The annual rings had returned to their original appearance, but Ning Cheng had no intention of continuing to cultivate. Having advanced to Dao Yuan, the cultivation resources on him were almost exhausted, and continuing to cultivate lost its appeal. It probably took him nearly two hundred years to go from Chemical Dao to Prove Dao to Dao Yuan. Converted to the outside world's time, that would be four or five eras gone by.
However, he had no plans to leave immediately, as he wanted to see if he could find a branch of the annual rings. At the same time, he also wanted to try to see if, at his Dao Yuan realm, he could reach beneath the roots of the annual rings. The annual rings belonged to someone else, and whether he could re-enter after leaving would depend on the permission of another.
Ning Cheng directly stepped into the fiftieth circle of annual ring scars, and quickly passed through the fiftieth circle to the fifty-first, fifty-second...
