Northern Plains.
Tushan Central Court, Black Demon Palace.
A youth in green robes seated upon the Six Paths Throne opened his eyes.
His gaze was sharply black and white, deep as the night sky yet not steeped in the vicissitudes of time, still carrying a naive curiosity toward the immortal path.
"Not bad."
"At least this ramshackle house of mine didn't collapse. I won't have to spend the beginning out in the wilderness."
Jiang Ding slowly rose from the Six Paths Throne and sighed faintly. "I just don't know how many people I know remain in this world, or how many familiar faces I will see at a glance."
He did nothing. Instead, he turned and looked at the six ever-shifting vortices upon the Six Paths Throne.
This Six Paths Throne had been left behind by the founder of the Six Paths Sect, the Six Paths Heavenly Monarch. The six vortices respectively contained the inheritances of the Six Paths: the Heavenly Human Dao, Asura Dao, Human Dao, Animal Dao, Hungry Ghost Dao, and Hell Dao. It was one of the strongest inheritances native to the Northern Plains, having created one enormous Northern Plains power after another.
After Jiang Ding acquired the Black Demon Palace, this Six Paths Throne had also fallen into his hands.
However, he had merely skimmed through it to broaden his horizons before setting it aside. He had not been especially interested, because the Six Paths Sect founder's explorations of the immortal path were exceedingly shallow. At the time, he had judged it as "too arrogant, falsely calling itself the Six Paths," and thus renamed the Six Paths of Reincarnation Palace the Black Demon Palace.
Now that Jiang Ding had advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage, he looked again—and it was still the same. There was no