Why Is Zhu Yin, Zhunti's Disciple, Not Cultivating Properly in the Western Lands but Coming to the Blood Sea?

He passed through the world barrier and returned to the Primordial Wilderness.

A familiar surge of heaven-and-earth spiritual aura washed over him.

Zhu Yin silently calculated and only then discovered that they had spent ten thousand years in Chaos.

After following the two elders back to Mount Sumeru in the Western Lands, Randeng immediately took his leave. Zhunti, Jieyin, and Zhu Yin did not try to keep him.

Haste made waste in all things.

Their opening had already been excellent. There was no need to take strides too large.

Good things were often hard-won. They could simply take it slow.

They were all quite open-minded about drawing Randeng into the Western Lands.

After seeing Randeng off, Zhu Yin returned to Bodhi Hall.

Knowing that his two elders would soon enter seclusion, he did not beat around the bush and said bluntly,

"Disciple has a matter to request."

"If Martial Uncle has an extra Ninth-Grade Golden Lotus, I hope you can bestow one upon your disciple."

"If we can persuade Ancestor Minghe to exchange a Ninth-Grade Red Lotus, it would greatly benefit our Western Lands."

Zhu Yin had never concealed his purpose.

Zhunti and Jieyin saw it clearly as well.

Alongside their gratification, they also felt somewhat heartache and helplessness.

Obtaining the Ninth-Grade Black Lotus had been half luck and half karma.

But no one was a fool. If the Ninth-Grade Red Lotus were truly so easy to acquire, they would have exchanged for it with Ancestor Minghe long ago.

That lord of the Blood Sea had a solitary disposition, cold and arrogant, and disliked associating with other living beings. Furthermore, when Zhunti had traveled the four directions forming karmic ties in his early years, he had visited the Blood Sea and fallen out badly with Ancestor Minghe.

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