The mountain was named Spirit Bird Mountain.
Within Spirit Bird Mountain, the peaks were verdant, the waters deep and clear, and the spiritual energy abundant. Though it could not compare to Kunlun Immortal Mountain or the Golden Turtle Island overseas, it was still an exceptional treasure land.
Upon obtaining this treasure land, the Lone Fire Ghost King was overjoyed. With this place, the condition of "land" among "method," "wealth," "companions," and "land" was met.
With sufficiently abundant spiritual energy and enough time, even a pig could ascend to become a high-level immortal.
The Lone Fire Ghost King cultivated within Spirit Bird Mountain, passing through the Witch-Demon Era, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Era, and the Investiture of the Gods Era.
After the Investiture of the Gods Era, having achieved the realm of Grand Unity Golden Immortal, the Lone Fire Ghost King encountered a person.
This person was the Daoist Duobao.
Of course, after the Investiture of the Gods Era, Daoist Duobao had already left the Jie Sect, hence he was known as the Tathagata Buddha.
The Tathagata Buddha, under the arrangements of Zhunti and Jieyin, had repelled the Mara of Self-Enjoyment beneath the Bodhi tree, established the Hinayana Buddhism, and his cultivation of Dharma was rapidly catching up to that of the veteran Quasi-Saint.
The Tathagata Buddha did not encounter the Lone Fire Ghost King by chance; he had come specifically to find him.
"Fellow Daoist, I now wish to establish Hinayana Buddhism and widely invite the great powerful beings of the Primordial World."
"Yet, after searching far and wide, I have not found a decent treasure land. The best cultivation treasure land I found was merely a snowy mountain."
"How can a snowy mountain suffice for establishing a sect? When I widely invite the great powerful beings of the Primordial World, all sorts of deities, I fear it will lead to a loss of face."
"Fellow Daoist, do you think... you could lend me your Spirit Bird Mountain for a year? To hold the grand ceremony for establishing the sect that encompasses the Three Realms?"
The Tathagata Buddha, as if opening a door, directly asked to rent Spirit Bird Mountain.
Furthermore, he promised that it would only be for one year, and he was willing to draw up a written agreement, with everything in black and white, in accordance with proper procedure.
"This... alright."
After a moment of hesitation, the Lone Fire Ghost King readily agreed.
Although the Lone Fire Ghost King had cultivated to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, it was solely through the passage of time, a Grand Unity Golden Immortal honed by eons.
Below the limit of the Heavenly Dao, flowers had nine grades. The Lone Fire Ghost King only possessed three grades of three flowers and was a rogue cultivator. How could he compare to the Tathagata Buddha, who possessed the profound techniques of both the Jie Sect and the Western Sect?
Even if their cultivation levels were equal, he would still be inferior to the Tathagata Buddha. Moreover, the Tathagata Buddha was already a veteran Quasi-Saint, while he was only at the early stage of Grand Unity. Under such a suppression of cultivation, the Lone Fire Ghost King had almost no right to refuse.
Soon, the Lone Fire Ghost King and the Tathagata Buddha signed a written agreement, stating in black and white that Spirit Bird Mountain would be temporarily lent to the Tathagata for one year.
The written agreement was in duplicate, with one copy in the Tathagata's possession and the other in the Lone Fire Ghost King's.
The Lone Fire Ghost King then moved out of Spirit Bird Mountain.
He mused to himself, "I recall from the Journey to the West that the Tathagata Buddha resided on Spirit Mountain."
"All the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats gathered on Spirit Mountain, hence Spirit Mountain was a sacred land."
"Has the Tathagata Buddha not yet found Spirit Mountain? That is why he needs to borrow my Spirit Bird Mountain to provide prestige for establishing his sect?"
The Lone Fire Ghost King, as a transmigrator from Earth, was not surprised by such rentals.
On Earth, let alone renting houses, even for weddings, wedding dresses and sports cars were rented to provide prestige.
What was the purpose... of course, it was to avoid losing face at the wedding.
In the Lone Fire Ghost King's opinion, the Tathagata Buddha renting his Spirit Bird Mountain was simply to avoid losing face in front of the great powers of the Three Realms.
