Hermit in the Mountains

The other innate-level treasures he possessed were mostly in the initial stages of recognizing their owners, and the innate restrictions had not yet been refined.

Refining a treasure into a natal spiritual treasure has an effect similar to refining an innate restriction, making it more flexible to use.

After Gu Changsheng successfully recognized the master, he drove the Innate Purple Qi Pearl to devour and refine the Innate Purple Qi Array.

The Primordial Purple Qi Array is a protective array derived from the surrounding spiritual energy nodes. It would be a waste not to absorb and refine it into the Primordial Purple Qi Pearl.

If such innate grand formations are forcibly broken, they will become incomplete formations and disappear from the world over time.

Therefore, he always focused on comprehension in order to preserve the innate grand formation intact.

If the formation is for protecting spiritual treasures, then let the spiritual treasures devour and refine it, inheriting the innate grand formation.

When a primordial spiritual treasure is enhanced by a primordial array, its power will be amplified.

If it is a guardian of innate spiritual roots, it is difficult to take it away. One can only comprehend the principles of the formation and replicate a simplified version of the formation later.

The Primordial Purple Qi Pearl devoured and refined the Primordial Grand Array, engraving it inside the spiritual treasure.

The surrounding space disappeared, and Gu Changsheng's figure returned to the mountain.

The innate purple energy pearl entered Gu Changsheng's body, and he transformed into a pale yellow light that broke through the ground.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of a blue figure in the grass on his right and called out softly, "Qingxuan, let's go."

As soon as he finished speaking, a pair of golden horns and a blue bull's head emerged from the bushes.

"master."

In the blink of an eye, the green ox appeared in front of Gu Changsheng.

Gu Changsheng floated onto the back of the blue ox and sat cross-legged. "How much time has passed?"

The green ox counted the days, knowing the time in his heart. "Reporting to Master, thirty days."

"Okay!" Gu Changsheng gestured, "Let's keep going."

After giving these instructions, he focused his mind inward, drawing upon a wisp of innate purple energy within the innate purple energy pearl to refine it.

Experience the differences between the initial purple aura of the rising sun and the innate purple aura.

The innate purple aura is essentially an upgraded version of the primordial purple aura, ranking among the innate qi.

The Qi of Heaven and Earth is divided into acquired and innate.

The spiritual energy in the world today belongs to the category of acquired spiritual energy.

The biggest difference between acquired and innate energy is that the former contains impurities, while the latter is free of impurities.

Gu Changsheng stopped refining after processing a wisp of innate purple energy.

There are only 365 strands of innate purple energy in the pearl, which shows how rare innate energy is.

He didn't waste it on purifying his own magical power, saving it for when he broke through to the Dao Fruit Realm.

After that, Gu Changsheng would release the Innate Purple Qi Pearl every day before sunrise to activate the Innate Purple Qi Array, expanding the capture range of the Primordial Yang Purple Qi and enhancing the absorption efficiency.

During this time, the Green Ox discovered a spiritual energy node.

Gu Changsheng did not take it, but instead assisted the Green Ox in refining it into the Heart-Guarding Bell, thus upgrading its spiritual treasure grade.

In the past, when the Green Ox took turns going out to search for treasures, it also collected a lot of innate and indestructible primordial energy, which it all refined into the Heart-Guarding Bell.

The Guardian Bell has already undergone a complete transformation and is now considered a primordial spiritual treasure embryo.

[The Innate Heart-Guarding Bell: An embryonic innate spiritual treasure containing the rudiments of nine innate restrictions, capable of isolating the invasion of inner demons, concealing heavenly secrets, and deducing cause and effect.]

The calming bell, Da Huang's natal magic weapon, also transformed into an embryonic innate spiritual treasure.

Gu Changsheng's guardian spirit pets and personal disciples are all people with long-lasting fortune, and they have all gained some innate and indestructible source energy when they went out.

Some of the spiritual energy nodes were found by them through their own abilities.

Some spiritual nodes are delivered to you automatically, and the karma of those with affinity is activated.

Everyone has a congenital spiritual treasure embryo, so they are very wealthy.

Over four months, Gu Changsheng and Qingniu traveled from east to west, traversing the nearly four million-kilometer-long Kunlun Mountains.

A man and an ox cultivate in seclusion at sunset, refine the purple energy of the rising sun at sunrise, and search for treasures during the day.

Day after day, they were either on the path of cultivation or on the path of treasure hunting.

With Gu Changsheng's cultivation level, he was somewhat exhausted after this treasure hunt.

On a cliff beside a pool at the westernmost edge of the Kunlun Mountains, Gu Changsheng carved out a cave to recover his exhausted mental energy.

