Jiang Chen could have used the Space-Time Seal to teleport directly back to the Six Heritage Palaces of the Glazed Pagoda. Of course, Jiang Chen chose not to. He wanted to familiarize himself more thoroughly with this transmission array and see whether it was stable.
So, Jiang Chen opted for the transmission array.
The most critical issue was that if Jiang Chen used the Space-Time Seal, neither the Vermilion Bird Divine Bird nor Long Xiaoxuan would be able to travel with him.
The Six Heritage Palaces absolutely did not permit the entry of other divine spirits. The only exception was the method once employed by the Measuring Stone Clan.
That was, naturally, entirely unnecessary.
"Chen Shao, when are we heading back to Myriad Abyss Island this time? Little White is still in seclusion cultivating over there. We can't just leave Little White behind, can we?"
Long Xiaoxuan was usually a man of few words, yet he raised this question now.
Despite the constant bickering between him and Little White, deep down they shared a mutual appreciation for one another, and neither wished to see the other come to harm.
Jiang Chen let out a soft sigh. "The boundary between the Human Domain and Myriad Abyss Island will grow increasingly blurred with time. Based on my recent research into the historical structure of the Divine Abyss Continent, both the Human Domain and Myriad Abyss Island will ultimately reunite. The dividing line between them will gradually vanish."
"Oh? What makes you say that?" The Vermilion Bird Divine Bird was intimately familiar with the geopolitical landscape of the ancient era, so he was genuinely curious about Jiang Chen's reasoning.
"The momentum of the times is inexorable. When the great shift arrives, no one can avert it."
At the end of the transmission array, Jiang Chen and his companions found themselves once more in the Human Domain.
This time, the interval since his last departure was no more than five years.
Jiang Chen's feet touched down on the territory of the Celestial Cicada Academy.
The moment the soles of his feet met the familiar soil of the Human Domain, Jiang Chen felt as though he had been parted from it for hundreds, thousands of years—or even an entire cycle of reincarnation.
But upon reflection, his time on Myriad Abyss Island now seemed like a dream—ethereal, somewhere between reality and illusion.
Over the past few years, the situation in the Human Domain had indeed been brought under control.
Jiang Chen gazed upon the scenery along the way through the Celestial Cicada Academy's domain, observing the people under its governance—whether cultivators or ordinary beings—all living in peace and contentment.
The more he saw of this tranquility, the heavier his heart grew.
"In twenty or thirty years, will the Human Domain still be this peaceful? Will its people still be able to enjoy such harmony and beauty?"
The eruption of the demonic tribulation was now merely a matter of time.
Whether the Human Domain could avoid the devastation of the Demon race hinged most critically on whether Jiang Chen's Myriad Spirits Divine Locking Formation could be successfully reactivated.
If it could be reactivated smoothly, the Human Domain's chance of escaping this calamity was virtually assured.
However, all of this depended on the scale of the Demon race's eruption. If the Demons proved formidable enough to conquer from other territories all the way to the end, the Human Domain would ultimately be unable to avoid the devastation of the demonic tribulation either.
But that was merely the worst-case scenario.
With Jiang Chen present, he would absolutely not allow such a worst-case outcome to come to pass.
Jiang Chen did not alert Academy Master Su Zhenhuan of the Celestial Cicada Academy. Otherwise, given Su Zhenhuan's relationship with him and his warm, hospitable nature, the man would certainly not have let Jiang Chen slip away so easily.
Of course, Jiang Chen simply didn't want to impose or cause anyone inconvenience.
But Jiang Chen also knew that he and the Celestial Cicada Academy would inevitably have frequent dealings in the future. The spot where the transmission arrays converged was predetermined from the moment the formation network was first established.