"..."
Looking at her guileless yet confident face, Daoist Yan choked for a moment before saying after a long pause, "Probably not. Venerable Wanfa killed him."
"That old bastard." Empress Feng was not surprised in the slightest. She nodded calmly. "Sure enough, he's no simple character."
"That longevity demon was probably Venerable Wanfa's handiwork as well." Daoist Yan pointed at the projection of the giant tree. "He has truly grown into a force to be reckoned with."
The so-called longevity demons had once been a legend in the cultivation world.
It was said that no human could live beyond a thousand years, not even the divine and sacred. This was the shackles this world placed upon the lifespan of living beings.
And once a human's lifespan exceeded a thousand years, it meant they had become a demon—a longevity demon.
Legend said that nearly ten thousand years ago, such a giant tree had appeared in the human world as well, though perhaps it had not been quite so towering. The emperor of the mortal dynasty at the time possessed immensely high cultivation and a long lifespan, living for more than a thousand years. But he was bloodthirsty by nature, personally executing large numbers of prisoners every so often. Later, there were not enough death-row inmates, so even minor crimes were punished with extreme penalties, and he even slaughtered civilians at will.
In the end, the dynasty was overthrown and the old emperor beheaded. That enormous tree withered away.
Later, the people could no longer stand the sight of it. They uprooted the tree and burned it in a single blaze. Rumors had spread at the time that the old emperor had lived so long because he had cultivated into a longevity demon.
Yet few people throughout the ages had ever controlled