This was an utterly desolate sight. Lu Bai couldn't see anything familiar.
Even the few dilapidated buildings he managed to find had been weathered beyond recognition.
In this state of deduction, Lu Bai's divine sense grew increasingly sluggish. He couldn't grasp any concrete information and could only vaguely make out what seemed to be the River of Time rising and falling.
After who knew how long, the Great Evolution Immortal Art seemed to have a time limit, and Lu Bai abruptly emerged from his state of deduction.
He sat cross-legged on the Dao Seeking Stone, an ancient, weighty desolation unconsciously emanating from him.
He looked up at the sun and accurately judged that less than the time it took an incense stick to burn had passed from the beginning to the end of his deduction.
"Just how far into the future did I see?"
Lu Bai stared blankly and murmured to himself.
Fortunately, he didn't experience negative emotions. Otherwise, after going through something like that, even severe depression would have counted as getting off lightly.
He took a deep breath and drained the spiritual energy from the surrounding dozens of miles, quickly replenishing the mana he had expended on his deduction.
"Let's try again."
After steadying his emotions, Lu Bai began another deduction.
This time, with some experience, he wasn't as dazed as before and quickly regained his clarity.
Then he traced the River of Time upstream, searching through the past.
"Had the spiritual energy between heaven and earth vanished?" Lu Bai witnessed the spiritual energy of this cultivation world dry up, growing so thin that it couldn't even sustain Foundation Establishment.
He continued farther back, though he had no idea exactly when.
He reached two hundred thousand years later...
One hundred thousand years later...
The farther back he went,