The moon shone like water.
In the garden's stillness, flowers bloomed in profusion: peonies, Chinese peonies, roses, azaleas, and night-blooming cereus... Flowers of every kind, some in season and some out, vied for beauty, as if welcoming the sovereign of heaven and earth before them, the emperor of ten thousand generations.
His world's rank was one with the world itself. In the Great Zhou World, any living being who saw him ought to submit.
Wu Ming carefully sized up the Heavenly Emperor of the Great Zhou World before him.
The man looked exceedingly young, seemingly not yet twenty. With red lips, white teeth, and a face like polished jade, he was the very picture of a graceful young noble.
Yet purple radiance brimmed around him, mingled with an immense majesty, as though he were heaven, earth, and everything in between!
Wu Ming opened his Heavenly Eye and activated the Main God Hall's True Vision. In an instant, boundless purple light filled his sight. It was as if the being across from him was not a person at all, but a purple sun in the sky!
The world's power converged with him at every moment, a clear sign that his rank was real.
"Greetings, Heavenly Venerate!"
Wu Ming clasped his hands in salute. "During my wife's campaign in Lingzhou, she received your care. I have yet to thank you."
He was also a Seventh Level Golden Immortal now, on equal footing with the other man, and had no reason to bow or fear him. Though he had once gone so far as to refine a mighty figure of the Heavenly Court, Xuan Sheng Tian Jun, it was hard to say whether the Heavenly Emperor could even discover it—and, even if he did, whether he would turn against Wu Ming over such