Hundreds of thousands of years later.
Heavenly lightning blazed across the Eternal Immortal Frontier. An "existence" was remolding his immortal body amid that vast lightning, yet his face was utterly blank, as though he had no idea why this was happening.
He was the first True Immortal to return to life.
On the ground.
Gu Li Sheng and the others stared in shock at the sight of that True Immortal's resurrection, unable to comprehend it yet shaken to their cores.
But at that very moment.
An almost imperceptible flicker passed through Gu Li Sheng's and Song Heng's eyes. They felt the weight of heaven and earth ease a fraction.
Buzzz-
Immortal light suddenly blazed, surging in boundless waves.
"Chong Que!"
"So it was him..."
"What? It's actually him?"
Ni Canghuan "charged" into the sky. Chong Que still looked utterly bewildered, dazed as though he had passed through ten thousand lifetimes of reincarnation only to be suddenly pulled back. After his fall, there had been no darkness or deathly silence, only reincarnation... an experience profound beyond words.
It was as though he had never died, but had instead stepped onto another branching course of life.
Chong Que swept his gaze across heaven and earth, unspeakable shock in his eyes. For a time, he could not utter a word.
But soon.
Heaven and earth grew somewhat noisier. Excitement filled the Eternal Immortals' faces as they crowded around Chong Que.
From then on.
Every ten thousand years, or sometimes several tens of thousands, someone would return amid blazing heavenly lightning. Almost all were people of Eternal Antiquity, True Immortals who had fallen in the great war of the Old Era. The life qi throughout the Eternal Immortal Frontier grew ever richer.
Meng Sheng even stopped doing anything else, waiting day and