Last time, it was thanks to Song Shuhang turning the tide that the Confucian School's Golden Lotus World was preserved.
The Golden Lotus World had expended a great deal of its origin, but as long as it remained, the Confucian disciples could continue hunting the evil fiends of the Nine Netherworld and provide nourishment for the Golden Lotus World's growth, allowing it to gradually recover.
The Confucian School had now moved some of its disciples scattered across the world in various 'Grotto-Heaven Abodes' into the Golden Lotus World. The Golden Lotus World had only just opened and needed a large number of disciples to enter and build this new world—transplanting spirit plants, inscribing formations, moving important Confucian buildings into the Golden Lotus World, transporting spirit stones, and countless other tasks.
This was far more complicated than an ordinary person moving house.
After a large number of disciples moved into the Golden Lotus World, the small Grotto-Heaven Abodes where they had originally lived in seclusion were left vacant.
At this time, the higher-ups of the Confucian academies learned that Song Shuhang wanted to find a 'paradise beyond the mortal world.' The academy leaders immediately decided to select suitable abodes from these vacant Grotto-Heaven Abodes and gift them to Song Shuhang.
The vacant Grotto-Heaven Abodes currently owned by the Confucian School were all small ones. However, there were quite a few of them. In China alone, there were nearly twenty-three abodes.
However, in more than ten of those Grotto-Heaven Abodes, the spiritual energy had gradually dried up over the past hundred years. To keep them running, one had to pay spiritual-energy fees to sects that sold spiritual energy. Such abodes, whose spiritual energy was steadily drying up, were not suitable for gifting to Fellow Daoist Shuhang. Otherwise, they would only burden him.