Thump! Thump!
Thump! Thump!
Low, slow heartbeats sounded at Crossroads Corner, and likewise played through the Sorrowful Emperor Realm.
This Saint Emperor Secret Realm had long become utterly different from what it once was.
Birdsong and fragrant blossoms filled every corner, while grass and trees flourished. A bright White Sun hung high in the heavens. Beneath the radiance of life force, beasts could be seen running across the earth and birds streaking through the skies—a scene brimming with vibrant life.
Though the Sorrowful Emperor Realm of old had possessed life as well, it had all shared but one will: Bei Huai.
Now, however, every trace belonging to Bei Huai had been killed off. Birds and beasts arose naturally, shortening by an unknown number of years the process that should have taken place.
And the "influence" accelerating this evolution of life undoubtedly came from that White Sun high in the sky.
"Very good. Everything is under control..."
The canopy of the Great World Locust Tree rustled in the wind, likewise growing toward the sun.
The world believed that Medicine Ancestor Shennong Hundred Herbs could not survive apart from the Great World Locust Tree, but that was not actually so.
Much like the existence of Ghost Ancestor, it was a smokescreen—using time to pile illusion upon illusion until it became fact, making people believe it without doubt.
In truth, Medicine Ancestor had already absorbed the Way of Reincarnation after the god war back then. He had merely remained stuck at the final step, without breaking through.
He had placed the merging of two into one and the return to zero together, guarding against the Devil Ancestor's notice while waiting for an opportunity sufficient to bring forth the New Heavenly Realm.
This opportunity would also follow the Devil Ancestor's guidance. Once the piglets