In a valley that had long since been deserted, a plot of medicinal herbs suddenly appeared, with a young woman working the soil...
At once, everyone from the Myriad Mother Palace changed expression!
"Who are you?"
Shan Lie immediately stepped forward, releasing his aura.
He... was a master who had surpassed the Five Elements Great Realm and reached the Earth King Realm.
Yet the young woman with a bamboo basket on her back in the herb garden merely turned around calmly.
She stood among the herbs, like a lotus emerging from clear water. Though she was working, she had the otherworldly grace of an immortal maiden, imbued with a profound sense of truth.
This woman... was none other than Su Baiqian!
Su Baiqian paused and looked at the group. A trace of thought flickered in her eyes, but she asked calmly:
"And who are you?"
Shan Lie replied coldly:
"I am Shan Lie of the Myriad Mother Palace!"
"Tell me, where are you from? What is your name?"
At his words, Su Baiqian murmured, "The Myriad Mother Palace... people from that old pangolin..."
A faint chill flickered in her eyes.
...On the day she entered the Forbidden World through the forbidden path in the Gray Mist Sea, she had arrived in this valley.
But this valley... had been nothing but dead silence.
Here, she had found many ancient, fragmentary records: the resentful curses of the dead, and their accusations against the ungrateful Earth Emperor...
She had learned everything about the past.
The Earth Emperor... had killed her people and turned them into human effigies.
Because of this, her people could never enter the cycle of reincarnation for all eternity; they could only give rise to endless resentment!
All this time... she had been planting herbs.
Drawing on her knowledge of