After returning from the Qianyuan Sacred Ground, Qin Shujian went back to the Celestial Court.
For him,
there were few places left to go.
With his strength at the Dao Fruit Level, a single sweep of his Divine Sense could cover the entire Great Thousand World.
And with the Demon Abyss destroyed,
only Luo Hou remained at large.
It could be said that
there were few things left that could concern Qin Shujian now.
Upon returning to the Celestial Court,
he first summoned the gods and rewarded them for their contributions in the battle against the Demon Abyss. Then he announced that he would enter seclusion, leaving the Celestial Court's affairs to the Five Directional Emperors. Unless absolutely necessary, they were not to disturb him.
Within the Heavenly Palace's Inner Hall,
the Heavenly Cycle Star Chart floated quietly overhead, serving as the Formation Core that anchored the Time Formation.
"With power comparable to an Innate Supreme Treasure, it can sustain the Time Formation for ten thousand years!"
Qin Shujian sat upright on the Imperial Throne.
The Time Formation was powerful, so it required a Supreme Treasure to serve as its Formation Core and anchor it.
The Time Formation he had set up for Zhang Ergou worked the same way. However, the Heavenly Emperor Bell was inferior to the Heavenly Cycle Star Chart, so it could not sustain the formation for long—only a mere hundred years.
Of course,
a hundred years was hardly a short time.
With the Time Formation, that would allow a full eight million years to pass.
Eight million years.
Even with no foundation whatsoever, that would allow the Inner World to develop considerably.
By then,
even if Zhang Ergou could not rival a Half-Step Dao Fruit cultivator, he would probably be close to matching an Upper Third