Even though Green Ox had followed Mountain River Saint for countless years and had once been a Sacred Artifact, with vast knowledge and experience, even it was left dumbstruck by Xia Ping's cultivation. Mere astonishment was nowhere near enough to describe its shock.
Ordinary people cultivating the Azure Emperor Longevity Technique had to absorb spiritual medicines of heaven and earth, and they also needed a constitution suited to wood-element techniques. Only then would they have the slightest chance of successfully cultivating this saint-grade technique.
But Xia Ping was different. He possessed a Heaven and Earth Strange Tree like the World Tree, an existence comparable to the ancestor of all trees. The wood-element energy contained within it was simply unimaginable, its grade soaring beyond all bounds.
After all, not even Mountain River Saint had ever seen a strange tree like the World Tree. He had believed it had vanished long ago.
Most outrageous of all, Xia Ping also possessed the Life Fire. This was an exotic flame coveted in the dreams of countless cultivators of wood-element techniques. Once acquired, it granted boundless vitality, making cultivation twice as effective with half the effort.
Back then, Mountain River Saint had searched throughout the universe for the Life Fire, yet failed to find it anywhere.
Obtaining such an exotic flame required fate and opportunity. It could also muddle the heavenly secrets and move about freely; even a Saint would need tremendous luck to obtain it.
Yet now, the two sacred treasures most coveted by wood-element cultivators had both fallen into The Lord's hands. Even Green Ox, once a Sacred Artifact, was stunned by this sight.
After all, even at its peak, though it had been a Sacred Artifact, it could not compare to the World Tree and the Life Fire.
"This is a monstrous