Cultivation begins with separation.

Chapter 423 Willow
Time flows slowly by, and a century passes in the blink of an eye.

On a sixth-grade spiritual mountain in the core of Immortal Willow City in the Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom, a sixth-grade spiritual plant resembling a willow tree and reaching a height of ten thousand meters paused slightly as its willow branches swayed in the wind. Then, an old human face appeared on the tree trunk.

“Fellow Daoist Taichu is a bit arrogant. Hmm, doesn’t it want to see my supernatural powers? Then let it see them.”

The face on the tree trunk revealed an enigmatic smile, then glanced at the sky.
"Well, those two people's analysis of Fellow Daoist Taichu's supernatural powers is still too superficial. This combination of methods can at most seal Fellow Daoist Taichu's abilities for a hundred years and banish it for a thousand years."

Let me lend you a hand.

As it murmured to itself, the willow branches began to sway rhythmically, and a mysterious aura emanated from the tree, creating a sense of disorientation in the surrounding space and time.

"In that case, we can exile Fellow Daoist Taichu for more than ten thousand years."

Ten years have passed.

On this day, a wisp of purple mist descended from the sky, landing in front of the willow tree and transforming into a phantom image of an apricot tree.
"Such a pure spacetime path."

What is your foundation?
An ancient tree of time and space? A time-series tree?

Or is it the Void Ancestral Tree?

A smiling human face appeared on the trunk of the illusory image of the Primordial Purple Apricot.

This willow tree was a Void Tree species that it casually collected while gathering resources in the Void.

There are many other plants similar to those collected in the void.

However, most of them can be identified by the Primordial Purple Apricot. Even for some mutated plants that cannot be identified, one can roughly know their origins before the mutation.

But the willow tree before it was something it couldn't understand at all.

All of its information was gathered together; the shape of the willow might have been changed at will by the other party. The Primordial Purple Apricot only knew that the other party was a void plant.

The Taichu Purple Apricot can now be considered a unique and wise ancient tree.

While not omniscient or omnipotent, the memories of the ancient tree of wisdom, which have wandered in the void for countless years, are hidden deep within its memory. Many things, once seen, can be obtained from its memory.

Moreover, the Primordial Purple Apricot also obtained all the knowledge of the Tower of Knowledge.

Yes, after the Tower of Knowledge left Yi Dong, it partnered with Tai Chu Zi Xing.

However, one can imagine the extent of Taichu Zixing's moral character after following Yi Dong.

Yi Dong lacked the ability, while the capable Tai Chu Zi Xing naturally plundered all the knowledge in the Tower of Knowledge.

Having received the memories of the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, the Tower of Knowledge, and some knowledge from the Daoist Corridor of Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom, the Primordial Purple Apricot's analytical abilities were even comparable to those of the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, which had lived for countless years. However, it still could not determine the origin of this willow tree.

As long as one knows the origin of the Primordial Purple Apricot, one can deduce most of its supernatural powers and various talents, and then devise a countermeasure.

Just like Ding Yunxian, Yi Ling, and Qing Niu, who are two people and one ox.

Although Tai Chu Zi Xing was caught off guard and was ambushed, it was not a big deal, because Tai Chu Zi Xing had already studied the supernatural abilities of Ding Yun Xian and others, as well as Yi Ling and the Longevity Turtle.

Although the longevity tortoise following Yi Ling was a true spirit, the information about its supernatural powers and abilities was not fully collected. However, it was not yet an adult and had not become a seventh-order true spirit. No matter how strong its supernatural powers were, they wouldn't be that strong, so Tai Chu Zi Xing didn't take it too seriously.

The reason it was careless was mainly because of the Azure Ox. After the Azure Ox advanced to the Golden Core stage of the Great Dao, its supernatural powers actually transcended the operation of heaven and earth. When it used them, there was no warning and it was impossible to predict them, which caught the Azure Ox off guard.

