Within Su Yi's Blessed Grotto-Heaven were quiet rooms for cultivation, living quarters for rest, pill chambers for refining medicine, and more.
There was also a half-mu lotus pond.
All manner of lotus flowers had been planted in the pond.
When they bloomed, they were a riot of colors, with auspicious light drifting through the air, a truly beautiful sight.
At this moment, however, Su Yi looked over and saw that the faint rustling sound came from a patch of five-colored soil at the bottom of the lotus pond.
There, a jade-green tender shoot was breaking through the earth. The slender sprout swayed gracefully, tiny as a bean sprout, yet it radiated astonishing pulses of life force.
The faint rustling from before had been produced by that emerald-green sprout as it broke through the soil.
In that instant, lightning seemed to flash through Su Yi's mind, and he immediately swept his sleeve.
At the bottom of the lotus pond, the five-colored soil emitted an astonishing aura of Great Dao Source, all of it pouring into that jade-green tender shoot.
Then, the sprout gradually began to grow, becoming a young plant. Its stem thickened, emerged from the water, and spread out broad, crystalline lotus leaves...
This process lasted a full three hours.
To Su Yi, it was as though he had witnessed a life from its gestation to its emergence from the soil, until it finally grew.
When he saw a dazzling golden lotus quietly bloom atop its stem, a tranquil and peaceful joy naturally welled up in Su Yi's heart.
The lotus swayed gracefully, scattering golden auspicious radiance, magnificent and resplendent.
In Su Yi's eyes, it seemed to be the rhythm of life itself, while those swaying lotus leaves resembled the traces left by destiny's movements.
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