"Was this the Past King's life?"
Inside the Central Preservation Palace, Fang Qianyuan sat on the Cloud Terrace, holding the Jade Register. After examining it with his divine sense for a long while, he sank into thought.
Watching Fang Qianyuan, Fang Lian said, "The Past King was a cultivator from the eight hundred thousandth year of the Xuanhuang Calendar. In ancient times, the lifespan laws still manifested in the world. As long as one achieved success in cultivation, living for thousands or tens of thousands of years was never difficult. But to live tens of thousands, even two hundred thousand years, as he did, surely required some other extraordinary encounter. I suspect the key lay in the Immortal Alliance treasure he carried. Yet the other cultivators of his generation died of old age one after another, leaving him alone to cling to life. He even lost heart in his despair and built a mausoleum to bury himself. I fear that treasure could not grant true immortality and imperishability either."
Fang Qianyuan came out of his thoughts and said, "No, you're wrong."
Fang Lian paused. "Hm?"
Fang Qianyuan said, "The dao fruit the Past King attained was most likely a true dao fruit of immortality."
Fang Lian was astonished. "Then... why did he end up in such a state?"
Although the Past King had survived to this day, by the standards of ancient cultivators, he was merely clinging to life.
His divine soul and true spirit had suffered severe damage, and even his original fleshly body had long since decayed. This was nothing like the state recorded in the ancient texts.
Fang Qianyuan said, "The Dharma-Ending Age reduced him to this."
Fang Lian murmured, "The Dharma-Ending Age..."
Fang Qianyuan said, "His memories show that the Dharma-Ending Age is a phenomenon of