Within the Sword Realm, the frozen heaven, earth, and myriad things spread out once more across the Great Sun's Sleeping Grounds. Many plants adapted to the radiance of the Great Sun Annihilation Sword Intent began growing again, and the immortal dao ecosystem started cycling anew.
Unlike before, the consciousness within the Heavenly Dao did not appear.
He was still in light sleep and had not truly merged his consciousness into the world. This required much time—perhaps decades or even centuries. There was even the dreadful danger that he might completely lose the ability to merge with the world.
Fortunately, swordsmanship on the verge of the Sword Realm, the fifth realm of the Sword Dao, along with his powerful Sword Intent, gave him an extremely high margin for error. Such a mistake did not occur. After several decades of sleep, an omnipresent consciousness appeared once more amid heaven, earth, and all things, beginning to take over the world.
The world began evolving once again.
Beneath an undying will, all manner of plants throughout heaven and earth continuously grew and evolved, continuing to nurture something...
Fire Spirit World.
Fire Spirit Academy.
A blue-robed youth opened his eyes within a fiery-red palace and looked toward his classroom.
It was a simple classroom, with nothing remarkable besides its height. Hundreds of students were listening attentively here. They came from the Dao Immortal Sect's various minor worlds, all beings of exceptional talent whose ideological and moral inclinations leaned toward the Immortal Sect.
If the Dao Immortal Sect's resource problems were resolved in the future, and talent could no longer sustain the ruling power's dominance, then after passing assessments in three areas—merit, ideological and moral character, and scientific research and creativity—these students might become Dao Immortal Sect citizens.
Of course, that was only if everything