Fallen Immortal Realm, Golden Sea Domain.
On this day, in a place no living being's divine sense or gaze detected, a young man in azure robes appeared beside a small pond without a sound, then vanished just as silently. He left no trace of his aura, not even a thread of karma.
He remained perfectly still, deep within the Six Paths Reincarnation space, without shifting an inch.
Countless years of experience told him that the moment he arrived in unfamiliar territory was usually when he was safest. Moving, however, might trigger some karmic trap and land him in trouble.
"The upper realm is beautiful..."
Jiang Ding gently sensed its myriad laws of heaven and earth, perfected to an extent far beyond those of any middle-thousand world. He withdrew his probing senses at once, filled with heartfelt joy.
He set himself apart from all laws, lest a celestial cultivator follow a tremor through their web, catch the aura of a particular living being, and come hunting like a spider along its silk.
Celestial cultivators were still immensely powerful to him, symbols of death and danger. But they were no longer mysterious, shrouded in mist and utterly beyond his understanding.
"I will bring glory to this beautiful world."
"I will save every living being trapped in darkness here and bring happiness to all beings across the heavens and myriad worlds."
"I will ascend to the supreme heights. This world will be mine..."
Jiang Ding could not help saying it a little loudly.
Here, in an entirely new world, he felt as though he had broken free of the shackles of time. All his world-weariness fell away. He was curious about everything and thrilled by the promise of the future, just as he had been in the year of his university entrance exams.