Chapter 586: The Origins of the Immortal Artifacts

Among immortal stones, jade stands as the most revered and precious, being a commonly used material for immortals crafting artifacts. In the Immortal Realm, there exists an immortal mountain named “Other Mountain,” which can be used to work jade.

Penglai Immortal claimed the Other Mountain for himself and refined it into the Other Mountain Stone.

None of the immortals dared to face Penglai Immortal in combat, fearing that even if they won the match, their own immortal artifacts would be chipped by the Other Mountain Stone, making the victory not worth the loss.

Seeing that the Other Mountain Stone had no battlefield to prove its worth, Penglai Immortal bestowed it upon the Penglai Immortal Isle, his orthodox legacy left in the Nine Provinces, to serve as the sect’s guardian treasure.

When Jiang Li threw this punch, the Other Mountain Stone was refined once again. The stone material compressed and transformed, elevating the hardness of the Other Mountain Stone to an even higher level.

Yu Yin activated the Wishful Gourd, summoning boundless heavenly tribulations. Jiang Li shattered the thunder tribulation and immediately threw a punch at the Wishful Gourd as well. Seeing this, the Wishful Gourd turned tail and fled in terror, seeking help from the Four Seas Dragon Pearls.

The Four Seas Dragon Pearls lived up to their chivalrous reputation, charging forward to assist the Wishful Gourd.

The four dragon pearls positioned themselves at the four cardinal directions—east, west, south, and north—forming an azure-blue, sturdy protective barrier that blocked the Wishful Gourd’s escape route.

The Wishful Gourd slammed headfirst into the protective layer, knocking itself dizzy and disoriented.

By the time it regained its senses, Jiang Li’s fist was already about to land on its body.

The Wishful Gourd panicked, hastily releasing an illusion tribulation that plunged Jiang Li into a deceptive state between reality and fantasy, causing him to sink into delusion.

Jiang Li’s Dao Heart was firm and unyielding. This tribulation that had trapped countless immortals showed not the slightest effect on him.

Boom—

Jiang Li showed no mercy, delivering a solid punch directly onto the Wishful Gourd’s body. The pain made the Wishful Gourd scream and yell, begging Yu Yin for comfort.

Yu Yin kicked the annoying gourd away with her foot.

The Wishful Gourd’s origins were astonishing—it belonged to the innate spiritual plants and even had some connection to the Dao Ancestor.

Legend had it that when the Dao Ancestor of the Immortal Realm saw the extraordinary bearing of the first Tianyuan Emperor and recognized his future greatness, he forged a favorable connection in advance while the Tianyuan Emperor was still a Celestial Immortal. He plucked the yellow gourd from among the seven-colored gourds on the innate gourd vine and gifted it to the first Tianyuan Emperor.

This was a widely circulated legend in the Nine Provinces.

Later, when Jiang Li and the other two gathered, Yu Yin took the initiative to reveal the true origins of the Wishful Gourd.

The first Tianyuan Emperor was indeed extraordinary. Through ruthless methods, he cultivated to the Celestial Immortal stage and was known as a formidable figure in the Immortal Realm. Wanting to refine an immortal artifact, he asked the Dao Ancestor for a gourd from the innate gourd vine.

However, the price of an innate gourd drove the first Tianyuan Emperor to despair. He lowered his standards three times and finally purchased the third-generation descendant of the innate gourd vine—the Wishful Gourd.

Through refinement, the first Tianyuan Emperor crafted the Wishful Gourd into an immortal artifact capable of mimicking some heavenly tribulation abilities.

Later, the first Tianyuan Emperor discovered that the gourd the Dao Ancestor sold him was three times more expensive than other gourds—a terrible deal.

The first Tianyuan Emperor stubbornly insisted that the Dao Ancestor must have had profound intentions, but the other immortals wouldn’t listen, all mocking him for being swindled by the Dao Ancestor.

The Dao Ancestor roamed the Immortal Realm playing games, and cheating people wasn’t a new habit for him.

Feeling humiliated, the first Tianyuan Emperor bestowed the Wishful Gourd upon the Tianyuan Dynasty, while prettifying the story of how he obtained it.

So the Wishful Gourd could indeed claim kinship with the innate spiritual plants and truly had a connection with the Dao Ancestor.

Jiang Li remembered Yu Yin also saying that for spiritual plants like the Wishful Gourd, their colors would change according to the sequence red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple. The further back in the sequence, the more powerful they became.

The Wishful Gourd’s color transformed, shifting from yellow to green.

“I turned green?” The Wishful Gourd was quite surprised and not very satisfied with this color.

