The Great Sun Celestial Pool fell into a long silence, just as it had so many times before.
It was a truly long silence—long enough for an ordinary mortal of the Immortal Sect to live an entire life, for the war between domains to undergo many changes, and for numerous Immortal Sect research projects to make breakthroughs.
Before anyone knew it, a hundred years had passed.
That day, at the heart of the Solar Abyss in the Great Sun Celestial Pool, a hundred-thousand-meter-tall Solar Divine Tree stood between heaven and earth, as though it had walked out of primordial times. Endless radiance and scorching Sword Qi swirled around it. Every leaf carried a hazy world of Sword Qi, like the fruit of a sword-path world.
Her branches and leaves flourished. She brimmed with life and held boundless creative power.
Beneath the Solar Divine Tree, a young man in azure robes sat cross-legged within a world as real as any other. All things grew inside it. Hundreds of thousands of plant species formed a tightly ordered immortal-path ecosystem, driving the cycles of this world, now roughly five kilometers across, and giving rise to six orders.
The intricate, tightly woven web of these six orders was almost comparable to that of a real world, far surpassing what it had been at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.
Under the interweaving and accumulation of so many orders, phenomena began to appear that could shake the laws of the cosmic stars, causing those laws to twist and change of their own accord, no longer remaining aloof from all things.
"Order has shaken the laws..."
Beneath the tree, Jiang Ding slowly opened his eyes.
After a hundred years of healing, all his injuries were gone. His body had returned to its most vigorous