254 Looking Towards the Future (2/2)

Could he move up to the Divine Transformation stage in this life?

Until he could fully adapt to training with the Thousand-Star Sword Technique, he wouldn't be able to believe that the Divine Transformation stage was not too far away.

The mid Divine Transformation stage he had once been afraid to dream of—even the late and ultimate Divine Transformation stage—would no longer be a dream if he just had enough time.

”The mid Divine Transformation stage?”

Zhou Donghuang nodded.

In a conversation with his third senior sister, He Mengxi in his previous life, they had once discussed which stage the strongest adept in the Hengliu galaxy was at. As such, he had quite a good understanding on the situation in the Hengliu galaxy.

The peak of offensive power in the Hengliu galaxy was basically at the mid Divine Transformation stage.

Given the existing structure of the Hengliu galaxy, it was difficult for a stronger power to appear.

Even if there was an adept at the late Divine Transformation stage in the Hengliu galaxy now, those were probably few and far between. Of course, all of this was merely conjecture on Zhou Donghuang's part.

However, his third senior sister had told him in his past life that she had never heard of any adept in the Hengliu galaxy that was at a stage higher than the late Divine Transformation stage.

”Valley Head, I'm not entirely sure about the specifics regarding when the crisis will hit the Lightning Sword Sect.”

Zhou Donghuang looked at He Jin as he took the initiative to bring up this matter. ”In my dreams, Third Senior Sister told me that it hit not long after she moved to the late Dharma stage.

”However, I'm not too sure when exactly it was that she moved to that stage.

”She's switched to training using the Thousand-Star Sword Technique now. With that, and the help of the core drug I've created, she's obviously training at a much quicker rate.

”It might be possible that the crisis might not actually happen even when she's at the Primordial Soul stage,” Zhou Donghuang said.

”There's probably still some time left… I only hope that I have the power to keep the sect intact when the time comes.”

He Jin's face seemed to fall. After all, he was one of the people who perished in the destruction of that sect that Zhou Donghuang had dreamt of.

Zhou Donghuang chuckled bitterly.

Initially, the best solution to this problem was to let the father-daughter pair leave the Lightning Sword Sect. This way, they would naturally escape the crisis.

They were, after all, not the source of the crisis.

The only problem with this was that after spending some time with them, Zhou Donghuang had realized that there was no way He Jin would leave the Lightning Sword Sect and escape… Especially not after he had switched to training using the Thousand-Star Sword Technique. He Jin was sure to try and protect the sect using his own abilities.

”Alright, let's not think about it anymore… We'll just roll with the punches.”

Zhou Donghuang had already steeled himself to prepare for the worst. If worse came to worst, he would think of another solution himself to force the father-daughter pair to leave with him when the time comes.

And then he would stage a comeback at a later time.

”Even without my help, my third senior sister would definitely be able to move on to the mid Dharma stage within this year… With her innate martial arts talent, the training resources you're providing her with, and the consistency of her training, the longest she would take to move on to the late Dharma stage would be around ten years.

”This is a prediction I'm making on the assumption that there are no unforeseen incidents.

”If something were to happen, such as her receiving certain core drugs or spirit fruits that could elevate her rate of training, you can be certain she wouldn't even need the full ten years.”

Zhou Donghuang had planned on meticulously keeping track of the happenings within the Lightning Sword Sect, but he realized that there were too many variables in this period of time that made impossible for him to do so.

There was no way he could do so.

”Had I known, I would have gone back to a thousand years ago and properly ask my third senior sister right from the get go who the Lightning Sword Sect was destroyed by… At that time, my third senior sister had only told me that the Lightning Sword Sect was destroyed by the greatest power, and the source of it was the Summer Valley Head!” Zhou Donghuang thought and felt a little remorseful.

Of course, the sheer idea of remorse made him shake the feeling off in the blink of an eye because he knew there was no point wallowing in his regrets. In his previous life, there was no way he would have known that he would someday be returning to a point in time a thousand years back and restarting everything.

”Or we could have the Summer Valley Head leave the Lightning Sword Sect?”

The thought left Zhou Donghuang's head as soon as it appeared, because it was simply unrealistic. Not everyone was like He Jin and his daughter, willing to play along with him like this.

Of course, He Mengxi was willing to go along with his nonsense because he knew things about her that only she knew.

As for He Jin, the man was only playing along since Zhou Donghuang had handed over the Thousand-Star Sword Technique.

There was no way he could hand the Thousand-Star Sword Technique over to the Lightning Sword Sect leader and have him kick the Summer Valley Head out of the sect, right?

No, that would never happen.

Besides, he did not trust the Lightning Sword Sect leader either; he was not too sure what kind of a person the man was. There was no way he would risk putting the fate of his family in the hands of that man.

He would rather force his third senior sister, He Mengxi to leave with him and seek shelter elsewhere should He Jin insist on trusting the sect leader.

This was, of course, just hypothetical.

Knowing He Jin, the man would likely not go ahead with a plan that Zhou Donghuang did not agree to.

”I didn't even realize it, but it's already been more than a year since I've left the Ziyun planet…”

Zhou Donghuang sat at the stone table after He Jin took his leave, staring out at the grass and flowers in the yard. He heaved a sigh as a figure appeared in his head.

His mother, Lin Lan, his younger sister, Yun Lu, as well as Yang Zixi, Ren Jiapei, Fu, and the rest of them…

He took some time to count. It was already November, Year 1235, and he had left the Ziyun planet in September, Year 1234.