Lu Qing had traveled to the Primordial Era. He felt that other great powers had likely gone there as well, perhaps even more than once.
Under such circumstances, the ancient world might have been one factor in attaining Longevity and Transcendence, but not necessarily the greatest one.
Judging solely by Lu Qing's own spiritual perception, although the heavens and earth differed, the great transformation of the Nine Heavens was already underway, and the long tide of rising spiritual energy had likewise been unfolding for countless years.
The heavens and earth had been whole and harmonious, yet the ancient Immortals had still failed to attain Transcendence. Conversely, though the present heavens and earth could not be considered whole and harmonious, after repeated tides of spiritual energy and great transformations of the world, this cultivation environment was already comparable to the ancient era at the height of its glory.
One had to know that there were now countless cultivators in the Nine Heavens, and even more who drew upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to cultivate.
This differed from the ancient days, when spiritual energy had been abundant, yet those across the world who could enter the Dao were few and far between.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth was equally abundant now, and there were so many cultivators throughout the world, yet the spiritual energy of the earth veins had not been depleted.
That was because a current of Fate Allotment flowed through heaven and earth, while the Providence of the Six Paths blanketed all beneath them.
Even the Demonic Path, in recent years, had not laid hands on the earth veins of heaven and earth when hope was within sight.
Eight Wastelands, on the other hand, could be called a great Variable Fate in heaven and earth.