The Azure Palace stood majestic.
It lay in a deep valley, a lone palace at its center, one of the Heavenly Leaf's thirty-six Dao palaces. Untouched by divine abilities and unassailed by intruders breaching its formation, its surroundings remained silent, forests of azure wood half concealing its blue-green halls.
High above its gold-and-white doors hung a plaque bearing [Mengzhang], with wisps of wood qi coiling within it like flood dragons.
A tall woman emerged from the valley entrance, clad in wooden armor, an azure crow perched on her shoulder. Resolve marked her brow. In her hand she held a black-and-crimson mystic forest inscribed with [Lush Forest], which occasionally shifted into the shapes of flood dragons and serpents.
Guang Su stopped and looked toward the azure wood Mysterious Palace ahead, emotion stirring in her eyes.
The Heavenly Dreary Sea Dragon Lord held the Jia Wood retainer position and was also a disciple of that exalted immortal, Xuan Ye.
Of the Heavenly Leaf's five lords, three belonged to Jia and two to Expansive. They had been the foremost figures of wood virtue in the Ancient Era. Tianyu was one of the three lords under the Jia Wood immortal, while the Azure Radiance Dao lineage could, in truth, be traced back to True Lord Gu Che's lineage.
Guang Su had always possessed an exceptionally tenacious disposition. After enduring her master's death and Azure Radiance's reduction to a subordinate sect, she rarely indulged in sorrow, instead considering a way forward for her sect.
She had not come to this grotto-heaven for treasures, spirit artifacts, or inheritances. She only wished to fulfill her master's last wish, return fully to their ancestral lineage, and restore the Azure Radiance Dao lineage's rightful standing, so that her master might rest in peace.
Guang Su gazed at the Mengzhang