Chapter 2504: Heavenly Illusion Fruit, Silver Moon Thunder Lotus, Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus

Wang Mengbin and Wang Ruyan extended their divine sense to investigate the area and search for spiritual medicines.

Soon, they pinpointed a target and flew down in front of a garden plot roughly 667 square meters in size. In the plot stood a golden fruit tree over six meters tall, bearing dozens of light golden fruits. The fruits shimmered with a golden light, creating a dreamlike illusion.

The fruit tree had sparse, round leaves.

"This is a Sky Illusion Fruit! The main ingredient for refining the Sky Illusion Divine Pill!" Wang Ruyan exclaimed in surprise. The Sky Illusion Fruit blossoms every ten thousand years, bears fruit ten thousand years later, and then takes another ten thousand years to fully mature. The Sky Illusion Divine Pill is a seventh-tier elixir that allows Void Refinement cultivators to prematurely comprehend the profound mysteries of the Integration stage. Consuming the Sky Illusion Divine Pill before attempting to break through to the Integration stage significantly increases the chance of success. Even raw consumption of the Sky Illusion Fruit yields good effects.

Furthermore, the Sky Illusion Wood can be used to forge illusion-type treasures, especially for setting up illusion formations.

A light golden barrier enveloped the Sky Illusion Fruit tree, with a golden lotus pattern on its surface.

The Bi-Pupil Rat summoned its Sky-Devouring Rat Dharma Idol to attack the golden barrier. The Dharma Idol's eyes shot out yellow light, striking the barrier and causing ripples. Its claws then glowed with yellow light and slammed onto the barrier, which twisted, deformed, and its spiritual light dimmed.

Wang Mengbin conjured a Five-Colored Thunder Spear and struck the golden barrier. The golden lotus dissolved, and the barrier shattered.

The Bi-Pupil Rat's eyes could emit spirit-breaking light, which was highly effective for breaking restrictions. The fact that it couldn't break this restriction on its own and needed Wang Mengbin's help indicated that the formation's creator was at least an Integration cultivator. If it was so challenging for them, it was likely not easy for Song Yunfeng and others to break restrictions either.

The Sky Illusion Fruit could not be touched by hand; only metal-type treasures could make contact. Any other material touching the fruit would cause it to dissolve into a puddle of juice.

Wang Ruyan took out a pair of light golden gloves, put them on, and carefully picked all the Sky Illusion Fruits.

Wang Mengbin conjured thousands of glimmering blue formation flags. With a flick of his incantation, the flags glowed brightly and disappeared into the ground. He then channeled several incantations into a shimmering blue formation plate, causing the ground to glow blue. The Sky Illusion Fruit tree remained perfectly still. This was only a fifth-tier formation; Bai Yuqi hadn't been in the Void Refinement stage long enough to refine a sixth-tier formation plate, and materials were also an issue.

Wang Mengbin considered transplanting the Sky Illusion Fruit tree, but that too presented a challenge.

"Forget it, no need for such trouble. Just cut it down. We must seize every second. We're not the only two here, and there's no need to waste too much time on one fruit tree," Wang Ruyan urged. With six Void Refinement cultivators searching for treasure in the area, wasting time was unnecessary.

She understood the priorities. Having dozens of Sky Illusion Fruits was sufficient; if needed, they could cultivate more Sky Illusion Fruit trees later, as their clan possessed Creation Divine Water.

Wang Mengbin acknowledged and directly conjured a giant, gleaming golden scissor. The scissor erupted with countless golden electric arcs, striking the Sky Illusion Fruit tree. The tree fell with a thud, raising a cloud of dust.

Wang Mengbin collected the entire tree, including its roots, into his storage ring. He planned to save it for Bai Yuqi to use in setting up illusion formations, as a Sky Illusion Fruit tree that had grown for over a hundred thousand years would certainly be highly effective for such a purpose.

They arrived at a secluded small courtyard. In the center of the courtyard was a pond over 300 meters wide, with three silver lotus flowers floating on the surface. The lotus petals were crescent-shaped, shrouded in a silver glow, and a silver barrier covered the entire pond.

