the Blood Sea Sect and the Nine Heavens Sect.

It could occupy one of them, and even the Blood Sea Demon Ancestor was conceived within it. Whether orthodox or demonic, its name was deafening.

And there were legends of the Yellow Springs in the human world—reaching the blue sky above and the Yellow Springs below.

It is said that this spring is in the very deep part of the underground.

"In the Return to Ruins in the past, there was a stream of Yellow Springs that appeared in the world!"

Qian Chen spoke leisurely, this scene seemed to be many years ago: "The Blood-Cruel Old Demon of the Blood Sea Sect borrowed that mouthful of Yellow Springs to cultivate the *Sutra of Transforming Earth Puppets*, opening the divine treasury in his body, opening eighteen layers of hell, and finally impacting the immortal body of gods and demons, achieving the Nascent Soul righteous fruit."

"The Buddhist Bodhisattva Zhu Tanmo also took some with a spiritual treasure golden bowl... but at that time, there were hundreds of orthodox and evil people, yet no one else dared to touch this spring."

"Do you know the reason?"

Li Zhong shook his head.

Many stories had spread about that Return to Ruins trip, but he had lived under an assumed name in the Liuzhen and knew very little about the stories inside.

"Because the Yellow Springs are condensed from the earth energy and death energy in the very deep part of the underground. People buried in the underground decay very quickly. Even body cultivators who polish their bodies, or Buddhist golden bodies, once buried in the soil, will decay rapidly, because of the erosion of the Yellow Springs. Any object that touches the Yellow Springs will quickly become old, aged, and decayed... Therefore, this spring is an extremely dangerous thing."

Qian Chen scooped up a stream of Yellow Springs and twisted it in his hand. Only to see that where it touched, the original flesh and blood body quickly faded its vitality and turned into a dead yellow color like a mud sculpture.

"But at the same time, there is also great opportunity contained in the Yellow Springs!"

"In the past, when the Goddess Wa kneaded soil to create humans, the erosion of the Yellow Springs was also a kind of returning to the origin, allowing the human body to return to the beginning of creation, shedding the various obstacles of the acquired, and returning to the innate origin."

"In this case, it can expose the initial creation of the human body."

Qian Chen looked back and saw that Cao Xuanwei and the others had followed, so he said to Li Zhong: "You take the first sip and set an example for them, so that it won't be messy later, and save me from wasting my breath explaining!"

Li Zhong naturally trusted Qian Chen very much, so he immediately took off his military black armor, wearing only an inner garment, and stepped into the Yellow Springs.

Tan Wuchen was stunned when he saw the muddy spring water. It wasn't until Li Zhong's skin faded its blood color and gradually turned gray-yellow bit by bit that he reacted: "This is the Yellow Springs! Absolutely must not..."

But at this time, the surface of Li Zhong's body was already covered with yellow mud, and the mud marks gradually crawled over his whole body, seeping into his torso.

Li Zhong turned his head slightly, and the skin and flesh on his neck cracked, just like a mud sculpture that was solidifying, while deep in his flesh and blood, divine radiance erupted, constantly letting the cracked yellow mud form mud scabs and heal.

Amidst this constant cracking and constant healing.

Cao Xuanwei and Tan Wuchen watched with their own eyes as under the erosion of the endless Yellow Springs, Li Zhong's life, energy, cultivation, and all the creation in his body were worn away and decayed, just like a handful of yellow soil returning to the origin after a wisp of the Goddess Wa's innate creation energy slowly dissipated.

This creation was not only acquired cultivation such as magic power and spiritual sense, but also an innate energy and the origin of life.

At this moment, even the Liuzhen military leaders who arrived later noticed something wrong.

This mouthful of Yellow Springs was simply more poisonous than the most strange poison in the world. No matter what kind of extraordinary creation or polished divine body it was, once it touched it, it would dissipate and wither to death.

At this time, the deepest creation hidden in Li Zhong's body finally revealed itself. A dragon roar resounded from his spine, and infinite wood-element vitality actually sprouted new buds on his yellow mud body.

At his spine, a touch of green, like flowing vitality, sprouted extremely crisp buds, which soon took root in the yellow mud body.

A small tree half a foot high broke through the skin and grew out.

The small tree flowed with divine radiance, and the vitality condensed on the crisp leaves, almost dripping down.

That heaven-defying spiritual energy almost allowed Li Zhong, who had already turned into a mud sculpture, to be reborn and transform into an innate god.

