On the first day of the second month, year 5532 of the Yuangguang Calendar, the snow melted and all things stirred back to life.
On Linghua Island, immortal cranes spread their wings and golden eagles soared.
Zhao Yi strolled across the island under an Invisibility Technique. The cultivators passing around him could not see him at all.
There were already quite a few cultivators on the island now. All the Fourth-Generation Disciples who had reached minor attainment in the Meridian Opening stage or higher were on Linghua Island, where Xu Qiyu assigned them duties. Those who had only just entered the Meridian Opening stage or had yet to reach it were actually all half-grown children, and Zheng Wu had taken them to cultivate on Jade Pearl Island!
Zheng Ji now effectively served as the head instructor of Linghua Island's school for new disciples. Together with two Fourth-Generation Disciples at Perfection of Meridian Opening, she taught the newly admitted children on Jade Pearl Island, while also shouldering the important duty of caring for the Jadeflower Spirit Fish!
Wu Xiuzhu, meanwhile, led three Fourth-Generation Disciples in tending the spirit medicine garden. Zheng Tong now also had a disciple at her disposal, whom she was training as a reserve Alchemist for Linghua Island!
Zhou Zheng, the Fourth-Generation Disciple who had been far away on Black Wind Island, had already been assigned by Wang Ping to Linghua Island, where he had begun establishing the Artifact Refining Hall. Accompanying him were the Fourth-Generation Disciples Wang Ping had sent over the years, as well as several elderly members of the former Crimson Flame Sect. All of them had now been recalled. On Black Wind Island, heaven was high and the emperor far away; they could not be left outside unchecked!
Li Hai was now cultivating on