As for the lifespans of cultivators in the Upper Three Realms, those in the Guiyi Realm could easily live two thousand years, while those in the Divine Ability Realm could live six thousand.
Cultivators in the Dao Integration Realm could live even longer, easily surpassing ten thousand years.
Above Dao Integration, the lifespans of cultivators in the Ascension Realm were, in theory, limitless.
However, because the erosion of Dao Rhyme was irreversible, even under the most ideal circumstances, cultivators in the Ascension Realm could live only a long ten thousand years.
And if one were to speak of the lifespans of those above the Ascension Realm, in the Five Realms Above Ascension...
Chen Yan wasn't entirely sure. He only knew that Mister You, who had once been a cultivator in the Void Return Realm, had lived from a hundred thousand years ago until eight thousand years ago. Had he not forcibly broken through into the True Purity Realm and entered the Space-time Fault to seek the truth, Mister You could probably have lived beyond the theoretical lifespan of an Ascension Realm cultivator.
As for cultivators in the True Purity Realm...
Take Supreme Saint Zuo He, whom Chen Yan had known best back when he was at the Qingxuan Immortal Sect. By reading the books in the Qingxuan Immortal Sect's library and learning about its history, Chen Yan had discovered that roughly a hundred and twenty thousand years before his own era—an era already far in the past—Tianji Continent had been ruled by Supreme Saint Zuo He.
If he used those facts to estimate the lifespan of Imperial Void Saint Bai Chen, and tentatively assumed that Yuxu Continent had existed for eight hundred thousand years, then added the time Tianji Continent had existed, followed by Chenping Continent...
Three million years.
That