"Are there a lot of people here?" Baili Zhen asked hurriedly, stirred by Old Hu's words.
"Quite a few. Probably no fewer than ten thousand," Old Ke said. "Old Hu and I came in together too, yes, more than three hundred years before you. We were the newest arrivals here. Now that you're here, we'll have to hand that title over to you."
"Ten thousand? That many? From what you said, Senior Ke, no one should have entered in these past three hundred years or so, right?" Baili Zhen asked in some surprise.
"What's so strange about that?" Old Hu cut in. "Hardly anyone has come in over the past three hundred years, but what about before that? A thousand years ago, several thousand years ago, even ten thousand years ago-with them all accumulating like that, what's so odd about having ten thousand people?"
"Ten thousand years ago," Baili Zhen murmured.
Thinking back, Zuo Qiu Shu and the others had been figures from ten thousand years ago, but the people from ten thousand years ago in the Martial World were somewhat different from those here.
Zuo Qiu Shu and the other women had reached the present by sleeping for nearly ten thousand years.
But as far as they knew, quite a few people in the Immortal Spirit Domain had lived exceptionally long lives, ten thousand years, for instance.
These people might also have slept in seclusion, but they would not have slept for nearly ten thousand years. Their periods of sleep would have been much shorter.
That was the wonder of the Immortal Spirit Domain. With its abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth and wondrous cultivation methods, everything became so natural.
"Those Old Fools are usually in seclusion and rarely show themselves. Some may have died of old age