God Ruin Era territory, Evergreen Realm.
After the Evergreen Saint Emperor left, the landscape of this realm underwent tremendous changes.
Several hundred Void Ember Years had passed—according to the God Ruins Realm's calendar, five thousand years.
The present-day Evergreen Realm had been carved up by major factions. The surface of the realm was divided into six great regions, while two more factions occupied the inner heartland. A total of eight chief god clans each claimed a resource-rich territory.
In the center of the Evergreen Realm, within the territory of the Wolf Clan, one of the eight chief god clans, lay a place called Warm Moon Lake, a Cultivation Holy Land.
This holy land did not have a long history, only a few thousand years. Long, long ago, it had merely been an ordinary freshwater lake.
In daylight, a human man who looked like a youth arrived at the shore of Warm Moon Lake.
The youth had handsome, refined features and wore light silver-white armor. Two black wings rested quietly folded behind his back as he walked on the ground.
"This is the place—the birthplace of the Qin Clan of the Old Universe," the youth murmured.
He reached a hand into the water and closed his eyes to sense it.
After a short while, he frowned. "I can't sense grandfather's bloodline aura. It seems the Qin Clan here has either moved away or been wiped out."
Qin Yu walked upon the waves, covering tens of thousands of meters with every step as he crossed the lake surface.
After a while, he made a grabbing motion at the water with one hand. The surface exploded with a splash, and an old turtle radiating the aura of a Star Lord Sixth Order emerged.
"My lord, my lord, I'm innocent! I'm innocent!" The instant