When Daoist Guangcheng departed, he made no special effort to conceal himself. The Seven-Colored Deer, waiting outside Biyou Palace, lifted its head for a look, then bounced and skipped toward a Dao Palace outside Biyou Palace.
Starlight swayed above the Dao Palace, clustering around a goddess wreathed in the light of sun, moon, and stars. She wore a nine-tiered pagoda upon her head and heavenly robes with a rainbow skirt embroidered with the Four Symbols. One hand rested before her chest, while the other held a Dragon-Tiger Wish-Granting Scepter.
Below the goddess, two female Daoists were conversing. The Seven-Colored Deer entered, its eyes lighting up as it ran before one of the female Daoists clad in an Eight-Trigram Immortal Robe. "Turtle Spirit, long time no see. Come to think of it, you went south some time ago to retrieve your old body. How do you plan to settle it?"
"I originally intended to set it upon the Eastern Sea and turn it into an immortal island. But Fellow Daoists Qing Wan and the others already have Golden Ao Island. So I thought of placing it on Penglai Island, transforming it into a blessed land of Turtle Mountain for my own cultivation."
As Turtle Spirit spoke, she seemed to recall something. "When I wanted to see Master just now, I saw waves of immortal light above his residence and auspicious clouds gathering. Which Dao Realm senior had come to Biyou Palace as a guest?"
"What guest? It was Daoist Guangcheng, the head of the Jade Purity Dao."
Prompted by Turtle Spirit, the Seven-Colored Deer finally came to its senses. Looking at Jin Ling, it said, "Jin Ling, just as you guessed, Daoist Guangcheng came looking for Yu Chen with no good intentions. He wanted our Shangqing Lineage to merge into the