Gong Tianya of Yue Kingdom sat down, and Erzhu He of Li State stood up.
One followed another, brimming with vitality.
After Hong Junyan unified the northwest and established Li State, he had consistently made encouraging childbirth a national policy. He also selected infants of exceptional innate talent from across the nation, funded their centralized cultivation through the court, and picked the finest from among the finest, with their swords pointed toward the Yellow River Assembly—and even the next generation of Great Void Pavilion members.
He had awakened from the "past." Though Li State was new, it did not lack history. What needed proving again and again was the nation's future.
Erzhu He was a genius cultivated with the strength of the entire nation under such circumstances.
Compared to Xie Ai of old Xue State, he was somewhat more "new." He better represented the vigor of Li State.
"Erzhu He of Li State respectfully asks True Lord." Erzhu He was only eleven. Broad-boned and sturdy as a young calf, he sprang up fiercely, as though competing with someone, carrying an air that could roar through mountains and rivers. "In today's world, a hundred flowers bloom together and All-Under-Heaven City contends in debate. The Dao endures, martial arts break new ground, gods still remain, and men ask after immortals—True Lord says there are no immortals in heaven. Does that mean the immortal path has been cut off?"
Only then did Yu Xianyu realize that Hong Junyan, founding emperor of Li State, was also an inheritor of an Immortal Palace. He had crossed eras through the Longevity Immortal's methods. The Winter Immortal Palace he commanded had later produced Frost Immortal Lord Xu Qiuci. Yet now Hong Junyan had returned... did that mean Longevity Palace had returned as well?
Looking across the present