The surface of the silver barrier pulsed with countless silver electric arcs. Some tiny arcs shot towards the silver lotuses, but upon touching the silver glow, they vanished as if disappearing into the vast ocean.

"Silvermoon Thunder Lotus!" Wang Mengbin exclaimed with mixed joy and surprise. Thunder-attributed spiritual medicines were already rare, and the Silvermoon Thunder Lotus was a particularly uncommon one, requiring the absorption of lightning energy to grow.

It was said to grow one leaf every ten thousand years. Of the three Silvermoon Thunder Lotuses before them, two were twenty thousand years old, and one was thirty thousand years old. This was curious, as the Sky Illusion Fruit tree was over a hundred thousand years old, yet the oldest Silvermoon Thunder Lotus was only thirty thousand. Could it be that the Silvermoon Thunder Lotuses were planted later? Or perhaps the Sky Illusion Fruit tree was transplanted here from elsewhere? Or, the previous owner of this place had used Silvermoon Thunder Lotuses and then replanted them.

The Bi-Pupil Rat repeated its technique, activating its Dharma Idol to attack the silver barrier. Wang Mengbin also activated his Dharma Idol, and together they quickly broke through the barrier.

Wang Mengbin carefully dug out the three Silvermoon Thunder Lotuses and placed them into his storage ring. The Silvermoon Thunder Lotuses might have other uses; the Wang family hadn't been established for long, so their knowledge of the specific applications of some rare spiritual medicines was limited.

Beyond these two locations, there were no other spiritual medicines. They didn't know how long this place had existed; perhaps the others had withered away.

Just as Wang Ruyan was about to head elsewhere, she seemed to sense something. With a slight flick of her wrist, the Void-Splitting Beast flew out of her spirit beast bracelet. It darted towards a stone wall, opened its mouth, and sprayed a silver light that struck the wall. The wall rippled, and a surge of pure spiritual energy gushed out.

"A spatial restriction!" Wang Ruyan gasped. This was her first encounter with such a situation. If not for the Void-Splitting Beast's mastery of spatial abilities and its sensitivity to spatial fluctuations, they likely wouldn't have discovered it.

She and Wang Mengbin activated their Dharma Idols to jointly attack the stone wall, quickly breaking the restriction. A stone chamber over 300 meters in size appeared before them. Inside the chamber was a blood pool several tens of meters across, with a blood-red lotus floating in it. The lotus bud had opened, revealing nine petals.

"Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus!" Wang Mengbin was overjoyed. Lotus seeds from a Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus over ten thousand years old were excellent materials for refining clones. The older the Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus, the better the auxiliary materials, and the higher the cultivation level of the refined clone.

Wang Ruyan frowned deeply. A Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus typically had nine lotus seeds, but she noticed four were missing. This indicated that the previous owner of this place had used four seeds, possibly creating four clones. She wondered about the current state of these four clones.

She had heard a rumor that high-level cultivators, sensing they couldn't survive a Grand Heavenly Tribulation, would refine clones. This way, even if the main body perished, the clone, as an independent entity, could continue to exist. Clones that reached a certain cultivation level would return to the main body's meditation cave, inheriting everything. Some Integration cultivators used this method to survive for tens of thousands of years. As for whether this method had any flaws, she was unsure.

The owner of this place deliberately set up a spatial restriction solely to conceal the Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus. This suggested the person was an Integration cultivator; otherwise, they would have hidden the Sky Illusion Fruit tree instead.

Wang Mengbin collected the Nine-Leaf Blood Lotus and picked five lotus seeds, saving them for refining clones. Having a clone meant an extra life.

As they exited the stone chamber, a deafening roar echoed from a distance.

Wang Ruyan and Wang Mengbin looked towards the source of the sound, seeing a huge mass of crimson fire and golden spiritual light to the east.

"An internal conflict? Or are they fighting a demonic beast?" Wang Mengbin wondered.

"Never mind them, we won't get involved," Wang Ruyan said. She couldn't be bothered with the fate of Liu Tianyan and the others. Liu Tianyan was a late-stage Void Refinement cultivator, and Wang Ruyan remained quite wary of him.