Afterward, Yuanqing used the resources of Fangzhang Island to cultivate there, striving to break through to the next minor realm of a Daluo Golden Immortal.
After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, he was just a hair's breadth away from reaching the Mid-Stage Daluo Golden Immortal.
He was only a step away from breaking through to the Mid-Stage Daluo Golden Immortal. As for the opportunity for this breakthrough—let's see, it would happen naturally when the time came.
Then, Yuanqing left Fangzhang Island.
This trip to Fangzhang Island had truly been immensely rewarding.
There were countless low-grade spirit treasures and spiritual roots, not to mention the Heaven-Burial Coffin lid, a karmic retributive and killing treasure bestowed by the Heavenly Dao through the System.
There was even the Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, the Hunyuan Golden Dou.
Yuanqing looked back at the barren Fangzhang Island, which had been stripped of all vitality.
He wondered where the other two islands of the three Penglai islands—Penglai Immortal Island and Yingzhou Immortal Island—might be.
The three Penglai Immortal Islands complemented one another. The other two islands, Penglai Immortal Island and Yingzhou Immortal Island, shouldn't be too far away.
Let me search for them. Afterward, upon probing, Yuanqing discovered that he actually couldn't find Penglai Immortal Island and Yingzhou Immortal Island anymore.
Well, enough of that.
It was already wonderful to possess a Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure, let alone securing the lid of the Heaven-Burial Coffin, the karmic retributive and killing treasure of the Heavenly Dao.
Legend had it that the Heaven-Burial Coffin could bury the heavens and the earth. During the tribulation of the fierce beasts, it was the supreme treasure wielded by the Fierce Beast Emperor Shennong. During the fierce beast calamity, it had even almost trapped Hongjun inside.
With that, he glanced back one last time at the completely lifeless and barren Fangzhang Island and left the island.
Just as he left the island, Yuanqing was still feeling quite pleased with himself, thinking how truly wonderful the harvests from this trip to Fangzhang Island were.
At that moment, a voice sounded beside Yuanqing's ear: "Fellow daoist, please stay."
Startled, Yuanqing shuddered. This phrase had an overwhelmingly lethal reputation, because Shengongbao's signature line—"Fellow daoist, please stay"—had scammed countless immortals and gods into the tribulation and onto the Investiture of the Gods list, and in the end, it even tricked the Three Pure Ones into swallowing the Saint-Slaying Pills.
Upon hearing the voice, Yuanqing prepared to turn around and look. Sure enough, it was a member of the Dragon Clan.
For on their head were a pair of horns, their face had whiskers, and dragon breath constantly puffed from their nose, giving them a peculiar appearance.
"I wonder what important business this Dragon Clan fellow daoist has with poor Taoist?"
He thought to himself that he had never had any dealings with the Dragon Clan. What did this lecherous old dragon want with him?
The dragon said, "Greetings, Daoist Brother. I am Yinglong, son of Zulong, patriarch of the Three Clans, and also the Great Elder of the Dragon Clan."
"Today my father, Zulong, saw golden light pervading this island and deduced that a spirit treasure must have manifested here. My father sent me to retrieve the spirit treasure."
"Upon arriving at this immortal island, however, I found it completely barren, devoid of any sign of life."
"May I ask if the treasure on this island was taken by you, Fellow Daoist?"
Yinglong asked, "Could you be speaking of this item? I obtained this on the island."
Yinglong glanced at the Hunyuan Golden Dou, secretly astonished. He hadn't expected it to actually be a Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasure. One had to know that Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures were extremely rare; throughout the entire Primordial World, there were only a countable few. Even within his own Dragon Clan, there seemed to be no more than three or four. His own father, Zulong, possessed only two Top-Grade Innate Spirit Treasures, one of which was the Ancestral Dragon Bead. Relying on this single Ancestral Dragon Bead, his father dominated the Four Seas with no rival under heaven.
Just as Yinglong reached out his hand to take it, Yuanqing withdrew the Hunyuan Golden Dou.
Yinglong said angrily, "What is Fellow Daoist doing? This was discovered by my Dragon Clan, so it naturally belongs to my Dragon Clan."
Yinglong spoke mockingly, "This immortal island was originally an ownerless property, and I was the very first to discover it. Since I gathered it myself, why shouldn't it be mine?"