Tianming now knew that, to grand clans with tens of millions of years of history, a few thousand years were nothing much to speak of. Once one reached the Order stage or beyond, thus beginning to walk the path of order, it usually took months, if not years to get over every single obstacle in their cultivation.

Cultivation simply took far too much time. A cultivator of a thousand years old probably only truly experienced less than a hundred years of living if their cultivation time were to be removed from the equation. Had Tianming's biological grandfather, Wei Tiancang, not spent any time cultivating, he would have about the same amount of life experience as Tianming.

In Ebonia, even if one was past the prime of their youth and their...