Time in the Green Lotus World ran ten thousand times faster than outside.
Chu Fei and the others had spent ten thousand years here, while only a single year had passed outside.
Since Chu Fei and the others entered the Green Lotus World, only a year and a little over a month had passed in the outside world.
The next batch of cultivators preparing to enter the Green Lotus World was still making preparations. According to the Dragon Race calendar, they were expected to wait another three months or so; according to Ascending Dragon Hall's Yanhuang Calendar, it would be roughly three or four years.
Meanwhile, quite a few things had also happened across the various branches of Yanhuang Civilization farther outside.
For example, at Ascending Dragon Hall's headquarters, in just over a year, the Cultivation Technique had surged from "half-step 20.0" all the way to somewhere around "late-stage 22.0."
This was certainly good news. But things could not be judged only by their surface.
First came concern for Chu Fei and the others' safety. They had been isolated out there for over ten thousand years, and the risks involved far exceeded imagination.
Chu Fei and the others' safety was also tied to Ascending Dragon Hall's future. Everyone worried, yet could do nothing about it. It was an awful feeling.
Although communications kept coming from Chu Fei and the fleet, saying that everything was going smoothly and all was well, they truly were unimaginably far away.
Second, the technology and Cultivation Techniques were updating far too quickly. Often, only a few hours after one batch of information arrived, new information would come in.
The news came too quickly, and that created many problems.
Take the Cultivation Techniques, for example. They needed to be universally disseminated. Ascending Dragon Hall also faced