Upon the great scroll, Chen Xu ascended step by slow step.
He spoke unhurriedly, "All of you seek to become Immortals, yet after becoming Immortals, you desire Immortal Servants, Immortal Children, the grandeur befitting Immortals.
If so, then is a Daoist estate not essential? Is a cave-dwelling not necessary as well?
Having acquired an estate, a dwelling—would you not seek a legacy to preserve?
Would you not desire Immortal Mountain, spiritual veins, treasured medicines…"
He painted a scroll of everlasting life, stirring rounds of assent from below.
Many, hearing his words, could not help but nod in agreement as they replied again and again:
"Indeed, these are necessary. Such should be the way upon becoming Immortal, else what meaning is there in ascension?"
Chen Xu smiled and said, "Yet Immortal Mountain, spiritual veins, treasured medicines, cave-dwellings, Daoist estates—none of these things appear from nothing.
