Immortal Grass Palace stood in Immortal Grass Market Town.
In a secret chamber, a small, verdant tree stood with lush branches and leaves, shrouded in a vast swathe of azure light.
A flash of green light, and Shi Mu appeared.
In the ten years that had passed, Shi Mu had grown considerably taller. He had become a young man in a green robe, barely in his twenties.
Before going into seclusion, he had spent a great deal of Spirit Stones to buy a batch of fourth-grade Wood Attribute pills. As a Spirit Wood Spirit, Wood Attribute pills were powerful tonics for him.
Shi Mu took a Transmission Mirror from his robes and sent a Magic Art into it. Soon, his face appeared on the mirror's surface.
"Master! You're back?" Shi Mu's face lit up. He had known his master wouldn't die so easily.
"Not yet. I'll be back later. How is Immortal Herb Palace doing?"
"After you disappeared ten years ago, business plummeted. I waited a long time with no sign of you, so I closed the shop and went into seclusion to cultivate. Please punish me, Master." Shi Mu looked a little nervous.
After Shi Yue went missing, many high-ranking cultivators had tried to cancel their orders. Shi Mu had no choice but to close the shop.
"This wasn't your fault. You did well. What about Immortal Grass Market Town? How's the foot traffic? By the way, what happened back then? Why has the Tianfeng Sea become a wasteland?" Shi Yue asked.
"Master, you don't know?" Shi Mu was taken aback, but quickly understood. Shi Yue must have been hiding inside his Cave-Heaven Magic Treasure.
"After Master was trapped on Tianfeng Star, Yanluo Hall sent out a large number of experts to blockade the star. Yanluo Hall razed the