Opening his eyes, he found that quite a few grasses and trees had grown in the wasteland around him.
Xuan Yuan and the Nether Lightning Divine Lord had also awakened from meditation, staring at him fixedly.
Wang Daoyuan asked, "Why are you two looking at me like that?"
Xuan Yuan did not answer, instead asking, "Master, did you enter a state of enlightenment?"
Wang Daoyuan nodded. "Yes. I had just sat beneath the Immortal Dao Tree when I felt my comprehension of the laws advancing by leaps and bounds.
Before long, my cultivation broke through to the level of a top-tier Great Power."
Xuan Yuan asked again, "Master, do you know how long you remained in that state of enlightenment?"
"My consciousness entered the Heavenly Dao River. There was no obvious passage of time there, so how would I know how long the state of enlightenment lasted?"
The Nether Lightning Divine Lord continued, "Martial Uncle, I do not know when you entered meditation, but my Natal Artifact has an artifact spirit. It said that I have been here for more than three years."
Wang Daoyuan was somewhat surprised. "Xuan Yuan and I entered the palace to explore, but it did not take much time.
After investigating that area, we returned beneath the Immortal Dao Tree to meditate.
Does that mean I have been in enlightenment for more than three years?"
Xuan Yuan nodded. "My state of enlightenment lasted less than a month. Even so, I feel that it will not be long before I break through to the Great Power realm.
It has already been three years since I awakened.
Among the legends concerning the Immortal Dao Tree, the longest anyone ever maintained enlightenment was only one year.
Even so, that person cultivated from mediocre talent to the realm of