NOVPUBPeople set up the stage, and actors performing the roles of Sheng, Mo, Dan, and Chou took turns performing.
In this grand play, Xu Zimei neither opened the show nor delivered the finale.
He was just an insignificant minor character, arriving quietly and leaving quietly.
Time Emperor was changing Lin Qing’s destiny, while Xu Zimei courted the Time Emperor early to obtain the Destiny-Defying Bead, ultimately making a grand sacrifice.
Enter, perform, and then exit perfectly.
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After putting away the Destiny-Defying Bead, Xu Zimei looked at the Divine Emperor and said, "Your Divine Gate has been silent for too long, it’s time to let the world see what you’re capable of."
"What do you want to do?" the Divine Emperor asked, puzzled.
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After leaving the Old Land, Xu Zimei headed towards Maple Leaf City.
Xiao Guizi and Yao Shengnan had previously gone to Maple Leaf City to retrieve the Mother Leaf of the Tree of Life and had not yet returned.
Naturally, Xu Zimei wanted to check on them.
The Tree of Life was crucial to Xu Zimei and part of his world-creation plan.
Moreover, Xiao Guizi might have encountered some danger.
After emerging from the evolution of the Old Land, Xu Zimei could already sense the presence of Bai Meng and Chaos.
Maple Leaf City was under the rule of the Mo Family.
Ever since the Taoist Array Great Emperor was entrusted with Destiny, this family had risen like a shooting star.
They were one of the families on the Yuan Central Continent with the most research into formations.
The Six Elements Indestructible Array that Taoist Array Great Emperor left behind is still revered as one of the peak formations on the Yuan Central Continent even now.
This is also the protective formation for the Mo Family.
Most of the Mo Family members were pioneers filled with an innovative spirit.
Their descendants studied various formations, with both successes and failures.
By the time Xu Zimei arrived at Maple Leaf City, it was already evening. 𝖓𝔬𝖛𝔭𝔲𝖇.𝔠𝔬𝖒
The city’s architecture was very distinctive, resembling a giant maple leaf inverted upon the earth.
All the buildings were a vibrant red, with red bricks and red tiles; red was the main color theme here.
As Xu Zimei entered the city and observed the real buildings around him, who could imagine that it was once a city evolved from a formation?
Among the ancestors of the Mo Family was a remarkable person.
He was not bound by traditional Killing Arrays, Illusion Arrays, or Trapping Arrays.
He enjoyed studying so-called everyday life formations.
A formation evolved into a city, a Changhe, a forest......
He liked using his formations to create projections of countless objects from reality.
At the time, many from the Mo Family saw him as a disgrace to Array Masters.
The formations he researched had no offensive power or practical use.
But, a long time later, this remarkable person was inspired by these evolutions.
Eventually, he achieved great success in the way of arrays, able to evolve all things in a glance, with the sun and moon rotating and seas turning into mulberry fields.
This Maple Leaf City was a city he evolved through formations.
In this world, there were many other things he had evolved.
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After Xu Zimei entered Maple Leaf City, he found that the security was much stricter than before.
Everyone entering or leaving the city had their identities thoroughly checked.
Moreover, many people in blue robes patrolled throughout the city.
Xu Zimei found an inn and walked in.
"Are you here to stay or to dine?" the innkeeper asked promptly.
"Bring out all your best food and wine," Xu Zimei said with a smile. "I want to ask you something."
"Please go ahead, sir," the server nodded eagerly.
"I’m new to Maple Leaf City," Xu Zimei smiled. "On my way over just now, I saw a group of people in blue robes all over the streets. The sight was a bit intimidating.
Has something happened in the city?"
The server looked around, ensuring no one paid attention, and then whispered with his head down: "I don’t know much either.
But I heard they are looking for two people."
"And who might these people in blue robes be?" Xu Zimei asked curiously.
"They are said to be visitors from the Central Continent. It’s not really our place to interfere," the server replied with a smile.
Xu Zimei fell into light contemplation, the people from the Central Continent coming to the Eastern Continent to capture someone.
This easily led Xu Zimei to think of Yao Shengnan and Xiao Guizi.
He also did not know which Immortal Gate of Imperial Rule Yao Shengnan was referring to.
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After finishing dinner, Xu Zimei returned to his room and began to have Bai Meng search for traces of Xiao Guizi and the other person.
He sat cross-legged on the bed, his consciousness entering the Divine Continent.
This Continent was desolate, appearing empty and vast.
Only Chaos patrolled the world, watching over the nurturing of the nine Divine Beast essences day in and day out, looking forward to the day their comrades would revive.
Compared to the slow nurturing of the nine Divine Beasts, the only tree on the Continent.
The growth of the Dragon Tree was much faster.
It absorbed the life essence of the world and had now grown into a Sky-reaching Great Tree.
Its branches and leaves were lush; vast and flourishing branches spread into the void, and the green leaves piled thickly, covering the entire tree.
The nearly hundred fruits on the tree shone brightly, crystal clear.
Within the fruits, the shadows of Divine Dragons were vaguely visible, very lifelike.
When springtime came, a breeze from distant horizons blew in.
It lifted a cloud of dust and then settled it back to the ground.
In the wind, a faint dragon chant could be heard emanating from the tree.
Xu Zimei looked and saw that the nurturing of the nine Divine Beasts would take some time, but the Dragon Tree, he estimated, would likely bear fruit soon.
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After cultivating in the True Fate World through the night, Xu Zimei also began to consider matters of the Saint Vein Realm.
The emergence of True Fate is the hallmark of the Emperor Pulse Realm.
And for the Saint Vein Realm, the sign is the Divine Soul, a complete Divine Soul of one’s own.
The next day, when daylight came, Bai Meng had also returned from the outside.
"How did it go?" Xu Zimei asked.
"There’s absolutely no trace at all," Bai Meng replied, shaking his head.
"Even you couldn’t find them?" Xu Zimei said, somewhat surprised.
"It seems that the two of them are hiding in a very special location, or perhaps they have already left Maple Leaf City."
After pondering for a while, Xu Zimei took out the Leaf of Life he had previously obtained from his Storage Ring.
"What are you up to, boy?" The Leaf of Life looked at Xu Zimei warily.
"Do you want your freedom?" Xu Zimei asked with a smile.
"Yes, but I’m a leaf with integrity; I would never sell out my body," the Leaf of Life replied quickly.
"Who wants your body," Xu Zimei responded with resignation. "Just help me sense if there is the presence of the Tree of Life’s mother leaf nearby."
"Are you talking about the leaf from the Heaven Clan?" the Leaf of Life asked.
"Have you seen it?"
"Back when I hadn’t yet left the Tree of Life, people from the Heaven Clan once came looking for the Tree of Life with the mother leaf, so naturally, I know," the Leaf of Life replied.
"That mother leaf is also the sole path to communicate with the Tree of Life."
"Then quickly sense it for me, check if it’s nearby," Xu Zimei said.
