The Golden Sea Domain's boundary wall was boundlessly vast. Even a celestial could not know and see everything, could not watch every place and every point, much less some spot a Void Refining cultivator had chosen at random.
In fact, the cultivator himself did not know where he would leave the domain.
And yet, there it was.
As Venerable Ji Shan flew toward the boundary wall, a young man in azure stood not far away, watching him. He had been waiting there for hundreds of years.
Venerable Ji Shan looked like a pale-faced scholar. His mind was on many things, and he did not see the young man in azure.
Even his cultivator's soul reacted with no instinctive warning. He hurried past the young man and stepped into the boundary wall. Winds rose, clouds surged, and the golden light of a boundary-crossing omen burst forth.
"A young Void Refining cultivator..."
"A junior..."
Jiang Ding murmured.
There had been a time when Void Refining cultivators had always seemed like ancient powerhouses to him. Now this one was a youngster, barely over ten thousand years old, with fewer than five thousand years since his advancement to Void Refining.
"But karma..."
"Is it truly this strange and unknowable?"
"Was manipulating karma a mistake? The sword is what I'm good at. Hiding behind the scenes to guide karma might mean danger for me..."
Venerable Ji Shan had already stepped into the Golden Sea Domain's boundary wall and triggered the omen. He was about to slip away, taking with him the opportunity Jiang Ding had schemed and waited hundreds of years for.
Yet Jiang Ding hesitated.
At this moment, he had none of the decisiveness a sword cultivator ought to possess.
Why?
Because he had just discovered that Venerable Ji Shan's womanizing father, a Divine