Gong Emperor retreated. Even though he had long been prepared, Green Lady's resolve still gave him a fright.
From the heart of the battlefield, countless living beings and immortals fled across the Immortal Domain, now blanketed in vegetation. The earth began trembling from that point outward. Flowers, grass, and trees that had lived in the Immortal Domain for decades began growing madly at the same instant!
"Rumble! Rumble!"
The earth split apart, and enormous trees burst from the cracks, growing with wild abandon. From the Immortal Domain to the Southern Lands, then to the Central Plains, the spread resembled cracks radiating from the center of glass struck by a marble, sprawling outward like a spiderweb. Even the flesh and blood body of the Heavenly Dao Prophet, which covered the land, could not stop the trees from spreading.
Had vitality finally returned to the mortal world?
No!
Anyone could sense the riotous surge of life within them. None of the cultivators had ever felt such savage life force.
"Progenitor!!!"
Forest Child knelt toward Green Lady's location, as did all immortals of the life lineage. They sensed it—the vitality of the Mother of Life was draining away, deliberately and resolutely.
Then, they all received the same voice transmission.
It was as though the Mother of Life stood before them, nobly positioned at the center of the universe, speaking with utmost gentleness to the countless immortals of the life lineage who had existed for ages. Her words were brief, only four words, yet they brought tears streaming down the immortals' faces—
"Live well."
The immortals knelt upon the ground. The forests around them continued rising toward the heavens, yet they stood frozen where they were.
Tears and snot streamed down Forest Child's face, but they still rose to their feet and roared across