Within Heavenly Machine City, in an ancient yet simple courtyard.
"Ning'er, your cultivation speed truly surprises this old man!"
The one who spoke looked as though yellow earth had already buried him past the neck. It was not merely his aged appearance—even the life aura faintly emanating from him seemed to be nearing its end.
Yet he was precisely such an exceedingly old man.
Merely sitting in a rocking chair within the courtyard, he gave off the feeling that he had merged with heaven and earth, as though he were part of this very world.
This elder bore the title Heavenly Saint. As for his name, no one had mentioned it for so many years that even he himself seemed about to forget it.
He was the Heavenly Saint Old Ancestor, one of the three great ancestors of the Heavenly Machine Tower, a Nihility Realm peak Great Power.
By all reason, with such cultivation and seniority,
even within a top-tier force such as the Heavenly Machine Tower, he should have been an absolutely supreme existence, one worshipped by all.
Yet although Heavenly Saint Old Ancestor's cultivation was high, he was somewhat out of step with the other two ancestors of the Heavenly Machine Tower. He even gave people the impression of a carefree man roaming beyond the Tower's bounds.
Even this courtyard where he lived was merely a temporary residence within the city, allotted to him by the Heavenly Machine Tower when it migrated to the Cangming Realm.
Yet this place, where even the descendants of the other ancestors rarely came to stay, had become Heavenly Saint Old Ancestor's permanent dwelling.
Heavenly Saint Old Ancestor leisurely waved a folding fan, looking as though he were dozing.
Yet he could clearly sense every change in the young woman not far before