Void Ember God's explanation had been quite useful. The frustration in Qin Heng's heart over having his God Path Opportunity snatched away by someone else gradually faded away during those peaceful days, soon no longer affecting his mood.
After calming down, Qin Heng looked back and realized that in this lifetime, aside from cultivation and guiding his people's development, he seemed never to have truly relaxed.
So, during this year, he stopped cultivating and ceased his enlightenment. He cut off all contact with the Soul Dimension, returned to life itself, went back to Earth with his parents, wife, and children, and lived like an ordinary person.
More than eighteen hundred Void Ember Years amounted to over 266,000 Earth years. The entire civilization had long since taken on a different face, and even the planet's surface terrain had undergone great changes under the transformation of powerful experts.
There were now only a little over one billion people on Earth, with more than three hundred cities and towns of varying sizes scattered across every corner of the globe.
A new small city with a population of over one million had been built on the former site of Nansha Base City. After returning, Qin Heng settled there.
Although Earth now had no name at all among the God Nation-level administrative units, its actual status was no less than that of a sacred land.
As the hometown of the Void Sacred Emperor and the Time Sacred Emperor, Earth was simply too special. Its airspace controls had reached the highest level. Every single molecule entering or leaving Earth had to be carefully inspected, for fear that imported goods or people might carry harmful factors that could damage Earth's environment.
Naturally, Earth's population was also under strict control. Gaining citizenship was far more difficult than in