Lord of Ashes
Chapter 686

The Truth of the World

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A stone cavern no more than a hundred meters across.

Several stone tables, stone chairs, and one rather large stone bed.

That was everything in the space behind the Stone Gate.

The cavern was clearly small, but because there was even less inside it, it instead gave off a sense of emptiness.

This was the dwelling of the greatest genius ever born to the Bamboo Dragonfly Clan.

Lu Mo—the name of the slender Bamboo Dragonfly before him—was also the grandmother of Lan Xi, the Demigod-level Bamboo Dragonfly.

Lu Mo had chosen to live here herself, because only in such a secluded place could she have the chance to touch upon deeper rules of greenery.

When nearly all Demigod-level Creatures of the Green Leaf World referred to the Power of Rules as the "Essence of Greenery,"

Lu Mo had instead created the term "laws," a relatively rare concept in the Green Leaf World.

That was enough to prove that she had walked farther down the path of demigods than any other creature.

But that no longer meant much.

The theoretical lifespan limit of a Demigod-level Bamboo Dragonfly was two thousand years.

Lu Mo, before them now, was actually 2,371 years old.

Sealing herself within this secret stone chamber was not only to let herself explore the rules of greenery more deeply, but also Lu Mo's way of delaying her aging and death.

As the Stone Gate of the sealed chamber opened, the end of Lu Mo's life drew ever closer.

The azure scales on her slender body were still full of life and vitality.

But barring any surprises, within the next two or three years, Lu Mo's scales would severely fade until they turned completely black.

Among the ancestral remains enshrined in the Bamboo Dragonfly Clan's ancestral land, two sets of

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