"Thank you for your guidance, Senior!" Su Mo thanked the white-haired old man.
"You need not thank me. I am the Palace Master of the Houtu Branch Palace, entrusted with the Palace Master's will to await his successor. From now on, I will naturally do everything I can to help you!"
The white-haired old man smiled.
"Senior, you have waited for hundreds of thousands of years. Then you...?"
Su Mo examined the white-haired old man's somewhat illusory body, hesitating to speak.
Su Mo did not believe that anyone could live for hundreds of thousands of years. The white-haired old man clearly did not look like a living person.
Naturally, the white-haired old man knew Su Mo's doubts. Hearing this, he gave a bitter smile and sighed faintly. "I perished hundreds of thousands of years ago. In that battle at the end of the ancient era, not only did the Palace Master fall, but none of the Palace Masters of our Nine Branch Palaces survived either! Our Azure Divine Palace was destroyed because of it!"
A look of reminiscence surfaced in the white-haired old man's eyes, his face filled with bitterness.
Su Mo's heart jolted upon hearing this. The Azure Divine Palace had been so powerful—who could possibly have had the ability to destroy it?
Moreover, the Palace Master the white-haired old man spoke of was clearly that strongest final Palace Master, the Five Elements Emperor Venerable!
The Five Elements Emperor Venerable had been invincible beneath the heavens. Who could have killed him?
The white-haired old man continued, "Now, I am merely a lingering remnant thought. I can only rely on the Spirit Protecting Array to keep this remnant thought from dispersing, but it will not last much longer!"
"Fortunately, in this final stretch of time, I have finally found the