In the Azure Sky Minor Realm, the years slipped by without a sound. In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.
That day, beneath a willow beside the riverside path in Linjiang City, a boy who had been dozing slowly opened his eyes. He looked about ten, with a round face and a hint of hidden brilliance in his features.
"Has it been ten years already? I never thought I'd only unravel the mystery of my life in the womb today."
The confusion in his eyes faded, and Jiang Liu—or rather, Jiang Chen—gradually regained full awareness.
Ten years earlier, while cultivating One Thought, Reincarnation, Jiang Chen had sent a thought into this realm, where it had been born as Jiang Liu. Only now had he finally seen through the mystery of his life in the womb and recognized the truth of his situation.
"Technology is advancing rapidly here. Ordinary people live fairly well, and this body was born into a prosperous family, so these years have gone smoothly. I've hardly suffered any hardships."
"But compared to the Spirit-Void Realm, spiritual energy here is terribly thin. For Xu Sinian to have reached the Purple Mansion—or rather, Golden Core—in this environment, he truly had some fortune on his side."
Jiang Chen gazed at the bustling traffic ahead and fell briefly into thought.
The supernatural had not vanished from the Azure Sky Minor Realm, but cultivators had become difficult to find in the open. Instead, rapidly advancing firearms held sway.
"The Azure Sky Minor Realm may once have been glorious, but it has certainly declined. From Xu Sinian's memories, even with the Heaven-Stealing Jade Tablet to aid him, reaching Golden Core took the strength of nine oxen and two tigers. His eventual success was extraordinary luck."
"If it was that hard