In the original story, Shi Hao became a Quasi-Immortal Emperor at around 1.8 million years old.
That included the 490,000 years he had spent in the Emperor's Fall Era.
In other words, Shi Hao still needed roughly 1.3 million years to break through the King realm and become an Emperor.
Meng Chuan's intervention would probably bring that day forward.
But even if it came 300,000 years early, Shi Hao would still need a million years to reach that step.
Of course, Meng Chuan would become a Quasi-Immortal Emperor before Shi Hao did.
It would not take him a million years.
Meng Chuan had long since grasped eighty or ninety percent of the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Dao.
Still, Meng Chuan reckoned he would return to the Dao Calendar through some other means, rather than waiting for the Chaotic Ancient Era to end.
"Besides the end of the Chaotic Ancient Era, there's a second way I can return," Meng Chuan said.
"My True Body could awaken ahead of time."
"Something unprecedented could startle my True Body awake even across the gulf of Space-Time."
"And that would be the moment my True Body becomes a Quasi-Immortal Emperor."
Meng Chuan cast his Dharma Eye across Heaven and Earth, the Boundary Sea, and the many realms of the Heavens.
Dao Realms flourished throughout the Ancient Realms and the Heavens, helping all Ling transcend their fated destinies.
All living beings broke the Shackles of fate and transcended their former destinies, leaving a faint, elusive trace of transcendence within the Dao Realms.
The Dao Realms helped all living beings, and all living beings helped the Dao Realms.
"By my reckoning, it won't be long," Meng Chuan murmured.
He could already feel the surging aura of transcendence accumulated within the Dao Realms.
More than half of his own path