Chapter 8: Traveling Through the Vast Expanse

  "Rumble, rumble", a loud noise shook the square and round hundred miles, the peak of the million-foot mountain where Yang Le lived in the cave was slightly shaking, and the loose rocks and soil were rolling down.

  At this time, Yang Le Hua transformed into the true body of Hong Wu of the Wu tribe, in a huge pit at the foot of the mountain, relying on the divine law of Wu Tian Sheng that possessed its own attributes, manipulating the unique domain formed by the heavenly spirit energy corresponding to its own attributes between heaven and earth - the battlefield. In the battlefield with a diameter of 100,000 zhang, countless gravel-like particles flickered in dazzling purple-gold colors, large or small, dense or sparse.

  Yang Le relied on his ability to manipulate the golden spiritual energy between heaven and earth, following the direction of his intuition, he punched the mountain wall again. "Boom", rocks splashed everywhere, countless boulders fell down, among the gaps of these boulders, more than ten pieces of innate golden jade emitted a fascinating purple-gold color.

  Yang Le opened his palm and swept it towards the innate Geng Jin, and instantly, those innate Geng Jin disappeared. This is Yang Le's cultivation of the second layer of "Kai Tian Pi Di Jue", Ao Tian's divine ability, Palm of Qian Kun!

  This divine ability is to have an infinite static space in the palm of one's hand, where living beings or dead objects, once absorbed, will fall into a deep sleep. In this static space, the passage of time will not affect the creatures or objects inside.

  There was also a third layer of the Heaven-supporting Divine Ability, which was the Three Flavors True Fire. During this period, Yang Le often sneaked into the endless ancient forest to hunt some desolate beasts, and with a flicker of the Three Flavors True Fire, he could roast an entire beast in one go.

  Occasionally encountering some desolate alien species, they would be used for practice, and the witch tribe's combat techniques became more proficient. If it was a gold-attribute desolate alien species, sorry to say, even if it was one level higher than Yang Le in terms of strength, it would still be difficult to deal with Yang Le. To know that in the Desolate Era, the gap between strengths is like heaven and earth. Of course, for spiritual treasures above a certain level, they don't need the user to consume spiritual energy at all - Spiritual Treasures naturally have spirit, and will automatically absorb energy from the heavens and earth to fight or repair injuries.

  So, as long as you have a spiritual treasure above the law, it's like having a master with you at all times, although this master is operated by you and is somewhat stiff, with much reduced power.

  Yang Le dug at the foot of the mountain for half a month, and the entire Xiantian Gengjin Mine had been mined by Yang Le to about 70-80%. Only a few scattered blocks were buried too deep and distributed too sparsely, so he stopped.

  A young man stood at the top of a towering peak, wearing a snow-white Hanfu made of millennium ice silkworm silk and long boots forged from pre-heavenly golden steel. His long hair fell to his shoulders, with eyes as deep as the universe, fair skin, and arms wrapped around an ice silkworm - this was Yang Le, who had just begun his journey through the vast wilderness!

  Suddenly, Yang Le's actions in the next moment ruined the atmosphere of just now.

  Yang Le's mind moved, and Pango was already sucked into the palm of his hand. With a flash of lightning, he shot forward to the waist of a giant peak, landed on the mountain waist, and immediately opened up a lush weeds, revealing a small grass-like plant with a crystal-like jade color, surrounded by a snake-like green smoke.

  "Green Dragon Spits Pearl", Yang Le exclaimed. Originally thought it was ordinary Wanzai Snake Tongue Grass, or even higher years, did not expect it to be a heavenly spiritual object. It is said that in this world there is a kind of heavenly spiritual object that seems to be both living and spiritual medicine. This heavenly spiritual object is born randomly, any kind of spiritual root, spiritual medicine under extremely harsh conditions with the heavens and earth interacting, giving birth to tiger-shaped, snake-shaped, crane-shaped and other non-intelligent beast shapes. No matter what kind of alchemy, as long as the heavenly spiritual object is added as an auxiliary material, it will be 100% successful. Because the beast shape in the heavenly spiritual object will automatically refine itself, without the need for the alchemist to operate.

  The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object also has a counter-heavenly effect, which is that when the divine person becomes pregnant, they can tap into the beast shape on the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object and infuse it into the fetus. This allows the child to be born with a physique and potential comparable to that of a pre-heavenly divine being, making their future prospects boundless.

  With a flick of his wrist, the "Qinglong Tuzhu" heavenly treasure was sucked into his palm. Yang Le's heart was filled with boundless joy - the Desolate Expanse truly was rich in resources!

  Yang Le couldn't help but feel delighted. The four levels of the Hongyuan spiritual roots were divided into Heaven, Earth, Xuan, and Huang. Only heavenly spiritual objects could be classified as Heaven-level, comparable to pre-heavenly spiritual roots. Of course, they could only be compared to low-grade heaven-level spiritual roots, without the various wonders and sustainable uses of pre-heavenly spiritual roots.

  All the way, every time I was admiring the majestic mountains, rivers, emerald pools, weeping willows and ancient pines of the vast wilderness, and my poetic inspiration was bursting forth in songs of praise, suddenly there would be loud shouts and cries, leaving behind holes and pits everywhere. As for the fat one, he ignored all this, and snuggled into the palm of his hand, sound asleep, while Yang Le was busy accumulating wealth and fortune for a happy and prosperous future life.

  However, Yang Le's diligence was greatly rewarded. The most precious reward was the Heaven-grade congenital spiritual root - Purple Grapevine, which blooms once every 120,000 years, bears fruit once every 120,000 years, and takes another 120,000 years to mature. Eating one grape can help cultivators below the Extreme Immortal realm break through their bottlenecks. Even if an old man who cannot cultivate the truth takes one, he can regain his vitality and embark on the path of immortality.

