With Luo Chen's return, Moon Invitation Island, which had been quiet for so long, became lively once more.
Pill refiners and medicine apprentices moved about the island, handling all manner of trivial medicinal herbs for Luo Chen.
That enormous pill cauldron also appeared on the island from time to time.
Only, this time, few cultivators dared come to watch.
Within Ten Li Calm Lake, a vicious black flood dragon lay dormant. From time to time, immense demon aura leaked uncontrollably from his body.
Without Luo Chen's protection, ordinary Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators simply could not withstand that demon aura.
Others assumed the black flood dragon was guarding the island and forbidding outsiders from approaching to spy on it.
Only Luo Chen knew that after Black King had devoured the Cliff Serpent that failed its tribulation, he had begun earnestly refining its essence.
Since all his attention was focused on refinement, he had fallen into a "false slumber," leaving him unable to control the leakage of his power.
One could imagine that once Black King awakened, his strength would surely surge by a great margin. Even his innate foundation and aptitude might see greater improvement.
The only question was whether the Black Scale Python lineage possessed Cliff Serpent blood in its ancestry, and whether the two could properly coexist.
The busy pill-refining work on the island affected many people, and many people benefited from it as well.
Xu Muxian was one of them.
Twelve years ago, he had merely been a collateral branch member of his clan, overlooked by everyone.
Twelve years later, he had reached the Qi Refining Seventh Layer and married into the Cheng Family, the foremost family of the Flying Swallow Islands, establishing a small family of his own.
Whenever he walked across the major islands,