The souls of Swamp True Venerable and the Jade-Green Toad sank into the six paths of reincarnation. Their minds grew benighted as they cycled endlessly through humans, gods, ghosts, beasts, Asuras, and the beings of hell, sinking and changing with each turn. Their souls had forever lost the chance to regain clarity.
Then the Materialist Sun shone down from the sky!
This time, its light was pure Law Annihilation and law suppression. It shone across earth and sky, meticulously and patiently erasing every trace of battle, every remnant of rules, and every lingering fluctuation of spiritual energy or divine sense. For a brief time, it purged everything imbued with spirit.
Every spiritual substance in this region returned to the state it had held when heaven and earth first opened. All traces left by later ages were ground away, including karma.
Jiang Ding continued his meticulous sweep for months, checking again and again before finally declaring the work complete.
"Done."
"With the home-ground advantage, I'm confident that even if a Dao Integration Divine Lord came here to divine the past, he wouldn't uncover anything valuable. Even with the aid of the Heavenly Dao's web of rules, he couldn't trace back any useful information."
"Even a Dao Integration soul cannot create something from nothing without a foothold."
Jiang Ding checked once more, then showed a hint of satisfaction.
It was not that he was timid. This was the Fallen Immortal Realm!
There were too many powerful beings, too many methods he knew nothing about, and too many people capable of killing him. He could not afford to be anything but cautious.
"But if it's someone above Dao Integration..."
Jiang Ding hesitated.
He had no way to assess that.
That realm was still far too unfamiliar to the Immortal Sect. There was no