Dragon Sleep City.
Dongguan returned to the place where he had once rented a cave abode for a full thousand epochs. He still had over a hundred epochs left on the lease, so there was no need to renew it.
"I originally thought I would spend a thousand epochs establishing myself in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm. In the end, there's no need to renew the lease."
Inside his cave abode, Dongguan reminisced about the past.
He had progressed faster than he had initially expected. His progress through the God Emperor stage was even faster than it had been before he became a God King.
There were two reasons for this. First, his foundations had long since been established, and with the help of various resources, his progress was naturally rapid.
But that alone would not have made it this fast.
The other reason was the impetus from the Tamos bloodline.
Perhaps he had succumbed to temptation back then, undoing three seals in quick succession within a short period and advancing straight to late God Emperor.
He had traveled the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm for three hundred epochs. Once the next hundred-odd epochs had passed, it would be time to head to the Dark Sacred Realm.
Of course, with his current strength, he would rank among the lowest there, but going to the Dark Sacred Realm was not the end.
With his avatars, he would still be in the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, and still be on the Origin Continent.
"Perhaps I could choose a city and become an elder." Dongguan also considered what came next.
After he went to the Dark Sacred Realm, he would have less energy to devote to the Nine Rivers Sacred Realm, so becoming an elder of a city would be just right.
But choosing