I had little attachment to this world.
After one last look back at the county town, Shi Lan had the System open a spatial passage and stepped inside without hesitation.
Once a spatial passage had been constructed, it could endure for all eternity, so long as no outside force interfered.
Shi Lan had come here through the Heavens Reincarnation System, with only her soul crossing the void, so she had felt very little.
But now she was returning with her whole body, and the sensation was entirely different.
It was a road to the heavens, strewn with brilliant starlight. Beyond a transparent membrane were clusters of chaos, great and small.
Some were as dim as candle flames, while others blazed like the scorching sun. They seemed within arm's reach, yet lay beyond the endless reaches of space and time.
Before Shi Lan could take a closer look, she had already set foot on solid ground. She had returned to Lingyang.
She stood in the familiar secret chamber. The pool nearby still held some warmth.
Though she had spent more than half a year in the small world, less than two days had passed in the Lingyang Realm.
Vast spiritual energy surged toward her, nourishing her body. In that small world, spiritual energy could hardly sustain her innate spiritual body; if she was not careful, she could drain the entire world dry.
At the same time, an invisible restraint pressed down on her strength. The feeling that she could shatter the heavens with a lift of her hand was gone. The immense disparity left her somewhat disoriented.
After a moment, Shi Lan slowly raised her hand and lightly touched the empty space before her.
The void rippled like the surface of water.
Thanks to the Divine Refinement Codex, her soul had