The harvest (bonus update, requesting monthly votes)

The Outer Sea.

The heavens were dark, thick with countless storm clouds that suddenly dissolved into endless torrents of rain.

Layer upon layer of woodland appeared, seemingly screening off every stretch of sea outside the Flood-Dragon Palace.

Within the Great Void, two towering, verdant figures stood faintly side by side, scattering boundless [Horn Wood] radiance.

Had a Purple Mansion True Person happened to witness this scene, they would likely have become an idiot in an instant, or gone mad and succumbed to Dao Transformation—

For these were none other than two Golden Core True Lords of the [Horn Wood] path!

One had wood-grain patterns covering his entire body, with an azure Horn Wood Flood Dragon coiled around him. He was the True Lord of the [Horn Wood] secondary position, Eastern Pole Year Guardian Azure Root!

The other was the mistress of [Horn Wood], dressed in a robe of fresh, vivid green: Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord!

"Today, we settle the karma of your obstruction when I attained the Dao."

Azure Spirit Brocade-Completion Universal Aid Origin Lord spoke, her voice transforming into countless bolts of Yi Wood Divine Thunder. Azure-green lightning spread, forming net after net that enveloped the entire Flood-Dragon Palace.

Whether the patrolling aquatic races nearby or the wicked flood dragons that sensed trouble and fled—all turned to charcoal in an instant, a million corpses floating on the sea—

Eastern Pole Year Guardian Azure Root spoke with a trace of amusement in his voice. "Heaven-Dawn Spirit Abyss Dragon Lord has a grudge with our Heavenly Horn orthodoxy. Today is the day to settle it!"

Inwardly, he also felt considerable relief.

These two Golden Cores had naturally sent out a signal through Song Qingzhou's Purple Mansion gathering back then, after which Fang Qing had come looking for them.