Chapter 652

The heavens were vast, the Four Extremes broad. In the same instant beneath the same cosmic light, other events were unfolding as well.

Lingnan Great Land.

A hundred years after Lin Chen's departure, the entire Lingnan Great Land had recovered at an unprecedented pace.

The scorched, lifeless earth had returned to an earthy yellow. Green life once more spread across it; lush forests, cloud-shrouded peaks, endlessly babbling streams... everything had returned to how it once was.

Ordinarily, after such a devastating war, recovery would never have been achieved overnight. First, the Earthly Yin Sha, death qi, Vengeful Souls, and other turbid earthly impurities had to be purged from the land. Then came transplantation, rainfall, cultivation, and finally the drawing in of spirit veins...

Such work would require hundreds or thousands of years and consume an unknown number of resources and laborers before reaching this stage. It could be said that it required the efforts of at least ten generations.

Yet under the thousand-mile trade wind spirit-vein transmission formation Lin Chen had created in the past, it had returned to its original state in barely a hundred years.

Moreover, the Azure Cloud Sect had monopolized Lingnan and developed the Land of Fallen Spirit Transmutation. Through it, they nurtured new spirit veins one after another, causing the spiritual energy concentration throughout the Lingnan Cultivation World to rise rapidly.

If nothing unexpected happened, the Lingnan Great Land, unchanged for three thousand years, would enter a new era. Perhaps some peerless genius might even carry on what came before and open the way ahead, achieving Spirit Transformation here in a single stroke. Though they could not become a Heavenly Lord, they would still become a first-class figure in the world.

Coupled with the Azure Cloud Sect Patriarch's three-thousand-year layout, which had refined the entire