A few more days passed, and Cheng Xinzhan came to the entrance of the Three Pure Ones Palace again.
He was probably the junior disciple who had entered and left the Three Pure Ones Palace most often.
Ji Hehe was still seated cross-legged, his eyes closed in spirit wandering.
"Xinzhan, you're here. What are you doing outside? Come in."
"Yes."
Cheng Xinzhan answered and walked into the palace, sitting opposite Ji Hehe.
"What brings you here, Xinzhan?"
Ji Hehe spoke kindly.
Sect Leader, this disciple has a question about cultivation."
Ji Hehe was somewhat surprised. Why had he come to ask him about cultivation instead of Wen Sukong or Shi Tongxuan? But he did not show it and continued in the same gentle voice,
"Please, go ahead."
Cheng Xinzhan asked, "This disciple has now opened four palaces, with only the wood palace remaining unopened. Might the Sect Leader instruct me?"
Ji Hehe smiled at this. "You're not asking me how to open your wood palace. You're asking me how to choose its inner landscape deity, aren't you?"
He knew that Xinzhan had traveled both far and high along the path of the Yellow Court's inner landscape, partly because of his talent and partly because of his opportunities. In the sect now, never mind those in the first and second realms-even many in the third and fourth realms had yet to form an inner landscape deity. Of those who had, few possessed ones with origins as lofty as Xinzhan's.
Cheng Xinzhan nodded. If it were simply a matter of accumulating qi through breathing exercises and opening the palace through slow, steady work, he naturally would not have asked.
Ji Hehe nodded, then shook his head.
"Your fire mansion's inner landscape deity is the Hairy Head Sun Star Officer, your metal palace's