And in his chest and abdomen, golden-red divine fire burned, and a power of nirvana and transformation flowed beneath the mud body.

His blood almost turned into flowing fire, and wherever it went, the mud sculpture was sintered and transformed more delicately.

Golden, solid bones, shaped like the innate metal *taibai* energy, were conceived in the mud body;

Yin and yang intertwined, like the rigidity and softness of a turtle and snake, the power of movement and stillness, dormant and erupting in the wriggling of his muscles, just like the earth hiding everything.

Just as the four terrifying creations were about to grind away the eroding Yellow Springs and shape Li Zhong's body into a divine body.

The wooden bowl in Qian Chen's hand scooped up another mouthful of Yellow Springs, mixed with bitter spring water, and poured it down from the top.

Finally, that terrifying creation and innate endowment, the last reserves hidden within the body, were extinguished by the final ladle of Yellow Springs water; the small tree sprouting in the spine withered and died in an instant; the divine fire flowing in the blood finally went out; the bones molded from divine metal rusted into scrap iron; the yin and yang intertwined, movement and stillness rose and fell, and the strength that had condensed as if in the muscles finally died, just like a divine turtle turning into dry bones, and a soaring snake scattering into dust!

Finally, Li Zhong completely condensed into a yellow mud sculpture, rough, dead, and silent, as if he would drop soil dregs if he moved slightly.

Cao Xuanwei opened his mouth wide, and Tan Wuchen couldn't help but lose his composure.

He Basheng was anxious and rushed up, drawing his sword: "What did you do to my brother Li Zhong?"

Qian Chen ignored him and just scooped up the water from the blood spring next to him with the wooden bowl. There was one thing he didn't tell Li Zhong the truth about: this blood spring was not water from the Blood Sea, but the original sin blood refined from the *Ascending-Falling Dao Fruit*, or rather, the blood of falling!

The *Falling Dao Fruit* is the departure from the innate, symbolizing the falling of humans from the innate to the acquired, departing from the innate because of the various desires, impulses, and turbidities born in the body.

The soul is clear, the flesh is turbid, so the innate clear energy is closed, and the turbid energy is dyed.

In the wooden bowl, a wisp of the *Ascending-Falling Dao Fruit*'s power was inverted nine times, refining the blood water in it to be more and more concentrated. When poured down from the top, the dead and silent yellow mud exploded with flesh and blood vitality again, and wherever it went, the withered mud body quickly faded.

That falling, vigorous flesh and blood sprouted more tenaciously.

In an instant, Li Zhong's yellow mud body transformed into flesh and blood again. Through this change of life and death, yellow soil and flesh and blood, all the creation, divinity, and spiritual energy in his body had faded and been washed away, leaving only a flesh and blood body that was extremely ordinary and completely returned to the mortal.

Barely opening his eyes, Li Zhong felt that his body was extremely heavy. The powerful strength and vast vitality that had been hidden in his body in the past, and even the powerful power that surged like divine fire burning in his heart when he moved his blood vessels, had completely dissipated without a trace.

He was as weak as a mortal, and even somewhat aged.

If it weren't for his great trust in Qian Chen, an ordinary person would have been unable to endure it long ago and would have forced an explanation!

"You've been sharpening your sword for a long time, but you haven't sharpened it to the bone!" Qian Chen criticized lightly: "Those four-spirit bloodlines and innate supernatural powers only shrank from your body surface back to your blood vessels and bones; the sword intent didn't enter the bone at all!"

Li Zhong smiled bitterly. Returning to the mortal, how could it be that simple.

Compared to becoming a saint, it was an even harder path.

"Turning into a body of yellow soil, with all creation dissipated, only then can you find what the Goddess Wa originally hid in your body."

Qian Chen kicked his brother out of the Yellow Springs and threw the military black armor over, saying: "You should be able to perceive that when your body finally turned into yellow mud, that last wisp of creation and vitality hid in a very secret and deep place in your body!"

"Now follow that feeling, perceive that secret treasury, and stir up the power, creation, essence blood, vital energy, and vitality hidden deep within!"

Li Zhong put on the black armor, and the heavy armor added to his body made his body sway.

But as he closed his eyes and meditated, his energy was empty, like a broken cloth bag, and the shallow origin like a mortal easily leaked out from this broken and leaking bag.

At this moment, even Tan Wuchen felt that Qian Chen had messed up!

