Mayfly Calendar, five years later.
The Immortal Slaying Sword Formation still stood empty; no quasi-saints came to deliver their heads.
The Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos brimmed with spiritual vitality, a full thousand times greater than it had been five years ago.
Over the past few years, Great Thousand Heaven Masters had sprung up like bamboo shoots after the rain. By now, there were more than a hundred and thirty Haotian-level figures.
A'li, Houtu, and the other seven who had first attained the Dao and become Haotian were respectfully hailed by the Heaven Masters as the "Seven Venerates of Heaven Opening." All of them had already entered the great completion of the Shore Reaching Realm.
For disciples of the Three Pure Ones in this world to reach the Shore, they too had to slay one person—and those they slew were naturally the ever-invading "outer demons."
The reason the Seven Venerates of Heaven Opening still lingered in the Shore Reaching Realm was simply because all seven were waiting for their respective Treasure Tree Saplings to emerge.
Because the outer demons' invasion had stirred the "heavenly workings," dragons and snakes had risen from the land, and this world had flourished greatly. By now, nine Treasure Tree Mountains had risen in the deep void.
Li Qingyun sensed them and found that the Treasure Tree Saplings gestating within included seven peerless-grade ones and two top-grade ones!
This was absolutely an omen of the cosmos' revival and the Three Pure Ones' great resurgence!
The fully revived Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos was equivalent to being reborn from the ashes of chaos. To face the variables ahead, it would naturally give birth to the first and finest opportunities.
The seven peerless-grade saplings corresponded to the Seven Venerates of Heaven Opening. They were rewards for those with