Time flowed on. The continent brought back from that battle in the Foreign Realm smoothly merged into the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, gradually replacing Life Planets in the time that followed.
The spirit veins on such colossal continents were equally immense. Even a minor spirit vein was comparable to the combined spirit veins of an entire Life Planet.
Thus, once Ye Fan opened up that colossal continent, more and more races began relocating there. At first, only branch lineages of certain clans went there, but as time passed, those branches grew ever stronger and gradually surpassed the main lineages, shifting the focus of those clans to the continent.
With the emergence of these spirit veins, the entire world became increasingly prosperous.
Geniuses emerged in endless succession.
Yet beneath that prosperity, Ye Fan and the others were somewhat worried. They had witnessed true Darkness Erosion and knew that the darkness was gradually corroding the entire system.
The more prosperous things became now, the more terrifying the future would be. This prosperity might even be preparing a wedding dress for the darkness.
Zhou Tong, however, did not care much. During this time, he continued cultivating in quiet.
By now, he had returned the six true lives of Gu, the Thunder Emperor, the True Dragon, the Nine Netherworld Howler, the Nine-Leaf Sword Grass, and the God-Striking Stone to himself, transforming them into the Sixth Secret Realm. Only Kunpeng, the Immortal Phoenix, the Kirin, and the Sky Horn Ant remained.
The Sky Horn Ant in particular was now within the Ten Cave Heaven Divine Rings. Once the three-layered universe was fully dismantled, he could begin transforming this true life into the Sixth Secret Realm as well.
Time passed, and another hundred thousand years went by in the blink of an eye.
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