After being provoked by the Immortal and Demon races, even the Fate Stones originally left in the storeroom no longer seemed safe. After much hesitation, I decided I had to take them all away, no matter how large the quantity. Even those I couldn't carry had to be stored somewhere else.
So I left a small pile in the storeroom in case Ying Yao needed them, split half between Xue Qingcheng and me and placed them in our storage bags, then found a mountain stream with a pool and dumped the remaining half—an enormous number of Fate Stones—straight into its depths, concealing their destiny aura as well.
I also hollowed out the entire temple area and constructed a special additional short-range teleportation point.
This was to prevent the temple from being controlled by someone else in the future, allowing me to break in from the underground area through the secret teleportation point.
Years of struggle had taught me to act cautiously. I dared not pin my hopes on the other party's humanity; I preferred to leave myself a way out.
After all, I still had a large group of friends from Mu Xian Continent waiting to come up. If someone took over my old nest while I was away, wouldn't everyone who came over become prisoners?
Besides, I couldn't let this place receive only one or two newcomers from time to time. Once the destiny-aura issue was resolved, opening a new passage was inevitable. Sooner or later, I would abandon the temple's teleportation point, because the array device I had used to enter the Hidden God Land had also been secretly installed in the temple's teleportation array.
Only after I felt certain that nothing could go wrong did Xue Qingcheng and I head to accept the territory we had obtained