On the mountaintop.
After Jiang Ning thanked Lin Yuexi, his gaze peeled away from the Ten Domains Heaven Patrol Token in his hand.
"This Ten Domains Heaven Patrol Token of the Haoyang Direct Disciple really isn't simple," Jiang Ning murmured to himself, looking at the token in his hand.
The words Lin Yuexi and Bai Li had exchanged just now had been only a sparse few sentences, yet they had lifted a corner of the truth of heaven and earth for him.
The river of time, the Land of Return to Emptiness, True Immortals beholding the truth of the world!
This information was far more systematic than the scattered records he had once seen in the ancient texts of the Dao Palace, and far more shocking.
"So it turns out that the world we inhabit is actually only a stretch of waves within the river of time." Jiang Ning raised his head and looked toward the horizon, his gaze seeming to pierce through the clouds and see that vast Long River, formless and intangible yet bearing all things.
After becoming a Nascent Soul Immortal, he had already felt that heaven and earth had grown narrow. Now, it seemed that had not been an illusion.
Rather, his perception had begun to touch the deeper structure of the world.
It was just that he had not yet truly beheld the truth of the world, and could not, like a True Immortal, leap beyond the shackles of the river and see clearly the true relationship between himself and the world.
"True Immortal." Jiang Ning silently recited those two words in his heart, a trace of yearning flashing through his eyes.
According to what Lin Yuexi had said, only by becoming a True Immortal could one truly transcend the shackles of heaven and earth,