Three months outside, a hundred years within the painting.
Three months passed in the blink of an eye in the Immortal Realm.
But for everyone inside the River Chart, those were real, tangible years-nearly a hundred long years!
This was the longest secluded cultivation session the people of the Eastern Region had ever undertaken. Since meeting Si Chen, they had finally gotten another taste of what cultivation was like for normal people.
After all, what cultivator fought Spirit Transformation cultivators one moment, then went up against Immortal Kings and even Immortal Emperors the next?
Who would believe it if they told anyone?
Nearly a hundred years was also enough to turn this once-empty small world upside down.
Three months earlier, when the Si Household's members and the ancestors from the Lower Realm learned that such a heaven-defying Magic Treasure existed, they had nearly gone mad together.
After all, who among those who had cultivated all the way to Great Ascension or Tribulation Crossing in the Lower Realm did not consider themselves extraordinary?
Once they learned they could enter too, how could they possibly hold back?
And so the once-empty small world within the River Chart suddenly came alive. Today, one person claimed a mountaintop; tomorrow, another climbed onto a stretch of high ground.
Black Mountain even brought in all the little demons rescued from the Green Cliff Sect just after ascending, giving this small world a little more of the bustle of everyday life.
Of course, not everyone buried themselves in arduous cultivation. There were always a few "slackers" who did not fit in.
Third Uncle Granduncle, for instance.
The old man had long since lost interest in sitting in meditation, cultivating, or comprehending the Great Dao.
In his words, "I spent my whole life toiling for the Si Household.