Before Heavenly Yi Forest stretched a vast wasteland.
Crimson-black vast wood radiance flowed without cease, finally gathering upon a single figure and becoming an extension of his divine ability.
His face was stiff, devoid of any sign of life, as though he were a corpse dug from the earth. Faint traces of his former bearing remained; he must once have been a dignified, steady figure.
He wore a dark azure ritual robe embroidered with bees, scorpions, crows, and tigers, and held a crimson-black wooden block in his hand.
Upon his head rested a wooden dark crown, black and crimson, shaped like a nest. Blood-red tendrils extended from within it and burrowed into his skull. This corpse-like figure had halted Great Li's army for nine days, preventing its advance.
The former master of Yinguang Hall, Great True Person Xu Gong.
The five vast wood arts-the pinnacle of holding one's ground!
Among the five woods, Jia excelled in head-on combat, Ji in preserving life, Yuan in profound immortal mysteries, and Yi in uncanny transformations and clones.
Vast wood, however, was the undisputed pinnacle of defending a position. Among the five virtues, only gen earth could compare!
Golden-green trees overlapped in dense, luxuriant layers. Enormous, wondrous beasts roamed among them: winged tigers, patterned leopards, yellow hounds, azure rhinoceroses, and other land beasts, alongside azure crows, white swans, fire pheasants, thunder sparrows, and other birds.
There were nineteen in all, each akin to a diamond guardian. Their magical power interconnected, converging into a formation that even an ordinary Purple Mansion cultivator with one divine ability would struggle to handle!
Countless insect nests lay here as well. Swarms of bees danced wildly, and iron ants marched in ranks. Their numbers increased with every passing instant, seemingly without end, blanketing heaven and earth as they burrowed