He listened to the thunderous roar of the waterfall and admired the beautiful scenery outside the cave.

A low jade tea table was placed in front of him, and the spiritual water in the jade pot on the table was boiling and steaming.

'Gurgle gurgle—'

A blue ox was dozing off beside the tea table.

The jade pot of spiritual water boiled and floated up automatically. The boiled spiritual water was then poured into the teapot on the table.

The jade pot floated back to the stove, and the teapot on the table automatically floated up, its spout pointing at the jade cup next to it, pouring out mellow tea.

For a moment, the cave was filled with the aroma of tea.

Gu Changsheng enjoyed the waterfall and beautiful scenery while sipping tea, feeling quite content.

The dozing ox smelled the fragrant aroma, its big eyes snapped open, and it turned its head to look at the tea table.

Gu Changsheng held the jade cup in his left hand, turned it around, blew on it a few times, and took a sip of tea, which soothed his weary mind.

He felt as if he were in a peaceful and tranquil paradise.

He finished the tea in the jade cup in a few gulps, then poured himself a few more cups and drank them down in one go.

He only put down the jade teacup when it had no effect.

The first sip of the spiritual tea brewed from pure tea leaves is the most effective.

The tranquil tea leaves in the jade pot were sent by Gu Changsheng from the Longevity Cave Heaven through the virtual Myriad Realms.

The tea leaves are the first batch of tender leaves grown after the Qingjing tea tree was cultivarized, and its calming and concentration effects are even better.

While it cannot compare to the legendary Enlightenment Tea, it is still considered among the innate spiritual teas.

With more effort in nurturing, it is hoped that it can be promoted to the ranks of superior innate spiritual roots in the future.

The innate spiritual plants within the Longevity Cave Heaven are all expected to become top-grade spiritual roots in the future.

As for top-grade innate spiritual roots, it depends on fate, opportunity, and destiny.

Even Gu Changsheng himself couldn't guarantee that he could cultivate top-grade or even the highest-grade innate spiritual roots.

Firstly, it's too difficult, and secondly, it requires too many resources.

Unless absolutely necessary, Gu Changsheng would not invest a massive amount of resources to cultivate a top-grade innate spiritual root.

If a certain innate spiritual root is like the Pure White Lotus, with great potential and special characteristics, it can protect him.

He still has a weapon for cultivating the Dao that he has not yet successfully developed.

Upon hearing the mention of the artifact for destroying the Dao, Gu Changsheng had a thought, and a three-foot bronze law-breaking ruler appeared before him.

After half a year, I finally gathered forty-nine strands of innate, indestructible primordial energy.

The Law-Breaking Ruler itself contains the rudiments of nine innate restrictions, and only requires forty-three strands of innate, indestructible primordial energy to meet the requirements for advancing to an innate supreme treasure.

In addition to the withered and flourishing Gengjin sword, there are also seven strands of innate, indestructible primordial energy remaining, so he can be considered quite wealthy.

Having accumulated a considerable amount of merit from the three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man, he was fifty percent confident that he could push the Law-Breaking Ruler into the embryonic form of the innate treasure.

He suppressed the urge to raise the Law-Breaking Ruler; the timing wasn't right.

He gazed out of the cave and muttered to himself, "It's late August."

The time for the arrival of the spiritual tide is approaching.

Ten days is not enough time to complete the embryo culture of the innate treasure.

The magic ruler escaped into the body and was nurtured.

Gu Changsheng sat in the cave watching the clouds drift by, and three days later he set off to return to the mountain.

On the last day of August, the green ox carried Gu Changsheng to the sky above Mount Kurong, and the two of them flashed into the Changsheng Cave.

Inside the Yellow Wind Pavilion, Big Yellow's ears twitched, and it got up and trotted happily to the Hall of Longevity.

Da Huang stepped into the Hall of Longevity and saw a familiar figure. "Master, Master, you're back."

"Is there...?"

Gu Changsheng interrupted Da Huang and waved his hand, "Qingxuan, you should go back and rest too."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Changsheng disappeared from the front hall and appeared in the back hall.

The blue ox left the main hall with its head held high, as if it hadn't seen the big yellow dog, as if to say, "I don't know this dog, I'm afraid of losing face."

Coming to his senses, Da Huang shouted, "Old Niu, Old Niu, wait for me!"

In a flash, Big Yellow ran off with the Blue Ox.

Inside the inner hall, Gu Changsheng shook his head. Da Huang was becoming increasingly shameless, always coming up to him for gifts every time he returned from an outing.

Who knows how many treasures are hidden beneath his doghouse.