While the Tushan Clone was busy in the Northern Plains, Jiang Ding had already left the Great Sun Heavenly Pool, descended through the atmosphere, entered the planet, and returned to his home in Banyan City.
Jiang Ding walked through the middle of the residential complex, surrounded as always by countless curious gazes.
He paused slightly.
Again. Once again, it was like this.
The last time he had come home seemed to have been decades ago, perhaps even centuries ago. Back then, he had met a pair of young married neighbors.
But this time, they were gone. He had not even seen them in their old age.
In this entire residential complex, the place where he had grown from an infant into an adult, he could not see a single familiar face.
Even if he met someone now, he would not see them next time.
Jiang Ding lost all desire to greet or get to know new neighbors.
He headed straight home, took out his key, and opened the door.
It had only been a few decades since he had last been here, yet the house was once again covered in a thick layer of dust. He spread out the Great Sun Destruction Sword Domain and spent some time cleaning it.
Jiang Ding carefully infused Indestructible Sword Intent into everything around him, preserving the television, tables and chairs, quilts, pots, bowls, and utensils, allowing them to remain forever as they had been more than four hundred years ago.
"More or less done..."
Jiang Ding swept his Spiritual Sense across the surroundings. After confirming that every corner had been imbued with Indestructible Sword Intent, he nodded in satisfaction.
So long as he did not die, and the house did not suffer an external Nascent Soul stage attack or a prolonged Nascent Soul