Poor Li Zhong, he might have been made to dissipate his cultivation by him...

But Li Zhong seemed to have really followed that wisp of energy and perceived a deep, weak, almost impossible-to-discover portal hidden in the deepest part of his body, only when everything was dead and silent, and all creation, energy, and life in the body had dissipated.

That emptiness hidden in countless complex energy changes, hidden beneath the infinite potential great medicine of the human body, would be exposed.

Li Zhong perceived that everything he had shed was hidden inside, and the infinite creation planted by Li Er when he reshaped his bones and changed his blood was hidden inside.

Just by slightly stirring, the power that seemed indestructible and quietly hidden broke through the portal like a dragon emerging from an abyss or a fierce tiger descending a mountain.

In an instant, Li Zhong's body soared, and powerful vital energy, essence blood, and creation instantly filled his whole body, and even his hair moved without wind, each strand plated with divine radiance.

With a movement of his thoughts, the muscles intertwined like a turtle and snake, life and nature intertwined, erupted with powerful strength.

Peerless vital energy broke through the body and twisted into a strand.

The four-spirit power, which had originally acted on its own and was scattered, completely merged into one, carrying the vitality of the Azure Dragon, the sharpness of the White Tiger, the burning of the Vermilion Bird, and the firmness of the Black Tortoise, and every movement could strike with the thoroughness of his full strength before.

Cao Xuanwei said in a lost voice: "Divine Treasury!"

Qian Chen nodded: "That's right, the treasure given to you by that Fallen Demon Lord is the Divine Treasury!"

"Of course, this Yellow Springs and Blood Sea water are just keys to open the Divine Treasury! Bathing in the Yellow Springs and then being watered by the Blood Sea water, you can perceive the location of the secret treasury that the Goddess Wa originally hid when she created humans and kneaded mud people."

"Divine Treasury?"

The bumpkins of the Liuzhen, some were confused, and some had their bodies trembling, their eyes revealing extreme shock and desire.

"In legend, when the Goddess Wa created humans, she hid all creation in the human body. Once opened, one lives for ten thousand years, almost becoming a god! One can even regenerate from a drop of blood, the vitality of the flesh is unimaginably powerful, and one can change into all living beings in the world. With every movement, one explodes with the power of bloodlines, which is a heaven-penetrating and earth-shattering supernatural power!"

The old eunuch behind Cao Xuanwei was incoherent with excitement.

"Once the Divine Treasury is opened, the human race will transform into a 'God Race', the body will be almost perfect, and all acquired defects will be compensated!"

The old eunuch was even more excited, wishing he could throw himself into the muddy Yellow Springs.

Hearing his detailed explanation, especially the sentence about acquired defects being compensated, which was said almost tremblingly, the Liuzhen soldiers who had previously disdained him looked at him with strange expressions, staring at a certain place with a hint of sympathy.

"Don't think about it!"

Qian Chen broke his dream.

The old eunuch lost his composure: "Why can't I think about it? The secret records hidden in the Great Wei palace, I have flipped through them all. Those oldest family notes record that in the past, the Five-Colored Divine Court, everyone was a god. Relying on the power of the Goddess Wa's Divine Treasury, our human race was able to transform from an inconspicuous race among ten thousand races into the master and ruler of all living beings! Those ancient nobles, ancestors opened the Divine Treasury and hid its power in their own bloodlines, passing it down."

"What Cui family, Li family, families of county fame, aren't they just relying on a few family-transmitted classics passed down from the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought?"

"The bloodlines of the truly ancient world, the Xia Houshi, Di Shangshi, Ji family, and the surnames Jiang, Feng, Ying, Si, all hid incomparably powerful power and supernatural powers in their bloodlines. They were already at Foundation Establishment when they were born, possessing inherited innate supernatural powers, and as they grew up, their bloodlines naturally had the power of Golden Core, and their innate supernatural powers would also transform into seeds of great supernatural powers."

"The children of those ancient families, like true dragons, were born with great supernatural powers..."

"The reason why the bloodlines of those ancient families could not degenerate was because they used spiritual treasures to suppress their own Divine Treasuries so they didn't completely close."

"The Fallen Demon Lord can actually open our Divine Treasuries..."

The old eunuch almost worshipped the Fallen Demon Lord he had heard of but never seen. The scene of Li Zhong opening the Divine Treasury made him obsessed, and he was almost obsessed with touching Li Zhong's body, wanting to feel that body that was within reach, like a god.

