Although he had already decided to find Daoist Lan and open the treasure together, Zhou Yang did not rush into action at once.
Daoist Lan had also made it very clear in the jade slip that the treasure would not be easy to obtain. He only remembered its location and held partial authority to pass through the treasure's internal restrictions.
The true core of the treasure would most likely still require brute force to break through.
Moreover, Daoist Lan himself had a concern: if he went to retrieve the treasure alone and accidentally triggered a contingency left behind by his original body before its death, the self-awareness he had so painstakingly developed might be erased again, reducing him to a vessel for his original body's resurrection.
Therefore, he would certainly wait until Zhou Yang arrived before truly making a move to retrieve the treasure.
Likewise, Zhou Yang was worried about the dangers lurking within that treasure. He felt that it would not be too late to set out once he had nurtured all his natal immortal artifacts into seventh-tier high-grade immortal artifacts.
Not long afterward, upon learning that their master Zhou Yang had returned from the lower realm, his six disciples returned to Dongyang Peak one after another to pay their respects.
During the time Zhou Yang had spent in the lower realm, Wang Qian, his sixth disciple and the only one he had accepted as a true disciple, had successfully formed a Nascent Soul and raised his cultivation to the Nascent Soul third layer.
His eldest disciple, Zhu Chongyang, had already reached the Nascent Soul Ninth Layer and had begun considering the matter of transcending tribulation to become immortal.
Of the rest, his second disciple Yan Donglai had reached the Nascent Soul Eighth Layer, his third disciple Han Sheng