With Li Xingkong's intention to leave, his interest in watching the battle naturally diminished.
Having lived for an unknown amount of time, Yan Jun could easily see the changes in Li Xingkong over the past few days. He naturally knew that Li Xingkong was likely to leave in the next few days.
Although Yan Jun failed to recruit Li Xingkong as a member of the Kilometer Arc, he still held Li Xingkong in high regard.
From his perspective, Li Xingkong was exceptionally talented in academic research. The entire Divine Land Civilization had taken a different technological path, yet under Li Xingkong's leadership, it had made rapid progress and entered the ranks of intermediate civilizations at an extremely fast pace.
Moreover, Li Xingkong himself is very strong in combat, capable of fighting against ordinary third-class civilizations, and even some weaker second-class civilizations might not be able to defeat him.
With strong research abilities and a strong sense of responsibility in terms of personality and character, it's quite normal that she could win Yan Jun's favor.
"What, are you leaving?"
"Maybe. I feel I've gained a lot these past few days, and it's time to set off."
"Although you don't have the idea of joining Arc right now, Arc's door is always open for you."
Even now, Yan Jun has not given up trying to persuade him. He genuinely hopes that Li Xingkong can join the Axiom Circle Alliance and become his companion.
"Thank you, I'll definitely consider it if I have the chance."
Li Xingkong doesn't have that idea yet. He just wants to travel more in this universe, see more different people and things, and then reach the end of his cultivation path and begin to move towards the so-called higher-dimensional world.
As for joining any organization or group, Li Xingkong still has no such idea.
Perhaps it was due to Li Xingkong's innate personality, or perhaps it was because Li Xingkong didn't believe that any organization or individual could accompany him for a long time.
In Li Xingkong's eyes, Divine Land was once a behemoth, but now Divine Land is suffering from indigestion and has been far surpassed by Li Xingkong on the path of cultivation.
Although he still has enough goodwill and a sense of belonging to Divine Land, this will not make Li Xingkong stop and wait for Divine Land to catch up step by step.
Cultivation is something that always depends on oneself, Li Xingkong has done the best he could.
"Sometimes, a person's research will inevitably hit a bottleneck. When that happens, you are welcome to come to the Axiom Arc and discuss it with us. There are many wise people within the Arc, and I am just an ordinary member."
When Yan Jun said this, he didn't mean to flatter him at all. After all, in his opinion, there were countless geniuses in the Axiom Circle Domain who were stronger than him, and many of them had achievements that he couldn't even dream of.
"I will go someday."
Li Xingkong couldn't say for sure either, after all, he was facing a huge problem: dimensional ascension.
The system had emphasized the importance of dimensional ascension to him many times, and Li Xingkong understood that this so-called dimensional ascension was probably the system's final exam for him.
The system certainly won't reveal too much in this regard; Li Xingkong will have to figure everything out on his own.
Moreover, by sheer chance, Li Xingkong had already come into contact with the two-dimensional world ahead of time, gaining a mature perspective on dimensional differences. This allowed him to familiarize himself with the process of dimensional ascension in advance, which was equivalent to the system highlighting the key points for him in the exam.
If he really couldn't figure out the missing dimension, Li Xingkong might have to seek help from some top scholars; the Kilometer Arc would be a good choice.
"Recently, a group of scholars from the Arc have been active within the territory of the Kingdom of Fixed Light, seemingly searching for a so-called time reset point. I see that your hometown isn't too far from where they are operating. If you have the opportunity, you could also go and participate."
Yan Jun closed his eyes, searched for some information, and then stretched out his hand. A small ring appeared in his palm, looking like a bracelet.
"Take this. It's a pre-selection mark for the Arc, usually given to the person who favors the Arc."
Li Xingkong Li Xingkong took the ring; it was the perfect size to fit on his hand.
The ring doesn't look special at all; it seems like just a simple decoration.
"Don't underestimate its simple circular shape; it actually represents the current physical definition of a circle."
Yan Jun introduced them to Li Xingkong with a smile.
"As you probably know, the greatest weapon of the Axiom Arc is its mastery of the definition of pi, which allows it to arbitrarily modify any region of reality."
"And this ring, in any environment, will represent the true circumference of the current environment, so as to quickly find the baseline value under the attack of logic weapons."
"This feature is pretty useless, but it's still a good status symbol."
This feature is indeed quite useless. If the circumference value were to change, one would notice it immediately, making this ring-shaped notification completely unnecessary.
However, Li Xingkong accepted it anyway. Compared to the ring, he was more interested in the time reset point that Yan Jun mentioned.
"Could you elaborate on this so-called time reset point project?"
"I only know that such a project exists. You'll have to find the people involved to know the specific details. However, this project has been going on for hundreds of years, and according to past practices, it might drag on for thousands of years."
"Several thousand years..."
Li Xingkong sorted out the timeline and it actually reminded him of something.
Previously, the Sihali Kingdom had mentioned that three major powers were focusing their attention on the vicinity of Divine Land, searching for something.
Li Xingkong also rushed back once because of this matter, and thus met the people of Kingdom of Fixed Light.
The system mentioned at that time that they were looking for time-related information.
It seems that this so-called time reset point must refer to that group of people.
Having figured all this out, Li Xingkong a sigh of relief. Since that's the case, there's no rush.
After such a long investigation last time, we still came up empty-handed. It seems that it will be quite some time before this project makes any progress.
From this perspective, it seems my journey can continue. After the journey ends, I can go back to Divine Land for a final look, which doesn't seem like a problem.
We can also take a look at how the construction of the Thirty-Three Heavens of Divine Land is going.
Li Xingkong has only been out for a short time; he hasn't even finished visiting all the tourist attractions Fang Ritu recommended to him.
Although traveling through space takes far longer than a trip on Earth Star, Li Xingkong currently sees spending several decades traveling as acceptable.