"Though I have lived in seclusion in the mountains, cut off from the world, I have heard some accounts and rumors of your deeds, Benefactor Jiang, and mistakenly believed you were that flower.
"As the last Heavenly Venerable of the Mythological Era, he abandoned all his divine arts and laws, even his own cultivation, and vanished from the world.
"When he appeared again, he was an infant, born from the nurturing of heaven and earth.
"The moment he descended into the world, he devoured the essence of all things in the universe and reached a supremely exalted realm, unparalleled and unprecedented through the ages.
"What followed is known to all. He swept across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, invincible above and below, and blazed the most glorious path of cultivation.
"No one could impede him in the slightest. All living beings throughout the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands bowed their heads and pledged allegiance.
"From then on, he called himself Emperor Zun, ending the rule of the Heavenly Venerables of the Mythological Era. He became the most exalted being of all eternity!
"Now that I have met you and examined you closely, I feel you are not that similar flower after all," the old Daoist said, shaking his head.
"Do you really think so?" Jiang Zhu asked with a smile. The next moment, a vast aura spread through heaven and earth, majestic and imposing, looking down upon all things.
He stood towering before the old Daoist, as though he stood at the center of the universe, receiving the worship of all peoples as emperors knelt before him.
Above his head, the Green Copper fragment trembled, shedding immortal radiance like cascading galaxies, dazzling and brilliant.
"This is... Emperor Zun? His Dao and arts, and the Myriad Origin Cauldron? How is