Meanwhile, Ao Tu was searching for medicinal herbs with Golden Horn in the Flower Realm of the Heaven of Parting Hatred.
Golden Horn parted the flowers, searching for herbs.
Ao Tu helped him.
Many immortal herbs grew beneath those flowers, planted there by Lord Lao.
Golden Horn told Ao Tu, "One day in heaven is a year below; one day below is a year here. Thus, ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs are readily found here, and immortal herbs can reach maturity in seven or eight days."
Hearing this, Ao Tu thought that having this place placed under his management would certainly be a lucrative appointment.
The Flower Realm was not large. Its sky was round and its land square, spanning seven thousand nine hundred li in both directions.
At the center of the Flower Realm stood a palace complex with twenty-four halls and countless rooms. It served as a resting place connected to the outside world and was unaffected by the Flower Realm's flow of time. All passage to and from the outside world went through this place.
There was also an Immortal Spring, which split into twelve streams that crisscrossed and wound throughout the realm.
With no one tending them, these places had all fallen into some disrepair.
Golden Horn said, "There are few people in Tushita Palace, and Grandmaster has far too many herb fields. Even if all the disciples tending the fires were sent to look after them, they still couldn't manage them all. Some of the older ones haven't been checked in years. This place only gets checked once a year because the Queen Mother of the West often sends withered flowers and broken leaves here for fertilizer."
As he spoke, Golden Horn stepped on an immortal herb. It was an immortal ginseng.
The ginseng had grown into