The River of Time rolled endlessly onward, halting neither for virtuous and benevolent figures like Qin Sheng nor accelerating its swift flow for tyrannical villains like the Beidou Three Scourges.
In the blink of an eye, another two and a half years had passed since Qin Sheng killed a sage king in the Immortal Mausoleum and wiped out the Nine Heavens Holy Land.
The Eastern Immortal Sleeping Palace.
Qin Sheng sat cross-legged on a prayer mat woven from the Enlightenment Ancient Tea Tree, a portion of Lifetime Qin Sheng's essence flowing into his body from the Infinite Land.
After every Qin Sheng died, his essence was temporarily stored in the Infinite Land and could only be unlocked once Qin Sheng fulfilled their dying wishes.
Those otherworldly Qin Shengs with only a single dying wish had it easy, but when a certain Qin Sheng held multiple dying wishes, his essence would be unevenly divided into several parts; completing one wish meant inheriting a corresponding portion.
The amount of essence corresponding to each dying wish had no direct relation to the difficulty of the wish, depending instead on how important it was to the deceased Qin Sheng.
Take Battle Through the Heavens Qin Sheng for example, who died from a backlash while refining heavenly flames. His Dou Huang cultivation, grade six alchemy art, bright future, and everything else had all dissolved into the void.
To him, the dying wish to subdue the Green Lotus Core Flame carried the most profound essence because that was Battle Through the Heavens Qin Sheng's deepest unwillingness.
Revitalizing the Misty Cloud Sect came second, as that was the place Battle Through the Heavens Qin Sheng regarded as home and considered very important. Raising his alchemy art to a level sufficient to gain the Pill Tower's recognition came