However, it doesn't matter. There are no invincible supernatural powers in the world. As long as it sees something, Taichu Zixing can analyze it and then make a response.

With the combined power of Ding Yunxian and Qingniu, Taichu Zixing believed that she only needed about a hundred years to exhaust its transformations, and then spend several hundred years to escape.

However, the willow tree's supernatural powers joined in.

The willow tree's supernatural powers, particularly the Great Dao of Time and Space, are quite simple, unlike Mu Mu's supernatural powers which are infinitely mysterious.

However, the simplicity of the willow tree's magical powers does not mean they are easy to counter.

Currently, the original form of the Primordial Purple Apricot appears to still be on Purple Gold Mountain, but in reality, it is just a phantom with less than 100% of its power remaining. Its true form has been banished to the extremely distant void.

There are two ways for Taichu Zixing to return.

One option is to abandon the physical body in the void and allow the roots left on Purple Mountain or Rainbow Moon to regenerate the trunk.

Doing this will not result in much loss of power or supernatural abilities. However, the bloodline and soul aura of Yi Dong left on the tree will be greatly diluted. The Primordial Purple Apricot will no longer be able to produce the bloodline of the Immortal Kingdom. The Primordial Purple Apricot also knows that Yi Dong will not use his bloodline and soul to baptize its natal object again.

Yi Dong's bloodline and soul aura, while containing negligible power, are related to the great power of the Azure Emperor.

Tai Chu Zi Xing understood that as long as Yi Dong returned, the position of Qing Di would most likely belong to Yi Dong.

Because only Yi Dong can unify the power of the Holy Body Puppet and the True Spirit Longsword.

An indifferent Yi Dong also serves their interests. Moreover, without Yi Dong, the Causal Puppet and the Great Awakening Puppet could not possibly coexist peacefully.

The reason why the Primordial Purple Apricot was so certain was because it knew that the Great Awakening Puppet had begun to use technology to realize the ability of the Causal Puppet to receive supernatural powers from nothingness.

In other words, the Great Awakening Puppet has begun to steal the power that originally belonged exclusively to the Causal Sacred Body.

If it were a normal sacred body, the Causal Sacred Body might be more powerful than the Great Awakening Sacred Body.

However, in the Immortal Kingdom, the Great Awakening Puppet understands "knowledge is power" better than the Karma Puppet.

The Great Awakening Puppet, with its exceptional comprehension, is gradually catching up with the Causal Puppet in terms of power, and its growth rate will only accelerate in the future.

It was probably because they felt the pressure that the Causal Puppet and the True Spirit Sword went into the calamity to rapidly increase their power.

The Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom was established using four forces: two kinds of Sacred Body Puppets, the True Spirit Longsword, and the Primordial Purple Apricot. Only Yi Dong, upon becoming the Immortal Emperor, was able to balance them.

As for Yi Dong, the Azure Emperor, it is unlikely that the Celestial Emperors of the Heavenly Capital Spirit Realm will be replaced like in other realms. If nothing unexpected happens, as long as Yi Dong receives the power of the Azure Emperor and ascends to the throne, there will be no second Celestial Emperor unless the Azure State Celestial Kingdom is destroyed.

Even Yi Dong's children, the Holy Body Puppet, the True Spirit Longsword, and the Primordial Purple Apricot will not acknowledge them, nor will they allow them to sit on the throne of the Azure Emperor.

Of course, if Yi Dong were to create several more batches of extremely powerful forces similar to the Sacred Body Puppet, perhaps the Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom would undergo new changes.

Now, Taichu Zixing wanted to figure out the supernatural power of the willow tree in front of it. It couldn't understand whether its supernatural power was really that simple, or whether the other party had a way of sending it wrong information.

The Primordial Purple Apricot has already used the Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom as its seedbed for growth. The Qingzhou Immortal Kingdom is too small; for the time being, it can only accommodate this one immortal plant with the potential of a seventh-tier plant.

