A person had a name; a tree cast a shadow.
The Five Directions and Five Emperors had all fallen with the Ancient Heavenly Court, but their fearsome renown—of bearing down upon heaven and earth and bringing the Primordial Wilderness to an end—was no lie.
The Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden was a wondrous treasure once held in the palm of Elder Azure Emperor Ling Weiyang. Its many marvels went without saying; the words "spatial artifact" alone were enough to establish its worth.
A spatial artifact contained a world of its own, separated from the outside universe by a barrier.
That barrier was, in itself, distance.
For any two things to interact, on any level, they first had to occupy the same space. A spatial artifact formed a world unto itself, cut off from the world beyond. That separation was the finest defense of all.
Once Su Che unfolded the Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden, he was effectively no longer in this world. What means could Zeng Mozhou possibly have to breach its self-contained space and harm Third Young Master Su?
An exceptionally formidable Reverted Elixir Sword Cultivation practitioner might have managed a lightning-fast assassination before Su Che unfolded the Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden.
But once this relic of the Ancient Era had been deployed, what could a mere Zeng Mozhou do to Third Young Master Su?
This world did have Void Step cultivators capable of cleaving through the spatial barrier around the Azure Emperor's Treasure Garden. Unfortunately, Zeng Mozhou was not one of them.
To conceal his movements, Su Che had seldom brought out this treasure he kept in reserve. At most, he had used it as a granary.
Had Ling Weiyang come back to life, such use would probably have killed him on the spot. Even Old Lion, extravagant as he