Dao Realm Takes Root, All Things Begin to Sprout

The sky of the Dao Realm flowed soundlessly, bearing a luster beyond words.

It was neither sunlight nor starlight, but the radiance emitted by Martial Dao Will itself.

Beneath the mountain at the center of Heaven and Earth, a sparse patch of grass had already emerged.

Emerald-green shoots poked their heads from the soil, faint Martial Dao Runes flowing across their leaves, as though every blade of grass carried a trace of newly born spirituality.

Xuandu sat atop the peak, his eyes lowered toward the spreading greenery, his gaze calm after careful scrutiny.

He sensed those shoots slowly spreading outward, like an awakening arm gradually stretching open.

Those were the roots the Azure Emperor's Origin of Wood had planted within the Dao Realm.

The Vitality Law was in motion, and plants and living creatures were multiplying.

Though it was currently only a grassland less than a hundred zhang across, it was growing.

The Azure Emperor sat in the south, his emerald-green robes lightly fluttering in the breeze.

He too looked down at the spreading grassland. A faint stream of Life Force flowed between his withered fingers, silently guiding the shoots to extend farther outward.

"Faster than expected."

The Azure Emperor spoke softly, yet his voice reached Xuandu's ears clearly.

"The vitality of this world is more vigorous than I anticipated. Those Martial Dao Wills seem to be driving the growth of the plants."

"My Origin of Wood flows through it with remarkable ease, as though this world itself longs to grow."

Xuandu nodded slightly.

"Martial Dao Will takes fighting spirit as its root and resilience as its bones. What it abhors most is stagnation; what it desires is vitality and growth."

"Your Dao and mine converge here, so this world naturally grows faster than anywhere else."

The Azure Emperor said