Yuangeng estimated that the decline of Primordial Antiquity would take at least ten thousand years.
This was not something that would happen overnight, but a great "cataclysm" that would sweep across the entire great universe of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, affecting untold trillions upon trillions of living beings. It would surely become an indelible milestone in history.
"Even the lineages on this star have withered."
After Yuangeng and the other three left the Undying Mountain, they could clearly sense the decline of the laws of the Dao outside. Its most obvious manifestation was the dwindling number of powerful cultivators.
In the Primordial Era, Great Saint-level combat strength had likewise been formidable and rare. Yet across the major star domains, especially Life Origin Stars such as the Primordial World and Ziwei, eighty or ninety Great Saints on a single star had been perfectly normal. On ancient stars such as Big Dipper, where the Myriad Races gathered, the concentration of Great Saints had been frighteningly high.
Now, however, this Life Origin Star that Yuangeng had tended for over a hundred thousand years had only two Great Saints in total.
It had to be remembered that Origin Star was now a renowned major star in the cosmos. Its Human Race and Demon Race had never lacked supreme inheritances. The descendants of the White Tiger Daoist of the Immortal Mausoleum, the clan and lineage of the Light-Dark Supreme, and others had all gathered here.
"At this rate, Great Saints will vanish without a trace. Little fellows at the Dao-Severing realm might one day become celebrated masters of their regions, while wet-behind-the-ears Saints will be able to call themselves patriarchs and founders."
Dongfang Taiyi sighed. His thinking was still that of an elder from the Primordial Era, and he sincerely worried for those