The people of his homeland were already behind him.
That brilliant sword light took several years to cross the entire Solar System before formally entering the vast, boundless vacuum. His homeland gradually receded, farther and farther away.
Several decades later, his homeland had completely become a speck of starlight behind him. Without looking carefully, it could no longer be distinguished.
Jiang Ding silently traveled through the Cosmic Starry Sky.
The heavens and earth around him were pitch-black. Even the nearest stellar system was dozens of light-years away. Looking out, the universe was infinite and eternally unchanging. No matter how the living beings within it traveled, they could change nothing—not even if they were a Heavenly Being Grade galactic lifeform.
Such a lifeform could command the glory of a World Cluster for hundreds of thousands of years, yet in the infinite universe, it was as tiny as dust.
The mana and spiritual consciousness within Jiang Ding's body were slowly leaking away.
This was an inevitable law of the Spiritless Universe. High energy inevitably dispersed toward Low Entropy; it was an unbreakable rule. Even native lifeforms could only adapt and slow it down, never change it.
This process was irreversible.
Once mana and spiritual consciousness leaked away, they were gone. They could never be absorbed back again. Such a possibility did not exist.
"Ten thousand years."
"At most ten thousand years, and I'll die completely... How wonderful. My homeland truly favors me."
Jiang Ding calculated silently.
In a certain sense, this was an extremely terrifying ability.
One had to know that the Supreme Grade protective measure Immortal Artifact Son had possessed earlier had only lasted a little over two thousand years in the Spiritless Universe.
A lifeform whose combat strength had barely reached Heavenly Being Grade, but whose true realm was only