The Great Sun Celestial Pool traveled through the starry reaches between realms. Before anyone knew it, several more years had passed.
It had now reached the star region where the Immortal Sect Homeworld lay.
Jiang Ding awoke from cultivation.
He stood, flew into the sky, passed through the crystal wall, and emerged above the Great Sun Celestial Pool to gaze at the distant stars.
A blue planet came into view.
At first, it was only the size of a thumb. As it gradually grew larger, a Nascent Soul Cultivator's eyesight could make out rivers crisscrossing its surface, rolling oceans, and a moon orbiting the planet.
Of course, this "moon" shared a name with Taiyin Star in the cultivation world, but they meant different things. They were not the same.
In the eyes of many Heavenly Lords from beyond the realm, this "moon" was a vast secret realm accompanying the East Pole Realm.
The planet was also entirely unlike the small worlds common among the realms, with their domed skies and square earth. It was a sphere, yet people standing on it somehow did not fall off.
Cultivators from other realms usually clicked their tongues in wonder when they arrived and said, "The cultivation world truly has no shortage of strange things."
"This is where the Spiritless Universe meets the universe of spiritual energy..."
Jiang Ding recalled what he had read.
More than ten thousand years ago, the spiritless starry sky and the starry sky of the cultivation world had begun to intersect.
The Immortal Sect was born against that backdrop.
Its people had begun making contact with cultivators, testing the waters. They had endured countless humiliations, hardships, and perils. Generation after generation had pressed forward, sacrificing themselves without cease. Only through effort and luck had they reached where they stood