The Lord of Spirit Platform Mountain Establishes the Merit Pavilion in Blessed Fortune Spirit Land

After finishing the last pot of bamboo tea, Zhu Yin rose and began inspecting Spirit Platform Mountain.

He first went to the spiritual herb garden and found the medicinal herbs growing luxuriantly. Some new spiritual roots and rare flowers had even appeared. Though they were still young, they showed immense potential.

They had presumably been born naturally after Spirit Platform Mountain's advancement and transplanted here by the attendants. Zhu Yin duly noted their contribution.

He then went to the spirit bee hive. These were the Proud-Insect Spirit Bees brought back from Buzhou Mountain. They had now multiplied into tens of thousands, busily gathering honey every day, and their strength had increased considerably as well.

More than a thousand had now reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm, while several hundred were high-level True Immortals. The queen bee had even reached the Mysterious Immortal Realm and taken human form as a three-foot-tall young girl.

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The spiritual qi contained in royal jelly was extraordinarily dense. It could be used in wine or pills, and consuming it directly was greatly beneficial even to Mysterious Immortals. Zhu Yin sampled some, praised it a few times, then offered the queen bee further encouragement.

Afterward, he went to Dragonfish Lake halfway up the mountain. It was formed from a patch of innate spiritual lake. The Dragonfish clan from the original innate lotus pond had moved here, and there were now over a thousand Dragonfish. The Dragon Carp clan was the most outstanding among them. The first Dragon Carp had already grown to the True Immortal Realm, its appearance as dazzling as a Chi Dragon, though it had yet to awaken its intelligence.

After making this round of inspection, Zhu Yin discovered that the spiritual qi around Spirit Platform Mountain had become denser than before. The mountains and waters were beautiful, and quite a few cultivators had gathered here. Though it was still sparsely populated compared with other regions, it was already exceptionally bustling for the west.

These newly arrived cultivators also understood the rules well and had not presumptuously occupied the three spiritual lands that had appeared when Spirit Platform Mountain advanced. Zhu Yin was very satisfied with this.

Seeing everyone cultivating diligently and building their clan territories, he began considering Spirit Platform Mountain's future development. In particular, when he thought of the many unrepaired earth veins here, as well as the vast amount of spiritual treasures that had accumulated, his gaze grew much gentler.

At last, Zhu Yin returned to the bamboo lodge and ordered the attendants to tend to the three spiritual lands first. He himself prepared to enter seclusion and study the art of artifact refinement.

Although Mount Sumeru's artifact-refining arts could not compare to those of the Jade Clarity Lineage, they still ranked among the best in the Primordial Wilderness. Their contents were complex and their principles profound. Zhu Yin himself was the innate spiritual root Pure Bamboo and possessed an inherent artifact-refining inheritance. Though it only extended to the Grand Unity Realm, it was already extraordinary.

On top of that, he had the assistance of Enlightenment Tea, the Pure-Cleansing Bell, and the Bodhi Seed. He had also encountered artifact-refining methods in the past. This seclusion therefore progressed at astonishing speed, and after only several hundred years, he was able to begin making practical attempts.

Inside the artifact-refining chamber, Zhu Yin activated the Vitality Cauldron. Innate true fire blazed fiercely within it.

This was the spiritual fire inherent to the Vitality Cauldron. It could refine all kinds of spiritual materials and was currently being used to purify several materials.

Other than the accidental success when refining the Six-Purities Bamboo, this was Zhu Yin's first true attempt at actively refining an artifact.

His state of mind remained steady. Even though he was already a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, he was not the slightest bit impatient and still began with the fundamentals. The materials he used were all ordinary spiritual materials, so he would not feel distressed even if he failed.

Zhu Yin had been in seclusion refining artifacts for three thousand years.

Over those three thousand years, his artifact-refining skill had advanced by leaps and bounds. Whether it was polishing spiritual materials, controlling the heat, or maintaining the rhythm of the entire refinement process, he had nearly reached the point where everything came as naturally as fire and pure gold.

His five fingers flew as he continuously formed one complex hand seal after another. Before long, a tower-shaped spiritual treasure gleaming with spiritual light took shape in his hands.

"An upper-grade acquired spiritual treasure—at last, it's complete!" Zhu Yin's eyes brimmed with delight.

This spiritual treasure, named the "Merit Pavilion," was not only the first upper-grade masterpiece of his artifact-refining career, but had also incorporated three types of innate spiritual materials from the Treasure-Gathering Basin. It had taken several hundred years to refine and held extraordinary significance.

