49: Chapter 45 Western Duo 49: Chapter 45 Western Duo After the passage of countless years, Buzhou Mountain within the River Map and Luo Book had already been illuminated.
Yet under Di Jun’s meticulous perception, Buzhou Mountain within the River Map and Luo Book bore a clear disparity from the Buzhou Mountain in the Primordial World.
This sensation wasn’t due to an insufficient absorption of essence, but rather an inherent difference in nature.
Nonetheless, in the specifics, Di Jun was unable to fully comprehend the underlying principles.
However, Di Jun didn’t dwell on this, after all, it was the Buzhou Mountain that propped up the sky in the Primordial World; it would not be so easy to replicate it fully into the River Map and Luo Book.
Let alone Buzhou Mountain, even the many stars that were previously within the River Map and Luo Book were not replicated entirely.
In the River Map and Luo Book, only a seed was illuminated, sharing the same Origin with those stars in the Primordial World.
Yet the seed of Buzhou Mountain in the River Map and Luo Book had a different Origin from the Buzhou Mountain in the Primordial World.
Indeed, it was a sensation of differing Origins.
Di Jun stood up, looked around, and then toured the entire Buzhou Mountain.
Regrettably, Di Jun only obtained some low-level Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spirit Roots.
As for those famous Innate Spiritual Treasures and Innate Spirit Roots within the Primordial, Di Jun did not acquire any.
He didn’t even get the feeling he had when he first found the Fusang Tree.
Afterwards, Di Jun did not linger too much in the Primordial and continued to seek out the Spiritual Vein and Earth Vein within the Primordial Heaven and Earth to illuminate in the River Map and Luo Book.
As the long years passed, if Buzhou Mountain was the center, Di Jun had already traveled through the Eastern Primordial, the Southern Primordial, and the Northern Primordial.
Among these three places, the Eastern Primordial had the most Spiritual Vein and Earth Vein, and its Spiritual Energy was the densest; the Daoist charm of its mountains, rivers, and streams was abundant.
While the Northern Primordial and the Southern Primordial were both affected by the self-destruction of the Spiritual Vein in the Western Primordial, both the Spiritual Vein and the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Root were inferior to the Eastern Primordial.
In fact, the most barren should still be the Western Primordial, which Di Jun has yet to visit, and this was also why Di Jun left the Western Primordial for the last.
Of course, the Primordial World is vast and boundless, and still expanding, Di Jun naturally would not truly reach the edge of these three regions.
He simply discovered that the Innate Spiritual Energy began to thin out and then started turning directions, heading towards other regions.
Time seemed to be plentiful, but if Di Jun truly wanted to illuminate the mountains, rivers, and streams of the Primordial Heaven and Earth in the River Map and Luo Book, then clearly the time was not sufficient.
Moreover, Di Jun also did not find the Daoist Schools of those great powers mentioned in later Primordial legends.
Perhaps those individuals with fated destinies were still being nurtured, protected by the Primordial World.
In his exploration of these three regions, Di Jun’s journey was not all smooth-sailing.
He had encountered hidden tribes; some simply informed Di Jun, telling him to leave.
While others from the hidden tribes, upon discovering Di Jun and believing he had encroached upon their ancestral lands, went so far as to confront him directly.
The outcomes of Di Jun’s engagements were mostly victories, with some ending in draws.
He found that the more powerful the hidden tribe, the more low-key their conduct; in contrast, the tribes that were not very strong acted more arrogantly.
Whether these hidden tribes were powerful could of course only be judged by Di Jun’s own strength.
And those hidden tribes with a Primordial Golden Immortal at their helm intentionally leaked their aura to form a deterrence.
Now only the Western Primordial remained for Di Jun to explore.
Without any hesitation, Di Jun set off directly for the Western Primordial.
Upon stepping into the Western Primordial, Di Jun immediately sensed the barrenness of this land.
Not only was the Innate Spiritual Energy extremely sparse, but also because of the explosion of the Spirit Vein, the Earth Vein in the Western Primordial had been damaged.
Therefore, the Innate Spiritual Energy here is not only scarce and thin, but also highly turbulent and aggressive, totally unlike the gentle nature of spiritual energy found elsewhere.
This state of Innate Spiritual Energy is reminiscent of what it was like at the dawn of creation.
In other places, through continuous refinement by the Primordial Earth Vein, Innate Spiritual Energy has gradually become gentle.
Only the Western Primordial has reverted to its starting point overnight due to years of nurturing effort and the manipulation by Luo Hou, even worse than before.
At least at the beginning, the concentration of Innate Spiritual Energy was not as diluted.
Di Jun sensed the richest area of spiritual energy in the Western Primordial and headed straight for it.
Gazing upon once the greatest Spirit Vein of the Western Primordial, Di Jun couldn’t help but feel emotional.
On this journey, sentient beings in the Western Primordial were truly few and far between, and the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Roots were rarely seen.
Since the strife between the Dao and the Demon Path, there have been five eons already, each eon lasting one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years.
The entire Primordial had given birth to new life, slowly thriving, with the ancient strife between Dao and Demon becoming a legend.
While wandering in the Primordial, Di Jun discovered that East King of Zifu State had reached the realm of Daluo Golden Immortal and had gathered a congregation of beings within the Primordial.
Observing his influence, Di Jun felt a sense of déjà vu from the Demon Path or the Daoist School, though he did not meddle excessively.
Continuously absorbing the aura of Mount Sumeru, Di Jun also felt connected to the Daoist charm of the mountain.
Slowly, a wave of sadness enveloped Di Jun’s heart.
It was the sorrow of being wounded and unable to recover, mixed with various imploring emotions.
Pleading Di Jun to sort out the Earth Vein, to help it return to its former glory.
Alas, it was not a simple task, not something that could be achieved overnight.
It could require countless eons, even several grand calamities to accomplish.
After all, Mount Sumeru had been the foremost Spirit Vein of the Western Primordial; restoring its former splendor was not merely about repairing it.
It also required rearranging the Earth Veins of the Western Primordial and bolstering their foundation, in order to once again nurture the initial state of Mount Sumeru.
But Di Jun didn’t hold such deep feelings for Mount Sumeru.
While illuminating Mount Sumeru in the River Map and Luo Book, Di Jun also helped to sort out part of the mountain range, but it was a drop in the bucket.
After the Mount Sumeru in the River Map and Luo Book had been illuminated, Di Jun planned to leave with them in tow.
Suddenly, he sensed fluctuations of the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Root within Mount Sumeru.
In such a barren place, the existence of the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Root piqued Di Jun’s curiosity, and he hurriedly went to investigate.
Upon approaching, Di Jun encountered a protective formation.
However, with Di Jun’s years of immersion in the River Map and Luo Book, he quickly broke through the Array and arrived at the location of the Heavenly Earth Spiritual Root.
Looking at the golden, oddly-shaped tree before him, Di Jun quietly speculated,
Is this the Seven Treasures Miao Tree?
Di Jun thought to himself in surprise.
Upon closer inspection, he noticed that surrounding the Seven Treasures Miao Tree was the Innate Geng Metal Qi.
Could this possibly be Jie Yin?