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Chapter 90 The Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd (Please Subscribe)

Throughout the journey, the two remained somewhat silent because of Hongyun's matter.

At this moment, Zhen Yuanzi suddenly remembered something, his face showing regret, and he exclaimed, "Oh no!"

"Hmm?" Shangqing Daoist looked at Zhen Yuanzi with a puzzled expression, only to see Zhen Yuanzi's troubled face. He then asked, "Fellow Daoist, has something happened?"

Upon hearing Shangqing Daoist's question, Zhen Yuanzi shook his head and said somewhat helplessly, "I was so focused on reshaping Fellow Daoist Hongyun's physical body that I forgot about something important."

Shangqing Daoist was completely bewildered, not knowing what important matter Zhen Yuanzi was talking about!

"The Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd!" Zhen Yuanzi said with a wry smile, "When I arrived, I was busy saving Fellow Daoist Hongyun's remnant soul and then busy reshaping his physical body. Only now did I realize that Fellow Daoist Hongyun's Dao-attaining artifact, the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd, was missing."

"It's just a mere artifact for attaining enlightenment, fellow Daoist, no need to worry. When Fellow Daoist Hongyun once again reaches the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, we can refine another one at that time." Daoist Shangqing chuckled, clearly not taking the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd seriously.

Today, Shangqing Daoist's wealth is even greater than Zhen Yuanzi's, and he possesses numerous innate spiritual treasures.

Among them are some high-quality innate spiritual treasures that can be used as tools for attaining enlightenment.

As for the Dao-attaining artifact, it embodies the great Dao of a highly powerful being, and mastering it brings no regrets.

This time, Hongyun's foundation was destroyed and his cultivation was wiped out, which is almost equivalent to being reincarnated and starting over.

One needs to start cultivating one's Dao from scratch, laying a foundation for one's Dao, and in the future, one can spend hard work to refine another Dao-attaining artifact.

This is also the only way to reforge it into a magical artifact.

"This is a long story. Fellow Daoist, why don't you sit down and rest for a while in Wuzhuang Temple? We can discuss it in detail later!" Zhen Yuanzi was naturally not troubled by a mere Dao-attaining artifact.

Putting aside everything else, there is still a primordial gourd in the Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain that has not yet been picked. It can be completely refined into a magical artifact for attaining enlightenment.

However, the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd has special properties, unlike ordinary Dao-attaining magical artifacts.

When Zhen Yuanzi and Hongyun first met, Hongyun was unable to find suitable innate spiritual treasures and objects, which prevented him from refining a Dao-attaining artifact.

For hundreds of millions of years, until Buzhou Mountain encountered the Primordial Gourd Vine and obtained the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd as its master, it was finally able to refine a Dao-attaining magical artifact.

It is evident that the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd was extremely important to Hongyun, almost something that could only be found by chance.

Upon hearing this, the Taoist Shangqing did not pursue the matter further, and instead descended auspicious clouds at the Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain.

When Hongyun was in trouble, Zhen Yuanzi rushed over.

This led Qingfeng Mingyue and Peony Fairy to believe that Zhen Yuanzi was still in seclusion in the Chaos Spirit Spring.

Suddenly, Zhen Yuanzi and Shangqing Daoren descended on auspicious clouds, startling Qingfeng and Mingyue.

"Disciple greets Master and Shangqing True Man!" Qingfeng Mingyue and Peony Fairy hurriedly came out to greet them, bowing to Zhen Yuanzi and Shangqing Daoist.

"Eh!" Looking at the gentle breeze, bright moon, and the Peony Fairy before him, Daoist Shangqing suddenly let out a soft exclamation. He looked the Peony Fairy up and down and said in surprise, "The white peony has attained enlightenment!"

At this point, Daoist Shangqing turned to Zhen Yuanzi and asked, "Is it the ten-thousand-year-old white peony you picked on your journey to the southwest?"

Back then, Zhen Yuanzi, the Three Pure Ones, and the Eastern King Duke traveled to the southwest to search for Kunlun Mountain. Along the way, Zhen Yuanzi collected many spiritual roots and immortal herbs, including a ten-thousand-year-old white peony.

"Hehehe..." Upon hearing Shangqing Daoist's words, Zhen Yuanzi chuckled and teased, "I remember you once advised me not to pick this ten-thousand-year-old white peony!"

The conversation between Zhen Yuanzi and Shangqing Daoren left Peony Fairy completely bewildered, but Qingfeng Mingyue seemed to understand something, suppressing her laughter as her face turned bright red.

"Fellow Daoist, please don't tease this humble Daoist!" Shangqing Daoist gave a wry smile. Who would have thought that the white peony that had existed for ten thousand years would now take human form and stand before him, bowing in greeting?

"Haha!" Zhen Yuanzi couldn't help but laugh, waving his hand at Qingfeng Mingyue and Peony Fairy, saying, "Alright, you may all leave. I have something to discuss with Master Shangqing!"

"Yes!" Qingfeng Mingyue and Peony Fairy bowed and left.

"Please come to the orchard first, fellow Daoist!" Zhen Yuanzi pointed to the orchard in the backyard and invited Shangqing Daoist.

Shangqing Daoist understood Zhen Yuanzi's plan and nodded, following Zhen Yuanzi into the orchard.

"What a wonderful place where the innate Earth Qi gathers!" Daoist Shangqing exclaimed in admiration as he looked at the ginseng fruit tree and the rich innate Earth Qi before him.

