After seeing everyone off, Zhu Yin gave himself a break.
He spent ten years wandering through mountains and rivers, thoroughly relaxing before finally turning to serious business.
He circulated his magic power and opened up a small lotus pond nine hundred li wide where the White Lotus Pool and Black Lotus Pool met. Then he scattered Five-Colored Spirit Soil and planted two precious lotus seeds.
One was a Merit Golden Lotus Seed, while the other was a World-Destroying Black Lotus Seed.
To ensure the black lotus would not grow weaker than the golden lotus, he injected it with the origin power of another Twelfth-Grade Golden Lotus, added several black lotus seeds to strengthen its foundation, then placed it inside the Vitality Treasure Vase to be nurtured for tens of thousands of years.
With Spirit Platform Mountain's latest upgrade, along with the blessings of Three Lights Divine Water, Five-Colored Spirit Soil, Four Seas True Water, and Yin-Yang qi, he was confident that these two lotus seeds could bloom into Ninth-Grade Lotus Blossoms and become top-grade spirit treasures... perfect for housing the Three Corpses.
After finishing this, he headed to the Spirit Medicine Garden and personally tilled some spirit fields. He planted three rare Five-Needle Pine seeds, likewise placing them inside the treasure vase to be nurtured for ten thousand years and receive the nourishment of all manner of treasures.
Once everything was done, Zhu Yin returned to his usual rhythm of life:
Drinking tea, comprehending the Dao, brewing wine, setting formations, refining pills, cultivating... and when idle, admiring flowers and watching clouds. His days were utterly carefree.
No matter how turbulent the outside world became, he paid it no heed, remaining as free and easy as ever.
But five thousand years later, the urge to travel stirred within him.
After gathering