Three thousand and six hundred kilometers northeast of the Sky God Palace was a city called Gaul, which was also one of the seven major cities of the Sand World.

In a small restaurant in the city, Gu Ding and Bartholomew were sharing a large flatbread.

"Delicious!" Gu Ding could not help praising it after just one bite.

Bartholomew frowned slightly. "More than three million years have passed, and the recipe has indeed been simplified. It's missing one main ingredient and two seasonings, but the taste is still there."

"Uncle, have you eaten this kind of flatbread from three million years ago?" Gu Ding asked.

"No, I'm the one who taught them how to make all kinds of food in this world. When I first came to this world, their ancestors were still eating raw meat and drinking blood. I obtained the recipe for this flatbread when I passed by a broken dimension. Because it's easy to make, it was one of the first food recipes I taught the people of this world, "Bartholomew shook his head as he explained.

"Food recipes?" Gu Ding's eyes lit up when he heard this. He knew that this was what Biggie wanted the most, so he quickly asked, "Uncle, can you give me one of these food recipes?"

"Why? You know how to cook too? "Bartholomew asked in surprise.

"I only know how to make egg fried rice. I can't do anything else. However, I have a partner who's a great chef. If he sees a new food recipe, I'm sure he'll be very happy. "Gu Ding looked at Bartholomew expectantly.

"Alright, I'll sort it out and make a copy for you," Bartholomew agreed readily.

After Celestine's death, Gu Ding and Bartholomew left the Sky God Palace and traveled through the Sand World. They tasted the world's delicacies while enjoying the unique scenery of this world. Moreover, Bartholomew was more familiar with some of the places in this world that were conducive to cultivation, so he played the role of a tour guide.

The reason why he did not take over the Sky God Palace was that he desperately wanted to leave this world with Gu Ding. Another reason was that with his current physical condition, he was indeed not suitable for such a role. Moreover, with the Sky God Palace's current state of development, it did not matter if there was a palace master or not. He felt that there was no need for him to get involved.

In a few months, Gu Ding and Bartholomew visited almost all the famous cities in the entire Sand World and tasted all kinds of local delicacies.

Gu Ding's one-year deadline had finally arrived.

"If nothing unexpected happens, today should be the last day I stay in this world." Gu Ding was also looking forward to leaving as soon as possible. In this world, there was no way to improve his God Source, so it was difficult for him to improve his cultivation. Moreover, the strength of his physical body and soul had already reached a limit. If he did not improve his cultivation, his strength would always be constrained by his cultivation.

"I'll go into deep sleep and hide in your storage space. Wake me up when you're teleported out of this world." After Bartholomew finished speaking, he immediately formed several hand seals. His soul quickly fell into a deep slumber, and he fell to the ground, unable to get up.

Gu Ding put his sleeping body into the Inventory and waited patiently for the day to pass, waiting for the arrival of the Teleportation Beam.

As time ticked by, Gu Ding felt that time was moving at an unusually slow pace.

"What time is it now?"

"This is the twenty-eighth time you've asked this question tonight …" Neptune said helplessly. "There's still about an hour and a half left. Can't you ask me something else? "

Gu Ding rested his chin on his hand and thought for a while. Then, he nodded and said, "Alright, what time is it now?"

"…"

An hour and a half later …

"Neptune, what time is it now?"

"Fifty-second time … There's less than thirty seconds left. It's almost time to start the countdown." Neptune had completely lost his temper after being tortured by Gu Ding. "I'm finally free. I've decided to show the time in the future. Don't ask me the time in the future. I won't tell you even if you do. You can see for yourself."

Thirty seconds passed quickly. Neptune waited for Gu Ding to be teleported away, but there was no reaction.

"Thirty seconds should be up by now, right?" Gu Ding could not help but ask.

"It's here," Neptune replied.

"Why isn't there any reaction?" Gu Ding looked up but saw no signs of anything happening.

"How would I know? The Wardens were the ones who said the one-year deadline." Neptune actually had some doubts in his heart.

"Don't tell me you remembered the time wrong?" Gu Ding touched his nose and asked guiltily.

"Do you think that's possible?" Neptune had absolute confidence in himself. "We're superintelligences, and it's impossible for us to make mistakes in our memory. Our data storage functions are different from your brain's storage functions. Your human brain's memory may be affected by other brain functions and tampered with, but it won't happen to us. Moreover, no matter what space we're in, my perception of time will never be wrong. "

"Then let's wait and see. Maybe the teleportation won't take effect immediately." Gu Ding remained optimistic.

It was not until the next afternoon that Gu Ding, who looked up at the sky from time to time, looked a little upset.

"Gu Ding, there's no need to look. The teleportation won't start. I've carefully speculated the reason for this situation, and my conclusion is that we can't be teleported away because of the tremor we encountered in the teleportation gateway, which caused us to deviate from our original path. The Purgatory Gate can no longer find us now. The only way to leave this world is to cultivate to Heavenly God level, and then shatter the void of this gravel world. However, the chances of returning to your original world are very slim. "

"Do you mean that I'll be trapped in this gravel world until I become a Heavenly God?!" Gu Ding did not expect things to turn out this way.

"Yes, I actually had this worry when the path deviated, but I thought the Purgatory Gate had a way to find us. However, I thought that the Purgatory Gate had a way to find us. Now, it seems that I overestimated it. " Neptune had experienced the power of the Purgatory Gate, which was why he had overestimated the Purgatory Gate.

"It's useless even if you know. Neither you nor I can control the change in the orbit at that time, nor can we change it." Gu Ding shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"So what are your plans now? With this situation, the possibility of fulfilling the three-year promise with Lili and the others is almost zero. "Neptune was completely at his wit's end.

"What else can I do? I can only cultivate to Heavenly God level as soon as possible and find a way to return to the Cosmic Sea. Lili and the others should understand … "Gu Ding was actually very uncertain when he said the last sentence. They had agreed to wait for him for three years. If the three-year period was up and he did not appear, the Gu Ding Pirate Crew would most likely fall apart. This was the last thing Gu Ding wanted to see.