"He must be one of the most powerful, mysterious, and terrifying Demon Lords in the Demon Dao, the Dao of Gods and Demons! Hahaha! With His gift, we can all transform into ancient gods and demons! Possessing powerful strength to compete with innate gods, and endless supernatural powers!"

Seeing his obsessed and fanatical appearance, Qian Chen couldn't bear to wake him up.

Li Zhong finally couldn't help it!

He dodged the old eunuch's withered, wrinkled hand full of death energy and said coldly: "There is nothing in the Divine Treasury!"

"Impossible!" The old eunuch's sunken eye sockets and drooping eyelids suddenly opened, and a gloomy but extremely powerful aura erupted, but when it touched Li Zhong's body burning with divine radiance, it was like a cold wind blowing.

In the blink of an eye, it was broken by the rolling divine radiance!

Li Zhong's expression was complex: "The Divine Treasury is empty! My current state is just that all my creation and vitality were forced into it by the Yellow Springs, taking root inside, seemingly allowing the origin of life to take root deeper! The powerful energy is connected to the deeper part of life, and can be completely exploded!"

Cao Xuanwei raised his hand to interrupt the old eunuch who wanted to argue, looked at Li Zhong with complex eyes, and smiled bitterly.

"Brother Li won't lie to me! He is right, the creation in the Divine Treasury has long since dissipated!"

"If I'm not mistaken, Brother Li should have powerful innate supernatural powers like the Five Emperors families... Hmm! It should be the four-spirit bloodline, which is also the most powerful kind among innate divine blood."

"The innate divine blood of the Five Emperors families is exactly a part of what the gods of the Five-Colored Divine Court dug out from the Divine Treasury and even preserved in the past!"

"This is originally equivalent to hiding a part of what was originally in the Divine Treasury back in, so naturally it can reveal a part of the power of the ancient divine body."

"Therefore, Brother Li, after opening the Divine Treasury, hid the innate divine blood and four-spirit supernatural powers in it, so it was incomparably smooth, and he could explode with such powerful strength..."

Once these words were spoken, some believed and some didn't, but everyone quieted down. After all, it was not difficult to verify this. With the Yellow Springs and Blood Sea water left by the Fallen Demon Lord as keys, everyone could open the Divine Treasury.

When the time came, they would know the truth by experiencing it themselves.

Someone was extremely disappointed: "Really? Has the Divine Treasury left by the Goddess Wa really dissipated?"

"Perhaps it's just hidden deeper!"

The old eunuch was adamant and firm.

Qian Chen shook his head: "When the ten thousand demons attacked the sky and the Five-Colored Divine Court collapsed, the Goddess Wa's Divine Treasury had already been seized! The creation of the human race's Divine Treasury had long been partitioned by the ten thousand races. Nowadays, when the demon race cultivates, various innate endowments can often form supernatural powers by themselves, because their bloodlines all hide our human race's Divine Treasury!"

"The complete Divine Treasury was divided into countless parts, with the demon race powerhouses occupying the large share, transforming into their innate various great supernatural powers, and transforming into their inherited bloodlines."

"Even the most ordinary, lowly livestock, the ignorant acquired demon race, can awaken their bloodlines and dig out innate power."

"If it weren't for the Supreme Dao Ancestor opening the Nascent Soul Dao Fruit and preserving the wisdom that is the last Divine Treasury, allowing the human race to have wisdom from birth, I'm afraid we would really have degenerated into monkeys!"

At this moment, a strong, irrepressible killing intent erupted in everyone's hearts!

"What?"

The *sha* energy on those fierce military practitioners couldn't help but leak out...

"Lawless!"

He Badu couldn't help but snort coldly: "Even the Goddess Wa's Divine Treasury they dare to seize, those demon races are really tired of living, they've turned the sky upside down!"

He Basheng couldn't help but mutter: "The Supreme Dao Ancestor was still too compassionate, letting them live is enough! Why didn't he grab back the family foundation of the ancestors?"

Hearing this, Qian Chen couldn't help but look sideways. He Badu kicked his leg: "Bastard! Is the Supreme Dao Ancestor someone you can talk about?"

Qian Chen saw that his younger brother's state had stabilized, and finally waved his hand to open the true secret treasury of the Fallen Demon Lord.

