At Heavenly Jade Pass, before the plaza of a massive Jade Palace.
A spirit-like figure in green robes was wielding wood arts. Dense wood spiritual energy filled the entire void.
For a time, the life force of the ordinary spirit trees around him greatly diminished, withering and dying, while three core vine trees suddenly expanded thousands of times over.
They resembled three towering wooden mountains soaring into the clouds. The tips of the vines transformed into wooden spears and stabbed fiercely into the void.
With a thunderous boom, space shattered. The area struck directly transformed into a turbulent pool of spatial fragments.
As the spirit art was invoked again, the vine trees retracted. Yet even after passing through the spatial turbulence, the wooden spears remained completely unscathed, merely gleaming with spiritual light streaked with silver patterns.
If any human Body Integration Cultivator had been present, they would have marveled at this spell, for the power of its laws was already exceptionally profound.
Before long, the spiritual radiance faded, and the vine trees vanished into the void. A young man in green stepped forward and cupped his hands toward the elderly man in green robes in the distance.
"Thank you for your guidance, Ancestor."
"Qingyang, from now on, you must listen more to Ancestors Wu Gang, Zitan, Lan Li, and the others. Of course, as the Grand Elder of the Shen Yuan Green Wood Lineage, you must also have your own judgment." The green-robed elder was steeped in the air of twilight, like a human elder nearing the end of his lifespan.
Yet if any human Body Integration Cultivator, or even Mahayana cultivator, had been here, they would have recognized him as the once peerlessly arrogant Withered Jade Loose Immortal.
But at this moment, not even a trace of the high