The Secret of Everlasting Green (Part 1)

Heavenly Mechanism Palace.

Ning Ye sat in the headmaster's seat.

Yue Zhonghen stood below with his hands hanging at his sides, trembling with fear.

Legends of Ning Ye had long circulated through the Heavenly Mechanism Palace of the Evergreen Realm. Because of the revival of the Heavenly Mechanism Sect, Ning Ye had become the progenitor of Heavenly Mechanism in this realm.

Yet the one who had truly led the Heavenly Mechanism Sect to where it stood today was Shu Wuning.

As Yue Zhonghen recounted the tale, Ning Ye finally came to understand what had happened after his departure.

After he left that year, the overall situation in the Evergreen Realm had already been settled. Intimidated by Ning Ye's might, no major troubles arose.

But time was the ultimate weapon for washing away all things. With Ning Ye gone, his mighty name became nothing more than legend, and the many rules he had once established gradually faded away as well.

As great powers departed in large numbers, the Evergreen Realm was left without anyone to keep it in check. A new generation of powerful figures emerged one after another, and some inevitably began to harbor ambitions of challenge.

That was hardly strange. Tides rose and fell; such was the myriad face of life. Ning Ye had never expected the Heavenly Mechanism Sect and the Black and White Divine Palace to rule the Evergreen Realm forever.

If the thousand years after Ning Ye's departure had been a thousand years of peaceful development, then the following two thousand years marked the complete descent into a chaotic age.

The major sects vied against one another, challenging those above them, and the cultivation world was consequently swept into countless upheavals.

Yet thanks to the foundation Ning Ye had left behind, the Heavenly Mechanism Sect and