Qin Fengming's words left his mind even brighter with understanding. Only this explanation could properly account for why seven Mahayana cultivators had been willing to emerge from seclusion and join forces to hunt down a single Mahayana cultivator.
Qin Fengming was not a Mahayana cultivator, nor was he bound by the restrictions of a cultivation lifespan. But he knew that those Mahayana cultivators who had survived for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years generally did not often move about in the Cultivation World.
Although the Three Realms imposed no lifespan limit, in theory, any cultivator could survive for countless years.
However, cultivators without a lifespan limit could not live forever, because there was still the even more terrifying Heavenly Tribulation. It could be said that after cultivators escaped the restrictions of lifespan, the Heavenly Tribulation became the greatest determining factor in whether they could survive in the Three Realms.
To deal with the Heavenly Tribulation, the method all Mahayana cultivators chose was to enter seclusion, using special arrays or methods to delay the Heavenly Tribulation for as long as possible.
The price of this choice was that Mahayana cultivators could not appear in the Cultivation World for long periods.
If they were willing to gather together and spend time jointly hunting down a single Mahayana cultivator, then without some temptation difficult for all the Mahayana cultivators to resist, Qin Fengming simply would not believe it.
Hearing Qin Fengming's words, Venerable Feng Ji's expression froze slightly, and his gaze suddenly sharpened.
Neither Qin Fengming nor Fairy Ying Yi spoke. The female cultivator's eyes flickered, while her expression appeared calm. But her heart was anything but calm.
The reason she had been assigned by her master to investigate Zi Hao was that she had long harbored doubts in her heart