Of the hundred-odd outstanding immortals who entered the Mountain River Scroll, any who were beaten to death or reached the end of their lifespan would immediately be sent out of the scroll world, thereby losing their qualification to become the Xuanyuan family's son-in-law.
However, aside from gaining a fragment of "illusory" memories, they would suffer no harm whatsoever, nor would they lose even a shred of their lifespan!
Moreover, their experiences and memories within the scroll world were far from useless. With several hundred or even a thousand years of cultivation experience, their future cultivation would naturally yield twice the result with half the effort. This was also a small benefit Xuanyuan Tongzhen bestowed upon the outstanding immortals participating in the son-in-law selection ceremony.
Xuanyuan Tongzhen then poured magical power into the Mountain River Scroll, and the sun, moon, and stars began to cycle.
Atop the mountain, the many guests who had come to Xuanyuan Mountain to witness the ceremony all turned their gazes toward the image of the scroll suspended in midair.
Yet time flowed a million times faster within the scroll world than outside it. One hour in the outside world was equivalent to two hundred and twenty-eight years within the scroll. Its scenes were bizarre and ever-changing, shifting faster than most people's thoughts could turn. Low-level cultivators could only watch countless colors stream past their eyes.
Only True Persons of the Origin Core Realm could barely keep pace with these changes through their five senses, divine consciousness, and mental processes. Even then, they could only assume the perspective of one outstanding immortal and follow everything that person experienced within the scroll.
Great cultivators of the Divine Bridge Realm and Formless Realm could, more or less, survey the entire situation, though doing so consumed an enormous amount of