A thousand leisurely years vanished in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Gu An returned alone to the Wushi Realm, riding the clouds forward as he admired the Wushi Realm as it was now.
A thousand years was enough to change the Wushi Realm's appearance. The Wushi Realm had constantly been expanding, and the living beings dwelling here had reproduced descendants as well, naturally bringing ever-renewing changes to the Wushi Realm with each passing day.
Although breakthroughs by beings born in the Wushi Realm could not bring Gu An any increase in lifespan, they could strengthen the Wushi Realm. The stronger the Wushi Realm became, the stronger Gu An became as well. Every living being here could help him grow stronger.
Gu An had not wanted to directly create Wushi beings before, and it was the same now.
If he created them himself, then if all living beings rebelled against him in the future, he would still hesitate over whether he should kill them.
But things were different now. The living beings of the present were equivalent to lodgers in the Wushi Realm. If he punished them, Gu An would not be softhearted.
Of course, given his cultivation level, no matter what their origins were, he could punish them all. It was just that he had retained a trace of humanity and did not wish to become an emotionless Saint.
The so-called emotionlessness of Saints seemed like a kind of fairness, but in reality, Saints simply put their own absolute interests first. In their eyes, all living beings were merely chess pieces to be used or discarded.
Emotionless Saints were not absolutely bad, but Gu An had walked here from being a mortal and had long since possessed a standpoint belonging to humans. He rather enjoyed that as