Twelve kalpas later
Upon the World Tree, Emperor Lingji, as the Lord of Time and Space, clearly sensed that the Pure Yang Wuliang Immortal Array jointly formed by the nine Primordial Cosmoses and numerous cosmos-worlds had gradually stabilized, beginning to steadily channel the spiritual mechanisms of heaven and earth toward the Barbaric Heaven Realm.
Through her connection with the World Tree, she could "see" that the nine Primordial Cosmoses were also becoming further perfected and harmonious in this process, each forming a complete whole.
They were visibly different from before.
Emperor Lingji's eyes rippled. Now that the nine Primordial Cosmoses had grown to this stage, the greater situation would not change again anytime soon.
Yet over these twelve kalpas, far too many immortals and gods had benefited.
Naturally, she was one of them.
As the myriad heavens and worlds grew, so too did the World Tree. As the future Lord of the World and Lord of Time and Space, wielding part of the World Tree's authority, she had clearly witnessed the changes and growth of the myriad heavens and worlds through the World Tree.
Her path of time and space had formally sublimated into the path of the world, and she had attained a certain level of mastery.
Her growth could be called swift.
However, she was by no means the fastest-growing in cultivation among the nine inner disciples.
The one whose cultivation had advanced the fastest was Kong Xuan, master of the Ritual Sect, who had founded a great teaching and made his name resound through the heavens.
Over these twelve kalpas, Kong Xuan had emulated the "Dao Ancestor," broadly accepting three thousand disciples, founding the Ritual Sect, and teaching all living beings. Taking ritual as the source of order, he had also taken part in establishing the rites