Half a year flew by.
Life on the fief was peaceful and fulfilling.
The Blue Silver Grass Sea changed colors four times as the seasons turned. Crop after crop of medicinal herbs was harvested from the Medicine Field. Lan Si'er and Lan Li'er could already run all over the courtyard, chasing chickens and dogs, while Lan San had learned to pull himself up against the stone table and stand on unsteady legs.
Old Ke kept the fief's affairs in perfect order. The workers each carried out their duties, and everything ran smoothly.
During those six months, Lan Tian spent most of his time in the Icefire Basin, studying the Beast-Hide Ancient Books and the Life Altar's array diagram he had brought back from the ruins.
The methods of circulating life energy recorded in those ancient books shared much in common with his Blue Silver God Power. Their approaches to certain details gave him considerable inspiration, especially the passages on condensing dispersed life force into a form that could be stored. He pondered them repeatedly for a long time before finally integrating them into his life soul core's circulation system, further improving the efficiency of the soul core's rotation.
The structure of the Life Altar's array diagram gave him an even more systematic understanding of how life-attribute soul masters had cultivated in ancient times. The design principles behind its nested guiding, gathering, and condensing layers were all worth examining in detail.
With the continuous nourishment of the Icefire Basin and the golden ancient tree, his soul power rose steadily from level seventy-two to level seventy-three.
Of course, he was the only one who knew that.
To the outside world, he remained a four-ring, healing-type Blue Silver Grass Soul Ancestor.
During that time, however, he deliberately allowed a few people he trusted