Dim and fathomless, darkness stretched without end.
Xuan Guang stood in the Great Void. By his reckoning, it had been many years since he had truly stirred himself.
Ever since becoming a Great True Person, he had seldom ventured out, spending most of his time presiding over the sect.
A large part of why he had come out now was indeed that prolonged stillness had stirred a desire for movement, but more than that, he wanted to inquire about the path ahead.
His Divine Powers would reach perfection in another hundred years or so. Whether for his own wishes or the needs of his superiors, Xuan Guang would ultimately have to attain the Dao.
Cultivators with such ambitions would often have someone planning for them far in advance. Someone who started as late as Xuan Guang was already a rarity.
Xuan Guang took a wooden branch from his sleeve. It was none other than the Yi Wood Spirit Treasure—[Lush Jade Branch].
It had been some years since Xuan Guang obtained this Spirit Treasure from Jiang Yang. As it belonged to the path of Yi Wood, refining it had naturally taken him no effort at all.
Leaving aside its various wondrous properties, the information preserved within the Spirit Treasure alone had benefited Xuan Guang considerably.
[Upright Corner Wood-Rabbit Dao Lineage], Liu Huaying...
The Lush Jade Branch had originally come from the ancient [Upright Corner Wood-Rabbit Dao Lineage]. Its name alone made it clear that this was a lineage that had cultivated Yi Wood since ancient times, though back then it had been called Hornwood.
How it had later declined was unknown to outsiders. All anyone knew was that its last Purple Mansion master had been named [Zheying], with the secular surname Liu, and had wandered before settling as a guest in