On a lush green planet.
Deep within a bamboo sea stretching a thousand li.
A refined, scholarly young man in green robes sat fishing by a stream. His eyes seemed capable of seeing through ten thousand years, and behind him hung a great sun formed of azure light, radiant and unmatched.
Merely sitting there, he made the nearby vegetation brim with spiritual energy and flowers bloom in profusion.
"Though the Eternal Evergreen Art is a supreme longevity cultivation art, containing the true essence of time and capable of keeping one eternally unfading, it ultimately requires an Innate Chaos Wood Spirit Treasure to suppress it! Without one, this Emperor had little chance of returning to the Quasi-Supreme realm, much less challenging the Supreme realm!"
"Unfortunately, that One who fled after Jianmu was severed chose the Wasteland Human Emperor! This Emperor can only settle for the next best thing and obtain the Ginseng Fruit Tree! And... if I can be nourished by Fairy Chang'e's Primordial Pure Yin Power, so much the better!"
The young man muttered to himself as azure light burst forth from his body, as though the Three Thousand Great Daos were rumbling within him!
Runes forged from azure gold circled around him before finally plunging into the great azure sun behind him, seeking to help him break through his bottleneck.
Yet his cultivation bottleneck did not budge in the slightest.
At that moment, the stream splashed as a multicolored exotic beast leaped out.
Its entire body was covered in dazzling five-colored scales. It resembled both a dragon and a flood dragon as it prostrated itself upon the water's surface and spoke in human words.
"Reporting to Azure Emperor, Tuoba Ye acted without authorization and has already fallen! The one who killed him was most likely the Wasteland Human Emperor,