Myriad Dharma Lotus

"I'm back!"

After sixteen hours, Zhang Xuezhou appeared in the Wondrous Dharma Palace once more.

The palace was deserted. No one came to look after Zhang Xuezhou, and no one came to make trouble for him, either.

Zhang Xuezhou let out a long breath.

He rubbed his empty stomach and quickly recalled what he knew.

Once he remembered what the Golden Crow Great Emperor had said, Zhang Xuezhou leaped out of bed.

There was a lotus pond in the center of the Wondrous Dharma Palace, and the lotus pods growing in it were the food he had to stave off hunger in this secret realm.

"Can eating lotus seeds really keep hunger at bay for three days?"

The lotus pond was quite large, covering more than three hundred square meters, but there were not many lotuses in it.

Zhang Xuezhou walked around it and saw only twelve lotus pods.

According to the Golden Crow Great Emperor, under normal circumstances, these pods would keep him fed for about a month.

Zhang Xuezhou thought about the date, then about his current situation, and decided he couldn't go wrong eating a little more.

Stuck with a life where he woke at irregular intervals and had no one to look after him, Zhang Xuezhou could keep himself from starving to death by eating more.

Besides, he still wanted to ask the Emperor for help, and that might bring its own unexpected problems.

Eating his fill was his first priority. Zhang Xuezhou looked toward the lotus pods, stripped off his clothes, and jumped in.

The lotus leaves, flowers, and pods in the pond were no different in size from ordinary ones. The lotuses did not grow thickly; altogether, there were no more than a hundred plants.

Zhang Xuezhou paddled through the water, plucking lotus pods