Jiang Chen lingered beneath the Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree for a long while, unable to suppress the excitement churning within him. He circled it several times before finally plopping down right beneath its canopy, activating his divine sense to carefully study the tree in earnest.
His current state of mind was one of truly overwhelming agitation — an agitation so powerful it was nearly impossible to control.
Since his rebirth in the Divine Abyss Continent, he had encountered many things and gained many fortuitous opportunities. Even when he had previously learned that the inheritance of the ancient Glazed Palace would fall into his hands, his heart had only stirred for a brief moment.
But the excitement surging through him now far surpassed anything he had ever felt before.
Yes, any inheritance from the ancient era of the Divine Abyss Continent that landed in his hands would not strike him as particularly unbelievable. He had long been mentally prepared for such things.
But this Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree was something Jiang Chen couldn't have dreamed of, even in his wildest fantasies.
A spiritual seed that existed only among the great worlds of the Heavenly Abodes — how could it possibly exist in an ordinary plane? More importantly, the Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree stood right here in the courtyard of the Glazed Palace, laden with fruit, yet during the ancient era, no one had ever consumed it?
Looking at the fruit hanging above — growing vigorously and looking perfectly ripe — it was entirely fit to be eaten.
The Great Luo Cloud Essence Fruit was a truly supreme treasure of the Heavenly Abodes. A single Great Luo Cloud Essence Fruit possessed the transformative power to turn common rock into gold and jade.
Even in his previous life, Jiang Chen had only ever glimpsed a Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree once, by sheer coincidence — when he had accompanied his Celestial Emperor father to visit a prominent figure in one of the great worlds of the Heavenly Abodes. It was within that figure's cave dwelling that he had seen the tree.
Precisely because he had seen one before, Jiang Chen could confirm with absolute certainty that the tree before him was a genuine Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree.
Among the great worlds of the Heavenly Abodes, an enterprising individual had once compiled a comprehensive ranking of all manner of treasures — weapons, spiritual artifacts, Spirit Beasts, mystical tools, Spiritual Medicines, and more — into a single list: the Heavenly Creation Rankings.
The Heavenly Creation Rankings collected the one hundred most supreme treasures across all the Heavenly Abodes, and the Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree ranked among them — a testament to its extraordinary importance.
Without the slightest exaggeration, if Jiang Chen were to pluck a single Great Luo Cloud Essence Fruit right now and consume it on the spot, he could storm the Divine Path immediately — and with a hundred percent chance of success!
This fruit of creation, any single one, could dramatically enhance a Divine Path powerhouse's potential and fundamentally transform their aptitude. A cultivator whose absolute limit was the early stage of the Divine Path could see their ceiling leap to the mid-stage, or even the high stage.
To put it in perspective — those old Divine Path ancestors of the Myriad Abyss Island, for instance. Reaching the Divine Path was practically the pinnacle of their martial potential in this lifetime, and further breakthroughs were all but impossible.
Yet a single Great Luo Cloud Essence Fruit would absolutely cause their potential to skyrocket, making the sixth level of the Divine Path no empty pipe dream.
For a cultivator already at the mid-stage of the Divine Path, the effect was equally remarkable — their potential could be elevated to the high stage.
It was precisely because of this miraculous transformative power that the Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree earned its place on the Heavenly Creation Rankings — and with a remarkably high position at that.
This was also why Jiang Chen was so astonished. An ordinary plane had produced a treasure that belonged on the Heavenly Creation Rankings!
Jiang Chen carefully sensed the tree for a long time, and once he had confirmed beyond doubt that it was no fake, he accepted this unexpected windfall with pure elation.
He swept his divine sense over the tree for a quick count, and sure enough, the Great Luo Cloud Essence Tree bore fruit in exact accordance with the supreme heavenly number of nine times nine, just as the legends described.
Eighty-one Great Luo Cloud Essence Fruits hung from the branches like eighty-one celestial maidens, their splendor on the tree so striking, so brilliant, so dazzling that they seized the eye.
"Who would have thought that the Glazed Great Sovereign would leave behind such a fortune for me. Truly beyond all expectation."