The thatched cottage gradually fell silent as well.
Chen Xun and Black Bull never emerged again, merely remaining quietly inside. Even Frog Daoist had no idea what they were truly doing.
Yet great cultivators often came from outside to visit the thatched cottage. All of them performed the grand rites of the immortal path before daring to enter the depths of the mountain range, often bringing specialties from the Desolate Heaven Domain...
This delighted White Spirit, the fierce beast, to no end. The Spirit Medicine Garden grew every year, and even its cultivation quietly advanced without its notice. This could absolutely be considered a Daoist sanctuary!
Yet Frog Daoist's promise had not been fulfilled. It still had not gone to ask that senior bull to reveal a little spirit medicine from beneath his hooves.
But it was happy enough with things as they were. Every day, it diligently tended the Spirit Medicine Garden. If it continued cultivating like this, the Great Dao was within reach!
The years passed without a sound, and a hundred years had already gone by.
One day, a Primordial Divine Dragon streaked across the skies of the Desolate Heaven Domain. It had no aura, its Primordial Spirit was deathly still, and it suddenly crashed down into a certain region, instantly drawing the attention of living beings for tens of thousands of miles around.
This dragon was a venerable one at the Great Vehicle Middle Phase!
Yet its body was completely unscathed, while strange white hairs sprouted all over it, even spreading to taint the earth... polluting an entire region!
Such a horrifying and bizarre occurrence alerted the great sects nearby. Cultivators went to investigate, only to have their souls tainted in less than half a day... becoming white-haired corpse puppets.
This matter alarmed the Primordial