Gu Yuanqing's gaze sharpened slightly.
Over the years, Gu Yuanqing had learned something of how cultivation on the Divine Path had been in earlier times.
The Ancient Gods of old had claimed to be undying and indestructible, with lifespans as long as Heaven and Earth, yet they had fallen in the end.
Some ancient records stated that after the Ancient Gods disappeared and Human Race Divine Path cultivators rose to prominence, their lifespans had likewise been immense. There were accounts of True Gods living for eight million years and Heavenly Gods for thirty million.
Gradually, however, the lifespans of Divine Path cultivators began to plummet.
By now, most True God cultivators had a lifespan limit of around two million years, while even Heavenly Gods could hardly live beyond ten million.
The main reason was that, as time passed, their physical bodies struggled to bear their tremendous power and began to disintegrate and decay. Their divine souls then became water without a source, slowly drying up.
To prolong their lives, Divine Path cultivators would separate their physical bodies from their divine souls when their bodies began to collapse, easing the strain on them while nourishing them with the energy of Heaven and Earth and source crystals.
Even so, an end would inevitably come.
As for the God King Realm, Gu Yuanqing had never seen any accounts of it in ancient records. He had also tried to learn more from Jiang Yunchuan and Hong Kaiyuan, but neither had offered anything clear.
Gu Yuanqing had met Wei Yuan several times, and certain signs suggested that he was already exceedingly old.
At that level, reuniting body and divine soul would accelerate the body's decay. Unless there was no other choice, Wei Yuan would never do so.
Yet there was no threat from external enemies