The years were like a long, winding river, flowing slowly through the channel of history, sometimes stirring faint ripples, sometimes sinking into prolonged stillness.
Time drifted on. Seas turned to fields and fields to seas; the world changed and shifted, yet it continued forward silently and slowly.
Before anyone realized it, like a white steed flashing past a crack, two thousand long years had vanished into the river of history.
Over those long years, the Sea of Realms remained boundless, like a mysterious, vast universe—deep and silent.
The Dark Lifeforms were like ghosts hidden in the depths of darkness, lurking cautiously, afraid of disturbing this seemingly tranquil world.
For two thousand years, they remained concealed in the shadows, silently waiting and gathering some unknown power, ready to erupt with astonishing force at the right moment.
Only once did Black Two and the Formless Demon Spider, whom Jiang Yun had converted, encounter Dark Lifeforms from afar who had come from the other side of the Sword Light, and gaze at each other across the distance.
It had been a chance encounter. When the two sides looked at one another from afar across the Sea of Realms, no fierce conflict broke out, and they did not even exchange a few simple words.
At the moment their gazes met, they merely nodded to each other in mutual understanding, as though they had reached some tacit agreement.
However, Black Two secretly informed Jiang Yun afterward. Jiang Yun found that individual and cleverly planted a wisp of source mark within his body, marking him.
No one noticed in the slightest.
That Dark Lifeform mistook Black Two for an Immortal King who had fallen in this world. Since they were both Dark Lifeforms, he assumed they were on the same side and each had their own