Inside the Heaven-and-Earth Cosmos Box, Pang Jian's vitality was locked away, without much fluctuation.
After carefully experiencing it for a while, he became certain that before becoming a True God, as long as he remained inside the box, his lifespan would not change in the slightest.
In other words, Longdi and Bai Zi's conjecture was indeed feasible.
When he and Pang Lin had been young, if they had remained in a slumbering state within the box, with time locked away inside it, their lifespans would have been frozen in place.
Perhaps that was how five thousand years had passed.
"Father was worried that no one would take care of us, so he locked us away. He intended to return and reopen the box after going out to settle matters?"
"But one delay turned into nearly five thousand years?"
Pang Jian pondered deeply.
With a shift of his thoughts, he discovered that at his current realm and cultivation, even while inside the box, he could not sense extraordinary objects such as Queen Bee, Pang Ling, and Mystic Turtle.
Yet through the Realm God Plate, he could sense the other six artifacts serving as formation cores, each located within a different Heaven-Reaching Tribulation Pillar.
"I could peer into the heavens from inside the box back then. What about now?"
As Pang Jian's thoughts churned, he suddenly focused on the starry river above.
"Whoosh! Whoosh-whoosh!"
The light of the sun, moon, and stars streamed down as though tangible, instantly falling into the Spirit Sea within his dantian.
Above his special dantian, the sun, moon, and stars corresponding to the starry river beyond the heavens suddenly shone brilliantly.
The Heaven-Reaching Tribulation Pillars standing upon different continents also lit up, releasing a clear jade divine radiance that made the descending foreign-race experts cry out in