Chapter 256

"Back when this immortal was still an overlord of one side, an entire planet was my territory, which I could manipulate at will to benefit the world."

"This Twin-Born Lotus is also a new species cultivated by this immortal."

"There's such a thing?"

The Decayed Fairy had been chattering incessantly in Lu Yang's spiritual space. Originally, Lu Yang had treated it as wind passing by his ears, going in one ear and out the other, not listening to what she was saying at all.

Now Lu Yang was interested.

All along, Lu Yang had had a feeling that heavenly treasures had existed since ancient times and had never changed.

For example, common precious medicinal materials like ginseng and lingzhi, or roadside plants like foxtail grass and wild chrysanthemums, had all existed since there were human historical records.

Since they were called heavenly treasures, they were naturally treasures born of heaven and earth.

Lu Yang had never heard of any heavenly treasure being cultivated by great experts of later generations.

Now he had heard of one.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Lu Yang asked eagerly.

The Decayed Fairy smiled triumphantly, very satisfied with Lu Yang's attitude; this was the attitude one should have toward an immortal.

"Speaking of this matter, I have to mention this immortal's abilities."

"That was after I became an immortal. You also know that I had great prestige in the ancient times, and many people voluntarily believed in me."

"At that time, a devout female believer came to beg me. She wanted a pair of twins, but unfortunately, this kind of thing wasn't something human power could achieve, so she came to beg me."

"I calculated it and realized that fulfilling this wish wouldn't cause any problems, so I set about handling it." The Decayed Fairy was an immortal with a sense of proportion and wouldn't fulfill just any wish.

"Originally, I could have refined a pill to help this believer give birth to twins, but at that time, I remembered what the Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong Immortal had said."

"The Immortal Immortal Jiu Chong Immortal said that when one believer proposes a wish, there will be ten believers who want to propose the same wish."

"Childbirth is an eternal wish; it's impossible for only one believer to want twins."

"Even if I refined a pill now, what would I do if someone else prayed to me later? Continue refining pills? Too troublesome."

"I thought of a once-and-for-all method, which was to use my supreme divine power, borrow the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, extract Dao rhymes, change part of the rules, and add various means you can't understand now to refine a river into an immortal artifact."

"Anyone who drinks the river water can conceive two fetuses in their womb."

"I named the river the Twin-Born River."

Lu Yang was silent for a moment and asked: "... You wouldn't happen to have had a sudden whim later and created another river called the Child-Mother River, where women can get pregnant after drinking the water, and they all give birth to girls, right?"

"That didn't happen..."

Lu Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

"I created the Child-Mother River before I created the Twin-Born River."

The Decayed Fairy was curious: "How do you know about the Child-Mother River? Is it recorded in ancient books?"

"Just treat it as something I dreamed about."

The Decayed Fairy didn't think much of it and continued: "The creatures growing in the river were affected by the river water and shifted, or rather changed, from their soul origin."

"The most obvious change among them was a lotus flower. Originally, it only had one flower when blooming, but after growing out of the Twin-Born River, it turned into two when blooming."

"I found it novel, so I named this lotus flower..."

"Twin-Born Lotus?" Lu Yang blurted out, following the Decayed Fairy's train of thought.

"Sister Flowers."

Lu Yang: "..."

"After the Ying Tian Immortal knew about this, he persuaded me, saying that calling it Sister Flowers wasn't good and didn't reflect the high-class nature of an immortal's creation, and persuaded me to change the name to Twin-Born Lotus."

"I thought the name was good, so I agreed."

"The lotus seeds of the Sister Flowers taste good, and I often made porridge for the Ying Tian Immortal and the others to drink."

The Decayed Fairy had said before that lotus seed soup could bless people with many children and much happiness; it wasn't just talk, there really was such a possibility.

"As the ancient era ended, I don't know where the Child-Mother River and the Twin-Born River went. Whether they were refined into other immortal artifacts by someone or hidden away, I don't know."

The Twin-Born Lotus, a precious heavenly treasure that could help people reach the first-rate Core Formation, was only considered by people to be a treasure born of heaven and earth. They never thought it was an immortal's creation, and its initial effect wasn't Core Formation, but making porridge.

"What kind of skill is reaching Core Formation by relying on the Twin-Born Lotus? Follow me, and I'll teach you how to form an Invincible Core." The Decayed Fairy scoffed at the claim that the Twin-Born Lotus could lead to Core Formation, believing that the Jin Dan formed by this method was far less powerful than her own.

Even among first-rate Golden Cores, there were differences in quality.

Lu Yang rolled his eyes, ignored the Decayed Fairy, came back to his senses, and continued to discuss how to divide the lotus.

"Since the function of the Twin-Born Lotus is Core Formation, why don't the four of us observe the lotus together and see who can obtain the insight for Core Formation? How about we give the lotus to whoever gets it?"

Meng Jingzhou's proposal was agreed upon by the three.

Meng Jingzhou found a vase, put the Twin-Born Lotus in it, and the four of them gathered in a circle, staring intently at the Twin-Born Lotus.

This scene was truly a bit eerie, like a demonic sect holding some kind of forbidden ritual.

Fortunately, the four were all disciples of the Congwendao Sect and were proper righteous path practitioners, so they wouldn't attract suspicion.

Lu Yang stared fixedly at the Twin-Born Lotus to see if he could form an extremely aggressive Yin-Yang Jin Dan like the Second Senior Brother.

Meng Jingzhou imprinted the Twin-Born Lotus in his mind.

After long evolution, the Twin-Born Lotus already had the ability to invert attributes. Meng Jingzhou tried to take the opportunity of contemplating the Twin-Born Lotus to invert Yin and Yang and change his single-status spirit root into a harem spirit root.

Tao Yaoye wanted to increase the Yin-Yang changes in her illusions to make them more mysterious and unfathomable. If she could integrate the changes of the illusion with the insight of Core Formation, that would be great.

Seeing Man Gu stared at the Twin-Born Lotus, and his mind was full of descriptions of lotus flowers, like "emerging from the mud without being stained, washing in clear ripples without being coquettish" or "the lotus leaves reaching the sky are infinitely green, and the lotus flowers reflecting the sun are exceptionally red."

Soon, Seeing Man Gu thought of another key question: "Can the lotus be eaten? Can it be roasted and eaten?"

Just like that, the four sat there for two whole days.

Lu Yang's eyes were dry from looking at the lotus, so he took out the eye drops the Senior Sister had given him, put in two drops, and felt much better.

"Do you have any insights?" he asked.

The three shook their heads in unison, all having gained nothing.

Having contemplated for two days without any harvest, it meant their opportunity wasn't here with the Twin-Born Lotus, and forcing Core Formation wouldn't work.

"It's not very good to just throw it away. Since we snatched it with such difficulty, how about we take it to the chamber of commerce and sell it, and everyone splits the spirit stones?" Tao Yaoye proposed. Since contemplating further wouldn't yield results, it was better to give up now and cut their losses in time.

"That's fine too." Meng Jingzhou and Seeing Man Gu had no objections.

Lu Yang raised his hand and had a different request: "I want the lotus seeds. I don't need the spirit stones from the auction. Is that okay?"

The Decayed Fairy had been making a fuss in the spiritual space for a long time, insisting on having the lotus seeds.

To quell the immortal disaster, Lu Yang had no choice but to take the lotus seeds.

I'll try my best to finish the second update before eleven o'clock.

(End of chapter)