Only to see a crack split open in the blood spring, countless demon shadows in the Nine Heavens were clinging to the crack and peeping, whispering, and the weird and evil Nine Heavens demon language was rustling. Qian Chen inserted his arm into it, just like reaching into the belly of some disemboweled giant beast to search.

The sound of stirring flesh and blood, the clattering of viscera colliding.

Those who didn't know would think he was washing offal!

Soon Qian Chen pulled out his hand.

Only to see a beating heart in his palm: "Quick, quick, quick, the Seven-Aperture Yue Yue Linglong Heart of the White Deer, move it into the Divine Treasury, and your comprehension will greatly increase, you will have innate wisdom supernatural powers, be able to identify all things in the world, understand yin and yang, know life and death, and know the origin of anything just by looking at it!"

Li Zhong looked troubled, touched his stomach, and said: "No need, no need, I... the junior's four-spirit bloodline, hiding it in the Divine Treasury is enough."

"Any more will be chaotic!"

Tan Wuchen looked at the Seven-Aperture Yue Yue Linglong Heart in Qian Chen's hand, his eyes staring straight, and Cao Xuanwei was even more flustered when Qian Chen threw the heart over directly.

"Hide it in the Divine Treasury, and it is the seed of the great supernatural power to understand all things!"

"The White Deer race is a symbol of wisdom. The Divine Treasury obtained is a proper path bestowed by the Yellow Emperor when they served the Five-Colored Divine Court in the past. It's a pity that the Supreme Dao Ancestor was unwilling to let the four virtues of wisdom, courage, benevolence, and uprightness flow into the demon race, so he cut off the Divine Treasury Dao fruits of the four races and integrated them into the Nascent Soul Great Dao!"

"This led to the fact that the White Deer, *Suanni*, Qilin, and *Xiezhi* races in the world could no longer multiply. Those born later were no longer pure-blooded and could only inherit a part of their race's supernatural powers."

"This Yue Yue Linglong Heart has seven apertures, it is already a descendant with a relatively deep White Deer bloodline!"

"Don't waste it!"

Qian Chen pointed to the crack in the blood spring: "That is the secret treasury left to you by the Fallen Demon Lord, which contains hundreds of supernatural power organs of the demon race, which are their divine apertures, the essence of creation. Once washed and refined by the Yellow Springs and Blood Springs and the Divine Treasury is opened, they can be refined and hidden in the Divine Treasury, returning to the original creation of our human race."

"Even if you don't hit the opportunity and get a demon race supernatural power seed! After opening the Divine Treasury, you can naturally refine demons and seize back the original creation of the human race!"

He Badu raised his eyes, and a strange color appeared in his eyes: "Does the Senior mean that as long as the Divine Treasury is opened, one can seize back the creation seized by the demon race, refine it into it, and add an innate supernatural power of the demon race for oneself?"

Qian Chen shook his head, and without waiting for everyone to be disappointed, he said slowly: "Who said... there can only be one?"

These words made Tan Wuchen tremble all over, and the *sha* energy of the Liuzhen military practitioners sank.

"Northern Frontier Demon Race..."

Sure enough, someone mentioned the group of demons outside the pass, and there was no lack of high-level demon races with noble bloodlines!

"This Fallen Demon Lord is a Demon Dao Dao Lord after all, I'm afraid there are hidden means in the Yellow Springs and Blood Springs..." Someone whispered, not afraid of Qian Chen hearing.

Qian Chen raised his eyelids and naturally pretended not to hear.

Of course he had prepared means. After all, Lilith was a Demon Lord. Demon Lord, after all—what loyalty and faith are there to speak of?

Of course, it's about deception...

Isn't leaving behind dark hands and seals a tradition of the Demon Dao?

The backup plan was that the Blood Spring was a product refined by the *Falling Dao Fruit*. Once used, they would be contaminated with Lilith's Dao fruit and would be invisibly influenced by the *Ascending-Falling Great Dao*.

"But He gave too much!"

There were also practitioners who spoke with reason: "Open the Divine Treasury, refine the innate supernatural powers and bloodline creation of the demon race, maybe it can even be inherited and left as a foundation for descendants!"

"Could a dignified Demon Lord plot against us little people?"

"It's just joining the Demon Dao! I think the Demon Dao is more lively than the orthodox path!"

Cao Xuanwei held the Seven-Aperture Yue Yue Linglong Heart, listening to the discussion of the crowd, unable to advance or retreat, and secretly complained: "This Fallen Demon Lord really has good means, easily making people fall."

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