After the family banquet ended, Yang Qingxue stayed overnight at the Elegant Serenity Pavilion.
Chunlan and the other three women took the four children back to their rooms early to rest, tactfully leaving Liu Changxu and Yang Qingxue to enjoy their time alone.
Having only just tasted the pleasures of the bedchamber, Yang Qingxue was utterly captivated by dual cultivation with her beloved and did not let Liu Changxu leave the room for three whole days.
In the days that followed, Liu Changxu plunged into the Artifact Refining Room and embarked on another round of artifact refining.
Since the palace magical treasure Liu Changxu was refining resembled a lotus platform, he had initially intended to name it the Lotus Platform Palace. After much deliberation, however, he decided that Ruyi Lotus Palace was a better name.
Compared with the Red Lotus Skyburning Sword, the Red Lotus World-Destroying Seal, and the Ruyi Golden Armor, the Ruyi Lotus Palace was undoubtedly far more difficult to refine.
According to Liu Changxu's final vision, the Ruyi Lotus Palace would be a life-bound magical treasure capable of growth, combining flight, habitation, offense, defense, and concealment, with the potential to become an Innate Spirit Treasure.
To reduce the difficulty and shorten the time required, however, Liu Changxu decided to first refine a simplified version of the Ruyi Lotus Palace, with only habitation, flight, and defensive functions.
As for its offensive and concealment functions, he would gradually complete and improve them when circumstances allowed.
Liu Changxu had spent more than ten years preparing to refine this magical treasure.
As he refined the magical treasure he had dreamed of, excitement filled his heart.
One afternoon in January of the year 3214 of the Great Tang Calendar, Liu Changxu emerged from the Artifact Refining Room, his face weary.
He