The Emergence of the Innate Four Elements Plantain Tree!

“All right.” Dijiang stowed away the Pangu Marrow in front of him and looked at his brothers and sisters. “With the marrow bestowed by Father God, the issue of our destroyed Innate Essence Souls will be easily solved. After we head down the mountain, we will go straight into secluded cultivation in Pangu Hall. We shall not leave until we cultivate our Essence Souls!”

“Good!”

“I've long wanted to know what it feels like to possess an Essence Soul.”

“Once we cultivate Essence Souls, let's see who dares call us mindless brutes!”

The Ancestral Witches were ecstatic.

They were already looking forward to how they would be once they had Essence Souls.

Xuanjian thought to himself.

“Brother Xuanjian, you've obtained Father God's Marrow as well. What do you plan to do next?”

Dijiang turned back to Xuanjian and asked.

Xuanjian pondered for a moment before saying, “I also need to go into secluded cultivation for a while to remedy my innate defects.”

“Excellent.”

Dijiang nodded, mimicking the speech mannerisms of Essence Soul cultivators before even cultivating an Essence Soul himself.

What was this?

Adapting in advance?

“Zhurong, haven't you forgotten something?”

Just then, Gonggong looked at Zhurong with a triumphant smirk, winking mockingly. “You said that if Brother Xuanjian's method worked, you would admit you're inferior to me, Gonggong. Otherwise, I would admit I'm inferior to you.”

“Now, what do you have to say?”

“You aren't thinking of backing out, are you?”

In his heart, Zhurong had been praying fervently that everyone would forget about this matter.

Yet things didn't go his way.

This fellow Gonggong... always brought up the one topic he wished to avoid.

“I... I certainly won't back out!” Zhurong gritted his teeth and declared, “I, Zhurong, am a man of my word! For the next yuanhui, I admit I am inferior to you. But after one yuanhui, we'll compete again to see who is stronger!”

“Isn't that just reneging?”

Gonggong refused to accept it.

How could he play it like that?

“There was no set timeframe back then! I've already admitted I'm inferior to you as agreed, so what more do you want?”

“Are you bloody asking for a beating?!”

The two clashed instantly, on the verge of fighting again.

Dijiang barked, “Enough! Both of you quiet down!”

“Hmph.”

“Hmph.”

Both snorted, unable to stand the sight of each other.

Dijiang said, “The top priority is to cultivate our Essence Souls as soon as possible. Everything else can wait. Understand?”

The eleven Ancestral Witches responded in unison, “Understood!”

The mountain search continued.

The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Xuanjian headed down the mountain together.

However, Xuanjian was still contemplating one thing: Since the Innate Gourd Vine has already emerged, where is the Innate Four Elements Plantain Tree? Has its time not yet arrived, or... did it already emerge before I was born?

Although Cao Cao had not yet been born, Xuanjian still felt like saying the old adage: speak of the devil and he shall appear.

Just as the thought crossed Xuanjian's mind, on the opposite side of Mount Zhou's middle section—at the mountainside—an innate restriction shattered with a loud boom! The four element forces of earth, water, fire, and wind erupted like a geyser. Ten thousand rays of four-colored auspicious light radiated outward, evolving into countless mystical visions. A phantom of a plantain tree with only four leaves manifested in the void, swaying gently in the wind as it shed rules of the Four Elements Dao.

“Is this... the other Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Root Brother Xuanjian mentioned?”

Houtu was the first among the Twelve Ancestral Witches to react.

“Let's go!”

Xuanming took the lead, shooting toward the location of the Innate Four Elements Plantain Tree with a speed no slower than Kunpeng's extreme speed.

“This time, no matter who comes, they can forget about snatching Brother Xuanjian's spiritual root from our hands!”

Xuanming's words voiced what was in the hearts of the other Ancestral Witches.

Whether it was the Sixth Revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art or the marrow bestowed by Father God, the root of these blessings lay with Xuanjian.

Xuanjian's favor toward the Ancestral Witches was as immense as the heavens.

Failing to keep all the innate gourds earlier had already left the Ancestral Witches feeling deeply guilty and troubled.

Now!

Whoever dared covet this innate spiritual root again!

They shouldn't blame the Ancestral Witches for flying into a rage!

“Sister Xuanming is right!”

“Charge!”

“When we get there, no matter who shows up, attack on sight and beat them to death!”

“Right! Beat them to death!”

The Twelve Ancestral Witches and Xuanjian rushed toward the Innate Four Elements Plantain Tree at their maximum speed.

The majestic, vast anomaly marking the emergence of the Innate Four Elements Plantain Tree spread in all directions with Mount Zhou at its center.

