Two years passed before he knew it.
Inside the immortal cave.
Chen Lin entered a secret chamber and looked at the pipe resting on a stone platform.
Although he was the only person in the entire plane, caution had become second nature to Chen Lin. He had not built any luxurious residence, merely hollowed out a simple immortal cave inside a mountain.
This secret chamber lay just beneath the summit. Everything above it had been hollowed out so it could bathe in moonlight.
Light now flowed across the pipe, and faint fluctuations emanated from it. A strange mark flickered in and out of sight on the pipe bowl.
From the look of things, it should have finished charging.
Chen Lin approached, touched it first, then picked up the pipe.
He concentrated on sensing it for a while, but still could not detect anything.
Next, he tried injecting energy into it, only to fail again.
He stopped wasting his efforts and took out a small box instead.
Inside were three clumps of pipe tobacco.
According to Zhou Ximei, summoning a divine being with the pipe required putting this tobacco into the bowl and lighting it.
There were only three clumps, which meant he could use it only three times.
The Zhou Family possessed a method for cultivating the tobacco, and their growing site had been in the Purple Bamboo Forest. He had obtained that method as well, but had been unable to grow any successfully.
He had no seeds.
Zhou Ximei had seeds, but they were not exotic treasures and could not be taken out of Four Directions City.
Now that even Four Directions City was gone, obtaining more tobacco was all but impossible.
Chen Lin took out a clump of tobacco, examined it, then put it back.
The tobacco had