Pluto began orbiting through the vast depths of the Solar System, silently spreading the great achievements of the gods.
The gods departed one after another, returning to their own lives.
Some cultivated, some wandered among mountains and rivers, and some took in the myriad colors of the world.
They cherished their final days on Earth.
Aulisel, Li Xiaowa, and the other great scientists of the Divine Clan were also arranging and refining all the contingencies the Divine Clan would leave on Earth.
Ultimately, they could not rest easy about the New Humans, and instead sought ways to offer the Sixth Epoch's Human Civilization some assistance that did not touch upon creation or its spiritual core.
This plan later became known as the Nightfall Plan.
Jiang Yang, meanwhile, strode through the starry sky toward the Kuiper Belt.
After completing the construction of the Planetary Fortress Pluto, he had gained new insights.
As Constana had put it, he would comprehend the Dao amid the stars.
In the Kuiper Belt, the yellow circle was Pluto's orbit.
Time flowed like water.
Another five thousand years passed. By now, fifteen thousand years of the long Prehistoric Era had gone by.
At the Edge of the Solar System.
On an asteroid in the Kuiper Belt.
Jiang Yang sat cross-legged, his back to the Sun and his face toward the Milky Way, a sky full of stars reflected in his golden eyes.
He had walked the path of the Fifth Step for ten thousand years.
He had taken cultivation at the Fifth Step to its utmost limit!
Yet he had once been utterly lost as to the opportunity to reach the sixth step.
He was the foremost figure in the Divine Clan's cultivation system, its explorer and its founder.
He had explored the Flame Law World for