People packed the place shoulder to shoulder, head after head, a dense, dark sea stretching in every direction.
How many cultivators in the Divine Flame Realm were there across the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands?
It was impossible to calculate.
Even in the remotest parts of the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, where cultivation standards were generally low, Divine Flame Ling Cultivators existed in vast numbers.
When the Immortal Ancient Era opened, fifty million Venerables entered its ancient lands.
Those fifty million were only the tip of the iceberg among the Venerables of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces.
After all, they were the cream of the crop.
Some provinces sent ten thousand, others tens of thousands of Venerables. That alone showed the caliber of those selected.
The true number of Venerables in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces exceeded fifty million by far more than tenfold, perhaps even a hundredfold.
Even if only a fraction of them achieved Divine Flame Ignition, the number would be terrifying.
And as long as a Divine Flame Realm cultivator was not killed along the way, living several thousand or even ten thousand years was easy.
In the Later Era of Shrouding the Heavens, even Half-Step Great Powers and Great Powers could live one or two thousand years. The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands of today still held traces of Longevity Substance.
A lifespan of ten or twenty thousand years was no challenge for a Divine Flame Realm cultivator.
Every few decades, a new generation of Venerables emerged, then one after another became Deities. Generation upon generation accumulated.
The Divine Flame Cultivators of the Three Thousand Dao Provinces alone outnumbered the stars in the sky.
Expand that scope to the entire Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, and the number of Divine Way cultivators became simply incalculable.