Southern Ridge.
The sun had only recently risen.
Jiang Ning swept his gaze across heaven and earth, taking everything into his eyes.
At that moment, he understood how the Martial Saint had surveyed the world before.
With the shackles on his eyes severed, he could survey the world in a single glance.
At that moment, he also understood why Miaoguan had said the Immortals of the Ancient Era were like prisoners in a cage.
In the Martial Saint Realm, severing the human body shackles allowed one to survey the world in a glance, and above Immortals, there were still three realms.
Celestial Immortal, True Immortal, and Celestial Venerable.
How could such powerful beings fail to do the same?
Heaven and earth lay within a single glance, with no secrets remaining.
At such a realm, vast though heaven and earth were, to such powerful beings they were merely a tiny cage, with nothing unknowable within.
Any novelty, seen a thousand times, ten thousand times, a hundred million times...
Would ultimately become tiresome.
It was unavoidable.
At that moment, Jiang Ning stood upon the dead leaves, his left eye as calm as ever, yet scene after scene was reflected in his pupil.
Now, if he wished, he could see young children running through the streets and alleys of Luoshui County.
He could see laborers unloading cargo at Dongling City's docks.
He could see a figure leaning against a railing and gazing into the distance deep within the Royal Capital.
He could see the surging tides along the Eastern Sea's shores.
A single glance encompassed the world.
The world no longer held any secrets in his eyes.
This was the realm attained after severing the shackles.
Having only just entered this realm, he still found it novel.
But he could imagine that, after