It does not allow a second immortal plant to hinder its growth.

If the willow tree poses a threat, it will kill or drive it away immediately.

The original form of the Primordial Purple Apricot was banished to the depths of the void, but the power it left behind in the Immortal Kingdom, such as fleets of Primordial Warships, and the army of demonic plants in the Spirit Plant Garden maintained by a large number of cyborgs, etc.

There's more than enough room to get this willow tree.

The willow tree probably knew that while the Primordial Purple Apricot was smiling on the surface, she was probably thinking about how to deal with it. A human face slowly appeared on the tree trunk, looking somewhat helpless, and said:
“Fellow Daoist Taichu, I have no intention of competing with you.”

As you know, my essence is damaged and I need some time to recover.

Moreover, my supernatural power is that simple; as long as the conditions are met, I can break free.

The willow tree was somewhat annoyed. It hadn't expected that the Primordial Purple Apricot would be so petty, even though it hadn't restored its original essence, the other party was still so vigilant.

Although it knew that this period was crucial for the Primordial Purple Apricot to advance to the seventh-tier spiritual plant, its current situation could only cause it some trouble, and it was completely impossible for it to obstruct the path.

If I had known they would be so petty, I would have gone all out and banished the Primordial Purple Apricot for 100,000 years.

Under the influence of its supernatural powers, the original body of the Primordial Purple Apricot, which was banished to the void, must travel a certain spatial distance and spend a certain amount of time in different void environments before it can return to this spirit realm. If the spatial and temporal conditions are not met, even if the Primordial Purple Apricot uses its supernatural powers to return to the outside of the Vast Sea Spirit Realm, it will not be able to see the Vast Sea Spirit Realm, let alone enter it.

The willow tree sighed inwardly. It couldn't say too much, otherwise, revealing the way it broke its supernatural power would cause trouble later.

Just then, two people and a cow emerged from the space.

As soon as the Green Ox appeared, it looked at the illusory figure of Tai Chu Zi Xing with some guilt and slowly walked behind Yi Ling.

Yi Ling glanced at the Primordial Purple Apricot, then at the willow tree, and felt secretly satisfied.

Using the Green Ox to fight against the Primordial Purple Apricot is somewhat unrealistic. Now, this willow tree seems to have an extraordinary origin and supernatural powers, and it is expected to be able to restrain the Primordial Purple Apricot.

"Fellow Daoist, do you wish to settle in Tianzhu Mountain and establish a Daoist temple?"

No problem, I agree.

The primordial purple apricot was dissatisfied.

“This Void Spirit Plant has an unknown origin. How can we allow it to remain on Tianzhu Mountain? I disagree.”

“Wuming said that she was able to contact other Great Awakening Puppets, such as those who were with my father.”

The Primordial Purple Apricot remained silent. If Yi Dong returned, its advancement and growth might change.

Yi Ling roughly knew what Tai Chu Zi Xing was thinking, and she said:
"The Great Awakening Puppets have agreed that within these ten thousand years, the position of Immortal Emperor will be rotated every hundred years, and will be held by the six of us siblings, as well as our father's Daoist partner, Number Two, Fellow Daoist Ding Yunxian."

If Father has not returned after ten thousand years, the throne will be vacant. In the meantime, you and the Great Awakening Puppet will share power in the Immortal Kingdom.

Ok?
How exactly did Yi Ling persuade the Great Awakening Puppet to take charge of the Immortal Kingdom? He had discussed it with the Great Awakening Puppet before, but they hadn't reached an agreement.

The main reason is that it contains Yi Dong's bloodline and soul aura. If it were to exercise the power of an Immortal Emperor, it would be considered half an Azure Emperor in the absence of an imperial throne. It could also obtain the Azure Emperor's inherited memories and unlock the knowledge inheritance within the Dao Asking Corridor that was exclusive to the Azure Emperor.

(End of this chapter)