With that thought, Chen Nianzhi immediately emerged from his cultivation chamber.
After leaving seclusion, Chen Nianzhi looked into the situation outside and discovered that more than three thousand years had passed during his retreat.
Not long ago, the Western Abyss Dragon King had summoned over half the Demon Race blessed lands of the West Qi Divine Abyss Sea to jointly attack the Guixu Hundred Seas.
To withstand the Heavenly Dragon Grotto-Heaven, Chen Xianqing and Chen Xianchang had both emerged from seclusion and were preparing to confront the Demon Race's powerful cultivators.
After understanding the situation, Chen Nianzhi was immediately at ease.
He knew very well that with the Eight Trigrams Grand Formation and multiple half-step Heavenly Immortals guarding it, along with Jiang Linglong's Heavenly Immortal-level combat power concealed within, the current Guixu Immortal Alliance had nothing to fear from the Western Abyss Dragon King.
Thinking this, Chen Nianzhi checked on Chen Qiyuan and found that the old ancestor was still cultivating in seclusion. Without further delay, he made his way to the immortal herb garden of the Pure Yang Five-Elements Grotto-Heaven.
He went straight to where the Taiyi Immortal Fruits were kept, selected the oldest of the five, and used Innate Spiritual Water together with a strand of innate qi to advance it into an Innate Taiyi Immortal Fruit.
With the Innate Taiyi Fruit in hand, Chen Nianzhi immediately went to the grotto-heaven's fire vein and began refining the Innate Taiyi Pill.
Although the Innate Taiyi Pill was an innate treasure pill, it was still only a lower ninth-rank pill. Its refinement difficulty was not much different from that of the Taiyi Immortal Pill.
Yet it was, after all, an innate object, so generally speaking, innate mana was required to refine it properly.
Chen Nianzhi already possessed innate mana, while