In August of year 10046 of the Yulan Calendar, a year had passed since the Grand Warlock's death.
The waves of the West Sea had long since scattered his ashes, and time and rain were slowly washing away the traces of war on the continent. The flags of the Xunzhen Republic Empire flew over the former lands of the Luo'ao Empire and the Rhine Empire. The provincial governors Xini had dispatched had already begun surveying the land again and registering the population.
The former territories of the Holy Union and the Dark Alliance on the western continent had been incorporated into the O'Brien Empire and the Yulan Empire respectively. Although no living people were willing to move there yet, they could claim the land first and gradually populate it later.
Loa's Destruction Divine Clone had remained in secluded cultivation on the second floor of the Miniature Plane, studying the second level of the Destruction Rule.
The Destruction Rule was one of the Four Supreme Rules. It had no separate profound mysteries, and each level was a vast chasm to cross.
Loa was in no hurry-the path of the Destruction Rule could not be rushed.
His original body and his Wind and Thunder Divine Clone spent most of their time in that little courtyard.
Sometimes he studied the fusion of the Wind Space Profound Mystery and the Speed Profound Mysteries; at other times, he contemplated the Wind Elemental Profound Mysteries.
The tea in his cup was replaced again and again, and the old trees transplanted into the courtyard grew a little taller.
Life passed quietly, so quietly that he sometimes wondered whether he had grown too comfortable.
But bottlenecks in cultivation did not disappear on their own just because life was peaceful.
Loa had become stuck on fusing the Speed Profound