After Mu Tianxue and the other left, the palace fell silent.
No one knew how long passed.
"In several thousand years, or perhaps ten thousand years, this world will be destroyed?"
"Is that true?"
Jiang Ding murmured to himself.
Great Love Heavenly Monarch was not someone who could be trusted.
Yet what he had said had come true once before. He could not turn a blind eye to another prophecy. That would be deceiving himself.
The most rational course was to assume it was true and prepare for the worst.
"What preparations can I possibly make?"
Jiang Ding laughed at himself.
"Before the great calamity that destroys all living beings in this world, I am merely a tiny Deity Transformation Cultivator. In the end, I can do nothing but abandon everything and flee."
"If there are grudges, I can settle them another day."
Of course, that was the final resort.
If there was even the slightest possibility, he still wanted to save this world.
Considerations of profit were only one part of it. More importantly, he was the strongest person in this world. He had grown from a mortal into a Deity Transformation Cultivator here and had received far too much from it.
Like the patriarchs of many sects, he held feelings for this world and for its countless living beings.
Unless driven to the brink, he would not abandon it.
Jiang Ding remained in this world for another twenty years.
During that time, he cultivated within Yin Yang Yuan Magnetic Spiritless Mountain, deducing the structure of the Six Paths of Reincarnation Sword Technique while coldly watching the changes unfolding in Tushan Central Court.
One by one, the many corrupt cultivators and those who violated laws and discipline were dealt with—imprisoned, fined, executed, and so on.
Under the gaze