As soon as he entered the Spirit Realm, Qin Fengming sensed something strange: a single day in the Spirit Realm seemed much longer than one in the Human Realm.
The length of a day was also of great benefit to cultivators. Qin Fengming, however, did not pay it much mind. At this point, time was no longer a fatal threat to him.
Once a cultivator reached the Integration Realm, residing in the Spirit Realm, he was no longer bound by his lifespan.
As long as he could survive the minor Heavenly Tribulation that came once every three thousand years, he could continue living indefinitely.
Of course, surviving each minor Heavenly Tribulation was no easy matter. Although Qin Fengming had never witnessed one personally, he could learn from the records in certain ancient texts that the minor Heavenly Tribulation was powerful enough to put a cultivator through a life-and-death ordeal.
The minor Heavenly Tribulation varied according to a cultivator's cultivation realm. The higher the realm, the greater the power of the minor Heavenly Tribulation he faced. It was rumored that the chance of a cultivator perishing during the minor Heavenly Tribulation could reach a terrifying fifty or sixty percent.
Although that was slightly lower than the one-in-ten survival rate of cultivators undergoing tribulation to advance, it was still a major threat to their survival. According to the ancient records, before facing each minor Heavenly Tribulation, cultivators had to prepare for several hundred years or even more than a thousand, gathering several treasures or secret techniques capable of resisting those terrifying lightning attacks. Only then would they have some confidence of surviving it.
It was also common for a cultivator's bonded treasures to be destroyed in the minor Heavenly Tribulation.
Qin Fengming still had two thousand years before the first minor Heavenly