Fifty-three days—this was the time Song Changsheng had deduced from the scenes he saw during the Inner Demon Tribulation after condensing his False Nascent Soul.
It was the time when Song Qingxing returned to the clan from the Boundless Sword Sect.
Some of the scenes he saw were real, while others were false, yet he had no way to judge them subjectively.
Therefore, he had to find a pattern within them and separate out the real parts. It was tantamount to allowing him to glimpse part of the future in advance, making it extraordinarily valuable.
Without alerting anyone, Song Changsheng flashed into the skies above Vast Peak. His vast divine sense swept over it, taking in every inch of Vast Peak from top to bottom.
He had spent over twenty years condensing his False Nascent Soul this time, and Vast Peak had undergone some interesting changes as well.
Following the previous reforms, the number of new cultivators entering the Song Clan each year had decreased significantly, and the trend continued to decline.
This was because, after experiencing the Immortal Ascension Assembly, many children with Four-Element Spiritual Roots and Five-Element Spiritual Roots chose to abandon the path of immortality and remain in the Mortal World as carefree wealthy folk.
Even if these people embarked on the path of immortality, they would at most remain at Qi Refinement for their entire lives, with Foundation Establishment little more than a distant hope.
Without entering Foundation Establishment, their lifespan was no more than two sixty-year cycles.
Mortals had even shorter lifespans, but with cultivation methods involved, it was exceedingly common for healthy people to live into their seventies or eighties. Elders over a hundred years old could be found everywhere.
Yet compared to those children who forcibly stepped onto the path of immortality, they