Beyond the Realm

After that came twelve Dao Lords. It was somewhat difficult, but still achievable.

After that came twenty-four Dao Lords, and the difficulty began to soar. It became extremely challenging.

Reaching the Dao Lord Realm required an exceedingly long time. Even he could not force them to grow prematurely; they could only rely on themselves to slowly comprehend it.

At most, Su Chen could provide them with resources.

But later on, they would need to comprehend the Dao, and that was something resources could not accomplish. They had to possess sufficient aptitude themselves. There were many Immortal Stage cultivators who, even after exhausting their incredibly long lifespans, still could not comprehend the Dao.

Su Lan had been like that back then. She had been at the Immortal Emperor Realm and wanted to break through to the Sovereign Realm, but she simply could not do it.

Although an Immortal Emperor's lifespan was extraordinarily long, no matter how long it was, it was not infinite. Moreover, Su Chen had discovered that the erosion of time in the Myriad Worlds was even more severe. This meant that cultivators of every realm had their original lifespans reduced to some extent.

By comparison with the lifespans of cultivators in the Immortal Realm, they were reduced by roughly a quarter.

Although that was not much, Su Chen had indeed discovered over the years that this erosion of time was intensifying as time passed.

As time continued to extend, the erosion of time would grow more severe, and the lifespans of all cultivators throughout the entire world would begin to shrink. Perhaps later, Immortal Stage cultivators would have lifespans of only a few hundred thousand years, or even just tens of thousands.

Of course.

That was all under the assumption that the erosion of time continued to become