Shi Feiyang imprinted the Zhoutian Divine Talisman on the Jade Lotus Pod and refined this Heavenly Palace Treasure anew through a method derived from the Three Sovereigns Great Way.
Of the workings Elder Longbrow had originally left on the lotus pod through the Lesser Clarity Immortal Art, all but the scant few that harmonized with the lotus itself shattered and unraveled.
As the Lesser Clarity Immortal Art continued to collapse and dissipate, the petals growing from the lotus pod steadily lost their luster. Their shimmering nine-colored radiance rapidly vanished, and once their light and color were gone, the petals began to shrivel and wither.
Within moments, the entire flower bud had withered away, leaving only a solitary lotus pod, with a Blood Orb the size of a teacup's mouth floating above it.
Without the petals enclosing and restraining it, the fleshy orb was about to tear through space and fly away.
But Shi Feiyang had already anticipated its escape. He continued forming hand seals and casting spells, making nine streams of azure qi shoot from the holes in the lotus pod and hold the orb firmly in place.
Next, three hundred and sixty Zhou Tian Jin Talismans formed a golden circle floating around it, with the Jade Lotus Pod suspended at its center. As Pure Yang Immortal Qi poured in without cease, new petals sprouted along the lotus pod's edges. This time, however, they were no longer multicolored, but pure azure.
Petal after petal emerged, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Soon there were three thousand six hundred, layered one upon another. Each bore talismanic seals of the celestial palaces of the Four Symbols and Twelve Earthly Branches of the Circumcelestial Cycle. Together, they formed nine tiers corresponding to the lotus pod's nine holes.
A thousand years