Perhaps the Mutant Bird's next sneak attack would come one day, hundreds of years from now, when Human Civilization had let its guard down.
The uncertainty was deeply unsettling.
Lu Yin couldn't accept being on the back foot, so over the following decades, he did something: he cultivated Azure Immortals.
That was right. He cultivated Azure Immortals.
The first time he had visited the Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad's territory, the Immortal Lord had scattered Bug Nests along the way, and Lu Yin had scattered Pathfinding Stones after them.
The Immortal Lord had not understood why Lu Yin was doing that.
Many years had passed since then. The consciousnesses on those Pathfinding Stones should have dissipated long ago, but Lu Yin still added his consciousness to some of them—for instance, stones that came into contact with a civilization.
The Immortal Lord had scattered Bug Nests to find civilizations and cultivate Azure Immortals.
Most of the Bug Nests simply drifted through space, serving no purpose. But every now and then, one would come into contact with a civilization.
The civilization Lu Yin had arrived in now, for example, was already infested with many bugs. If he hadn't intervened, the Bug Nest Civilization would have claimed it long ago.
This civilization had no particularly powerful beings. Its strongest creature was only at the Ancestral realm, about on par with the Tree Starry Sky in the Primeval Space of the Heavenly Origin Universe back then. That was nowhere near enough to rival the Bug Nest Civilization.
But it was more than enough to cultivate Azure Immortals. Lu Yin stood atop a mountain. Behind him was an oddly shaped creature—an Azure Immortal, in fact. It looked like the life-forms of this civilization. Lu Yin had cultivated it specifically in the hope that the Immortal Lord