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 Spirit Medicine Garden and found the medicinal herbs growing luxuriantly. Some new spirit roots and exotic flowers had even appeared. Though they were still young, they showed immense potential.

They had likely been naturally born after Spirit Platform Mountain's advancement and transplanted here by the boy attendants. He also credited them for their efforts.

Next, he 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, busy gathering nectar every day, and their strength had improved 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 become a Mysterious Immortal and undergone her Transformation Stage, taking the form of a three-foot-tall young girl.

The spiritual energy contained within the royal jelly was incredibly dense. It could be used in wine and pills, and consuming it directly was highly beneficial even to Mysterious Immortals. Zhu Yin tasted some, offered a few words of praise, and encouraged the queen bee.

Afterward, he headed to Dragonfish Lake halfway up the mountain. It was formed from an Innate Spirit Lake. The dragonfish clan from the original Primordial Lotus Pool 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 develop intelligence.

After inspecting the entire area, Zhu Yin discovered that the spiritual energy surrounding Spirit Platform Mountain had grown denser than before. The mountains and waters were beautiful, and quite a few cultivators had gathered here. Though it was still sparsely populated compared to other places, it was already exceptionally lively for the Western Lands.

These newly arrived cultivators also knew the rules. None had presumptuously occupied the three Spirit Lands that had appeared when Spirit Platform Mountain advanced. Zhu Yin was very satisfied with this.

Seeing everyone diligently cultivating and building up 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 large stockpile of spiritual materials, his gaze softened considerably.

In the end, Zhu Yin returned to the Bamboo Building and ordered the boy attendants to tend to the three Spirit 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 vast and complex, their principles profound. Zhu Yin himself was an Innate Spirit Root, the Pure Bamboo, and possessed an inherited artifact-refining legacy. Though it only extended to the Grand Unity Realm, it was already quite remarkable.

Moreover, he had the aid of Enlightenment Tea, the Pure-Cleansing Bell, and Bodhi Seeds, and he had encountered artifact-refining methods in the past. This time, his secluded cultivation progressed at astonishing speed, and after only several hundred years, he was able to begin experimenting himself.

Inside the refining chamber, Zhu Yin activated the Vitality Cauldron. Innate True Fire blazed fiercely within it.

This was the cauldron's innate spiritual flame, capable of refining all kinds of spiritual materials. At this moment, it was 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 mindset was steady. Even though he was already a Great Principle Golden Immortal, he showed no impatience and still began with the fundamentals. The materials he used were all ordinary spiritual materials, so he would not feel any regret 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 fire, or maintaining the rhythm of the entire refining process, he had nearly mastered them all.

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

"A High-Grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure! It's finally complete!" Zhu Yin's eyes were filled with delight.

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

The Western Lands had always been poor in resources, and Innate Spiritual Treasures were even rarer. Many powerful cultivators could only sigh in longing before such treasures. Especially after Purple Cloud Palace's third lecture, great powers throughout the Primordial Wilderness had risen one after another, and almost all ownerless spiritual treasures had been claimed.

Zhu Yin had recognized this problem long ago, and so the thought of refining treasures himself had taken root in his mind.

Although 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 would not lose to Innate Spiritual Treasures. More importantly, Acquired Spiritual Treasures were relatively easier to refine and were not as rare and difficult to obtain as Innate Spiritual Treasures.

In his view, as long as he gathered enough immortal gold and divine iron, along with solid artifact-refining skill, he would have a chance of producing powerful High-Grade Acquired Spiritual Treasures. The process of refining artifacts was itself a form of cultivation!

What was more, artifact refinement could also allow him to gain a deeper understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth.

The "Merit Pavilion" he had refined this time was for precisely this purpose... He intended to use this tower to encourage western living beings to repair the shattered earth veins of the Western Lands. This would strengthen the spiritual energy of the earth veins while improving the strength of living beings, accomplishing several goals at once.

Having made up his mind, Zhu Yin extinguished the true fire, put away the Vitality Cauldron and the spiritual treasure, then rose and left the Dao Field.

The spiritual lands of the Primordial World were divided into three grades:

Spirit Mountains, Spirit Lands, and Grotto-heaven Blessed Lands. Each was further divided into four ranks.

Spirit Mountains were the lowest-grade spiritual lands. Though spiritual energy gathered there, they had no stable Spirit Veins and were easily affected by changes in Heaven and Earth. Their resources were also relatively ordinary.

Spirit Lands were far more advanced. They naturally nurtured small Acquired or Innate Spirit Veins, preventing spiritual energy from dispersing easily and allowing rare spiritual materials to emerge... Generally speaking, Low-Grade Spirit Lands possessed one Spirit Vein, Middle-Grade Spirit Lands had two, high-grade ones had three, while Top-Grade ones could have as many as six.

The highest were Grotto-heaven Blessed Lands. Spiritual vitality circulated within them, gradually forming a self-sustaining cycle. The higher their grade, the less they depended on the outside world. They could be called the finest cultivation grounds in Heaven and Earth.

This time, Zhu Yin selected a Middle-Grade Spirit Land near Spirit Platform Mountain... the Blessed Fortune Spirit Land.

Standing in midair, he manifested his dharma golden body. A verdant bamboo stalk coiled around him, scattering endless golden light. In an instant, the entire world was illuminated, 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 Western living being who repairs an earth vein may use the earth vein's energy to exchange for treasures at the Merit Pavilion. The more you repair, the greater your gains and the higher your rewards. May all living beings work together and revive the Western Lands."

After speaking, he tossed out the tower-shaped spiritual treasure.

Driven by his mana, the spiritual treasure rapidly expanded, radiating brilliant light as it slowly descended from the sky into Blessed Fortune Spirit Land, where it firmly took root.

Three large words appeared on the front of the tower... "Merit Pavilion," dazzling in golden light.

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

Spatial compression formations had been used on every floor, making the interior immensely spacious and capable of accommodating over ten thousand visitors at once. The exchange list inside the tower was written in Dao script and listed an enormous number of Heaven and Earth Treasures, pills, spiritual iron, immortal fruits, exotic herbs, and other rare resources.

The first floor contained over a thousand rewards, the second had over a hundred, and the third held several dozen.

Though these items could not compare to the resources of the eastern and central regions, they were an immense temptation in the Western Lands.

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

Within a pavilion on Spirit Platform Mountain,

Zhu Yin sipped spiritual tea while watching the scene outside the Merit Pavilion through the void. A satisfied smile appeared on his face, and even the tea seemed exceptionally fragrant.

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