Celestial Emperor 2
Ch. 442 - The Greatest Gift

The moment the increase occurred, Qin Shan almost jumped up from being happy. Finally after a long time the petals of the 105th lotus flower have bloomed. Although the lotus flower inside his dantian had only added one additional petal, but his chaos energy had already increased many times over.

Not only that, Qin Shan was also very happy that his meridians had opened unexpectedly. To his surprise, the 102nd meridian has the same function as the 101st meridian. That is to store the elemental energy of the immortal reserve.

“Will the next meridians have the same function as the lotus flower? Shouldn't be.” Qin Shan stroked his chin and he immediately started his cultivation back to stabilize his new strength.

Qin Shan took another three days to stabilize his cultivation. After that he began to study those array runes further.

With this mountain of array runes before him, Qin Shan believed that he would be able to install a peak grade array in the near future. Moreover by studying the dao array, he could clearly sense the distance between the Great Circle stage Profound Immortal and the Immortal Venerable had already become shorter. He believed, in a few years perhaps he would be able to summon his Immortal Venerable lightning calamity.

Through the fluctuations of spiritual energy and the fluctuations of Heaven and Earth law energy outside the previous Five Elements Treasure Path, the, Qin Shan predicted that the Five Elements Treasure Realm would open in at least a year. One year was a little time to increase his strength, yet Qin Shan did not mind. Currently he was studying the array dao, let alone a year, half a year he would definitely become a 4th class array expert even more.

It turned out that it was true, after spending time on the mountain of those natural rune arrays for almost half a year, Qin Shan managed to install a grade-4 defense array. This array was stronger than a middle-class array but slightly below a high-class array. But still Qin Shan was very happy at this moment.

In his past life, he had no chance to study the array dao. Now that he had studied the array dao, he knew how vast the dao's insights were. Even though Qin Shan was a 4th class array expert, he still felt that his dao insight was not up to a grain of dust in this universe.

“This is truly an incredible gift, I not only master the dao of a grade-4 array, but also my spiritual will has become stronger many times over than before.” Qin Shan rejoiced in his heart. Along with the increasing insight of his dao array, his spiritual will also increased. This made engraving the array runes much easier and effective.

Although the Spiritual Will Training Technique that Zhan Wu gave him when he was in the Tower of Gods all those years ago was incredible. But still the technique was restrained by the laws of Heaven and Earth in the Three Realm. That was why Qin Shan's spiritual will was already unable to develop by leaps and bounds anymore after he left the Tower of Gods.

“Most likely this Five Elements Treasure realm will be covered in another half year. I have to quickly search for the Essence of the Five Elements.” Qin Shan got up and he immediately shot towards where he sensed the denser spiritual energy.

Although the Five Elements Treasure Realm hid a variety of priceless treasures, Qin Shan was not too interested in it other than the Five Elements Essence. In his opinion, there was no treasure of any kind comparable to the Five Elements Essence in the Three Realm. Even Cosmic-level magical treasures might not be comparable.

As Qin Shan continued to run quickly while spreading his spiritual will, he came across a giant tree hundreds of meters tall. If it was an ordinary tree then Qin Shan would ignore it. However, the tree had a peach-like fruit but was red in color. The fruit emitted a kind of mysterious dao energy and its aroma made Qin Shan's heart calm down. It was then that Qin Shan knew that the fruit was not something as lowly as what he thought.

“This tree seems to absorb the laws of heaven and Earth from this place. Is it perhaps this tree that caused the laws of Heaven and Earth in the Five Elements Treasure realm to be broken? Probably not, because the absorption from the tree was not too strong to the point that it would damage the laws of Heaven and Earth.” while approaching the giant tree Qin Shan muttered as he stroked his chin.

There were only seven red fruits on the tree and three slightly golden ones. Although it looked faint, Qin Shan could see that the dao aura in the golden fruit was more concentrated than the red fruit.

Qin Shan did not think much longer and immediately took ten pieces from the tree and put them into the lotus island. Since the fruit exuded some sort of dao energy, Qin Shan would bet that the fruit was something truly precious.

At the sight of the pond, Qin Shan only caught a glimpse of it before drifting away. Judging from wherever the turbid yellow liquid did not emit anything distinctive. In other words it might just be the sap of the giant tree.

“Wait.. This is not true. If this giant tree is such a valuable plant, then surely its sap is also a valuable item, right?” at the thought of that, Qin Shan turned towards the giant tree as he had already gone quite a distance.

Qin Shan decided to take the sap of the tree. Although he does not know what the use of the sap, but he believes that the sap is not just any sap. After all, that rubber pool would not fill his entire lot island. So what made Qin Shan not take the sap?

Qin Shan took out a vase the size of an adult's hand and began to put the sap in it. Although the vase looks small, but in fact the vase can store thousands of liters of fluid. Actually this vase was a vase where Qin Shan stored his liquid elemental essence. However, since he already did not need the liquid elemental essence anymore he threw it away.

After finishing storing the entire sap into the vase, Qin Shan checked the place once more and he did not find any oddity. It then shot out rapidly and headed in the direction where the spiritual energy in that place was getting denser.

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Elsewhere, yet still in the Five Elements Treasure realm. There was a fierce fight between the Earth and Sky Immortal. They all fought with craze and caused the region around them to fall apart.

That battle involving nearly a hundred Immortals had finally ended after one group with great power defeated all of them.

“Huh, they're just wasting our time. Fortunately, this fight did not last long. Brother Chen, what should we do next?” asked a Sky Immortal whose robe was covered in blood. Near that Sky Immortal, there were three other Sky Immortal people and all of them possessed extraordinary strength.

“What should we do? Of course we will directly enter that Illusory Labyrinth.” replied a dark red-robed man indifferently.

“Chen Lu, do you really believe that the Illusory Labyrinth holds many priceless treasures for us? How do you know all that?” ask a tall, muscular man. His sharp gaze led to that dark red-robed man named Chen Lu.

“Yes, I'm sure. I've read ancient records about various arrays before. And the array in front of us right now is the Illusory Labyrinth array. According to the ancient records I read, these Illusory Labyrinth arrays were usually used to store various treasures in remote places. That's why I'm sure that there are a lot of priceless treasures in there.” Chen Lu explained calmly. After that he immediately advanced forward without waiting for the reaction of his other comrades.

“Quite the bases, let's go inside.” immediately after that the three people who were behind Chen Lu also followed him from behind. They had no other choice at the moment, if they wanted a powerful magical treasure, then they would have to enter that Illusory Labyrinth.

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