After shaking off the cultivators of the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder True Sect, Jiang Ding immediately left the Southern Chu Kingdom, maintaining the utmost concealment. External space, karma, dust, and rules did not touch him as he moved across the earth like a ghost.
Several years later, he arrived in another mortal kingdom with sparse spiritual qi. He did not reveal himself, instead transforming into an utterly ordinary stone and quietly remaining on the ground.
Thus, without anyone noticing, thirty years passed.
Throughout that time, Jiang Ding remained in the form of a pebble.
Sometimes, hunters entered the deep mountains.
Sometimes, Qi Refining cultivators fought bloody battles to the death.
Sometimes, from the perspective of Big Data Heavenly Secrets Deduction, a hidden dragon with a high probability of becoming the ruler of a nation in the future was Severely Wounded while still only a beggar. With just a little investment, one could place a piece on the board in these kingdoms in the future...
Sometimes, a fortunate Outer Disciple from a cultivation sect came here...
And so on. In such a small place, in a mere thirty years, so many remarkable events occurred. Heroes rose one after another, which was quite unexpected.
Jiang Ding ignored all of it.
He was merely an ordinary little stone, not some standard-bearer plotting the world. The thing he ought to do most was avoid contact with any person or living being and refrain from becoming entangled in any karma.
In the future, if there was something he wanted, he could simply bring down a sword, purge evil, uphold justice, and take it.
Rather than pinning his hopes on so-called schemes and arrangements. That was not something he was capable of doing; he should know his own limits.
Over those thirty years, the Ascension Cleansing