The Secret of the Yulan Continent's Peak

"One hundred thousand years may seem like a long time, but for a Peak Saint Realm expert, as long as they aren't killed, living for a hundred thousand years is quite simple," Hodan said with a faint smile.

"I wonder if you know, senior, what is the maximum lifespan a Saint Realm expert can reach?" Karl asked with some curiosity.

"I don't know that myself. The longest-lived one I've personally seen only reached a little over a hundred thousand years, and the longest I've heard of was only a million years. As for whether there are any who have lived longer, perhaps there are, or perhaps not," Hodan shook his head and said.

Hearing this, Karl felt a slight sense of relief in his heart. Time is a good thing; at the very least, with the points provided daily by Starfire City, it would only take a few years to purchase a high-level aptitude enhancement for his clansmen. That would be enough to raise them to the strength of a Level 9 Warrior, and with the added benefits of family cultivation, the possibility of achieving the Saint Realm was not non-existent.

Even if this Saint Realm was just the initial stage where further progress was difficult, with a long lifespan, there might be ways in the future. If all else failed, he could wait until he became a god himself and then have his family disciples refine a Godhead.

After all, only when the family and territory levels were high could they provide him with better cultivation support.

"But since Saint Realm experts can live for a million years, even if, as you say, one appears every hundred years, there should be tens of thousands of them. Yet, I rarely hear news of Saint Realm experts on the Yulan Continent. It seems that Saint Realm experts are extremely rare here," Karl Talos asked.

Karl was well aware of why Saint Realm experts were rare on the Yulan Continent.

The Yulan Continent is merely a Material Plane. Below the Saint Realm, some geniuses might cultivate from ignorant youths to the Saint Realm in just a few decades, but once they reach the Saint Realm level, that progress slows down by dozens or even hundreds of times. Which of the peak experts on the Yulan Continent today hasn't been cultivating for over a thousand years?

Slow cultivation speed, combined with the presence of such a Plane Overseer on the Yulan Continent, meant that many ambitious Saint Realm experts, after stagnating on the Yulan Continent for a hundred years, would eventually choose to head to the higher-level Divine Planes. Nine out of ten of these Saint Realm experts who went to the Divine Planes would perish in the various conflicts there, and the vast majority of those who managed to survive could not afford the cost to return to the Material Plane.

And this was only part of the reason. More than eight thousand years ago, the Yulan Continent suffered the War of World Destruction. According to historical records, there were several other continents outside the Yulan Continent, but after the War of World Destruction, these continents were physically shattered and sunk. After that war, more than three thousand years ago, there was another invasion by experts from a different plane.

The Yulan Continent itself is just a Material Plane, and Material Planes usually only produce a small number of Low-level Deities and very few Mid-level Gods. At the very least, without going to the Divine Planes, the cultivation environment of a Material Plane is far inferior to that of a Divine Plane.

This is also the reason why Plane Overseers are usually only Mid-level Gods.

The War of World Destruction and the invasion from other planes—every expert who could cross over from the outside was a top-tier existence even among High-Gods. If it weren't for the fact that the beings who triggered these two wars were figures that God Level experts could not contend with, the Yulan Continent would have long since been destroyed.

Karl knew all of this in his heart, but he could not show it in the slightest. Because he could only be considered a wild Saint Realm warrior who had luckily crossed the threshold, his resources and information were, in the eyes of others, far inferior to those forces with sufficient heritage.

Therefore, information that some veteran Saint Realm experts might know could not be known by the current Karl, and Karl was very clear about this, which is why he asked questions he already knew the answers to.

"Why? Of course, it's because they all went to other planes," Hodan smiled.

The Yulan Plane had that existence suspected to be a Paragon. Hodan, who could have acted as he pleased in a Material Plane, now had to honestly fulfill his duties as a Plane Overseer. However, Hodan believed that those who could reach the Saint Realm would realize the scarcity of the Material Plane after a few hundred years of cultivation, and by then, he would be able to lobby many Saint Realm experts to join his family.

According to the experience of a Plane Overseer, those who could become Saint Realm experts on their own in a Material Plane would find it not difficult to become a Low-level Deity within a thousand years after entering a Divine Plane, and would likely become a Mid-level God within ten thousand years. As for those who could become gods on their own in a Material Plane, there was a high probability they would reach the level of a High-God within a hundred thousand years.

After all, Hodan was a member of the Renards Family, a powerful family that possessed a Chief God Envoy, and apart from those geniuses who could cultivate to the Saint Realm or even become gods on their own, there was nothing else in a Material Plane worth valuing.

As for guarding the plane, if it weren't for the suspected presence of a Paragon here, the entire Yulan Continent would have long been ruled by Hodan. By then, every Saint Realm expert would be a candidate for the Renards Family.

This was a hotbed that, given enough time, could provide a steady stream of core strength for the family.

With Hodan's explanation, Karl learned more about the secrets of the Yulan Continent. After all, his understanding of the Yulan Continent was only from the original work, but this was the real world.

Karl had lived for over two hundred years and had never thought that the world he was in was just a book. He was more inclined to believe that this world had always existed, and that the information about this world had simply been intercepted by someone in his past life, who then wrote down part of the story of this world.

And stories are one-sided. Now that Hodan was willing to explain the secrets belonging to the top of the Yulan Continent, Karl was naturally delighted.

However, no matter how flowery Hodan's description of the Divine Planes was, when Hodan finally invited him to go to a Divine Plane, Karl still chose to refuse.

"Lord Hodan, I am sure you must be a great God Level expert, while I am but a mere junior who has just entered the Saint Realm. At present, I haven't even mastered the Momentum of Heaven and Earth. Going to a Divine Plane with my current strength would only be a disgrace to you."

Without a background, Karl naturally had to say what sounded good. Although there were very few things in the Coiling Dragon World that could accelerate cultivation, they were not non-existent.

On the Yulan Continent, there were such good things, such as that spatial rift.

It was just that to enter there, Karl would at least need to reach the Peak Saint Realm.

Being rejected was already a common occurrence for Hodan. After all, he didn't expect someone who was merely at the Early Saint Realm to dare to go to a Divine Plane; this was just a reminder in advance.

"Very well. However, once your strength reaches the Peak Saint Realm, if you want to go to a Divine Plane at that time, you can come find me in the Northern Ice Plains."

After saying this, without waiting for Karl's reply, Hodan's figure disappeared from where he stood.

Looking at the empty stone table, Karl felt no great waves in his heart. Although the Divine Planes were good, they were not something he should be touching right now.