Achoo!
South of Azure Cloud lay snow mountains, shrouded in white mist all year round, with no trace of human life.
At the mountaintop, two women sat facing each other in cultivation.
Hearing the sneeze, Li Changyao looked doubtfully at Heavenly Pool Holy Mother before her, dressed in a black gown and frowning as she covered her mouth with the back of her hand. "Master, why have you been sneezing so often these past thousand years?"
More than a thousand years had passed. Azure Cloud Prefecture appeared tranquil on the surface, but much had changed beneath it.
Many old friends of the Azure Cloud Li Family had received the Li Family's gifts. Through the Southern War of old and the Azure Cloud Li Family's aid, they had all undergone earth-shaking improvements amid their peaceful lives. Nor had the Azure Cloud Li Family remained idle. Li Changyao, with her Ice Phoenix Body, had been arranged by Li Changsheng to cultivate under Chi Ling, who had been hiding within Azure Cloud Prefecture.
"It's nothing." Heavenly Pool Holy Mother waved a hand dismissively. "My progenitor is probably using a great deal of immortal power. That is perfectly normal."
"Your progenitor?"
Li Changyao's eyes widened in surprise. "Master, you have a progenitor too?"
"Of course I do." Heavenly Pool Holy Mother looked toward the west, where the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array stood. Something there seemed to displease her. "When heaven and earth first opened, there were always immortals born before the rest. Take that thing in the Immortal-Banishing Sword Array—it is the origin of life. It was born first. Then the qi formed when immortals entered the world fell upon the first tree it created, and Forest Child came into being. Green Lady is Forest Child's progenitor."
"Their auras are linked in the unseen world.