"I'm afraid it can hold out for, at most, another three to five years."
"There's no way around it. The people we have left are just enough to sustain the formation."
"We can no longer reinforce the seal by sacrificing our lifespans," a Human Race powerhouse said helplessly.
"How many Outland powerhouses are there, and how strong are they?"
Hearing Chen Changan's question, the Human Race powerhouse replied, "There are five in total, and every one of them is incredibly strong."
"Although the True Realm's cultivation limit was originally the World Lord Realm, no one has ever managed to break through to that level."
"The Ancient Ancestor Realm is the limit."
"But those five are far stronger than Ancient Ancestor Realm experts. Still, they shouldn't be in the World Lord Realm."
"If they really were World Lord Realm experts, we wouldn't have been able to seal them away."
"Perhaps they're infinitely close to the World Lord Realm."
Infinitely close to the World Lord Realm? In other words, they'd already touched its threshold?
But there was another possibility: those five were merely at the peak of the Ancient Ancestor Realm, yet their combat prowess far surpassed that of the True Realm's powerhouses.
They were capable of taking on a hundred opponents of the same realm.
Chen Changan, for instance, had combat prowess that far surpassed his own cultivation realm.
"Just five people were enough to turn the True Realm into its current state."
"The Outland is vast, with countless powerhouses. I just don't know why beings like them would set their sights on the True Realm."
No one had ever figured that out. The True Realm was a fine place, but surely it wasn't worth coveting by powerhouses of that caliber.
After all, at their level, the True Realm's resources didn't