To this day, Chen Yan still bore that vast, boundless Karma backlash, enough to crush the heavens.
Thinking back, when Chen Yan had borne the Karma backlash of sixty thousand years, affecting only Chenping Continent, it had already made any Ascension Realm cultivator turn pale with fright upon calculating the Karma they carried.
Of course, that was also because Chenping Continent's heaven and earth were incomplete. Moreover, an Ascension Realm cultivator's Dao Rhyme could indeed withstand at most a hundred thousand years of erosion.
And that was under the most ideal conditions.
An Ascension Realm cultivator with no hope of breaking through to the Immortal Ascendant Realm was already considered exceptionally long-lived if they could live to eighty thousand years old.
Fifty-six million years of Karma backlash, affecting the entire Qingluo Realm.
It was on a completely different scale from sixty thousand years of Karma backlash that affected only Chenping Continent.
Chen Yan even believed that Karma backlash on such a scale would be enough to make even a Void Creation Realm Heavenly Lord suffer dearly if they were caught up in it.
The argument continued.
Only when Chen Yan felt that the time was about right did he glance out the window of Sword-Washing Hall.
Chen Yan was now a great cultivator at the late Void Return Realm, utterly different from the man he had been when he was merely a Hedao Realm cultivator.
Before his gaze even reached the sea of clouds beyond the window, he had already sensed an exceedingly powerful aura rapidly approaching Suspended Sword Heavenly Mountain.
That powerful aura made even Chen Yan, now at the late Void Return Realm, feel his heart palpitate.
Yin Ji.
That figure in a grayish-white Daoist robe already stood above the sea of clouds.
Without moving, he merely gazed