A journey across the stars had been a hurried one.
Qin Heng took his family sightseeing through the starry splendor of the Void Ash God Kingdom. By the time they reached Qin Province, more than a year had passed.
Nearly three Void Ember Years had passed since his return from the Ancient Secret Realm.
Qin Province was only a tiny patch of land on the God Source Continent. Compared with the entire core region of the God Nation, it was very small, yet it still stretched more than thirty light-years deep.
It lay at the edge of the God Source Continent. Beyond it was the empty starry void, and it bordered two other, more ancient provinces.
The vertical expanse of void outside it was incomparably vast and also habitable. However, since land continued to grow, perhaps one day more land would emerge beyond this direction. Therefore, that border region did not legally belong to Qin Province, but was instead the "root land" of the God Source Continent.
Qin Province was named after Qin Heng, but it was not Qin Heng's fief.
It had been born in the previous era and stopped growing during the transition between eras. The earliest land to emerge had already existed for 8,680 Void Ember Years, while the newest patch of land was less than a century old.
As land emerged, many inhabitants from nearby provinces would voluntarily migrate there, reclaim wilderness, settle down, occupy the new land, and become local residents.
8,680 Void Ember Years was equivalent to more than 1.1 million years on Earth. After generation upon generation of reproduction and growth, they had long since become natives of the land. Their population exceeded a trillion, and there were tens of thousands of different races.
This place was governed by a provincial official, the