The affairs of the Blood Sea had been settled for the time being, and Houtu's plan to establish a cave abode beside the Abyss Main Array had also been decided.
Before work began, however, they still needed to inform the lord of the Blood Sea.
Pan Xuan and Houtu went together to the Netherworld Blood Sea Palace and told Minghe that Houtu wished to establish a cave abode in the Blood Sea and stay there temporarily to pursue her insights.
After hearing them out, Minghe merely nodded slightly.
He had no objection to Houtu establishing a cave abode in the Blood Sea.
The Blood Sea was boundless. One more cave abode or one fewer made no difference to him.
Besides, Houtu was a rightful deity of the Divine Dao System, equal in rank to him. Naturally, he would show her this much courtesy.
He stipulated only one condition.
The cave abode could not be near the central region where he cultivated in seclusion. Anywhere else was fine.
Pan Xuan and Houtu agreed, then selected a place where earth veins converged, several hundred li east of the Abyss Main Array, and began work.
As the Earth Ancestral Witch, Houtu would ordinarily have had no difficulty establishing a cave abode, but she did not act carelessly.
This cave abode was unlike an ordinary temporary residence. It stood beside the Circumference Heavenly Cycle Purification Grand Array and close to the Blood Sea abyss.
That was where the turbid fiend qi was densest and the fluctuations of laws fiercest in the entire Blood Sea.
More importantly, Houtu had chosen to establish her cave abode here not to rest her feet, but to comprehend the Netherworld Dao.
This cave abode had to harmonize perfectly with the laws of the Blood Sea's earth veins and withstand