Beneath the Sky-Covering Divine Banyan, at the Slumber Secret Realm.
Jiang Ding waited quietly.
For a Spirit Transformation cultivator, a few years amounted to a little time spent cultivating, a little time deducing the Sword Escape Art, a little time deducing the Six Paths Order, and a little time thinking. Then they were gone.
Buzz!
As the entrance to the Slumber Secret Realm stirred, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth trembled, and two familiar figures slowly teleported out.
They had already completed their awakening and physical recovery inside the Slumber Secret Realm. They were in peak condition now, though their minds had yet to clear. Their gazes were hazy and bewildered, their eyes unfocused as they blinked.
After an unknown length of time, reason began to return to them. Their minds began to work and to think.
"Feeling better?"
Before them stood a young man in azure robes, fifteen or sixteen years old, smiling at them.
"Dingding?"
Lin Wanqiu sounded hesitant.
He was plainly her son, and his appearance had not changed, yet he felt distant and ethereal, utterly different from the last time she had seen him.
Hadn't she last seen him just a few days ago... a few days, right?
"Brother..."
Jiang Yuan asked timidly, "Did our slumber fail? It feels like we only just went in. Can the Immortal Sect refund our money?"
"Hahaha!"
Jiang Ding had reined in much of his madness, but he still burst out laughing.
His laughter shook the four directions, raising a terrifying roar that swept across hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Countless streams of Sword Qi sprang into being, spreading over the entire planet and beyond it into the starry sky. Vast ripples surged through the cosmos, countless visions of Sword Qi appeared, and brilliant light filled the universe.
It