Outside the Eight Sceneries Palace, Xuandu was tending herbs in the medicinal garden. He looked up at the stars glittering across the sky and smiled with relief. Then he pulled up a spiritual herb he had cared for over a long time and held it out to the Azure Ox, who had been following him.
The Azure Ox opened his mouth out of habit, but stopped when he caught the herb's scent. He looked up at the smiling young man before finally curling his tongue around the herb and drawing it into his mouth.
On Kunlun Mountain.
Deep within the Jade Void Palace, Heavenly Venerable Yuanshi sat cross-legged on a cloud couch, seemingly wandering through Chaos in spirit.
When the stars began to shimmer across the sky, he slowly opened his eyes.
He gazed at the brightest of them, the Purple Tenuity Star. After a moment, he closed his eyes again. Only his voice echoed through the Jade Void Palace.
"Good. He's back!"
On Golden Turtle Island.
Inside Biyou Palace, Sect Master Tongtian was refining a treasure.
As the number of Jie Sect Disciples grew, he, as their master, naturally needed to grant them plenty of Spirit Treasures for protection.
There were not enough Innate Spiritual Treasures, so he could only forge acquired ones.
He had just finished a long sword. Its blade was deep blue, covered in dense patterns of law.
When starlight fell upon it, he raised the sword before his eyes and watched the light gather along its blade, nurturing the sword spirit.
"Yellow Dragon." An inscrutable smile touched Sect Master Tongtian's lips as he spoke the name. "That little fellow really is blessed."
On Western Mount Sumeru.
Beneath the Bodhi Tree, Daoist Zhunti sat cross-legged, expounding the Dao to Medicine Master and the others.
His voice