"Calamity..."
"The limits of a living being's body..."
"Even True Immortals, even Human Emperors, had to face such limits of a living being's body...?"
Jiang Ding murmured inwardly.
At this moment, having passed the Calamity of Withered Eyes and the Calamity of Lost Speech, he felt parts of his body evolve. His lifespan began to increase dramatically, and his strength rose with it.
But this was not infinite.
The longer his lifespan grew, the more he touched upon the limits of living beings and saw that impassable heavenly chasm. It was the inevitability of life; even a Human Emperor had to face such inevitability.
Lifespan would inevitably run out.
Living beings would inevitably die.
Only immortals.
Only True Immortals could transcend it. Otherwise, everything in this world would eventually wither and decay—grass and trees, earth and stone, divine weapons and sharp treasures. Over long years, all these things would collapse. Nothing was eternal; infinity could not exist. That did not accord with the laws of nature.
Rumble!
Rumble, rumble...
In the sky, blood-red lightning bolts crashed down one after another.
Every bolt of lightning came with a terrifying Supreme Calamity.
The Youth in Green Robes had originally been youthful and imperishable. Nearly a million years had found it difficult to leave any trace upon his body. He still looked as he had in his high school years long ago, without the slightest change—a living being unchanged by time.
Yet amidst these terrifying calamities, the Youth in Green Robes began to change.
At times, his pitch-black hair withered and turned gray-white, devoid of all luster and vitality. In an instant, it fell away, leaving him bald, something that had never happened in the past million years.
At times, his teeth fell out, his face filled with wrinkles, and in an instant