After everything was done, Chen Qiu took Xiong Gao with him as they left the small world.
When he arrived, he was penniless, the type who might need to run up a tab just to eat a meal.
When he left, he was immensely wealthy, carrying millions of Spirit Stones, blissfully unaware of what poverty was.
What is an opportunity? This was his opportunity, belonging solely to him, Chen Qiu. Once back in the Heaven Palace, he didn't do much but took out a large chunk of Spirit Stones and handed them to Xiong Gao to replenish the Spirit Gathering Array daily before he began to sit on the Xuantian Throne to prepare for cultivation.
His Xuantian Throne was already secured for him, but the thrones from other states had yet to stabilize. It would take some more time for the restrictions of the states to be completely eliminated; this period was his time for seclusion.
Whenever the restrictions were lifted, that was when he would emerge from seclusion.