Perhaps it was because the Azure Wood Great World was on the brink of collapse, but the sky of the world was no longer azure blue. Instead, it was as black as ink, as though there was an eternal night in the middle of the world. It gave people an extremely repressive feeling.
However, amidst this repressive feeling, there was a picturesque garden. In the middle of the garden stood a divine tree. Despite the world losing its vitality, the divine tree remained lush and lush, its crown towering into the sky.
Even though the Azure Wood Great World was in ruins, the garden still had extremely rich Heaven Earth Essence Qi. It made people feel comfortable, as though they had ascended to immortality.
"The divine tree remains undying, but the world is on the brink of destruction. I'm powerless to save it …"
A young girl in a light green dress was kneeling under the divine tree. Her long silver hair was spread out and spread on the ground like scattered silver fragments.
From the back, the girl had a slender neck and tiny, white ears. She looked like a pixie hiding in the forest.
The girl knelt for a long while before she slowly got up. She could sense that the divine tree had fused with the Azure Wood Great World's land veins. It was like an azure dragon that had a foothold in this world, eternal and undying. It was planted from the birth of this world until the world was on the brink of destruction.
For a long period of time, this divine tree had been the guardian of their Azure Wood Palace. It existed alongside the Azure Wood Palace.
The Azure Wood Manor was a reclusive sect. In the Ten Thousand Fey Empyrean Heaven, there were quite a number of reclusive sects. The Immortal Rain Sect and the Azure Wood Manor were two of them. And when the Azure Wood Manor was at its peak, its scale far exceeded the Immortal Rain Sect.
However, even at its peak, the Azure Wood Manor seldom interacted with the outside world. In the past hundreds of millions of years, the members of the Azure Wood Manor had hidden themselves in the Azure Wood Great World, focusing on cultivation.
In the historical records of the Azure Wood Manor, the Azure Wood Manor had suffered a calamity hundreds of millions of years ago. However, due to the existence of the divine tree, the calamity was resolved.
Because of this, the divine tree was the supreme ancestral totem in the Azure Wood Manor.
However, although the Azure Wood Palace treated the divine tree as a divine guardian, the people of the Azure Wood Palace knew that the divine tree never belonged to them.
The divine tree belonged to the Azure Wood Great World, and it was even possible that the divine tree was the owner of the Azure Wood Great World. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Azure Wood Manor had suffered a calamity, and the divine tree had protected them. That was the divine tree's benevolence. Legend had it that the female Palatial Lady of the Azure Wood Manor had prostrated herself beneath the divine tree for three days and three nights before finally stirring the divine tree's power, resolving the calamity.
The young girl did not dare to imagine what kind of scene it would be.
According to the records, from then on, the Azure Wood Manor's Palatial Lords were mostly women. The Elders of the Azure Wood Manor looked forward to the day when there would be a genius girl that could stir the divine tree's power. However … such a miracle never happened again.
Later on, the Azure Wood Great World slowly reached the end of its life. The Heaven Earth Yuan Qi turned violent, and it was no longer suitable for cultivation. The Azure Wood Manor also gradually declined, with the number of experts dwindling. Finally, there was a schism in the Azure Wood Manor. A number of people left the Azure Wood Great World to establish themselves outside, but they encountered an accident and were destroyed.
The group of people that remained guarded the Azure Wood Great World, but their numbers dwindled. By the girl's generation, there were only a handful of people left.
And from the moment the Azure Wood Manor began to decline, the divine tree never took action again.
The girl had once fantasized that she could emulate her ancestor and awaken the divine tree's power. However, no matter how much she tried, it was fruitless.
For example, today, she had prayed in front of the divine tree for several hours, but the divine tree remained motionless, ignoring everything in the world.
"Young Mistress, those people are here again …"
Behind the girl, a white-haired old woman walked in and said with a hoarse voice.
The old woman looked like she had one foot in the grave. Her eyes were turbid. She was an old servant of the Azure Wood Manor, and she usually took care of the green-haired girl's daily needs.
"Master is no longer around. Just the Azure Wood Divine Residence's array formation probably won't be able to stop them."
The girl frowned slightly. The Azure Wood Great World was originally completely concealed, but with the Azure Wood Great World on the brink of destruction, the spatial enchantment also loosened. Finally, it was discovered by some people. Hence, people began to explore the place as a ruin. And since ancient times, the treasures and heritage left behind by the Azure Wood Manor were indeed an endless treasure trove. If it was obtained by outsiders, it would be a huge opportunity.
The Azure Wood Manor had long declined. Tens of thousands of years ago, the girl's master was still in charge. Using the array formation left behind by her ancestor, she allowed those people to obtain very little, allowing them to preserve a large portion of the Azure Wood Manor's heritage.
But now … her master had passed away, leaving behind a young girl and an old servant. How were they to fend off those outsiders? All of them were extremely powerful, and any one of them was far from what they could deal with.
"Sigh! How infuriating! If it was a hundred million years ago, when our Azure Wood Manor was at its peak, our Azure Wood Manor would not be afraid even if their numbers were multiplied by several times, much less these people. Unfortunately … "
The old servant was loyal to the Azure Wood Manor. Although she had never seen the golden age recorded in the books, she yearned for it greatly. She was extremely familiar with the past Manor Lords of the Azure Wood Manor.
"They do not know that our Azure Wood Manor has existed for so long. They have probably long treated the Azure Wood Great World as an ownerless world."
In the world of cultivators, searching for the remnants of ownerless worlds to obtain fortuitous encounters was a matter of course. In this kind of situation, the young girl did not dare to appear at all. If some old monsters knew that the mysterious Cyanwood Palace still had a living successor, who knew what kind of terrifying things would happen.
"If only the divine tree could awaken …"
The girl looked up at the towering divine tree. As the wind blew, the branches and leaves that were hidden in the clouds gently swayed as the leaves rustled. A look of stubbornness flashed in the girl's eyes.
She knew that this divine tree most likely wouldn't hear her call, or perhaps it wouldn't even pay attention to her. However, she still had to do something. She was the only successor of the Cyanwood Palace, she couldn't just watch as everything in the Cyanwood Palace was snatched away.
She got up and walked out of the garden. She came to an elegant courtyard, and on an offering table in the courtyard, there was a portrait that was being offered up.
The portrait exuded an indescribable aura. In the portrait was a black-dressed woman. She had a graceful figure, but her looks were a blur.
The girl bowed respectfully at the portrait. Perhaps, this portrait was the last thing the Azure Wood Manor could rely on.
For a portrait to become the last reliance of a sect sounded unbelievable, but in the Azure Wood Manor's books, the origins of the portrait were astounding.
It had existed for a much longer period of time than the Azure Wood Manor. And the identity of the person in the portrait was incredulous. The first Palatial Lord of the Azure Wood Great World had said that the immortal divine tree was personally planted by the black-dressed woman.
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