Because there was a gap in the history of the Cultivation World.
There were no records whatsoever of the years before ten thousand years ago.
It was as though the true age of cultivation had only begun ten thousand years ago.
But how could that be possible?
Ever since cultivation began, those who attained the rank of Celestial Person had enjoyed lifespans of several thousand years.
If they could all become Celestial Persons within ten thousand years, then there could not possibly have been no Celestial Persons in even earlier times.
The Zhou Clan Ancestor from nine thousand years ago.
Zhou Hanhai looked toward the bottomless cavern ahead, and the records he had pursued for countless years flashed through his mind.
"Heaven and earth are not heaven and earth; cultivation is not cultivation."
He looked toward that bottomless cavern, activated his mystic sight, pierced countless dark mists, and then saw those strange words etched into the wall.
"What does that mean?"
At that moment, Zhou Hanhai's heart gave a thunderous jolt.
An unbelievable thought all but leaped into the open.
At the very moment he saw that line of words,
a figure appeared.
He called himself a lingering apparition within this cavern.
He should have perished over the countless years that had passed.
Yet through a strange twist of fate, he had left an imprint within this cavern.
"I have waited through long ages, and at last, someone destined to find me has come."
But after turning his gaze, the figure had only spoken his first sentence.
Suddenly,
the figure's gaze fell upon Zhou Hanhai, and his previously placid eyes abruptly became unfathomably deep.
"Wrong, wrong."
"So it is. So it truly is."
That strange and powerful figure turned to look at a sentence left on the cavern wall.