Meng Chuan was considering whether to give Yao Chen a lashing, but Yao Chen had already finished cultivating.
"You're hard on yourself. At your age, you could be retired, yet you're still pushing so hard."
Looking at the transformed Yao Chen, Meng Chuan said, "With Xiao Yan and the others around, you could just sit back and enjoy life."
"People never like admitting they're old." Yao Chen came over to Meng Chuan, then quickly realized something.
"Wait, what am I saying? If we're talking age, Great Emperor, you're older than me now."
"Great Emperor, don't call me Medicine Elder anymore. Call me Little Yao."
Clearly, twenty thousand years had not passed on Yao Chen's side. He really was younger than Meng Chuan now.
Although the Ruler Realm of the Great Thousand World roughly corresponded to the Human Dao Apex in Shrouding the Heavens, they were ultimately two entirely different systems.
Advancing to the Ruler Realm did not necessarily take hundreds or thousands of years.
Even leaving aside Yao Chen, who had joined the Chat Group, Mu Chen—the first Ruler of the Great Thousand World in the original story—had inscribed his name on the Sky Ranking and advanced to the Ruler Realm before he turned a hundred.
Could that happen in the Shrouding the Heavens World?
Of course not.
But the worlds and their systems were different. There was no basis for comparison.
You could not judge the strength of two roughly corresponding realms by how long cultivation took in their respective systems.
Nor could you use one system's standards to make demands of another.
The Ruler Realm could be reached within a century. Breaking through to the next realm would naturally take longer.
But for that time to leap to millions or tens of millions of years was still impossible.