Chapter 21
Three Flowers Gather at the Top, Twelve-Grade Dao Flower
Obtaining the top-grade innate spiritual root "Huang Zhongli" naturally brought Xuanbao immense joy, as it was an accelerator for cultivating high-end combat power.
As the saying goes, many hands make light work. If Xuanbao were to explore a large blessed land on his own, it would take at least several hundred years. Now, with more than 15000 people exploring together, the entire blessed land has been thoroughly explored in just over 30 years. That's quite professional.
Along the way, worried about missing anything, Xuanbao used his senses to control his henchmen to search for the treasure, directly unlocking the "Master of Micro-Management" skill. Even Lao Jiang was impressed and exclaimed that he was an expert.
After completing their exploration, the 15000 people quickly gathered in front of the Xuanbao and piled all the spiritual treasures they had collected in front of it. After some counting, apart from the top-grade spiritual root Huangzhongli, they also obtained 21 innate spiritual treasures in this blessed land. Among them, there was one top-grade innate spiritual treasure, three high-grade innate spiritual treasures, six mid-grade innate spiritual treasures, and the rest were low-grade innate spiritual treasures.
The supreme innate spiritual treasure, the "Nine Heavens Sword," was originally composed of nine mid-grade innate spiritual treasures. When the nine swords are combined, they become a supreme innate spiritual treasure. They can also work together to form the Nine Heavens Sword Formation, which is extremely powerful.
Superior-grade innate spiritual treasures: "Soul-Suppressing Bell", "Four Seas Bowl", "Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan".
The remaining mid-grade and low-grade innate spiritual treasures have no special abilities and are directly ignored by the Xuanbao. Their greatest use to the Xuanbao is to be a ruthless cultivation machine, a laborer.
Xuanbao still remembered the "Soul-Suppressing Bell." He had already obtained one on Mount Kunlun, the "Soul-Falling Bell," and both were top-grade innate spiritual treasures. Could they be related? The thought of taking out both bells and shaking them—one to release the soul, the other to suppress it—wouldn't the opponent be incredibly aroused, experiencing the sensation of being thrust into and out? Just thinking about it felt wicked. Hehehe…
Seeing their master's wicked smile, the henchmen all took a step back.
Xuanbao: ……
Xuanbao cut off his daydreams and had to return to reality. The Four Seas Bowl was self-explanatory, capable of holding the waters of the four seas. The last item was the superior-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan. If Xuanbao remembered correctly, this was also the magic weapon of "Qingxu Moral True Lord," one of the twelve Golden Immortals under his master Yuanshi, and also his cave-guarding treasure. He was now going head-to-head with the twelve Golden Immortals, and he was about to plunder them all.
Speaking of the Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan, this precious fan is made of the feathers of seven birds: phoenix, blue luan, roc, peacock, white crane, swan, and owl. It is also composed of five fires: fire in the air, fire in stone, fire in wood, samadhi fire, and human fire. It is extremely powerful and can summon five kinds of flames with a single fan. Ordinary immortals would die if they touched it.
Xuanbao was thinking that since he had so many resources, he would definitely need to refine pills and weapons in the future. The Five Fires and Seven Birds Fan was a top-grade fire-type magic weapon, which would be excellent for refining pills and weapons, and it was comparable to his grandmaster's banana leaf fan.
Next, Xuanbao, shift your gaze from the spiritual treasures and look at the spiritual roots to the side. There aren't many spiritual roots in this cave, only five: a mid-grade innate spiritual root, Dragon Scale Fruit, a mid-grade innate spiritual root, Green Spirit Fruit, and the other three are just ordinary low-grade innate spiritual roots, which Xuanbao ignored.
The Dragon Scale Fruit produces 48 fruits every 6 years. Eating it can rapidly increase physical strength, making it a supreme treasure for body-refining cultivators.
The Qingling Fruit is quite special; after consuming it, one can achieve a clear mind and be free from inner demons. It is also a good innate spiritual root.
Besides that, the most abundant items were innate treasures, which could only be described as mountains. During his several treasure hunts, he had mostly acquired these innate treasures. If used for refining artifacts, he could refine tens of thousands of acquired spiritual treasures. However, he still had tens of thousands of underlings who were unarmed and would be at a disadvantage in group fights. He needed to find a way to arm his underlings to accumulate strength for his future plundering and robbery.
However, Xuanbao's most important task now is to break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. He has only been in human form for a little over 1 years, and he has already gone from the initial stage of Golden Immortal to the point of breaking through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. His cultivation speed is comparable to that of a rocket. There is no way around it. Even if he doesn't cultivate now, it is equivalent to more than 700 innate saints cultivating. As long as he is given time to fully comprehend a law, becoming a Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal (compared to a Heavenly Dao Saint) will be a natural outcome.
He instructed the three elders to take the rest of his men to the small world outside and collect all the bodies of the three dead races. These were all excellent materials for refining weapons, especially the three corpses at the Hunyuan level, which could be used to refine several top-grade acquired spiritual treasures.
Xuanbao was ready; he was going into seclusion to attempt to break through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. He sat cross-legged in the core of the blessed land. Xuanbao's realm had long since reached the state of Hunyuan Yiyi, and after 3000 years, he had comprehended more than 300 laws. His strongest sword law had reached the sixth and a half level, which was already at the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. He only needed to comprehend 10 levels of laws to reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal perfection, and then begin to control the laws. Controlling one level of law was equivalent to breaking through to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm.
With a snap, Xuanbao easily broke through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, and the three flowers of Heaven, Earth, and Man above his head bloomed directly.
The grades of the Heaven, Earth, and Man flowers continuously increase from "Grade 7" to "Grade 8". Xuanbao, you can feel the power within your body growing at an incredible speed. Until the grade of the three flowers reaches Grade 10, the speed of advancement also slows down significantly. It is estimated that at this speed, it will be difficult for the grade of the three flowers to break through to Grade 11.
"In the end, it's still a bit short." It was within Xuanbao's expectations that he couldn't directly break through to the 12th grade Three Flowers. If he could spend another 1 years, he would probably be able to easily reach the 12th grade Dao Flower.
However, plans can't keep up with changes. Now he has nine Yellow Plums, all from the first batch, which is more than enough to help him break through to the 12th grade Dao Flower. It can shorten his cultivation by ten thousand years. As the saying goes, time is life, and time is money.
Xuanbao took out a Huangzhong Li and ate it in one bite. It melted in his mouth, and a surge of powerful and pure energy exploded within him. Xuanbao circulated his cultivation technique, frantically absorbing this energy to nourish his Three Flowers. The tenth-grade Heaven, Earth, and Man Three Flowers shone brightly, their petals slowly unfurling, and their grade began to climb towards the eleventh grade.
However, just after Sanhua broke through to the eleventh grade, Sanhua's advancement speed became extremely slow, and breaking through to the twelfth grade was simply hopeless.
With the second and third Yellow Plums gone, Xuanbao's aura grew stronger and stronger, and the three flowers shone brightly. Finally, he broke through the barrier and successfully advanced to the twelfth rank.
Xuanbao used a total of five Yellow Plums to successfully break through the 12th grade of the Three Flowers, and his realm also reached the peak of the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal. If Xuanbao had not suppressed it with all his might, fearing that the breakthrough would be too fast and the foundation would be unstable, his realm would probably have reached the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal.
Feeling the power of the breakthrough, Xuanbao felt he could slap his pre-breakthrough self to death. He had successfully transformed from a "3-second true man" to a "3-minute true man." *Ahem*, there were changes, and Xuanbao's urge to connect himself to several external power banks grew even stronger.