Other than Sages, no matter how powerful one was or how profound their comprehension of the laws, they would still be plagued by birth, aging, sickness, and death. Even those in the Chaos Realm possessed lifespans of a million years, but in the end, dust returned to dust and earth to earth!
However, the strong did not vanish so easily.
They could reincarnate!
Naturally, reincarnation could not be achieved out of thin air. Every reincarnation consumed a portion of one's divine sense. Aside from a limited few geniuses who could replenish it in their next life, everyone else grew weaker with each successive life.
Divine sense determined one's capacity for comprehension and also contained part of one's memories. Thus, the depletion of divine sense could prevent one's new life from reaching the heights of the previous one. The consequence of lowered cultivation was a reduced lifespan.
If one were in the Comet Realm in this life, they could live for around nine hundred thousand years. If they fell to the Celestial River Realm in the next life, they could only live for seven hundred thousand years. Then, if they fell again to the Star Realm, they would only have five hundred thousand years left.
Added together, that was still an immensely long lifespan, but before the endless universe, so long as one could not exist eternally, even the longest life was but an instant!
At Huotian and Red Moon's level, they could reincarnate with almost no loss, practically possessing endless lifespans—living as long as heaven and existing alongside earth. Yet they were not Sages, and still had to pass through the trial of reincarnation.
From the end of an old life to the birth of a new one, then growing powerful again, it took merely ten thousand years. Yet those