For a cultivator to advance from Foundation Establishment to the Nascent Soul stage in a realm like the Spirit Realm, where spiritual energy was dense and cultivation resources abundant, even someone of mediocre aptitude might need only around two hundred years.
But in the resource-starved Human Realm, even someone of exceptional aptitude with plentiful cultivation resources to assist them would need at least three hundred years to reach the Nascent Soul stage. And that was already an existence whose cultivation progress defied the heavens.
Most Nascent Soul cultivators only managed to advance with great difficulty when they were four or five hundred years old.
The difficulty of advancing from early Nascent Soul to the mid Nascent Soul stage was scarcely less than that of cultivating from Foundation Establishment to the Nascent Soul stage.
Only with detailed guidance from a mighty cultivator, cultivation insights to draw upon, and extraordinarily heaven-defying pills to consume could someone possibly advance in a short time.
But most cultivators in the Human Realm did not possess such advantages. Even cultivators of a super sect would not have conditions so perfectly suited to cultivation.
This was why Nascent Soul cultivators were scarce in the Human Realm, late-stage and peak Nascent Soul cultivators scarcer still, and Integration stage cultivators even rarer.
Advancing to the Nascent Soul stage granted a cultivator a lifespan of a thousand years, but Qin Fengming had already been away from the Human Realm for that long. Thus, any Nascent Soul cultivators from those days who still survived must have reached the Integration Realm. Otherwise, the survivors could only have been Core Formation cultivators around two hundred years old back then, who had now reached the late or peak Nascent Soul stage.
Returning to Manghuang Mountain this time, Qin Fengming hoped to see some people