“Maybe give me another hit?”

Jiang Li enthusiastically delivered another punch to the Wishful Gourd, making it howl in pain and transforming it from green to cyan.

“Want another one?”

“No, no more.”

After its power upgraded, the Wishful Gourd immediately pushed the Four Seas Dragon Pearls forward instead. Their solid defensive power proved utterly useless against Jiang Li, who extended both large hands to squeeze the dragon pearls. The interiors of the four dragon pearls exploded, forming snowflake-like patterns that appeared completely natural.

Yu Yin continued applying special refinement techniques to help the Four Seas Dragon Pearls eliminate the patterns and restore them to perfect roundness.

The defensive power of the Four Seas Dragon Pearls increased once again, now capable of blocking attacks from Celestial Immortals.

In the Immortal Realm, the four directions—east, west, south, and north—were guarded by four clans of immortal beasts. The dragon clan guarded the east, and the Four Seas Dragon Pearls were refined by an ancestral dragon patriarch through extreme frugality.

This dragon patriarch was honest and simple, often bullied by other dragons. Therefore, he refined defensive dragon pearls seeking peace and quiet.

After this dragon patriarch died, the Nine Provinces’ dragon clan, as his descendants, inherited part of his legacy, which included the Four Seas Dragon Pearls.

Yu Yin used the Great Scholar’s Manuscript to execute the Dao of Painting, creating a painted world that imprisoned Jiang Li.

Jiang Li raised his finger toward the sky and drew a circle. Immediately, water poured down like the heavens collapsing, washing over the painted world until the ink strokes were diluted to near nothingness.

Jiang Li broke free from the confined world and unleashed the Heart Sword technique on the Great Scholar’s Manuscript. Sword energy born from the heart sliced the manuscript’s paper into scattered fragments. The Great Scholar’s Manuscript suffered under the sword energy’s torment, wailing in agony.

After the sword energy dissipated, the torn paper pieces sought out their companions, with gaps complementing each other and fitting together perfectly. The Great Scholar’s Manuscript was reborn as if anew.

Yu Yin gripped the Brahma Tower and slammed it fiercely toward Jiang Li.

The Brahma Tower was extraordinarily heavy. If placed in the cosmos, its weight and density alone would be sufficient to collapse space and create a black hole.

Caught between Yu Yin and Jiang Li, it became the object of their contest of strength. Facing the Brahma Tower crashing toward him, Jiang Li responded with his fists.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The immortal gold used to refine the Brahma Tower was the rarest among these immortal artifacts.

Jiang Li also noticed this issue—the Brahma Tower had endured many of his punches yet showed no changes.

Jiang Li stopped holding back, increasing his force until he finally made the Brahma Tower undergo automatic transformation.

The Brahma Tower was a Buddhist treasure refined by the Immeasurable Capturing Light Buddha and later consecrated by the Buddha himself. Its origins were second only to the Yin-Yang Heaven Seal.

The pagoda body rotated, releasing Buddhist light that stood out prominently in the pitch-black void.

“I feel like I can simultaneously open thirty—no, forty fixed spatial passages!” The Brahma Tower was overjoyed. Its body, having been hammered, saw its immortal gold quality enhanced and became more condensed.

Thus, the quality of all the immortal artifacts had been further elevated, with their power greatly increased.

Sensing the changes in the immortal artifacts, Yu Yin curled the corners of her mouth into a smile: “Even if a Golden Immortal were to come, I’d have confidence to fight!”

Yu Yin used the Great Scholar’s Manuscript to paint, directly summoning three Bai Hongtu replicas at the early Celestial Immortal stage.

The other immortal artifacts experienced similar upgrades.

Jiang Li was also smiling. This battle had yielded enormous gains. He shared Yu Yin’s view, also believing that with her current immortal artifacts, Yu Yin could battle a Golden Immortal—and this was without including the Yin-Yang Heaven Seal. If that were added, she would most likely fight a Golden Immortal to a standstill.

“I just obtained the location of the Immortal Realm from a thousand years ago. I’m thinking of going there for a visit. Are you two interested in coming along?” Jiang Li considered that he didn’t have any urgent matters recently, so he might as well check out the location provided by the turtle shell. Perhaps he could find some clues.

“Of course I’m going.” Bai Hongtu was the first to agree—how could such an event not include him?

“A stroll wouldn’t hurt.” Yu Yin nodded reservedly, instructing the Wishful Gourd to remain in the imperial palace to properly comprehend the changes from this upgrade.

In other words, she didn’t plan to bring the Wishful Gourd this time.

“Then wait for me to settle some matters, and we’ll set off.”