Many Innate Sacred Beings and Daluo Golden Immortals noticed it.

They all looked toward Mount Zhou. However, Mount Zhou was suppressed by Great God Pangu's Great Dao; relying merely on their Daluo Golden Immortal Essence Souls, observing the perimeter of Mount Zhou was the best they could do—they could not peer inside the mountain at all.

At the exact same time, five Innate Sacred Beings felt a sudden stroke of intuition and divine illumination, sensing that an opportunity closely tied to them had emerged. Tracing the threads of karma with their Daluo Essence Souls, they found the location... was right on Mount Zhou!

The main mountain range of Kunlun, East Kunlun.

Yuxu Palace, Bajing Palace, and Biyou Palace.

Within the three palaces, Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing opened their eyes simultaneously and turned their gazes toward Mount Zhou.

Yuanshi Tianzun said, “Another opportunity belonging to us has emerged.”

Tongtian asked his two elder brothers, “Shall we go?”

Taiqing Laozi pondered for a moment before shaking his head. “Forget it. The Ancestral Witches led the Wu tribe to search the mountain, likely with these two opportunities as their primary targets. We have each already obtained a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure embryo, so we should be content.

“If we go again, we risk infuriating the Ancestral Witches.

“If we get entangled with them, it will inevitably waste a great deal of time, which is disadvantageous to our cultivation.

“The top priority right now is to quickly attain the Dao and become Quasi-Saints.

“Brothers, you must break through to the Great Perfection of Daluo before the Dao Ancestor's next sermon. I have a hunch that the Dao Ancestor's next sermon will surely be related to the way of the Quasi-Saint!”

“Excellent.”

“We will listen to Eldest Brother.”

Hearing Taiqing Laozi's analysis, neither Yuanshi Tianzun nor Tongtian had any objections and readily agreed.

After all, it was merely a spiritual treasure.

How could it compare to attaining the Dao as a Quasi-Saint?

Having set their course, the Three Purities ignored the outside commotion, closing their eyes once more as their spirits roamed the Taixu, comprehending the Great Dao of heaven and earth.

...

Deep within the Netherworld Blood Sea.

Blood God Palace.

This was the sanctuary of the Innate Sacred Being—Ancestor Minghe.

When the Innate Four Elements Plantain Tree emerged, he was one of the five who experienced a stroke of intuition and divine illumination.

At this moment, Minghe was hesitating.

“That fellow named Xuanjian is not easy to deal with. He can directly withstand an Innate Treasure—even if he isn't a Quasi-Saint, he's close enough. Provoking him is hardly a wise move. But... out of the innate gourds, I didn't get a single one!”

“Should I go or not?”

Minghe reviewed his possessions.

The Twelve-Petaled Karmic Fire Red Lotus, a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

The two killer swords, Yuantu and Abi: when separated, two High-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures; when combined, one Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

The Northern Xuanyuan Water-Controlling Banner, one of the Innate Five-Element Banners, a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure.

Holding three Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, Minghe was definitely considered wealthy among all the Innate Sacred Beings.

“Forget it.”

Minghe shook his head. “Provoking a terrifying existence for an unknown opportunity is not worth it—not worth it at all.”

Minghe gave up.

...

The Western Lands.

This place was desolate and dead, devoid of living beings. Boundless Earthly Turbid Qi mixed with demon qi continuously raged across the realm, making the entire Western Lands resemble a dead zone bereft of life.

Only the region around Mount Xumi barely retained any vitality.

“Senior Brother! Another opportunity has emerged in the East!”

Zhunti snapped awake from his cultivation, looking at the frequent anomalies in the East. Wiping the drool from the corner of his mouth, he said, “Senior Brother, time waits for no one! Let's hurry and fight for the opportunity! If we're late, it will be snatched away by the eastern cultivators again!”

“Sigh.” Jieyin let out a long sigh, his face filled with sorrow and hardship, melancholy tears brimming in his eyes. “Junior Brother, can we truly compete with them?”

Zhunti replied, “How will we know if we don't try? Not a single one of the seven innate gourds belonged to us. We must get this emerging opportunity!”

“Alright.”

Jieyin nodded, wiping the corners of his eyes with his patched Daoist robe, his gaze turning resolute. “Then let's try!”

Using the travel method unique to Daluo Golden Immortals—traversing time and space—Zhunti and Jieyin arrived outside Mount Zhou in an instant.

“Someone actually dared to come?”

“Looking for a beating!”

“Kill them!”

“Ah~ I was wondering who it was. Turns out it's the two fellow Daoists from the West.”

The moment they landed, before Zhunti and Jieyin even had time to see what the opportunity was, four Ancestral Witches surrounded them completely.