The summer of the fourth year of the Universal Calendar was exceptionally hot.
Yet that very year, Shenjing's watermelon harvest had failed. It made for a miserable summer for the people of Shenjing.
But for the people of Shenjing, what they remembered most about that summer was not "no watermelons to eat," but rather "so many starships."
Every few days or so, Starship Magical Items would descend upon Shenzhou.
The reduced watermelon harvest had resulted from one such landing. The designated starship berths had been full, forcing the starships of other Free and Unfettered Cultivators to move some distance away. The gale stirred up by those starships had destroyed a vast stretch of melon fields.
Perhaps because of that incident, the Immortal Alliance's Zhengtian Division urgently issued an order requiring all returning Free and Unfettered Cultivators to park their Starship Magical Items on the moon, while their fellow disciples returned to Shenzhou together aboard Starshuttles.
Thus, the traffic of starships gradually diminished in the end.
But even that was enough to be remembered by mortals.
Such a sight would not appear again for more than a century afterward.
These were all cultivators of the Myriad Dharma Sect.
Every Myriad Dharma Sect cultivator who could make it back had returned.
Not even in the year when the Unbounded Calculus emerged and the Unbounded Calamity erupted had there been such a scene.
An unprecedented grand gathering.
Perhaps only the dispute between the School of Separation and the School of Numbers of the Middle Ages, or Lord of Yuanli's exposition on calculus, had possessed such terrifying influence?
At this time, all low-level disciples of the Myriad Dharma Sect withdrew from the sect.
Only cultivators who wished to take part in this debate entered.
Even the entire mountain gate had been sealed off by