Yuan Tian Emerges from Seclusion

It was time for Yuan Tian to emerge from seclusion. There was no reason to stay inside the Fourteenth-Rank Azure Lotus any longer. He needed to see what the outside world was like, what had changed, and whether people were hunting down the Qilin Clan. He had to find out for himself; no one could tell him. After all, he had "put away" every one of his subordinates. These days, Yuan Tian had no eyes or ears in the world.

As soon as Yuan Tian emerged from the Fourteenth-Rank Azure Lotus, he saw that the concealment formation he had set up around himself was still intact. He paid it little attention. His mind was already drawn to the lotus.

He had never expected this. For nearly eight hundred years, he had made no real, deliberate effort to refine the Fourteenth-Rank Azure Lotus. He had only watched a "movie" inside its inner space, yet he had somehow refined it to a preliminary degree. This was an Innate Supreme Treasure! Where in the world could anyone find such a stroke of luck—refining one in a mere eight hundred years? Yet Yuan Tian had stumbled into it without even knowing what he was doing. His "dog-shit luck" was formidable indeed. That was the benefit of immense Fortune.

An unlucky person might choke to death just drinking water. A lucky one, like Yuan Tian, could have a windfall land in his lap before he knew what had happened.

Yuan Tian stepped out of his defensive formation. There was no sign of the Innate Demon Gods around him, or even of the Qilin Clan's experts. Was the fighting over? So soon?

"Oh, right. I forgot I spent almost eight hundred years inside the Fourteenth-Rank Azure Lotus. Whatever fighting there was should be over by now."