Immortal Golden Immortals were almost the limit of cultivation that all practitioners could achieve.
Although above the Immortal Golden Immortals was the legendary source of the three thousand Great Daos—the Dao Ancestor—ever since the birth of the Immortal Dao system, no one had ever known how to attain the state of Dao Ancestor and become one of the sources of the three thousand Great Daos.
Thus, almost everyone tacitly accepted this saying.
The end of the Immortal Dao was the Immortal Golden Immortal.
And Immortal Golden Immortals...
Truly and reliably demonstrated their distinctly eternal and immortal traits.
Having completely mastered a Great Dao, unless their divine soul and consciousness were fundamentally annihilated, even if they were killed ten thousand or a hundred million times, they would never truly die.
They coexisted with the Great Dao; as long as the Dao remained undestroyed, the Golden Immortal was immortal.
The corpse of the Immortal Golden Immortal before them was the best example.
He was not directly "purged" by the Dao Ancestor. Although his consciousness had already been extinguished and vanished, his corpse still hung suspended in the cosmic starry sky, drifting day after day, year after year, and even attracting countless surrounding dust particles to evolve through hundreds of millions of years into a star—the Demon Realm.
A hundred million years!
What a staggering unit of time this was!
Great Dao Golden Immortals were renowned for enjoying boundless longevity!
Those whose compatibility with the Great Dao reached ninety percent could exist in the world for ninety thousand years!
If further aided by some rare treasures to prolong life, they could even break through the shackles and live to be one hundred thousand years old!
Yet...
A little over a hundred thousand years was the limit of the lifespan that any Great Dao