Wuliang Emperor's residence.
When Yang Huai saw Fuyun, she was trimming flower branches in the flower hall, her expression utterly serene.
Seeing Yang Huai emerge from seclusion, she could not help but smile radiantly.
Yang Huai's gaze fell on Fuyun as he looked her over carefully a few times and said,
"After a thousand years in seclusion, Madam's bearing has only grown more splendid!"
Fuyun's gaze rested on Yang Huai as she said,
"But it cannot compare to Husband's fame shaking the Purple Palace Immortal Palace. Having just ascended to the rank of Dao Venerable, you slew the Heavenly Fortune Demon Venerable with your blade and earned the admiration of the immortals!"
Yang Huai chuckled.
"Madam truly is well-informed. Even such a trifling matter reached your ears!"
Seeing that his words carried no small measure of pride, Fuyun was somewhat at a loss for words.
Yang Huai asked with slight concern,
"Madam, are you confident?"
Fuyun cast him a glance. Her jade-like face grew slightly solemn, and she immediately revealed her Three Flowers and Five Qi. A cluster of near-substantial Primordial Unity cloud-light emerged behind her, and above it, the Three Flowers shone purple, noble beyond measure.
A faint, illusory flower bud manifested atop the central flower of the Three Flowers.
Within that bud, a complex treasure mirror constantly shifting between reality and illusion emerged.
That treasure mirror was the manifestation of Fuyun's condensed reality-illusion Dao Embryo.
The illusory flower bud, meanwhile, resembled an exceedingly rare wondrous flower born of heaven and earth.
The Dao-Unification Flower!
The Dao-Unification Flower could only be nurtured in the depths of a very few secret realms of the Great Dao. It could strengthen one's connection to the Great Dao of heaven and earth, and possessed miraculous effects during Dao-Unification.
Yang Huai secretly nodded. Possessing