The Starry Sky Ancient Road was undoubtedly a place of wonders.
If the Ancient Life Stars and Life Source Lands were, at times, merely low-level maps, then the Starry Sky Ancient Road was a mid-level map, perhaps even a high-level one.
An Ancient Life Star generally allowed someone to cultivate to the level of a Dao-Slaying King or a Saint.
After that, anyone who wanted to progress faster needed to take the Starry Sky Ancient Road.
They might stride along it full of spirit, reach its end, and contend for supremacy beneath the stars.
Or they might meet a more brilliant Heavenly Prodigy, fall like a broken halberd buried in the sand, and perish with their Dao.
If luck spared their life, they could retreat to a low-level map and set themselves up as a saintly ancestor.
Those who had failed on the Starry Sky Ancient Road were probably still among the strongest on an Ancient Life Star.
Shadows of the past overlapped with the present. Meng Chuan went from place to place without any set route, poking around as though exploring, or perhaps simply sightseeing.
That was how he had been back then, too.
He had rarely competed with Heavenly Prodigies of his generation, and he had set foot on the Starry Sky Ancient Road earlier than his peers. There had been few people to challenge him.
As for the older generation stationed along the Starry Sky Ancient Road, most had already gained what they could. Few still harbored grand ambitions.
Besides, with the cultivation Meng Chuan had possessed then, he had ranked among the very strongest of the older generation. That was why he could wander the Starry Sky Ancient Road as though on holiday.
When others were Great Powers, he was a Saint. When they became Saints,