Lesser Qiong Peak, underground secret chamber.
His immortal consciousness caught his master meditating there in a daze. Li Changshou smiled and continued fiddling with the chessboard before him.
He was merely arranging the black and white pieces into simple patterns with no particular meaning, using them to relax his mind.
The underground secret chamber had now expanded tenfold and been transformed into a complete cave abode, with rooms reserved for his master, junior sister, and two martial uncles.
Li Changshou was alone at the moment, carefully considering his entire set of preparations for before the Investiture of the Gods.
He had already decided back in the Northern Julu Continent that, for the next one or two hundred years, he would not take the initiative to scheme against anything. He would quietly watch the winds and clouds shift, temper his Dao heart, and explore the Great Dao.
At this stage, two relatively important minor matters had already been completed—
The third-phase renovation of Lesser Qiong Peak was finished;
His master had gained Heavenly Court luck and merit.
Present-day Lesser Qiong Peak was built upon the set of Five Elements Spirit Pearls gifted by Daoist Duobao. With several "heavy treasures" obtained from the Holy Mother Palace, the power of the Five Elements Grand Array had been vastly enhanced.
He would not dare claim that Lesser Qiong Peak could now withstand the bombardment of an Innate Treasure head-on, but at the very least, it had reached the "ultimate defensive capability" Li Changshou could currently achieve...
Hiding at home was not without meaning!
If he could acquire some supreme defensive treasure and place it in the primary array eye of Lesser Qiong Peak's composite grand array, that would be a true ultimate cave abode!
Of course, that was merely an idea, a purely conceptual