The next instant.

The cultivators who had come out from the Divine Forge Platform, together with those who were in other parts of the Heavenly Domain, only felt the world spin and the stars shift. By the time they came back to their senses, they were already outside the Heavenly Domain.

The long ark descended.

Zhongshan Changhong stepped out of the long ark, treading on air, and landed in front of all the cultivators.

"The three-year term has come to an end. It seems each of you has obtained no small harvest within the Heavenly Domain!"

He said with a faint smile.

As he spoke, his gaze swept across every cultivator one by one.

When his eyes landed on Shen Changqing, they clearly paused for a moment.

The last time he entered the Heavenly Domain, this one was only at the Fifth Level of the God Realm, but now he was firmly standing at the Seventh Level of the God Realm.

And not only that.

Zhongshan Changhong could even faintly sense a trace of threat from his body.

Such a discovery made his heart involuntarily tremble.

For someone to give him this kind of feeling meant that the other party’s strength was already enough to threaten him.

As for what had happened within the Heavenly Domain, Zhongshan Changhong actually didn’t know much.

He was not a Divine King.

It was impossible for him to calculate that many things.

Although he was shocked in his heart, Zhongshan Changhong quickly recovered, then said, "Now, all cultivators who occupy a seat on the Divine Forge Platform, enter the long ark. The remaining cultivators who did not enter, return to your respective places."

As his words fell.

Zhongshan Peng and the others did not move, merely turning their gazes toward one person among them.

Under the eyes of the crowd. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Shen Changqing took the first step out, directly landing on the long ark.

After that.

Only then did the other cultivators move and enter the long ark.

This scene made Zhongshan Changhong feel a bit strange in his heart.

But he did not think too much on it. When all the cultivators who were supposed to board had gone up, he too took a step into the air and arrived atop the long ark.

"This time, the number of geniuses who could enter the Divine Forge Platform from the Heavenly Domain is not small!"

Zhongshan Changhong looked at the several dozen people before him and smiled slightly.

According to the Clan records, the last time the Heavenly Domain opened, there had been fewer than twenty cultivators capable of taking a seat on the Divine Forge Platform.

But now, there were over twenty here.

In terms of numbers.

There were already quite a few more.

Immediately after.

He drove the long ark, carrying the other cultivators straight off in a certain direction.

On the long ark.

Every cultivator remained silent, each finding a place to sit cross-legged, not speaking with the others.

Among them, Shen Changqing was the same.

Although only three years had passed in the outside world, he had spent more than thirty years within the Heavenly Domain.

Counting by age.

Within the Human Clan, he would already be over sixty years old.

For ordinary people, sixty-some years was already an age of approaching decrepitude; in a few more years, they might very well pass away of old age.

But for a cultivator, being in their sixties was no different from being in their teens.

Over thirty years had passed.

Time had not left many marks on Shen Changqing’s body.

The only thing worth mentioning was that—

In the latter twenty-some years, he had fully borrowed Spiritual Energy to temper his Flesh and physique, open up secret藏, while also stabilizing his Divine Path foundation, refining Divine Crystals every so often to increase his strength.

As that long span of time passed.

His cultivation in the God Realm had officially broken through from the Sixth Level of the God Realm to the post-stage of the Seventh Level of the God Realm.

As for the Martial Dao, although he had not successfully completed a Middle Cycle, with the help of Elixirs and Spiritual Energy, he had still opened up quite a few secret藏.

By now.

Within Shen Changqing’s Flesh, there were already eighty-six thousand seven hundred and thirty-two secret藏, a few hundred more than before.

Such progress was already very good.

After all, the energy consumed to open each subsequent secret藏 was unimaginable.

To use a little over twenty years to open several hundred secret藏—aside from the功劳 of the Elixirs, the main reason was that the Spiritual Energy on the Divine Forge Platform was sufficiently abundant.

In this way.

Compared to before he entered the Heavenly Domain—

He was confident that his own strength had already increased severalfold.