The wait was roughly three minutes.

The black lotus seed completely matured, transforming into a palm-sized Three-Leaf Youlian, its roots embedding into Mu Jinyu's Dantian Qi Sea.

The Youlian appeared quite frail, with only three lotus leaves, yet it emitted a mysterious luminescence. The three leaves seemed to exemplify the principle of three lives birthing all things, truly extraordinary.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

At this moment, Mu Jinyu realized that after fully growing, the situation where the Youlian originally halted its devour of his True Yuan, suddenly resumed.

While Mu Jinyu was puzzled and uncertain.

He suddenly discovered that the situation wasn't as he thought.

The Three-Leaf Youlian indeed swallowed his True Yuan, but unlike the original situation where it only absorbed without release, now it absorbed his True Yuan and quickly expelled it.

Just like a large tree absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, the Three-Leaf Youlian inhaled his True Yuan and emitted an even more refined True Yuan.

After careful observation, Mu Jinyu found that although his True Yuan was quite pure, compared to the True Yuan released after the Youlian's absorption, its purity was lacking considerably.

After all, strictly speaking, Mu Jinyu advanced from the Divinity Transformation Realm to the Fourth layer Hedao Realm in just over a year, relying several times on consuming Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to break through bottlenecks.

During this process, although he consciously refined his True Yuan, minimizing impurities, inevitably some remained.

And these impurities mixed with the True Yuan originally required time to gradually refine and dissipate.

But now, as the Youlian completed a cycle of inhaling and exhaling, all impurities vanished, rendering the True Yuan incredibly pure.

Although the overall amount of True Yuan was significantly less, Mu Jinyu's combat prowess, strictly speaking, improved considerably!

"Seems this should be the first wondrous use of this Youlian."

Mu Jinyu exhaled in relief, realizing the Youlian wasn't relentlessly consuming his True Yuan, then pondered silently.

However, after waiting for a moment, Mu Jinyu noticed no new changes in the Three-Leaf Youlian. Instead, after refining his True Yuan, it became completely calm.

Thinking of the mystical little tree in his mind, whose functions took quite some time to explore, Mu Jinyu wasn't in a hurry to immediately understand the function of the Three-Leaf Youlian.

He would eventually figure it out.

Moreover, given it could regrow from a wilted, split lotus seed, Mu Jinyu wasn't convinced its functions were so limited.

Mu Jinyu slowly opened his eyes and saw Wang Xingyang respectfully waiting nearby. He gently exhaled, saying, "It was troublesome."

"Not troublesome, not troublesome, Dragon Master, there's no need to be polite," Wang Xingyang hurriedly waved his hand and said.

Strangely, when Mu Jinyu opened his eyes, Wang Xingyang seemed to catch a flash of eerie light in his gaze, which was quite chilling.

As for how Mu Jinyu dealt with the lotus seed, what effects it had, though Wang Xingyang was curious, he dared not ask.

Mu Jinyu rose and walked towards the nearby bookcase.

Although during this visit to the Dan Pavilion, he acquired an exotic species and nurtured a mystical Youlian, his actual goal for the trip was not fully achieved.

After all, Wang Xingyang only mentioned how Wang Mao often said he wanted to visit Mount Tai again, which didn't necessarily imply that both exotic species came from there.

It merely indicated that the likelihood of them being from Mount Tai was quite high.

He needed to check Wang Mao's files left behind before his death to see if there were more clues to uncover.

Following the transformations of the Three-Leaf Youlian, Mu Jinyu grew more curious about what the mystical little tree and the Three-Leaf Youlian truly were as spirit plants.

Could it be... not plants from Earth?

Unfortunately, after carefully reviewing all the files and materials in the room, Mu Jinyu found no clues.

"Sigh..."

Mu Jinyu sighed softly, his expression slightly disappointed, yet he wasn't prepared to give up and leave just like that.

After discovering a new exotic species here at the Dan Pavilion, Mu Jinyu regretted not thoroughly exploring and examining at the time of counterattacking Wang Mao and others from the Dan Pavilion, which would have prevented him from finding this exotic species only now.

Moreover, it was highly possible that Wang Mao left crucial clues and materials, which were destroyed with his death.

Now, after finding the Youlian seed here, Mu Jinyu didn't want to leave with satisfaction, only to learn later that the Dan Pavilion had hidden further clues but was subsequently destroyed, a reality he would truly regret.

"Did your uncle have a dedicated office computer back then? Is it around now?"

Mu Jinyu turned his head from the bookcase to Wang Xingyang behind him, inquiring.

In fact, if Wang Mao really left any clues, they'd likely be on his phone rather than the computer. But he's been dead for over a year, with his phone's whereabouts unknown, likely overwritten, Mu Jinyu didn't hold out hope for that.

"Yes." Wang Xingyang nodded.

Mu Jinyu asked, "Was the computer's system ever reinstalled?"

"No." Wang Xingyang shook his head, "On my uncle's passing, no one touched it."

The Dan Pavilion wasn't short on money, and naturally wouldn't have anyone take over the computer after Wang Mao's death.

"That's good, take me to see it." Mu Jinyu let out a slight breath, smiling.

He truly feared the computer left by Wang Mao was treated as an heirloom and burned, or handed to someone else and had its system reinstalled, making clues difficult to find.

"Come with me, please."

Wang Xingyang said respectfully, turning around to head out.

Several minutes later.

Wang Xingyang led Mu Jinyu to Wang Mao's old office.

Opening the door unleashed an unpleasant mildew odor, clearly indicating the office had been sealed for quite some time.

Drawing back the curtains and opening the windows for ventilation, Wang Xingyang approached a desk to boot the computer.

Once the computer booted up, Mu Jinyu sat in the office chair and began browsing the desktop files.

No clues.

Then, he searched folder by folder on every disk, and without being able to use Divine Sense for quick browsing, he spent over half an hour thoroughly inspecting all folders.

Yet, also no clues.

"No?" Mu Jinyu sighed slightly, contemplating where else in the Dan Pavilion he might find clues?

Wang Xingyang noticed Mu Jinyu wasn't very adept with computers and suggested, "There might be hidden folders, Dragon Master. You could have someone find them."

"Is there?" Mu Jinyu's spirits lifted upon hearing this, murmuring, "Seems like it."

He truly wasn't very proficient with computers, lacking even a cellphone upon descending the mountain before spending a short stint in the city and moving to Kunlun Ruins, so what would he know?

Thanks to Wang Xingyang's reminder, Mu Jinyu remembered hidden files, though he was unsure how to deal with them. He called Mu Hongchen to have her remotely access and possibly uncover hidden files.

"I can try, for sure." Mu Hongchen replied without asking why Mu Jinyu needed it, then began to operate.

Soon, Mu Hongchen exclaimed over the phone, "Dragon Master, found it, I'll open it up for you."

"Click, click..."

The mouse clicked softly twice, followed by several hidden files Mu Hongchen uncovered, displayed on the screen.

Mu Jinyu squinted slightly, reviewing them one by one until his gaze locked onto one file, laughing softly,

"Haha... finally found it!"