The west had always been poor in resources, and innate spiritual treasures were even scarcer. Many powerful cultivators could only gaze upon such treasures and sigh. Especially after the Purple Cloud Palace's third lecture, great powers throughout the Primordial Wilderness had risen one after another, and nearly all ownerless spiritual treasures had been claimed.

Zhu Yin had recognized this problem early on, and so the thought of refining treasures himself had taken root in his heart.

Though acquired spiritual treasures could not directly help one comprehend the Dao or sever the three corpses, as long as their quality was high enough, their power did not lose out to innate spiritual treasures. More importantly, acquired spiritual treasures were relatively easier to refine, unlike innate spiritual treasures, which were so rare that they were difficult to obtain.

In his view, as long as he gathered enough immortal gold and divine iron, together with solid artifact-refining skill, he would have a chance of producing upper-grade acquired spiritual treasures of exceptional power. The process of artifact refinement itself was also cultivation of the Dao!

What was more, artifact refinement could allow him to understand the Great Dao of heaven and earth more deeply.

The "Merit Pavilion" he had refined this time was precisely for that purpose... He planned to use this tower to encourage the living beings of the west to repair the west's shattered earth veins. This would both strengthen the spiritual qi of the earth veins and increase the strength of living beings—a single stroke yielding multiple gains.

Having thought it through, Zhu Yin extinguished the true fire, put away the Vitality Cauldron and the spiritual treasure, then rose and left his cultivation ground.

The spiritual lands of the Primordial Wilderness were divided into three ranks:

Spirit mountains, spiritual lands, and cave heavens blessed lands, with each category further divided into four grades.

Spirit mountains were the lowest-grade spiritual lands. Though spiritual qi gathered there, they lacked stable spiritual veins, were easily affected by changes in heaven and earth, and possessed relatively ordinary resources.

Spiritual lands were much higher in grade. They would naturally nurture small acquired or innate spiritual veins. Their spiritual qi did not easily dissipate, and they could give birth to rare spiritual treasures... Generally speaking, lower-grade spiritual lands had one spiritual vein, middle-grade ones had two, upper-grade ones had three, and supreme-grade ones could have as many as six.

The highest were cave heavens blessed lands. Spiritual essence circulated within them, gradually forming self-sustaining cycles. The higher their grade, the less they relied on the outside world. They could be called the finest cultivation grounds between heaven and earth.

This time, Zhu Yin had chosen a middle-grade spiritual land near Spirit Platform Mountain... the Blessed Fortune Spirit Land.

He stood in midair and manifested his golden Dharma body. A jade-green bamboo coiled around him, scattering endless golden light. In an instant, the entire heaven and earth were illuminated by gold, as though a deity had descended.

"I am the Lord of Spirit Platform Mountain. Today, I establish the Merit Pavilion in Blessed Fortune Spirit Land. Any living being of the west who repairs an earth vein may use the earth-vein qi they gain to exchange for treasures at the Merit Pavilion. The more you repair, the greater your gains; the higher the reward. May all living beings work together and make the western earth resonate as one."

Having spoken, he cast out the tower-shaped spiritual treasure.

Driven by his magic power, the spiritual treasure rapidly expanded, radiating light in all directions as it slowly descended from the sky into Blessed Fortune Spirit Land and took root firmly.

Three large characters emerged on the front of the tower... "Merit Pavilion," dazzling with golden light.

The entire pavilion had three floors, corresponding respectively to the Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, and Mysterious Immortal levels.

Each floor employed spatial compression techniques, making the interior immensely spacious and capable of accommodating more than ten thousand people entering and leaving at once. The exchange lists inside the tower were written in Dao script and included vast quantities of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, medicinal pills, spiritual iron, immortal fruits, rare herbs, and other precious resources.

The first floor had more than a thousand kinds of rewards, the second had more than a hundred, and the third had several dozen.

Though these items could not compare to the resource-rich eastern and central regions, they were an enormous temptation in the west.

After learning of this, countless living beings bowed toward Spirit Platform Mountain, then hurried back to their clans to discuss repairing earth veins or gather their clansmen to set out together. The scene became exceedingly lively.

Within a pavilion on Spirit Platform Mountain.

As Zhu Yin drank spiritual tea, he watched the scene outside the Merit Pavilion through the void. A satisfied smile appeared on his face, and even the tea seemed especially fragrant.

Several days later, he handed the management of the Merit Pavilion to the two attendants Wuxin and Wuqing. After instructing several other attendants to care for the mountain's flowers, plants, and spiritual treasures, he finally rode the air away, preparing to visit Mount Sumeru once more.