Time flowed on, the years hurried past, and days of peace and tranquility slipped by like a murmuring stream, always passing far too swiftly.
Ten thousand years later.
In the universe of Shrouding the Heavens, ten thousand years was still an exceedingly long span.
In this universe, so lacking in longevity substance, ten thousand years was enough for the entire middle and upper ranks of cultivators to be replaced. After all, even a Great Saint could live for only a little over eight thousand years at most, while cultivators of the ninth heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm who lived beyond ten thousand years were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
Youth faded all too easily. Too many vibrant lives and stirring events had been buried in heaps of old papers, reduced to yellowed words in ancient books that later generations relied upon when discussing the past.
Since the great upheaval over ten thousand years ago that had swept across the universe and emptied almost every Life Forbidden Zone, many more events had followed.
For instance, the former Life Forbidden Zone of The Heavens had fallen into the hands of the Great Accomplished Tyrant Body lineage. The five Tyrant Bodies had spent many years finally erasing all the imperial formation diagrams their predecessors had inscribed there, then engraved new, domineering formation patterns and taken up residence in the forbidden zone.
For instance, the Immortal Mausoleum had now become part of the Saint Spirit Ancestral Land on Big Dipper. At least three Great Perfection Saint Spirits slumbered within it. All had once attained the Dao and belonged to the ranks of the Self-Slashed Supremes, wielding enough power to overturn nearly half the universe.
For instance, a new Saint Spirit Ancestral Land had emerged in the starry sky, prompting the supreme