Several months later, Shen Mo's ascension celebration was held as scheduled!
The Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden, Yang Jingmu, had also been invited, but her battle with Qing Sheng Yuanjun and the other three remnants of old who stood in the Celestial Immortal realm had yet to yield a victor even now. Her true body found it difficult to return to the Immortal Realm, so she only sent an incarnated body in response.
She also dispatched several innate deities under her command, each comparable to an Earth Immortal, to Five Dragons Mountain bearing "lavish gifts." They had come to help Shen Mo hold the fort as well, lest petty villains arrive at the celebration to stir up trouble.
One look at these congratulatory gifts made it clear that they had been seized from the remnants of old...
There were more than ten immortal trees, sharing the same origin as the seventh-rank immortal trees of the Dragonheart Realm. They had clearly come from Qing Sheng's Dharma Body.
Shen Mo planted these immortal trees within the Azure Cloud Blessed Land. As one tree after another took root there, their root networks burrowed deep into the crust and ley lines, making the earth ever heavier and sturdier. Their spreading canopies held up the heavens, rendering the skies ever broader and loftier, greatly bolstering the Blessed Land's foundations.
Had the Blessed Land evolved naturally, it would have needed at least three or four thousand years to attain its present splendor.
Three of the immortal trees appeared somewhat decrepit, their leaves withered and yellowed, their trunks covered in wounds, and their vitality exceedingly weak. Even when Shen Mo invited A Yao, the Flower Fairy, he could not make them live.
In the end, Shen Mo felled these three dead immortal trees, intending to use them as