By a careful reckoning, ten years had passed since Lin Xian, Ye Fan, and the others arrived on Big Dipper. They were all thirty-five or thirty-six now. Of course, the two had consumed the Divine Spring Sacred Fruit from the Desolate Antiquity Sacred Land and regained their youth. With their cultivation now bearing fruit, their appearances remained unchanged. They still looked like young men in their prime, without the slightest trace of age.
A Great Power could live for three thousand years. With the added strength of the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, and after consuming various kinds of emperor blood and potent medicines, their lifespans were enough to rival a Great Accomplished God King's, or even a saint's.
Time was merciless, yet its cruelty found no expression in them.
Maintaining one's appearance was no difficult task for a cultivator. Great Saint Wei Yi and the Crazy Old Man, for example, could both transform into handsome seventeen- or eighteen-year-old youths, brimming with vigor, their faces like jade. But they never did so. Their bodies had not aged, but their hearts had.
The older generation had yet to pass away, while the younger generation flourished.
Under the Human Emperor's guidance within the Human Emperor Banner, the once-childish Jiang Tingting had grown into a peerlessly graceful Taiyin divine maiden. Slender and elegant, she had made quite a name for herself in the Eastern Wasteland and Western Desert.
Lin Xian often threatened Ye Fan, saying, "If you don't want to do it, then don't. There are plenty of others who will." It was no mere joke.
The Taiyin Body had already matured!
As for the Solar Body, whether its bearer had even been born yet remained a question.
Waiting for the Solar Body to mature would take another ten or twenty years. Rather than