The founding patriarch of Ghost Cultivation...
Jiang Chen fell into thought at those words. He had long since heard that both the Netherworld and Ghost Cultivation were the products left behind by people who had pursued immortality and failed.
"Immortality" had always been the goal most fervently pursued by those at the top of the Unusual Person World throughout the ages.
As the old sayings went, "Seek the Dao and inquire after immortality," and "An immortal stroked my crown; with my hair bound, I received eternal life." From these, one could see that the original purpose of cultivating the Dao was immortality.
Then there was what Jiang Chen had experienced himself: the Blood Man buried beneath Divine Spirit Valley, suspected of having once surpassed even Supreme Powerhouses, had also kept crying, "Walk the road to immortality and live as long as immortals and Buddhas."
He could understand this very well.
Because although Unusual Persons sounded incredibly impressive, their actual lifespans were short.
Netherworld Messengers and the Three Official Organizations went without saying. They obtained power through curses-a bunch of textbook short-lived souls.
After finally clawing their way to a high position, they barely had a couple of good days before it was time to pick out a coffin they liked.
The Dark Alliance was much the same. They all practiced heretical techniques and died quickly too.
The average lifespans of all these people were often shorter than those of ordinary people.
Even orthodox Dao Alliance cultivators, who should theoretically have lived the longest, did indeed enjoy somewhat longer lives, but only to a very limited extent.
Upon reaching King-Level, they could live for around two hundred years.
So the handsome old King of Reincarnation, at the ripe old age of over three hundred, was actually already the longest-lived person in