He returned to the hall.
Li Ping sealed the two thousand pills from this alchemy session in wooden boxes as before, leaving them to shed their impurities.
He also released all his spirit beasts to roam freely, while his puppet tended the spirit plantings on the island.
He himself entered Evergreen Hall, sat cross-legged, and sank into the tedium of arduous cultivation.
Nothing in the outside world could disturb him. Before he knew it, two years had slipped quietly by.
At the end of that year, Li Ping suddenly opened his eyes as he sat cultivating in the hall.
Then he reached out casually and caught a pale green Sound Transmission Talisman in his palm. When he tore it apart, Bai Yaoyue's clear, melodious voice rang out.
Only then did Li Ping's tightly knitted brows relax.
When he first arrived in Heavenly Dao City and rented Evergreen Island, he had paid Bai Yaoyue seven thousand spirit stones for the first ten years.
Now that those ten years had passed, the landlady had come to collect the rent for the next decade.
Shaking his head, Li Ping rose and placed his three spirit beasts and Xuan Er into his Spirit Beast Bag. He also put the Origin-Replenishing Liquid and the Stillness Pills into his Storage Bag, leaving only Mysterious One behind to continue tending the spirit plantings.
Only after finishing all this did he fly out of the island.
Dressed in plain robes, Bai Yaoyue stood in the sky, looking down with a slightly grave expression in her captivating eyes.
Dense white mist shrouded Evergreen Island for hundreds of miles around, blocking her view.
Moreover, when she tried to extend her divine sense to investigate the mist, she discovered to her astonishment that it was completely blocked, as though it had