After obtaining the Marriage Tree seed, Yuwen Cuojin kept it quiet and pretended nothing had happened as he headed to the Great Shang imperial mausoleum.
Because the plan had been exceptionally thorough, they successfully seized the Cycle of Life and Death Formation and used it to reverse life and death, resurrecting an ancient Qiongqi of the Hundred Beast Hall.
After that, everything proceeded extraordinarily smoothly. The Clear Abyss Sect was destroyed, yet he credited all the merit to Situ Ding.
With the Marriage Dao Seed, the cult's glory, wealth, power, and struggles were nothing more than passing clouds before his eyes.
Once he refined it, what in the world could he not obtain?
Yuwen Cuojin even used an injury as an excuse to abolish the Dao he had mastered. After falling in realm, he resigned as vice cult leader and withdrew into the mountains and forests.
Many years passed.
The Marriage Tree seed remained silent, as though it had lost all life. If not for the fact that a Dao could not perish, Yuwen Cuojin would have suspected it had already died.
During that time, the forest had initially been truly deserted. But gradually, refugees fleeing the chaos of war moved in, and the place slowly developed into a village.
Perhaps the days of secluded cultivation had been too dull, or perhaps because he had not been part of the Demon Summoning Cult for many years, but he unexpectedly felt that an ordinary person's plain life had its own unique flavor.
After settling down in the small town, several more years passed.
That day, apricot blossoms drifted through a fine rain, and the green mountains lay shrouded in mist.
As Yuwen Cuojin drank, he happened to see a woman crossing a bridge beneath an umbrella. At that moment, a voice