"Greetings, Saint!"
The dignified and luxurious Western Queen Mother revealed a rare trace of solemnity as she bowed in greeting.
"Your Majesty need not be so formal. According to the sacred precepts left behind by Western Queen Mother, as the master of Jade Lake, you are to be accorded sufficient respect by both the Council of Supreme Elders and the accumulated foundations of every generation. When necessary, we must also obey your commands unconditionally."
The visitor gently shook her head, poised and elegant.
She was Yang Yi, the Jade Lake Holy Maiden of ten thousand years ago, a human Saint.
Four or five years ago, after successfully escaping Purple Mountain, she had returned to Jade Lake with her lover, Zhang Lin, the fifth-generation Source Heavenly Master who had successfully reincarnated. They had cultivated bitterly by the immortal pool ever since.
The Western Queen Mother merely smiled without speaking, then bowed and withdrew.
"Come, little fellow. Follow me to meet your patriarch."
After watching the Western Queen Mother depart, Yang Yi, the ancient Jade Lake Holy Maiden, grabbed Ye Fan and left.
Beneath a towering Divine Peach Tree, a crystal-clear Nine-Orifice Stone Man continuously inhaled and exhaled essence energy as though alive, radiant divine light circulating around it.
"Disciple greets Patriarch!"
Ye Fan descended from the sky and bowed to the stone embryo Holy Spirit.
"You've become a Source Earthmaster, and your attainment is quite profound. Not bad. Before long, you should advance to my level and become the sixth Source Heavenly Master of the Eastern Wasteland."
The Nine-Orifice Stone Man buzzed as it spoke in a human voice.
The human Sacred Body did not hide anything. He recounted entering the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning, obtaining the inheritance of the fourth-generation Source Heavenly Master, and receiving the handwritten notes