Inside the gatehouse of Jade Void Palace.
Great Green Root wore a virtual device and flailed its branches about, playing with wild abandon. As it enjoyed itself, it grumbled about its disciple, Fei Zhengtao:
That fellow was utterly unfilial! Back then, I begged and pleaded, helping him break through to the Exterior in the cultivation wasteland and ascend to the Real Realm. I even helped him be among the first to enter the Boat of Doom, survive the final tribulation, and reach the new All Heavens and Myriad Worlds. What for? So I'd have someone to play games with, and someone to handle the dirty, exhausting work!
But that ungrateful wretch cared about nothing but martial arts cultivation. No amount of scolding or lecturing could get through to him!
Alas, I'll have to be more careful when choosing disciples in the future!
Just as Great Green Root was cursing Fei Zhengtao inwardly, a flash of silver suddenly lit up before its eyes, like lightning illuminating heaven and earth.
"Haha, my package has finally shipped!" Great Green Root beamed with delight. Its branches swayed, shaking all the virtual devices onto the floor, and it strode over to the silver-white Disk floating in the gatehouse.
Jade Void Palace Express—shipped and delivered!
Lifting the half-man-high package from atop the silver-white Disk, Great Green Root eagerly tore it open and took out the items one by one.
"Dark Water Five Elements Cover"... "Rootless Hundred Flower Dew"... "Life and Death Unending Cloud"... Its face lit up with joy as it muttered to itself and assembled the items, more excited than ever before. After quite some time, what appeared before it was a fish-tank-like object filled with translucent liquid. Every ripple stirred a riot of colors.
"Haha, it worked! It worked!" Great Green Root circled the