All of this happened during the eleventh Reincarnation.
And now, the nineteenth Reincarnation had already arrived.
The one who saved Tao Jingyan from the pursuit of the foot soldiers was not that chivalrous swordsman, but Chen Yan and his disciples.
In other words, it was Tao Jingyan's master and his senior brothers.
Only, the age gaps among these senior brothers of his were truly a bit too large.
For instance, Senior Brother Lin Jian was older than Tao Jingyan by a full three thousand two hundred and fifty-three years.
This was no longer just an age gap between him and Tao Jingyan.
Lin Jian's age was even enough to make him the great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of Tao Jingyan's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Yet if appearance alone were considered, Lin Jian did not look all that different from Tao Jingyan.
Myriad Immortal City was located in the Far Western Lands of the Azure Crossing Continent.
It was also the corner most distant from the Far Eastern Lands where the Outer Dao erosion had erupted.
In one Reincarnation after another in the past, Chen Yan had finally figured out the most reasonable method to counter the Outer Dao erosion.
That was to strictly control the Azure Crossing Continent, forbidding any Immortal Cultivator from appearing in any corner outside of Myriad Immortal City.
This also caused the Outer Dao Puppets, which had begun to expand gradually from the Far Eastern Lands, to slow their erosion speed to an extreme degree.
Just like in the eleventh Reincarnation, the Azure Crossing Continent held out for a full seventy-nine thousand five hundred and twenty-three years before almost entirely falling.
Even in the end, Myriad Immortal City held out for another full four thousand years.
However, as the Azure Crossing Continent was gradually eroded by the Outer Dao, the speed at which