Primordial Era: Starting with the repair of Penglai Immortal Island

Huang Long stood up and looked at the thriving cave dwelling that Zi Ling and her swarm of purple jade bees had taken care of, and couldn't help but smile.

He turned to look at Zi Ling, whom he had captured to do hard labor. She was a rare housekeeper and assistant who could brew spiritual honey to nourish the body. However, her cultivation level was still too low, and the spiritual honey she brewed had little effect on him, a Golden Immortal. But it was still a good resource for him.

Huang Long pondered for a moment, then took out a tea leaf from his sleeve. It was produced by the Acquired Spiritual Root Enlightenment Tea Tree in the courtyard.

"Ziling, you have made an invaluable contribution by leading your clan to manage this cave dwelling in such an orderly manner."

"This Enlightenment Tea is bestowed upon you, in the hope that you will soon break through the bottleneck of the Celestial Immortal realm."

Huang Long handed over the emerald green tea leaf in his hand.

Zi Ling was taken aback at first. She was very familiar with that leaf. After all, there was a tea tree in Huanglong Courtyard, and she had long been craving the taste of Wudao tea.

Unfortunately, that tea tree only produces one tea leaf every few years, so the total output is limited and not even enough for Huanglong to consume.

Zi Ling could only cultivate by smelling the fragrance of the Enlightenment Tea in the other courtyard when Huang Long was away, which is why her cultivation progressed rapidly.

Now that she had received a single tea leaf, Zi Ling trembled with excitement, her pretty face beaming with joy: "Thank you, Master!"

Zi Ling then carefully reached out her hands and took the Enlightenment Tea from Huang Long's hands. The tea was warm and smooth to the touch, and the Daoist charm flowed naturally within it. The familiar fragrance made her heart leap with joy.

"Cultivate diligently. When your cultivation improves and you can brew even better spiritual honey, I will reward you!"

Huang Long gently encouraged Zi Ling.

Hearing Huang Long's encouraging words, Zi Ling said loudly, "Master, Zi Ling will definitely work hard in her cultivation and will be able to brew even better spiritual honey."

Huanglong strolled through the void to the center of the cave, looking down at his vibrant dojo, whose spiritual energy was no less than that of his senior brother Antarctic Jade Pillar Cave.

With a calm and focused mind, he formed hand seals, circulating his entire body's magical power, and his primordial spirit connected with the water element and the laws of life between heaven and earth.

In an instant, within the Five Elements Cave Heaven, the sky, spanning a thousand miles, gradually gathered a faint bluish-white cloud, which coalesced into clusters of dark clouds full of vitality and spirituality.

As dark clouds gathered, they gradually enveloped the entire cave.

"Drizzling sound—"

Each raindrop, imbued with the pure power of creation and life, silently drifted down from the clouds, forming rain threads that shimmered with a faint blue light. The numerous spiritual roots and immortal plants in the grotto swayed their branches and leaves, greedily absorbing the spiritual rain falling from the sky.

Under Huanglong's special care, key locations such as the Blood Jujube Garden, Lotus Pond, Enlightenment Peak, and Spirit Medicine Peak received the most and longest-lasting rain.

While maintaining the use of his supernatural powers, Huanglong also comprehended the profound laws governing them.

This life-giving rain, brimming with the vitality of creation, continued to fall for several days.

When all the spiritual roots and plants within the cave had accumulated a massive amount of life energy and could no longer absorb a single drop of sweet rain, Huanglong finally withdrew his supernatural powers.

After this wave of nourishing rain, each medicinal herb will grow rapidly for a long time to come, containing several times more spiritual energy and medicinal properties than those of medicinal herbs that grow naturally in the wild.

The supernatural powers subsided, the sweet rain ceased, the clouds dispersed, and a great sun rose. A wisp of purple energy followed the rising sun and landed on the Spirit Medicine Peak. Each spirit medicine plant faced the rising sun and inhaled and exhaled that wisp of purple energy. Among them, several spirit medicine plants absorbed far more purple energy than the other spirit medicine plants.

Huang Long left a mark on each of the medicinal herbs so that he could immediately detect any changes.

