Worlds and universes rose and sank ceaselessly within the mustard seed, passing through countless billions of years. Only when every universe within it fell silent did the process of evolution stop.
Untold billions of years had passed within the mustard seed, while only a few breaths had elapsed in the outside world. The mustard seed containing infinite universes still hovered in midair, its surface seemingly unchanged. It floated quietly, awaiting True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns's second restart.
True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns searched the mustard seed's infinite universes with his divine sense, examining all the prodigies and monstrous geniuses born over those countless ages. After a moment's consideration, he did not restart the mustard seed for a second round of evolution.
One pass was enough.
After all, this mustard seed had merely been condensed from dust. Even with a wisp of the Golden Palace Sand's enlightenment conceptual image, this was the furthest its evolution could reach. Restarting it a second time would serve no purpose beyond wasting a few breaths.
Besides, during this first evolution of heaven, earth, and all living things, True Lord Imperial Balance Myriad Turns had already found a suitable candidate: a prodigy whose comprehension far surpassed Zhang Yuan's, and whose talents were specifically suited to countering him.
The only blemish on this otherwise perfect result was that her universe was too small, leaving her innate aptitude far inferior to Zhang Yuan's.
But aptitude was a minor matter. The Golden Palace Sand's enlightenment conceptual image had not yet been completely exhausted. Using the remaining conceptual image to enlighten her a little would grant her pre-heaven aptitude sufficient to cultivate to at least the Celestial Person realm.
With such aptitude, coupled with her supreme conceptual image, she would be more than qualified to serve as Zhang