"I haven't been back in a long time."
"Over a hundred years, probably!"
"I really do miss it a little! That place where I spent all those years cultivating..."
"Though now that I think about it, I don't seem to miss it quite so much."
It did not take Lu Shang long to reach the Ten Thousand Nations.
It was a familiar place, yet unfamiliar all the same.
Back when Lu Shang was only at the Qi Refining Stage, quite a few things had happened to him here.
But none of that mattered anymore. After all, the people from back then were probably dead, and those old affairs had all but vanished.
When Lu Shang returned to that familiar spot, he found that much had changed.
Besides the original palace, several nearby peaks now bore traces of cultivators.
"To think so many cultivators have gathered here in just a hundred years."
"The strongest is only at peak Core Formation. It looks like a few Core Formation Cultivators joined together to establish a small faction."
Lu Shang swept his Divine Sense across roughly a hundred miles around him and detected no trace of a Nascent Soul Cultivator. That was why he concluded this was merely a small faction jointly founded by Core Formation Cultivators.
"Ah, a hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. It's rare indeed for this barren Ten Thousand Nations to gather so many cultivators. Still, it's strange. Aside from a palace, there was nothing special here."
Lu Shang probed the surroundings again.
"How strange. This place is so barren. What are Core Formation Cultivators, even those at peak Core Formation, doing here? The spiritual energy here isn't dense enough for a breakthrough."
"This place isn't much smaller than sects guarded by Nascent Soul Cultivators."
While Lu