Huang Long flashed back to his courtyard on Wudao Peak. Although the matter of the cave dwelling was over, there was something more important waiting for him.

Sitting cross-legged on a futon under the tea tree, with a thought, the Xuanhuang World Pearl slowly floated out of his body, spinning around.

Previously, three teachers were giving a lecture on the Great Way at Sanqing Peak in Kunlun Mountain when golden flowers fell from the sky.

As a disciple who was present to listen to the teachings, Huanglong obtained many Heavenly Flower Golden Lotuses. At that time, he could not absorb and refine some of them himself. Adhering to the principle of not wasting them, he fused those parts into the Xuanhuang World Pearl to nourish and enhance the origin of this spiritual treasure.

At this moment, he probed the Xuanhuang Realm with his divine sense to investigate the changes within it.

The moment Huanglong's consciousness entered, he was taken aback.

At the core of the Xuanhuang Realm, in that chaotic region that carries the origin and laws of the world, another one suddenly emerged next to the thirteen clearly visible innate restrictions!

The area of ​​the Xuanhuang Realm has expanded by a full tenth!

The mountains became even higher, the plains even more expansive, and the earth's veins beneath the ground even more robust.

Within the Xuanhuang Realm, with the five innate five-element spiritual veins as the main trunk, dozens of smaller innate spiritual veins have also spawned, spreading throughout the Xuanhuang Realm, making the circulation of spiritual energy in the world smoother and the laws more perfect.

The two acquired spiritual roots transplanted into this world—the Enlightenment Tea Tree and the Crimson Blood Jujube Tree—have completely merged with this world, becoming the supporting spiritual roots of the Xuanhuang Realm.

These two acquired spiritual roots benefited from the enhancement of the world's origin. At this moment, their bodies were filled with flowing light and dense Dao patterns. The aura they emitted had already reached the limit of the middle-grade acquired spiritual roots. They were only one step away from breaking through the shackles and advancing to the upper-grade acquired spiritual roots!

The ninth-grade Pure White Lotus remained unchanged.

"Good! Good! Good!"

Sensing the changes in the Xuanhuang Realm, Huanglong exclaimed "Good!" three times, his joy barely contained.

The more this magical artifact recovers, the stronger he becomes.

He entered the Xuanhuang Realm and, following the same method, cast the Sweet Rain Technique once again in the sky of this realm.

With the pouring of vast magical power, a continuous rain fell over the Xuanhuang Realm for several days. The life-giving energy contained within merged with the earth, nourishing all things and accelerating the stabilization of the newly generated spiritual veins and the growth of the world's origin.

Huanglong also clearly felt that his refinement of the Xuanhuang World Pearl had progressed further, and he was able to control it more and more easily, as if it were an extension of his own arm.

Having arranged everything in the Five Elements Grotto Heaven and the Xuanhuang Realm, the mental and physical exhaustion caused by receiving the inheritance has been completely recovered.

There are still several hundred years before the three masters preach the great path of sages to all living beings in Kunlun. Huanglong plans to take this opportunity to cultivate the art of weapon crafting.

After everything was ready, Huanglong opened up a temporary weapon-refining cave on Blood Date Peak. There was a primordial fire spirit vein here, which would make weapon refining twice as effective.

He sat quietly in the cave, and with a wave of his sleeve, the open space in front of him was instantly filled with precious light, and materials piled up like a small mountain.

Among them are various kinds of innate spiritual jade that are lustrous and translucent and contain spiritual light, spiritual iron that shimmers with metallic luster and is extremely heavy, and a few spiritual woods that have been nourished by spiritual energy for ten thousand years. These are all spiritual materials that he has accumulated over many years of travel and collected from Kunlun Mountain.

Huang Long's gaze swept over these ordinary materials. He took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and a cluster of Jade Purity True Fire, condensed to its extreme, flickered at his fingertips. The surrounding temperature suddenly rose, and the air distorted slightly.

His mind was still immersed in the complex art of weapon crafting, with numerous methods of refining spiritual energy and the mysteries of spiritual treasure restrictions flowing through his primordial spirit like a revolving lantern.