After Mu Tianxue and her companion left, the palace fell silent.
No one knew how long passed.
"Thousands of years from now, perhaps ten thousand, this world will perish?"
"Is that true?"
Jiang Ding murmured to himself.
Great Love Celestial Lord was not a man to be trusted.
Yet something he had said had already come true once. Jiang Ding could not turn a blind eye to another prophecy. That would be deceiving himself.
The most rational course was to assume it was true and prepare for the worst.
"What can I possibly prepare?"
Jiang Ding gave a self-mocking smile.
"Faced with a calamity that will wipe out every living thing in this world, I'm only a little Spirit Transformation cultivator. In the end, all I can do is abandon everything and flee."
"If there are debts to settle, I'll settle them another day."
Of course, that was his last resort.
If there was even a sliver of hope, he still wanted to save this world.
The benefits were only part of it. More importantly, he was the strongest person in this world. He had grown here from an ordinary mortal into a Spirit Transformation cultivator, and this world had given him far too much along the way.
Like the old ancestors of many sects, he cared about this world. He cared about its countless living beings.
Unless he had absolutely no choice, he would not abandon them.
Jiang Ding remained in this world for another twenty years.
Throughout that time, he cultivated on Yin-Yang Magnetism Spirit-Bane Mountain and worked out the structure of the Six Paths Reincarnation Sword Art, while watching coldly as Tushan Central Court changed.
Corrupt cultivators and those who had broken the law were dealt with one by one: imprisoned, fined, or executed.
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