As Shi Qingyun listened to Emperor Yu, the imposing aura radiating from him slowly dissipated.
As the pressure slowly lifted from their bodies, the five, who had felt as though an entire world were weighing down on them, finally saw the newcomer clearly.
He had sword-like brows and star-bright eyes, with immortal spirit qi swirling around his body, a far cry from the corpse scavenger they had imagined.
But that was not what shocked them most. What astonished them most was the immense vitality radiating from him.
Even with a Yin-Yang Great Millstone behind him suppressing his aura, a sweep of their divine senses made that vitality feel like a crimson sun fallen into the mist, dazzling beyond measure.
They also understood somewhat why Emperor Yu valued him so highly. Anyone would want to befriend someone who had achieved so much at such an age.
"Greetings, Senior!"
"Greetings, Senior!"
"..."
Though shocked by Shi Qingyun's age, they still vividly remembered that aura, like a hellish prison and a bottomless abyss, and dared not show the slightest disrespect.
Shi Qingyun took a step, and flecks of profound ice blossomed beneath his feet. Ice pillars formed out of thin air and lifted the five to their feet.
Then he passed straight by them. Divine light flickered in his eyes, and the character for "Dao" slowly took shape above his head.
In an instant, it wove itself into a Great Dao Divine Eye brimming with pressure, from which a ray of divine light shot forth.
It landed directly in the depths of Strange Stone Island.
Then he saw a flower growing vigorously deep within the earth, where yin and yang met and vitality mingled with death qi.
It breathed in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, rooted deep underground, with strange runes