Xi Rong Manor.
Ning Zheng was in secluded cultivation, studying this enormous harvest.
"Although Shadow Crocodile Esteemed Immortal crossed into prehistory, I immediately put him to sleep. He never fully took the final step, so he's merely a sleeping Celestial Phenomenon Esteemed Immortal."
He had originally intended to try crossing that threshold completely in prehistory and become a Celestial Phenomenon Esteemed Immortal.
But somewhere deep down, he had a premonition. He realized that if he truly entered that realm, he would trap himself within it.
Once proven, forever proven.
Past, present, and future would all synchronize.
Though the Celestial Phenomenon Esteemed Immortals appeared to have died in the future, in truth, they had integrated with the Dao in the future and become part of the Heaven and Earth rules.
They could not be considered dead at all.
It was more accurate to say that they had not been sleeping in the past, while in the future, they had slept to death.
Once Ning Zheng attained the Dao, this clone of Shadow Crocodile Esteemed Immortal would affect the true body, causing Ning Zheng's own body to mysteriously dissipate into the Dao and become an Esteemed Immortal as well.
It looked wonderful—a single step to the heavens.
But it was not a good choice for Ning Zheng.
It was true that he had risen through the calamity path, and Shadow Crocodile Divine Ability was the foundation of his rise. But he did not want to draw the ground as a prison and be eternally confined to calamity.
As the blacksmiths put it:
A person without dreams was no different from a salted fish.
Of course he had to try to charge toward the supreme position of destiny.
"One Calamity Luck Clone, one Lucky Clone, and my current true self. Three in one,