"Since the Nether Foxes were successfully hybridized, that meant you and Jing Chen had completed your mission. Why has the Divine Blood Sect continued monitoring the Source-Qi Death Domain on the Eastern Profound Continent for the tens of thousands of years since then?" Song Wen asked.
The Divine Blood Sect had gone to painstaking lengths to monitor the Source-Qi Death Domain. Qicang Island, in particular, was almost entirely under its control.
"That was the work of the 'native Mahayana-stage cultivator' I mentioned earlier. His name is Xugeng, and he is also the sect master of the Divine Blood Sect. He mainly monitors the Nether Foxes' breeding and population growth. If he ascends one day, he can use that information to curry favor with the High-Heaven Immortal Domain and secure a powerful backer," Gu Que said.
"Xugeng?" Song Wen murmured to himself.
He had encountered Xugeng's second primordial spirit in the lower realm, and now he was hearing news of his original body.
"How many years have you two been in the lower realm? How old is Xugeng now? Why has he neither ascended nor exhausted his lifespan?" Song Wen asked.
Gu Que said, "Jing Chen and I descended to the lower realm over seventy thousand years ago. Xugeng should now be over eighty thousand years old. Early Tribulation Transcendence cultivators have a lifespan of fifty thousand years, and each Heavenly Tribulation they survive thereafter adds another twenty thousand years. In other words, a cultivator's maximum lifespan can reach a hundred and ten thousand years. In practice, however, cultivators can only live in the Profound Realm for around ninety thousand years at most. Once they successfully survive their third lightning tribulation, they ascend to the upper realm shortly afterward-this is a law of heaven and earth, not something cultivators can decide