While the Chen family busied themselves with the aftermath, the Zhou family on Jingyang Peak and the other families were treated as though they had been forgotten. Not a single Chen cultivator of sufficient standing came out to explain what should be done next.
And without the Chen family laying out a plan, the higher-ups of the Zhou family and the other families could not simply leave at once. Who knew whether they might have only gotten halfway home when the Chen family sent word for everyone to return and discuss the bandit-suppression operation? That would be utterly exhausting.
This caused Zhou Yang no small amount of distress.
Jingming Peak was not a suitable place for cultivation. Moreover, after reaching Foundation Establishment, he could no longer violate their previous agreement by absorbing the mountain's spiritual energy for cultivation. As a result, his plan to switch over to the Qianyang Immortal Scripture had been put on hold.
Seeing that he could not switch cultivation methods for the time being, Zhou Yang could only turn his attention to other matters.
After obtaining the seventh-tier artifact, the Qianyang Treasure Bead, that day, he had been forced to leave the secluded cultivation chamber before he had much time to study the treasure. Now that he was temporarily free, he naturally placed this matter at the very top of his priorities.
Speaking of which, although the Qianyang Treasure Bead had already acknowledged him as its master, he did not even possess the ability to move the artifact.
Ever since the treasure bead had burrowed into his dantian's sea of qi, it had quietly remained within the small pond formed by his Mana True Essence, silently accepting the nourishment of his mana.
All high-grade artifacts above the fifth tier could be stored within a cultivator's body