"If I am not mistaken, Fellow Daoist intends to place Fellow Daoist Hongyun here, using the innate Earth Qi and the innate Wood Qi emanating from the Ginseng Fruit Tree to nourish Fellow Daoist Hongyun's soul," said Daoist Shangqing.

"This humble Taoist does indeed have such a plan." As he spoke, Zhen Yuanzi released the red cloud from the Innate Yin-Yang Divine Diagram, which then floated in mid-air.

Then, Zhen Yuanzi waved his sleeve, gathering the surrounding innate Wu Earth Qi and innate Jia Wood Qi into a yellow-green ball of light, which enveloped the red cloud and set up a restrictive formation.

This place is where Zhen Yuanzi took human form, and it also has ginseng fruit trees growing here, so it is naturally extraordinary.

It is just right to nurture Hongyun's soul.

"Please accept this, fellow Daoist!" At this moment, Zhen Yuanzi waved his sleeve again, sending out a golden divine light that landed on the ginseng fruit tree, knocking down fifteen ginseng fruits that floated down in front of Shangqing Daoist.

"Thank you, fellow Daoist!" Daoist Shangqing revealed a hint of joy and immediately took out a spiritual treasure to collect the fifteen ginseng fruits, intending to give them to his disciples for cultivation.

"It's just a few fruits, fellow Daoist, there's no need for such formality," Zhen Yuanzi chuckled.

The Taoist Shangqing has traveled thousands of miles to bring the Four Swords of Zhuxian; how can a mere few fruits compare to this?

"Oh, right!" Zhen Yuanzi suddenly remembered another innate spiritual root, the Fire Jujube, and said to Daoist Shangqing, "I have another innate Fire Jujube in my mountain. I'll have Peony pick some more for you later."

"Fellow Daoist, there's actually a primordial spiritual root!" Daoist Shangqing couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

The ginseng fruit tree, one of the ten innate spiritual roots of the primordial world, is already the envy of countless quasi-saints and great supernatural beings.

Unexpectedly, there was a primordial fire jujube in Zhen Yuanzi's Longevity Mountain.

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Even the Shangqing Daoists felt a pang of envy at this moment.

Despite the Taoist's supernatural abilities, let alone the innate fire dates, even ginseng fruit would be useless to him; at most, he could only taste one.

However, for the disciples, it was a first-class innate spiritual treasure.

Whether used to cultivate supernatural powers or to enhance one's Taoist cultivation and magical strength, it is of great use.

"This innate fire date is just an ordinary innate spiritual root, not particularly precious," Zhen Yuanzi explained with a smile.

Not to mention comparing it to the ginseng fruit tree, it is even inferior to Yun Zhongzi's innate immortal apricot.

However, the jujubes produced by this innate fire jujube tree are not only large and sweet, but also numerous, unlike the ginseng fruit tree which only produces thirty fruits over ten thousand years.

"Even if it's just an ordinary innate spiritual root, it must have something extraordinary about it." Daoist Shangqing shook his head.

In the primordial world, the number of innate spiritual roots is far less than that of innate spiritual treasures.

This shows how precious innate spiritual roots are.

Moreover, the innate fire date contains a trace of innate fire elemental spiritual energy, which is no less than a supreme treasure for cultivators who practice innate fire elemental Taoist techniques and supernatural powers.

Thinking of this, Daoist Shangqing suddenly looked puzzled and asked Zhen Yuanzi, "Fellow Daoist, you mentioned the Nine-Nine Soul-Scattering Gourd to me on the road just now. Is there perhaps some hidden story behind it?"

"There are indeed some hidden stories." Zhen Yuanzi shook his head and told Shangqing Daoist in detail about how he met Hongyun and searched everywhere for innate spiritual treasures and objects, as well as his plan to refine them into Dao artifacts.

After hearing Zhen Yuanzi's words, Shangqing Daoist frowned and said, "Innate spiritual treasures or innate spiritual objects related to the soul!"

"That does create some trouble."

If we're talking about acquired spiritual objects, they're rare but not hard to find. However, those that qualify as innate spiritual objects must be related to the soul and be of exceptional quality. They're probably one in ten thousand.

"However!" Shangqing Daoist changed his tone and continued, "I see that Fellow Daoist Hongyun's reconstructed physical body seems to contain a trace of innate Wu Earth Qi. In the future, he can switch to cultivating the Dao of Innate Wu Earth. Although this will be much more difficult, he can choose an innate spiritual treasure or innate spiritual object that contains the Dao of Innate Wu Earth and refine it into a Dao-attaining artifact."

The Taoist priest Shangqing offered a solution that was hardly a solution at all.

Hongyun's physical body was created using the Nine Heavens Breath Soil and the Three Lights Divine Water.

The Nine Heavens Breath Soil contains a trace of innate Wu Earth Qi, which will allow Hongyun to cultivate the Dao of Innate Wu Earth in the future.

However, the Dao of Innate Earth is different from the Dao that Hongyun used to possess. Compared to cultivating the Daoist scriptures he used to practice, it is obviously much more difficult to suddenly switch to cultivating the Dao of Innate Earth.

"Now we can only wait for Fellow Daoist Hongyun's soul to recover somewhat and he can regain his senses, then let him make his own choice." Zhen Yuanzi sighed. It concerns his future path in the Dao, and only Hongyun can make the decision.

(End of this chapter)