After several more years, Jiang Ding returned to the Immortal Sect.
The Great Sun Celestial Pool entered the Thirty-Third Celestial Dipper Orbit once more and set down a spatial anchor. It moved slowly with the rotation of the home planet, completing one circuit every three years.
Jiang Ding did not return to the surface.
He had no family left there.
Centuries earlier, Lin Yuanwang had failed to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm. Even transcendent resources could not help him. He had reached the limit of his talent.
In the end, he used the life-saving pill Jiang Ding had given him to barely form a false Nascent Soul. Even so, his lifespan was badly damaged, and he lived only to his late nine hundreds, just shy of a thousand.
Then, several decades ago, while Jiang Ding was still lying low in the Horn Nether Domain, Lin Yuanwang reached the end of his life.
At the time, Jiang Ding's avatar had gone to bid farewell to his last living relative in the world.
So many regrets, so much shared history. In the end, it had all passed away.
To others, Great Sun True Lord was a venerable senior, an old monster of Clearwind University. Three generations of descendants had passed away, even four generations down to great-grandchildren, yet he still taught in Clearwind University's Adult Swordsmanship Department without changing a bit. He was an evergreen tree that never aged in the mortal world.
But what about in Great Sun True Lord's own heart?
"Time..."
"I really am better suited to spending time with old things like Flame Stone Great Emperor."
"That way, I can feel happy."
Jiang Ding murmured, "Before them, I'm a three-year-old child, hopelessly immature in every way. I'm as full of life and hope as the rising