The spiritual energy of one ancient world after another revived, and within one star after another, all living beings set foot upon the path of cultivation once more.
During this time, quite a few people awakened with memories intact, as though they had foreseen something in the unseen.
Chen Nianzhi reclined high above the Ninth Heaven, watching scene after scene unfold with a calm expression, a faint smile appearing on his face.
As he helped the boundless multidimensional spacetime revive, he had also calculated the future fortunes of countless worlds and glimpsed the destinies of innumerable people within those worlds and stars.
Throughout this process, Chen Nianzhi discovered that a very small number of people displayed considerable talent and aptitude in the future. They had all contributed to and refined the Self-Sacrifice Dao to some degree, yet for one reason or another, they had perished halfway through their journeys.
So Chen Nianzhi casually sent back the memories that belonged to those people's futures.
Having suddenly received memories of the future, they might have believed it was merely a dream, or perhaps that they had been reborn.
But the instant they saw the Chaos Stele descend, they understood that their fates had changed.
"Great Emperors reborn, Immortal Kings reincarnated. This is rather interesting."
Chen Nianzhi smiled faintly, then withdrew his thoughts in an instant.
Changing the troubled fates of that tiny handful of people in a single thought, giving them the chance to alter their own futures, was merely a passing amusement for Chen Nianzhi.
"I hope that one day, I will see you little ones in the Immortal Domain."
As that thought gradually faded, Chen Nianzhi returned to secluded cultivation.
Over the following years, Chen Nianzhi refined Nine-Transformation Immortal Pills and Primordial Soul-Nourishing Wood. Time flowed swiftly, and before he