Ah Yin looked at her son's broad, warm palm. Without the slightest hesitation, she placed her hand in his.
In the next instant, a gentle blue-green light enveloped them both.
Tang Xiao brought Ah Yin with him as they slowly rose into the air, flying toward the top of the divine palace.
The blue crystal dome atop the palace automatically parted to either side, revealing the boundless sky beyond.
The fierce winds high above dissolved against an invisible barrier a hundred meters from them, unable even to stir the hem of Ah Yin's clothes.
They flew higher and higher, gradually reaching an altitude of several thousand meters.
From here, the entire capital of the Blue Silver Empire lay beneath them, its densely packed streets and magnificent buildings looking like a miniature model.
Farther in the distance stretched endless green plains and rolling mountain ranges.
Tang Xiao stood in midair, his long, deep-blue hair fluttering in the wind, as if a god had descended into the mortal world.
He closed his eyes. His vast will spread across the entire Sun Moon Continent like ripples on water, expanding exponentially.
As the million-year Supreme Blue Silver Emperor, his will was the divine decree of every blade of Blue Silver Grass.
"By my name, I summon my kind."
Tang Xiao murmured inwardly.
In that moment, a strange transformation swept across the entire Sun Moon Continent.
Whether on towering mountains, in deep ravines, or in the corners of bustling cities, every patch of soil sent the Blue Silver Grass growing there into a violent tremor.
A faint blue glow shimmered across their surfaces, as though they were answering an ancient, mighty summons.
Then, hundreds of millions of blades of Blue Silver Grass bent their leaves and stems toward the imperial capital all at once.
It was the most devout homage a people could offer their sovereign.
All things bowed, every blade of grass bent!
High above, Ah Yin witnessed it with her own eyes.
She, too, had once been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor, able to command the power of the Blue Silver Grass within a hundred-mile radius.
But the sight before her overturned everything she knew.
In her perception, the Blue Silver Grass across the entire continent was connected, forming an enormous network of life.
And at the network's endpoint stood Tang Xiao, right beside her.
"Th-this is the power of a million-year Blue Silver Emperor?"
Ah Yin murmured, unable to hide the shock in her eyes.
Before she could recover, an even more magnificent sight appeared.
Wisps of the purest blue light began drifting from the hundreds of millions of blades of Blue Silver Grass.
It was the Blue Silver Grass's most primal life force.
Countless motes of light gathered together, like rivers of blue surging ceaselessly from every corner of the continent toward the sky above the capital.
In moments, the entire sky had turned a fantastical deep blue.
The immeasurably vast life energy churned and rolled across the heavens like an endless blue ocean.
Even the void began to warp ever so slightly before this terrifying power.
At the heart of this sea of energy, Ah Yin was surrounded by its pure life aura.
She instinctively tried to channel her power and sense it, only to find that her Soul Power was as insignificant as a speck of dust before this vast ocean.
"My power... can't even compare to one ten-thousandth of this."
A tempest raged in Ah Yin's heart.
At last, she understood why Tang Xiao had called Tang Hao nothing more than an ant.
Before such power, almost on the level of a creator god, what did a Level 98 Titled Douluo amount to?
At that moment, the people of the Sun Moon Continent below noticed the strange phenomenon in the sky.
The once-bright heavens were now covered by a blue curtain of light. A life aura so dense it was almost tangible descended from above and flowed into everyone's body.
The moment soldiers suffering from old injuries came into contact with this aura, the hidden wounds within them miraculously healed.
Countless people felt their bodies lighten, as though they had grown more than a decade younger.
"A miracle! This is His Majesty's miracle!"
"Long live our emperor! Long live the Blue Silver Empire!"
Throughout the cities, countless soldiers and commoners fell to their knees, their faces feverish as they bowed and worshiped the sky.
Their cries thundered through the heavens like a surging tide.
Tang Xiao gazed down at the people below, his eyes utterly calm. Slowly, he raised both hands and pointed gently toward the blue ocean.
"Gather!"
At his soft command, the restless sea of blue energy in the sky instantly grew docile.
Under Tang Xiao's control, countless streams of blue light rapidly contracted, transforming into an immense pillar that enveloped Ah Yin.
Ah Yin closed her eyes instinctively.
She felt an incomparably warm force pour into her body through her pores, like a hot spring flowing through her.
The power was gentle, without the slightest hint of violence, yet it carried an irresistible vitality.
Nourished by this force, the meridians within her, once shattered and ruined, began to regrow and expand at a visible pace, even taking on a faint golden sheen.
Her once-illusory soul also became solid beyond measure, fusing perfectly with this newly formed body.
Her bones were remade, her flesh reborn.
Ah Yin could clearly feel herself undergoing a transformation that remade her from the inside out. A powerful body far beyond anything she had imagined was slowly taking shape within this endless torrent of life.
The pillar of blue light that pierced heaven and earth did more than illuminate the entire capital of the Blue Silver Empire as brightly as daylight.
It also carried a vast flood of Life Divine Power, spreading in visible, tangible ripples in every direction.
The sheer magnitude of this surge had long since surpassed the limits of mortal comprehension.
Like a silent torrent, it crossed the boundless sea and descended upon the land of the Douluo Continent.
Star Dou Great Forest.
This forbidden land of Soul Beasts, passed down since ancient times, was usually filled with the stampede of countless beasts and the rustle of swaying trees.
But at that moment, the entire forest fell into an eerie silence.
From the super Soul Beasts with a hundred thousand years of cultivation to Wind Baboons that had only just been born with ten years of cultivation, every creature collapsed to the ground without warning, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
It was an instinctive pressure that came from deep within their bloodlines, leaving them without the slightest thought of resisting.
Deep within the forest lay Lake of Life.
The lake's surface was perfectly still, but a faint silver glow suddenly shimmered across its clear waters.
Splash!
The water parted to either side, and a peerlessly beautiful figure slowly rose from the lakebed.
Her silver hair fell to her ankles, and her exquisite, flawless face was now filled with astonishment.
Gu Yuena stood quietly above the water, her purple eyes fixed on the distant west.
"This power..."
Gu Yuena murmured softly, her voice trembling.
She extended a pale hand, trying to grasp the traces of law left behind in the void.
Yet the moment her divine sense touched that Life Divine Power, an exalted imperial pressure struck back through the void.
Gu Yuena let out a muffled groan and staggered half a step back, her face paling.
"How is this possible?"
"How can such a terrifying source of life exist in this world?"
"Even the Goddess of Life in the Divine Realm back then probably couldn't compare to this power in terms of pure life force."
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