And what did it mean for Zhao Cheng to reach this point in three years?!
He did some calculations in his heart.
Three years ago, Zhao Cheng's cultivation, if placed in his Immortal Dao Epoch, would have belonged to a mortal who had yet to become an immortal.
After becoming an immortal came True Immortal. Above True Immortal was Golden Immortal, corresponding to the Great Sovereigns of this epoch.
Above Golden Immortal was the realm of Immortal King; above Immortal King was Immortal Emperor; only after Immortal Emperor came Heavenly Lord.
Crossing five major realms in three years—he had never seen such a thing. He had not even dared imagine that such a thing could exist.
Back when he cultivated, it had taken him nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years to become an immortal. His lifespan had run out, yet his Dao had come to fruition; before becoming an immortal, ten thousand years of life had already been the limit.
His lifespan had ended and his Dao had been achieved, and in a single step, he attained Golden Immortal.
After becoming an immortal, he had then spent forty million years before finally attaining Immortal King.
After that came another hundred million years before he attained Immortal Emperor.
As for advancing from Immortal Emperor to Heavenly Lord, that had taken a full three epochs—three billion six hundred million years.
Though those three epochs at the end had been because the Immortal Dao Epoch no longer existed, making cultivation even more difficult, even if he had been in the Immortal Dao Epoch, he could at most have cut that time in half.
In short, from first becoming an immortal to becoming a Heavenly Lord, he had spent nearly four billion years. Even assuming Zhao Cheng had already become an immortal before