Patriarch Yuan Hua and Lu Buwei sat opposite each other in a secret room in the backyard of the Spring and Autumn Trading Center.
The interior of the room was very simple. It had only one cloud bed, two hassocks, and an incense burner shaped like a mountain. The air was filled with a strong fragrance that made people feel warm; but once inhaled, it turned into a cold stream that circulated through the body and freshened one's mind. It had the effects of keeping one's mind sharp and expelling all evils.
There was a faint glow of blood beneath Patriarch Yuan Hua's body. A beam of blood light shot out from the top of his head, forming into a sea of blood thirty feet across right above him. On top of it, three blood lotus flowers that were as large as pots could be seen bobbing around. In the center of the three lotus flowers floated eighteen lotus thrones, but they were all empty.
