[The longer the time, the better the ability gained after refinement? This thought flashed through your mind, but after a while, you felt it was unlikely. Refining treasures was different from attaining enlightenment, so there was no such principle.
In response, you observed a while longer outside the space where Lin was in secluded cultivation. Finding nothing amiss, you could only temporarily suppress the unease in your heart. Reason told you that when both you and Niu Wudi had only been gone for a little over a century, yet Lin had been shut inside for so long without emerging, then either she was incompatible with it, or something had gone wrong.
Yet you could not see what it was, which left you unable to fully trust your rational judgment.]
[You shifted your attention away from Lin. Following the methods of wielding spatial power that you had obtained from Moxuyu, you made slight adjustments upon that foundation and traversed space to arrive in another, relatively hidden area of Bi Xing Hall.
This place was even colder and gloomier than the Cave Mansion of Lin, the Fallen Immortal Monarch. The instant you entered, you could clearly sense the displeasure of your Lifebound Dao Artifact, the Phoenix Primordial Spirit. The Samadhi Divine Fire, too, became somewhat less active after entering this place.
You did not spend long in this space before finding an altar covered in all manner of materials and piled high with countless treasures. The closer you drew to the altar, the fiercer the Yin Wind became. Yet as though sentient, it all took the initiative to avoid you.]
["Fellow Daoist Qing Tong has come... Enter. I have been waiting for you for a long time."
You did not wait long before a voice emerged from the altar. It was deep