Fifth!

Qingshan, returned!

The young man stood frozen at the center of the photograph, eclipsing the sea of stars behind him like a blazing sun, gradually illuminating the bewildered eyes before the screen.

They were bewildered because their established understanding lingered in their minds, shaped by the time frame predicted by the media: at least several thousand, perhaps even tens of thousands of years.

For a moment, some even felt as though they had traveled through time, as if they were looking at a photograph from thousands or tens of thousands of years in the future—a photograph that existed only in their imaginations, one their descendants would burn for them!

But they were not dead yet!

It had only been a single year since the Qingshan Watchtower had been established!

The surprise had truly arrived!

There was no need to wait through long years, nor to place their hopes in the inheritance of generation after generation of descendants. Li Qingshan had already returned!

It was not a real sound, but the roar of the Stellar Sea's understanding being shattered!

The forum was like a Stellar Furnace had been thrown into it, instantly boiling over!

"61st Generation Descendant of the Zhang Family": "Holy shit!!! The ancestral teachings truly did not deceive us! Ancestors, did you see this?! Minister Li really came back!!! One year, it's only been one fucking year!!!

"1st Generation Ancestor of the Wang Family": "Hahahaha, I waited for it—I actually lived to see it?!!!"

"1st Generation Ancestor of the Yang Family": "Long live Reporter Senior! A surprise! A truly earth-shattering surprise! My family genealogy finally has something to write! May the Yang Family endure for all eternity, with today recorded first!"

"1st Generation Ancestor of the Liu Family": "...My hands are shaking. I can barely type properly.

Old Yang