The great sun rose in the east and set in the west, while clouds gathered and unfurled over Kunlun Mountain.
Time slipped unnoticed past leaping fingertips, sealing away all that had passed even as it carried it onward.
One year, two years, three years... ten years, a hundred years... a thousand years...
Year after year passed, and Jiang Yang remained utterly still. Only his divine radiance grew stronger by the day.
A warrior of the Kunlun Divine Court assigned to guard the mountain gazed toward the summit and murmured.
"A thousand years. Will King Jiang awaken today?"
Kunlun Mountain.
Jiang Yang sat quietly upon Kunlun Peak, his brilliant golden hair already trailing to his feet. He did not move, while an indescribable divine radiance gestated within his body.
He seemed to have become a God Statue.
Behind his head, a resplendent golden divine ring slowly unfurled like a halo, circling in ring after ring like the sun's corona, magnificent and dazzling.
Upon the divine ring, the ultimate truths of the Great Dao were laid, and the laws of heaven and earth permeated it. Heaven and earth seemed to draw apart and come together.
Within the golden divine ring, a magnificent Golden Crow divine bird trod upon towering flames, wheeling and soaring inside the ring.
A vast, majestic Flame World flickered in and out of sight. Fire and light, heat and blazing intensity played out myths and legends atop Kunlun Mountain.
This was Jiang Yang cultivating, evolving, turning his insights into divine material to build the foundation of a skyscraper.
Within this epoch, no one before him had achieved this, and no one after him would. Having reached this point, he was the foremost person of the Fifth Epoch, and he would blaze a path forward for its people!
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