I Seek Immortality Through Serendipity

Behind the bamboo grove, a stone pond about ten feet large witnessed the passage of two thousand years in an instant.

Sprouting, branching, blooming, bearing fruit... In Gu Yuan’s shocked gaze, the Dragon Elephant Fruit grew at an astonishing speed, traversing time unimaginable to ordinary people.

"This is just too mystical!"

"With this pond in hand, why worry about the sect’s revival?"

Gu Yuan couldn’t help but praise.

"Hahaha, Fellow Daoist Gu exaggerates. Though I may appear to cultivate an exotic fruit of two thousand years in an instant with casual ease, in truth, it is the result of hundreds of years’ accumulation by this pond."

"The conditions for using this pond are stringent, just this one instance of power of creation consumes three hundred years of accumulation. To use it again, at least another three hundred years must pass!"

Master Qiansui waved his hand, seeming modest, yet a flash of pride appeared in his eyes.

Controlling the passage of time, wielding the power of creation, these are unimaginable forces.

Even though this "force" is not at one’s beck and call and requires time to accumulate, it remains a supremely profound mystical power.

"Why be modest, Fellow Daoist?"

"With the Creation and Breathing Pond’s seven-fold time acceleration, spirit plants within a thousand years of age can be cultivated in just a hundred years, why need three hundred years?"

Master Xuan Guang laughed, explaining the abilities of this Creation and Breathing Pond to Gu Yuan.

One year of nurturing in this pond can cultivate spirit plants equivalent to seven years of growth.

Nurturing for ten years can yield spirit plants equivalent to seventy years.

The multiplication continues at a seven-fold rate.

However, since this pond is precious and nearly extinct in nurturing outside rare spirit plants, the Primordial Cauldron Sect seldom utilizes this pond.

Usually, it accumulates essence qi and power of creation.

After generations of cultivators’ accumulation, nearly a thousand-year foundation has been stored, enough to cultivate an ultimate treasure equivalent to seven thousand years.

Knowing this, Master Xuan Guang came seeking assistance.

Even after aiding Gu Yuan in cultivating the Dragon Elephant Fruit, the Primordial Cauldron Sect still has reserves.

"It’s the painstaking accumulation of the sect’s predecessors, how could it be used carelessly!"

Hearing this, Master Qiansui only stroked his already white beard and sighed softly.

Upon hearing this, Master Xuan Guang’s gaze flickered as if contemplating something, but he held himself back.

"Splosh!"

At this moment, the ice-blue Dragon Elephant Fruit, having absorbed enough spiritual qi and vitality, gently swayed beneath the crystalline branches before dropping from its stem into the pond water.

"Swish!"

But such a falling speed is nothing but a crawl in the eyes of a Golden Core Cultivator. With a sweep of his wide sleeve, Master Qiansui enveloped the Dragon Elephant Fruit in robust mana, placing it on a jade disc held by a girl, instructing her to present it to Gu Yuan.

On the jade disc, the fist-sized Dragon Elephant Fruit seemed to contain two spiraling phantoms, with profound spiritual qi and essence qi nurturing within, emanating an icy aura as if it could freeze all existence.

In an instant, a thick layer of frost emerged on the jade disc.

The Star Spirit within Gu Yuan felt the presence of this exotic fruit and eagerly wanted to leap out, but was firmly restrained by Gu Yuan.

This was not the place to consume the Dragon Elephant Fruit.

"The spirit fruit has been cultivated, Fellow Daoist Xuan Guang, are you satisfied?"

Having completed the cultivation of the Dragon Elephant Fruit and fulfilled his promise, Master Qiansui bowed reverently to Master Xuan Guang.

"As long as Junior Brother Gu is satisfied!"

Master Xuan Guang laughed heartily and looked at Gu Yuan.

"Two thousand years of age maturing in an instant, such a profound mysterious technique, how could I not be satisfied?"

Gu Yuan smiled slightly, not withholding his praise.

This Creation and Breathing Pond is indeed mystical.

"As long as Fellow Daoist Gu is satisfied, the cause and effect is considered settled."

Master Qiansui smiled contently.

Gu Yuan hesitated briefly but spoke directly: "Dare I ask, Fellow Daoist, where does the Land of the Spirit come from? Is there any remaining?"

What most tempted Gu Yuan about this Creation and Breathing Pond was the thick layer of Land of the Spirit.

The Land of the Spirit, renowned as the source of all soils, can reshape worlds and alter veins, raise mountains to peaks, and is a top-tier spiritual object.

It’s also essential for crafting the Boundary Demon Refining Seal.

This seal is difficult to weigh in terms of advantages and drawbacks, quite maddening, and Gu Yuan has yet to resolve to forge it, but preparing well is always beneficial.

"Land of the Spirit?"

Master Qiansui furrowed his white brows, apparently surprised that Gu Yuan’s intentions were on this soil.

"This soil was obtained by the sect’s founding patriarch during his travels, not collected by me. As for where the patriarch acquired it, I do not know, and there is certainly no remaining spiritual soil."

After a brief pondering, Master Qiansui still spoke honestly.

"I see, thank you, Fellow Daoist, for enlightening me."

Upon hearing this, Gu Yuan sighed slightly, though this answer was within his expectations. He then gave a reverent bow, thanking Master Qiansui.

Master Qiansui returned the gesture, then led the two away from the Spiritual Pond, back to the Pill Hall.

However, with the spirit fruit in hand, and Master Xuan Guang’s favor fulfilled, the two did not linger long. After Gu Yuan secured the Dragon Elephant Fruit, they bade farewell to Master Qiansui and, riding on Escape Light, returned to the Daoist School.

The Escape Light of Golden Core Cultivators is supremely fast; a distance of thirty thousand miles is but a day’s journey.

The Daoist School Mountain Gate lay within sight.

Stopping his Escape Light before the vast Great Marsh, Gu Yuan proactively asked Master Xuan Guang, "Senior Brother, has there been any progress on the restoration of your human body?"

The Primordial Fire Body Seal, though profound and mysterious, preserves the Primordial Spirit Golden Core, ensuring that one’s cultivation doesn’t fall. Yet reshaping the human body remains no easy task.

The human body’s marvel, despite being flesh and blood, contains infinite potential. Its inner transformation is beyond full comprehension even for a Daoist Embryo Cultivator.

To create a person from nothing, granting life, is pure madness.