"These achievements of mine are hardly worth mentioning. I still need to keep working hard." Jiang Zhu waved a hand, his words modest.
Now that he had successfully severed the Dao, it was time to leave the Ziwei Star Domain and return to Big Dipper.
More than a year had passed. He wondered how Big Dipper was doing, and whether Ye Fan and the others had returned there.
The Sun God Sect's people all returned to Saint Emperor Mountain, where Dongfang Taiyi left them more than a hundred thousand jin of roasted Great Sage meat and precious blood.
"Thank you, Patriarch!" The Sun God Sect Leader led everyone in bowing to Dongfang Taiyi.
"Cultivate diligently. We may yet meet again someday!" Dongfang Taiyi waved a hand and lifted them to their feet.
"Everyone, until we meet again!" Jiang Zhu also bade them farewell.
Under Jiang Zhu's guidance, the group boarded the small Heavenly Palace beyond the planet and made their way to the Five-Colored Altar along a familiar route.
Jiang Zhu took out the Five-Colored Stones he carried and placed them on the altar. The previously dim Five-Colored Altar instantly erupted with divine light.
An eight trigrams pattern with a metallic sheen appeared, and a taiji diagram slowly emerged at its center.
After the eight trigrams symbols flashed thousands of times, a faint starry ancient road wound through them, seemingly passing through endless space and time.
Boundless darkness spread, and an eternal air of desolation filled the surroundings.
At the other end of the spatial passage, a powerful, heart-quaking aura surged-the pressure emanating from a vast Ancient Life Star.
"The Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land!" The Old Madman sensed the aura coming from the other side of the spatial passage.
"Let's go!"
Dongfang Taiyi took the lead, stepping onto the ancient