10: Aoki no Oto

"Is it really here?" Qing Wu couldn't help but ask.

Yuan Feng also frowned in thought, finding it somewhat hard to believe.

But her memory wouldn't lie to her; this was indeed the place where she had once found the Nanli Tree.

"It's here, there's no mistake."

However, she indeed found it a bit hard to believe as well.

In her memory, the last time she came, the mountain was still lush and vibrant, showing a scene full of vitality.

Yet now, what appeared before her eyes was a bare mountain peak.

The Spiritual Qi on the mountain had also thinned out considerably, vastly different from her memory.

After all, it was guarded by a High Grade Innate Spiritual Root, and it wasn't as if the earth veins had been blown up; why would it be so barren?

For some reason, Qing Wu thought of Mount Sumeru in the west.

After Luo Hou detonated the earth veins, it should be even more unbearable than this current scene.

"Something must have happened to the Nanli Tree."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Feng couldn't help but widen her eyes. "How is that possible?"

As a High Grade Innate Spiritual Root, the Nanli Tree was protected by an Innate Restriction array.

Unless one was a fated person guided by the Qi, it would be very difficult for others to break through the array's blockade and obtain this Spiritual Root.

One's own strength reaching the standard was only one aspect; just breaking the array would take at least tens of thousands of years.

With that time, it would be better to go elsewhere to find some Opportunities suitable for oneself.

After all, in the current Primordial Land, the thing least lacking was treasures.

Qing Wu chuckled. "Innate Spiritual Roots also have their own emotions."

"Emotions?" Yuan Feng was puzzled.

She knew that living beings with intelligence would produce emotions.

However, for a Spiritual Root, let alone intelligence, even a wisp of spiritual consciousness was incomplete.

Could it also be swayed by emotions?

"Exactly."

"It is fated with you, yet after you took what you wanted from it, you just left it here carelessly. No wonder it's throwing a tantrum."

"This is what caused the vitality here to wither," Qing Wu smiled.

As an Innate Spiritual Root who had taken human form, Qing Wu could best empathize with the hardships of these Spiritual Roots.

Unable to move, they can only take root in the Primordial Land, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to flower and bear fruit.

All they seek is to be seen by those who are fated.

Yet Yuan Feng had clearly found it, but turned a blind eye to it; this was a denial of that Karma.

When Karma is shattered, there will naturally be a corresponding backlash to bear.

This is the path of Karma.

Yuan Feng listened with partial understanding, yet she also felt it made quite a bit of sense.

Walking up a mountain peak, they happened to find the slightly dejected-looking Nanli Tree.

Sure enough, its current state was very poor.

The surrounding aura of vitality was listless, and all the leaves were drooping, ready to fall at any moment.

"A perfectly good High Grade Innate Spiritual Root actually turned into this!"

While sighing, Qing Wu took out some three lights divine water and dropped a few drops onto the roots of the Nanli Tree.

He tried to see if he could revive it this way.

As the three lights divine water gradually seeped down and was absorbed by the Nanli Tree,

The latter quickly had a reaction.

The surrounding aura of vitality began to thicken, and the entire tree became jubilant, constantly making a "rustling" sound to respond to Qing Wu.

Next, Qing Wu began to use the Qingmu Sound, attempting to communicate with the Nanli Wood through Divine Thought.

His main purpose in doing this was to look at the fragments of spiritual consciousness within the Nanli Wood to verify his future Dao.

Through the many Spiritual Plants he had communicated with before, he had already discovered something.

Among these Spiritual Plants, although complete intelligence had not been born, they each had their own path.

In other words, the main reason constraining these Innate Spiritual Roots from taking form was the lack of complete intelligence.

If he could find an Innate Spiritual Root that had born complete intelligence, Qing Wu might try to Cultivate it to see if he could help it take form.

Regrettably, within the Nanli Wood were only some fine fragments of spiritual consciousness; no complete intelligence had ever been born.

However, the Qingmu Great Dao within it could be used by Qing Wu for comprehension to perfect what he needed for himself.

The Qingmu Great Dao is one of the five Innate Five Elements Great Daos of the Primordial Land, symbolizing the supreme Law of the growth of all things and the cycle of flourishing and withering.

It governs vitality, purification, and binding.

In every Innate Spiritual Root, and even in any random Spiritual Plant, there is more or less the Law of the Qingmu Great Dao contained within.

But in different individuals, this Law has different forms of expression.

Qing Wu wanted to use these different forms of expression to continuously perfect the Qingmu Great Dao that belonged to him.

Through thousands of years of comprehension, Qing Wu had completed his communication with the Nanli Tree.

The moment his Divine Thought withdrew, the entire tree trunk trembled for an instant.

Qing Wu couldn't help but smile. "Don't worry, I won't leave you behind this time."

It was a High Grade Innate Spiritual Root after all.

If it were discovered by other beings, they would all have a fight over it.

Only a child of Luck like Yuan Feng, who was favored by great Luck, would not take it seriously and discard it at will.

After putting away the Nanli Tree, he turned around and called to Yuan Feng, who was Cultivating.

"It's time for us to go."

This little girl was quite well-behaved; while Qing Wu was seriously communicating with the Nanli Tree, she had been Cultivating nearby.

Yuan Feng slowly opened her eyes, her beautiful eyes containing a faint fiery red.

"Where are we going next?"

"To find a Top Grade Innate Spirit Treasure."

Speaking of treasures, Yuan Feng's eyes immediately lit up.

"Really!"

Although Yuan Feng had great Luck and would not lack treasures,

A Top Grade Innate Spirit Treasure was not something easily obtained.

Innate Spirit Treasures were limited in number.

Especially Top Grade Innate Spirit Treasures, which were all about fate.

If the fate hasn't arrived, no matter how you search, you won't find it.

Aside from her companion divine phoenix plume, Yuan Feng had yet to find a treasure of this grade.

So when Yuan Feng heard that Qing Wu could find a Top Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, her money-grubbing heart was instantly hooked.

Qing Wu was full of smiles. "Just follow me; this treasure should be fated with us."

Fate, besides being predetermined by heaven, is also about the meeting.

As the saying goes, to meet is to be fated.

This was also the reason why those beings of the Primordial Land all wanted to travel everywhere.

Through one's own Luck, one connects with the Qi emitted by those treasures hidden in various parts of the Primordial Land.

When fate comes, the treasure comes.

Furthermore, this kind of fate also has a certain periodicity.

It's possible that when you encounter a treasure this time, it's in a 'do not disturb' state.

By restraining its own Qi emission, it achieves isolation from the world.

And the next time you encounter it, the treasure is in an open Qi cycle and is just discovered.

This is also why some treasures do not appear until a specific time... After traveling south for tens of thousands of years, aside from some low-grade Spirit Treasures and spiritual items,

There were no noteworthy harvests along the way.

Yuan Feng couldn't help but get a little impatient. "Wutong, are you sure there's a Top Grade Innate Spirit Treasure here?"

After being together for a long time, Yuan Feng was already certain that her own Luck was higher than Qing Wu's.

This could be seen from the fact that after she came out, she found more treasures than Qing Wu—much more, in fact.

When a Top Grade Innate Spirit Treasure appears, the Qi it emits is bound to be very extensive.

And even she, with the addition of great Luck, did not feel such a treasure ahead.

She couldn't help but start to doubt Qing Wu's judgment.

To this, Qing Wu didn't offer much explanation, simply insisting that she follow him.

Sure enough, before long, Yuan Feng felt a resonance; a treasure ahead was about to appear.