Upon the Six Paths Throne, the youth in green robes who had stood like a statue for countless years opened his eyes.
"A hundred years..."
Jiang Ding sighed.
A trace of age-old weariness flashed through his eyes, but a moment later, they returned to the clarity and curiosity unique to youth.
These hundred years had been the period of isolation he had set for himself after first encountering the term Immortal Falling Realm. Unless he sensed an impending crisis of Tushan Central Court's destruction, he would not return to the Northern Plains.
Jiang Ding swept his divine sense across the surroundings and began receiving all manner of intelligence from Tushan Central Court.
More than eighty years ago, with the Artifact Sect successfully refining a Quasi-Primordial Spirit Treasure, the Ten Thousand Miles Beacon Tower, Tushan Central Court had finally advanced to the point of paperless administration. The efficiency of information transmission had risen dramatically, Tushan Central Court's artifact-refining standards had improved by another notch, and its artifact-refining inheritance had climbed a hundred-foot pole to greater heights.
Now, compared to a hundred years ago, every cultivator from Qi Refining cultivators to Nascent Soul Cultivators had become considerably more prosperous. Everyone possessed several magic artifacts and treasures, along with all kinds of talismans. Their strength had once more widened the gap against Demon Race Cultivators of the same level.
Over the past century, thirty-one Nascent Soul Cultivators had been added to the Northern Plains. Half came from Golden Core Peak cultivators who had obtained opportunities during the previous great war, while the other half came from the Personal Disciples and blood relatives of Nascent Soul Cultivators.
Among them, eleven were Great Sun Sword Sect cultivators who had broken through from Golden Core Peak.
The Great Sun Sword Sect's cultivators likely did not even