Guan Kong put away the Innate Fire Spirit Pearl, and then looked towards the collapsed cliff. He saw a small section of dry tree trunk protruding from the pile of rocks.
The tree trunk looked ordinary, yet somehow it gave her a sense of something extraordinary.
She summoned a gust of wind that swept away the rocks, revealing the true form of the withered tree trunk.
This section of the tree trunk was about ten feet long and looked like it had died, but Guan Kong could still sense a trace of life in it.
She walked up to the tree trunk and circled it, calculating with her fingers, and in the blink of an eye, she understood the origin of the tree.
It turns out that this piece of withered wood originally belonged to a primordial spiritual root called Taiyi Immortal Jujube. It had already been created during the chaos, and its quality was no less than that of spiritual roots such as ginseng fruit or yellow plum.
However, it was clearly not very lucky.
Long ago, when Pangu separated heaven and earth, this immortal jujube tree suffered a calamity, struck by a ball of divine lightning that shattered it into pieces.
The other remnants of spiritual roots were reduced to ashes by the bombardment of divine lightning, leaving only this section of tree trunk to survive and fall into the primordial wilderness.
Fortunately, the innate spiritual root has always been full of vitality. This piece of tree trunk fell into the primordial world and was nourished by spiritual energy. The faint vitality hidden in the tree trunk was finally activated and evolved into a cluster of innate spiritual jujubes...
After observing the tree's roots and roots, Guan Kong examined the trunk with his divine sense and couldn't help but shake his head slightly.
Because it created that clump of spirit jujube trees, the original essence of creation within the withered wood was completely exhausted.
Even if there is still a glimmer of life in the tree trunk, it is already as fragile as a candle flame in the wind, about to fall.
Moreover, since the source of creation is gone, even if someone defies creation and stimulates this bit of vitality, it will probably be difficult for it to take root and sprout again.
Hu Le urged his mount to come to the piece of dead wood, glanced at it, and said, "Although this thing cannot be regenerated, its roots are still innate primordial spiritual roots."
It was also tempered by the divine lightning of creation, making it incredibly hard and possessing the power to subdue evil spirits and malevolent forces. It can be used to refine spiritual treasures.
You should put it away too.
"That's the only way."
Guan Kong nodded upon hearing this, and with a flick of his sleeve, he put away the piece of dead wood.
This time, she acquired three treasures, so her trip wasn't entirely in vain.
"Alright! All the wonders of this place are here. Now that you have obtained them all, there is no need to linger here any longer. Come with your master and leave."
"Here you are."
Guan Kong agreed, picked up the reins, and led the white ox away towards the outside of the cave.
Not long after, the master and disciple left the cave and returned to the foot of Zhou Mountain, where they bid each other farewell.
Guan Kong went straight to the ancestral temple of the human race and continued to oversee the human race on behalf of Hu Le.
Hu Le himself rode a white ox and flew towards the Heavenly Court.
After he returns, he will refine those eighteen golden dragons of fortune, and perhaps then he can perfect the cultivation of the Human Emperor Dao Fruit.
However, his method of forcibly ripening the Human Emperor Dao Fruit using luck is, in a sense, a crooked and evil practice.
A true Human Emperor's Dao Fruit should be used to properly develop the human race, establish unparalleled merits among humans, thereby accumulating fortune and gradually polishing the Human Emperor's Dao Fruit to perfection.
That's exactly what Jiu Tou Shi and Jin De Niang Niang did back then.
Now Hu Le is preparing to use the Golden Dragon of Luck to forcibly perfect his Dao Fruit. Although the Dao Fruit he condenses is no different from that of the Nine-Headed Clan, it is still very similar to that of the others.
However, because he devoured the golden dragon of fortune that should have belonged to humanity, what he did caused great harm to humanity itself.
Originally, with the assistance of these eighteen golden dragons of fortune, the human race would soon experience a period of great prosperity.
However, once he devours these golden dragons of fortune and condenses them into his own Human Emperor Dao Fruit, the day of the great prosperity of the human race will be delayed. Only when enough fortune is condensed again can the day of great prosperity be ushered in once more.
To rekindle the fortune of a golden dragon, assuming the human race develops smoothly, it would take approximately one epoch.
Once Hu Le devours the eighteen golden dragons of fortune, it is equivalent to taking away eighteen eons of time from the human race.
What kind of tremendous changes will occur in the prehistoric world during these eighteen epochs remains to be seen.
Whether the human race can continue to be the main force in the prehistoric world, or even flourish, remains to be seen.
In this long period of time, it's not impossible that some race might be favored by Heaven and replace humanity as the protagonist of the future prehistoric world...
Fortunately, Hu Le also knew that this situation was unlikely to occur.
After all, the Xuanmen, the Western lineage, and even the Demonic Path have all placed huge bets on the human race.
Even if the future human race doesn't want to be the protagonist, these three families are unlikely to agree.
Even if they force them, they will still push the human race to the position of the protagonist in the prehistoric world.
Who made the human race so favored by Heaven, and so easily manipulated by them...?
After returning to the Heavenly Court, Hu Le went directly to the Jade Pool Immortal Palace and then entered the Cosmic Light Map.
He sat atop the illusory river of time, took out the Kongtong Seal, and first used the Chaos Bell to isolate the secrets of heaven.
Only then did he hold the Kongtong Seal to his chest and forcibly pull out a golden dragon of fortune from within the seal.
Back then, Hongyun was neither the Human Emperor nor even a human. In order to refine the Golden Dragon of Fortune, he could only extract and refine it little by little. Otherwise, if he were greedy for success, he would inevitably be impacted by the fortune of humanity.
Hu Le was different. He directly pulled out the Golden Dragon of Fortune and punched it hard, scattering the Golden Dragon of Fortune into pieces. Before it could reassemble, he swallowed all the fragments in one gulp.
At the same time, he pushed up his hair ornament, and a cloud of auspicious clouds appeared above his head. A dragon aura of the Human Emperor flew out from behind his head, holding a Human Emperor Dao Fruit in its mouth, and hovered on the cloud of auspicious clouds, exuding an aura of supreme holiness.
Hu Le has not been the Human Emperor for very long, so although this Dao Fruit looks powerful, it still seems somewhat illusory and is actually far from perfect.
Fortunately, Hu Le has now devoured a golden dragon of fortune. As he refines that golden dragon of fortune, the Human Emperor Dao Fruit has visibly begun to solidify.
...
The primordial era.
Wanshoushan Wuzhuang Temple
The formation was still in operation at this time.
The Primordial Wuji Grand Array transformed into an earthen-yellow crystal pot, inverting the entire Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain in the middle.
Zhen Yuanzi was currently sitting at the center of the formation, with a ginseng fruit tree standing behind him.
The ginseng fruit tree was now hundreds of feet tall, surrounded by innate spiritual energy, with a swirling yellow cloud at its roots.
This yellow cloud, resembling both soil and sand, gathers and disperses unpredictably; it is the transformation of a mound of spiritual soil.
At this moment, Zhen Yuanzi was sitting cross-legged under the ginseng fruit tree, with a book of earth books on his lap, emitting a dazzling aura of immortal light.
At this moment, his face was ashen, his brows furrowed, as he inhaled and exhaled spiritual energy while occasionally looking up at the sky.
The demons outside have been besieging Longevity Mountain for several years and have never dispersed. It's truly unknown when this will end...
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