After sitting in meditation for decades, Meng Chuan stirred.
But he was not preparing to break through. He was moving elsewhere.
He needed to find a world in the Dharma-Ending Age before he could continue down his path.
Both the Battle Immortal and Red Dust Immortal paths were ways to defy heaven and become immortal in a world where neither longevity nor Immortal Ascension was possible.
If the world allowed people to live forever, Longevity Substance would accumulate within their bodies.
Then neither path could succeed.
That was the difficulty of such top-tier methods of Alternative Immortal Ascension.
A Great Emperor lived only ten thousand years in one lifetime. Even with a special physique or an extraordinarily powerful bloodline, a lifetime would gain at most another six or seven thousand years.
If one found an Immortal Divine Medicine and lived a second life, one's origin would grow stronger. Someone with a powerful physique might live another two or three thousand years beyond the span of their first life.
Even so, those two lives together would amount to little more than thirty thousand years.
To attain power that could shock immortals and transform oneself into a Battle Immortal in just over thirty thousand years—
It was no different from a fool's dream.
On their first path of cultivation, no one could become immortal in just over thirty thousand years. Not a True Immortal, not a Red Dust Immortal, and not a Battle Immortal.
And that lifespan of just over thirty thousand years across two lives was calculated using Ye Fan, the protagonist, as the model.
An ordinary Great Emperor could live only a little over twenty thousand years.
Meng Chuan searched far and wide and questioned powerful figures from every quarter. At last, he learned of a world in the Dharma-Ending