Over more than a decade, Zhang Yang led more than a thousand people from five contingents and cleared out the Void Battlefield Ruins.
While only a little over ten years had passed outside, more than sixty years had gone by in the Lesser Thousand Worlds.
Throughout those sixty-odd years, the Lesser Thousand Worlds had continued growing stronger.
That strength came in the form of increased power.
The Void Battlefield Ruins had been formed from dozens of Emperor Dao Fragments from the Otherworld, their accompanying treasures, and the accumulated power of dozens of Emperor Dao Realm experts from this world.
With all that immense power now swallowed by the Lesser Thousand Worlds, how could it possibly not grow stronger?
That was also why Zhang Yang dared to let the more than three hundred Immortal King Realm experts among the five contingents enter the Lesser Thousand Worlds to cultivate.
After settling those people in, Zhang Yang carried the Lesser Thousand Worlds back to the Monster Realm.
He used a portion of his divine soul to bear his power, condensing it into a Dao Body, and sent it to the Immortal Cultivation Realm to meet Shadow.
In truth, having comprehended a portion of the Sage Master's power, he had a chance to send his true body to the Immortal Cultivation Realm.
But he feared that Shadow might learn this rule-breaking power from him and thus leave the Shadow Domain.
Under the current circumstances, it was still best for Shadow to remain imprisoned within the Shadow Domain.
As for his Dao Body, there were not so many concerns.
The Dao Body passed through the Spacetime Passage and arrived at the Holy Domain Gate, where it waited for the Holy Domain to open like an ordinary cultivator.
Shadow had waited for him for several years,