At the very instant Mo Lin and Zi Yan both broke through the Dou Di barrier, triggering the collapse of the Ancient Emperor Space, a jaw-dropping upheaval was also taking place in Mo Garden within the Primordial Chaos Realm, the core of the Artifact Refining Sect in the Central Continent, countless miles away.
Mo Garden was as tranquil and peaceful as ever that afternoon. Yun Yun played the zither in the pavilion, its notes flowing gently; Ya Fei and Han Yue played chess, placing their pieces soundlessly; Xiao Yi Xian and Qing Lin tended the Spirit Grass in the herb garden; Nalan Yanran practiced her swordsmanship by the lake, her sword light like water; while Cao Ying and Dan Chen discussed pill formulas in the study, speaking in low voices.
Cai Lin sat beneath a Spirit Fruit tree, holding her daughter Mo Lingxi, who had only recently turned three, and enjoying a rare moment of leisure.
Little Lingxi was exquisitely adorable, babbling as she played with the little toys her father had refined for her. A faint aura of Peak Dou Zong seeped from her body—yet in Mo Garden, where resources were limitless and bloodlines extraordinary, such a thing was commonplace.
However, at a certain moment—
"Bzz!"
Without any warning, Little Lingxi's tiny body suddenly trembled in Cai Lin's arms! An indescribably vast energy seemed to emerge from nowhere, or perhaps awaken from the deepest depths of her bloodline. Like a burst dam, it erupted within her body!
"Ah!" Little Lingxi let out a faint grunt of discomfort, her little face instantly flushing red.
"Xi'er?!" Cai Lin immediately noticed something was wrong with her daughter, and her expression changed drastically. She could clearly sense that the faint Peak Dou Zong aura within her daughter was soaring wildly at a terrifying,