At the mountain summit.
After thanking Lin Yuexi, Jiang Ning tore his gaze away from the Ten-Region Heaven-Patrolling Token in his hand.
"This Ten-Region Heaven-Patrolling Token belonging to the Haoyang True Disciple really is no ordinary thing," Jiang Ning murmured, looking at the token in his hand.
Lin Yuexi and Bai Li had exchanged only a few words, yet those words had lifted a corner of the veil concealing the truth of heaven and earth.
The river of time, the Ruins of Return, True Immortals beholding the truth of the world!
This knowledge was far more systematic-and far more astounding-than the scattered records he had read in the Dao Palace's ancient texts.
"So the world we inhabit is merely a ripple in the river of time." Jiang Ning raised his head toward the horizon, his gaze seeming to pierce the clouds and behold that vast river, formless and intangible, yet bearing everything within it.
After becoming a Primordial Spirit Immortal, he had already felt that heaven and earth had grown smaller. Now he knew that had been no illusion.
Rather, his perception had begun to touch the deeper structure of the world.
He simply had yet to truly behold the world's truth. Unlike a True Immortal, he could not escape the river's constraints and see the true relationship between himself and the world.
True Immortal. Jiang Ning silently repeated the words, a trace of longing flashing in his eyes.
According to Lin Yuexi, only by becoming a True Immortal could one truly transcend the constraints of heaven and earth, behold the truth of the river of time, and even gain the ability to influence its course.
Such a realm was far beyond his current state as a Primordial Spirit Immortal.
In this era, that path was no longer passable.
Unless