This was understandable.
After all, the Tathagata Buddha had only recently found a snowy mountain to establish his sect there. Would the great powers of the Three Realms look down upon him?
"However, has Spirit Mountain not yet appeared?"
The Lone Fire Ghost King was somewhat puzzled. Spirit Mountain, the cultivation treasure land belonging to Buddhism, had not yet reached its time of manifestation? Was this why the Tathagata Buddha could not find it?
This was also possible.
Zhunti and Jieyin resided on Mount Sumeru, which had manifested as early as the Primordial Witch-Demon Era. However, this belonged to Mahayana Buddhism.
The sacred land of Hinayana Buddhism had not yet manifested.
Although the Lone Fire Ghost King was somewhat puzzled, he did not ponder it too deeply.
After all, the written agreement they had signed was, in his view, akin to a modern contract. It was in duplicate, with black and white text stating it was only for one year. Could he renege on it?
With the contract signed, when the content of the contract was revealed, the deities and immortals of the Three Realms would naturally discern the situation. The Tathagata Buddha would not dare to lose face, would he?
Having thought things through, the Lone Fire Ghost King stopped dwelling on it and instead recalled his own cultivation.
"Alas, when others transmigrate to the Primordial World, they possess golden fingers."
"As for me, I have no golden fingers, no systems, nor can I transmigrate into those top-tier mythical figures, the Three Pure Ones, the Two Sages, or even the second-generation disciples of the Four Great Sects."
"I have only transmigrated into a fire spirit, a demon with ordinary roots."
"Relying solely on myself, even after finding an excellent treasure land and cultivating for billions of years, from the Witch-Demon Era to after the Investiture of the Gods Era, I only reached the early stage of Grand Unity Golden Immortal."
"And it was a Grand Unity Golden Immortal who condensed three grades of three flowers."
Recalling the past, even with billions of years of cultivation and an excellent treasure land, he had ultimately only condensed three grades of three flowers.
The Lone Fire Ghost King sighed.
Achieving Grand Unity Golden Immortal was difficult, difficult, difficult!
Do not be misled by the protagonists in past Primordial World novels, whose nine grades of three flowers were merely the basic standard, with any of them possessing twelve grades of three flowers, comparable to Pangu's innate talent.
This was merely a special circumstance!
In reality, how could it be so easy to achieve high-grade three flowers?
Twelve grades of three flowers?
These were the three flowers possessed by Pangu himself. Go and try it!
Even Hongjun could not achieve it, nor could a large number of Chaos Demon Gods. Why were you so confident you could?
Nine grades of three flowers?
Transmigrators look down upon nine grades of three flowers?
Nine grades of three flowers were the highest grade of three flowers under the Heavenly Dao's limit. Saints like the Three Pure Ones and the Two Sages only condensed nine grades of three flowers, while great powers like Zhenyuanzi and Minghe only condensed eight grades of three flowers, not nine.
In the Primordial World, there were countless beings, trillions upon trillions.
Who gave you the courage to achieve the grade of three flowers that only six individuals among the entire Primordial World, the Six Saints, could cultivate, amidst trillions of beings?
Nine grades of three flowers, in the entire Primordial World, only the Six Saints had ever achieved them. The difficulty was unimaginable. This highest grade of three flowers, yearned for by all cultivators in the Primordial World, was not so easily attained.
In any case, the Lone Fire Ghost King, without golden fingers and unable to transmigrate into a being with top-tier roots, could not look down upon nine grades of three flowers.
Only after he truly cultivated did he realize the difficulty of nine grades of three flowers. Not only nine grades of three flowers, but even the potential to advance to the Quasi-Saint realm, five or six grades of three flowers, were extremely difficult to achieve. In the entire Primordial World, there were only a little over a hundred Grand Unity Golden Immortals who had condensed six grades of three flowers or higher, among trillions of beings.
Not only were nine grades of three flowers difficult to achieve, but six grades of three flowers were also difficult.
The Lone Fire Ghost King, despite his utmost effort and the foundation accumulated over billions of years of being a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, could only condense three grades of three flowers. He could not even condense four grades, let alone nine grades of three flowers.