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However, when Yuechan's gaze wandered aimlessly beyond the courtyard,

it eventually landed on the enormous Willow Tree in the center of the village, and her eyes froze.

The Willow Tree's trunk was charred black, as though it had suffered a devastating lightning strike, yet it now brimmed with vitality.

Hundreds of crystal-clear, emerald-green Willow Twigs swayed gently in the breeze. Faint wisps of Chaos Qi curled around each one, and countless tiny worlds seemed to flicker in and out of existence within them.

A shudder that came from the depths of her soul swept over Yuechan in an instant.

"Th-this... this aura..."

Yuechan's pupils contracted violently.

As the Saintess of Butian Sect, she had read widely. The sect's Scripture Pavilion held fragmentary records of the Immortal Ancient Era.

In a yellowed bone book, she had once read a description of an unparalleled being.

It had taken root in the Nine Heavens, was born amid tribulation by lightning, and was hailed as the Ancestor of Sacrificial Spirits. It had once charged alone into Foreign Territory...

"An... Ancestor Spirit?!"

Yuechan let out a silent, horrified scream.

She stared fixedly at the Willow Tree, her body trembling uncontrollably.

An Immortal Ancient Giant, said to have fallen long ago and vanished into the River of Time, was still alive?

And it was serving as the Sacrificial Spirit in this seemingly ordinary little village?

How was that possible?!

Before she could recover from the shock, something beside the Willow Tree caught her eye.

It was an enormous Tri-colored Light Cocoon.

The cocoon drifted in midair, its surface shimmering with golden, silver, and purple divine light. It radiated an aura of supreme, sacred, boundless dominance.

Within the cocoon, a tall, slender figure could just barely be seen taking shape. The pressure it gave off stirred the