"Is that the Firmament Tree?"
An interdimensional rift opening within the City of the Living Futu was nothing strange; they had sensed it long ago.
But for the Firmament Tree to grow out of that interdimensional rift—even Xu Xiaoshou found that greatly unexpected.
"If I remembered correctly, wasn't the Firmament Tree supposed to be Devil Ancestor's backup plan?"
From the stone hall in the Cold Palace Imperial Realm, using Yue Gongqi's hand to plant Firmament Trees across the Five Domains, ultimately creating an Emberlight Nethersea and nurturing Ancestor Jinzhao, the Holy Emperor, along with the Holy Palace's Emberlight Lineage.
People like Elder Sang, Mu Lin, and Long Rongzhi could not stir up much of a storm, since at most they were only Half-Saints.
Yet even now, Xu Xiaoshou remained wary of Ancestor Jinzhao. Beyond the Holy Emperor lay Ancestor God, only one step away.
As long as one cast aside their Dao foundation and future and cultivated through the forced growth of pulling up seedlings, one could at the very least forcibly produce a Divine Shedding—had Yue Gongli not been forcibly elevated from Half-Saint to Ancestor God?
Naturally, the price of doing so was immense. That cultivator would no longer have any future.
But in an Ancestor God's eyes, why would they care about the lives of such minor fry? Pigs raised for so long were meant to be slaughtered when the time came, were they not?
This was true for Half-Saints and Holy Emperors, and it was true for Ancestor Gods as well.
Yet now that the Firmament Tree had reappeared, it was being used by the Medicine Ancestor. Why?
"Could it be that, according to the Medicine Ancestor's original plan, it wanted to use the Firmament Tree to influence the Devil Ancestor in reverse and obtain something from