  Also, the 9th-grade Fire Lotus collected from the magma at the bottom of the 100,000-zhang volcano, which absorbs the terrestrial fire essence and the fire essence of the terrestrial veins for billions of years, can emit the Southern Ming Li Huo comparable to the true fire of the sun.

  In a water curtain cave, there is a five-element tree guarded by a spiritual beast. The tree has five branches and bears fruit of five colors: red, gold, blue, yellow, and green. It takes 100,000 years for the tree to bear fruit, and each branch bears one fruit. If you eat a fruit with a certain attribute, it will increase your own attribute. Before a child is born, their mother can eat any of the five fruits, and after birth, the child will have a congenital body. For example, if the mother eats the earth-attribute fruit, the child will be born with a congenital earth-body. If all five fruits are eaten, one can shed their mortal shell and possess a congenital five-element body.

  Of course, in this vast and abundant primordial spiritual energy, the Five Elemental Fruits Trees do not wither, however if the primordial spiritual energy transforms into postnatal spiritual energy, it will be difficult for the Five Elemental Fruits to bear fruit again.

  This is the important distinction between innate spiritual roots and acquired spiritual roots. Innate spiritual roots can absorb all kinds of energy to grow, and can even convert energy into innate spiritual energy. Although the efficiency and time required for this conversion are very slow, in the current era of abundant innate spiritual energy in the Primordial Chaos, this function is somewhat useless in the eyes of other gods and demons. However, when Yang Le learned about the evolution of the Primordial Chaos, this function of innate spiritual roots became extremely important, as it will be the source of energy for future caves. The reason why innate spiritual roots and innate spiritual treasures can suppress the flow of air is precisely because they can convert innate spiritual energy, bringing blessings to later generations.

  As a great divine cultivator, a cave without innate spiritual energy is embarrassing to claim as being from the Primordial Chaos.

  Later, Yang Le used force to knock out the Ink Xuan Turtle with only heavenly strength and put it together with the Five Elements Fruit Tree into his palm universe. It's really a double harvest of spiritual roots and spiritual beasts.

  Relying on the Wu tribe's secret techniques and War Witch's keen combat intuition, Yang Le managed to avoid areas emitting terrifying auras while traveling through the Desolate Expanse.

  It can be said that in the vast wilderness, yellow-grade spiritual roots and herbs are carefully searched for, and can be seen everywhere, such as thousand-year-old lingzhi, ginseng, and tremella. Xuan-grade ones can be found with careful searching, and there will always be one or two within a radius of ten thousand miles. As for those above the earth grade, they cannot be found just by working hard, it's all about luck, otherwise, even if you search through tens of thousands of miles, you might pass by without realizing it.

  Yang Le's harvest was quite rich, including a top-grade pre-heavenly spiritual root of the purple grape vine, a mid-grade heavenly spiritual object "Qinglong Tuzhu", an upper-grade nine-petaled fire lotus, five-element fruit trees and over ten stalks of earthly spiritual roots and herbs, several hundred stalks of mysterious grade, and all the yellow-grade ones that were missing.

  Yang Le traveled to a canyon that day, violently smashing open a cave with his bare hands and sealing the entrance with boulders. He sat cross-legged on the ground, taking out several pieces of pre-heavenly Gangjin from his palm-sized universe. He grasped them in his hand and activated the "Opening Heaven and Earth" technique. Streams of extremely pure pre-heavenly Gangjin energy flowed into his body from his hands, following the mysterious trajectory of the meridians. As it passed through, the pre-heavenly Gangjin energy merged with the surrounding flesh, bones, and internal organs, tempering Yang Le's physique. The shallow golden color of his skeletal system was gradually deepening, emitting a more intense golden aura. His purple blood seemed even more profound and mysterious, while his muscles were like steel cables twisted together, giving off an aura of terrifying power.

  This is over a hundred years since Yang Le first entered the vast wilderness, and his journey of traveling and gathering medicinal herbs has been slow and laborious. Every time he arrives at a new place, Yang Le uses the pre-heavenly golden essence to temper his body, and his cultivation speed is also extremely fast, already reaching the peak of the Hong Wu realm, only one step away from the Zhou Wu realm.

  In the Pangu world, during the Wuyao period, most of the innate spiritual roots and innate spiritual treasures had already been claimed. The number of innate materials was also extremely limited, having been swept up by the great gods who existed at the beginning of heaven and earth. Even more so after experiencing the Dragon Han Sanzu's struggle for hegemony, the twelve ancestral witches were born early, collecting many innate materials and others. However, they couldn't withstand the large number of subordinates under their command, and there weren't enough to go around.

  Therefore, during the Wuyao period, the witch tribe relied on its own combat cultivation. In that era, even a genius with unparalleled talent would take hundreds of years to cultivate from the wild level to the Hong level, several thousand years to cultivate from the Hong level to the Zhou level, and tens of thousands of years to cultivate to the Yu level. However, cultivating to the great witch level was not something that could be made up for by time; it was a fundamental difference.

  Cultivating to the great witch level meant having a lifespan equal to that of heaven, with an indestructible physical body. Without reaching the great witch level, one would ultimately return to dust after tens of thousands or millions of years.

  Yang Le's cultivation progress was naturally rapid with the top-grade Xiantian Gengjin material that matched his attributes, and it was only a matter of time before he reached Yuwu. Although there was also Xiantian Gengjin energy in the world, it was too thin and cultivating it would be very slow.