Northern Plains.
After more than five thousand years, he had come to this starry sky once again.
Unlike any previous time, Jiang Ding sensed a faint resistance. He was rejected by the Minor World and cast outside it, landing in the distant Deadly Silent Starry Sky.
From afar, Jiang Ding silently watched that Minor World which had once been incomparably familiar to him.
It was a pearl within the universe, gleaming brilliantly.
She stood alone within a vast starfield, with not a single Minor World around her—an isolated, lonely world standing apart from the center of Immortal Civilization.
If not for the Ascension Platform Rule of this World Cluster, perhaps her existence would forever have remained unknown.
"Five thousand years have passed. Does anyone still remember this sovereign? ..."
Jiang Ding murmured to himself as he looked into the distant reaches.
Here naturally referred to the Upper Realm.
Five thousand years was an unignorable span even for a Dao Integration Cultivator—one-twentieth of a lifetime. If it were spent lying in wait for a Spirit Transformation Cultivator, it would be far too unworthy.
He wondered whether Shou Gui Divine Monarch of the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm had such patience.
However, whether Shou Gui Divine Monarch possessed such patience was not important. It could not affect anything.
"Shou Gui is nothing more than dry bones in a grave."
"A weakling whose life has already entered its countdown..."
Jiang Ding murmured. His expression remained grave, for he had thought of the Heavenly Being Realm experts that must exist within the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm.
—As for Supreme Experts standing at the pinnacle of the Upper Realm, Near-Immortal Grade beings of the Lei Yang Heavenly Sword Realm lying in wait for him for five thousand years?
Jiang Ding believed he was not