As time drifted by,
three thousand years passed.
Over those three thousand years, Weed spread across the Absolute Spirit Domain. Just as in the Dream Domain tens of millions of years later, this place welcomed its lord once more.
Gathering the light of countless stars and a vast sea of spiritual energy, Weed flourished.
In three thousand years, he broke through from the Foundation Establishment Realm to Spirit Transformation.
There was no strange phenomenon, much less a lightning tribulation. Weed simply broke through. His two leaves became three, yet he remained as ordinary as ever, the sort of weed found everywhere.
"Three thousand years."
"Finally, Spirit Transformation..."
Jiang Ding opened his eyes within the spirit vein.
He looked toward the Fallen Wood Sect as it stood now.
The previous Fallen Wood Heavenly Lord was dead, killed in the struggle between the Myriad Leaf Immortal Sect and the Fallen Immortal Willow Clan over the Netherworld Sea Upper Domain.
The new Fallen Wood Heavenly Lord who had risen to power was the previous lord's own son. He had broken through by consuming the Dao-fruit grand pill his father had spent years preparing for him.
Though the Fallen Wood Sect was still a sect, it had become something much like a lineage.
Given a choice, people still preferred their own children to inherit their life's work, no matter how fondly they spoke of disciples with extraordinary talent.
The ones who suffered, of course,
were those realm prodigies who had long since been turned into pills and Dao-fruits.
Many of those prodigies could have reached Dao Integration. One or two might even have become celestial beings. Instead, they died cheaply in remote corners, without ever having the chance to let their brilliance shine.
"The Netherworld Sea Upper Domain?"
"That's the old name for the