Chapter 728

"According to my calculations, if there are no unexpected opportunities and development proceeds step-by-step, it will take at least another twenty years to break through to the peak of Void Refinement and Dao Integration."

As he spoke, Jiang Yan felt a touch of emotion.

To be honest, this speed was already very fast.

For a cultivator at the Void Refinement and Dao Integration stage, even a genius like Klee would need to break through a minor realm.

It would easily take a hundred, or even several hundred years.

Jiang Yan was now in his twenties and had already broken through to the late stage of Void Refinement and Dao Integration; this progress was already incredible.

He could still undergo the tribulation and ascend to immortality within a hundred years.

This had never happened in the entire history of the cultivation world.

Even for those beings born as immortals, their gestation period exceeded a thousand years.

For example, Sun Wukong.

Just after popping out of the stone, he already possessed the cultivation of an Earth Immortal, with no worries about lifespan.

But how many years was Sun Wukong gestated?

It would likely have to be calculated in the tens of thousands, or even millions.

The fastest speed recorded in the cultivation world from mortal to immortal was two hundred and eighty-one years.

That person had great fame across the heavens and myriad worlds...

Zhang Sanfeng.

Or perhaps one should call him by another name.

Great Emperor Zhenwu.

But in essence, Zhang Sanfeng was merely an incarnation sent down to the mortal world by Great Emperor Zhenwu to experience cultivation out of boredom.

He himself was already an immortal, and a top-tier Taiyi Great Power among immortals at that.

Re-cultivating naturally went quickly.

Jiang Yan being able to have this speed, to be honest, was already absurd.

This is also thanks to the system's rewards.

If there were no system rewards, wanting to break through from Refining Essence to Qi to the late stage of Void Refinement and Dao Integration.

Even with his Innate Dao Body, it would likely have taken about a hundred years.

In the end, it saved a lot of trouble.

When Ganyu and Yae Miko heard that Jiang Yan would need at least another twenty years to reach the peak of Void Refinement and Dao Integration.

For some reason, there was a trace of secret joy in their hearts.

Perhaps this way...

Jiang Yan could stay with them for a longer time.

Parting and such could wait until later.

At the very least, right now, they were still together.

Ganyu and Yae Miko said nothing, leaning on Jiang Yan's shoulders, quietly enjoying this moment of tranquility.

Klee also obediently did not break this warmth, curling up in Jiang Yan's arms.

During this interval, Jiang Yan also extended his divine sense out of Shushan, and in an instant, took in the situation of the entire world.

Just as he had imagined before his seclusion.

To this day, no existence at the Refining Spirit to Void stage had been born yet.

However, there were quite a few at the peak of Refining Qi to Spirit.

Besides that, there were many demon cultivators with top-tier talent who were also in seclusion preparing to join Shushan.

Jiang Yan could feel that these demon cultivators were not beings born natively in Shushan; in all likelihood, they had drifted over from the cultivation world.

This actually explained why the newly born demon cultivators displayed lifespans of over ten thousand years.

So it turns out...

Quite a few old antiques had come.

In this way, Jiang Yan could also ask about the situation regarding the Day of Dharma Destruction.

Regarding the Day of Dharma Destruction, Jiang Yan still had a belly full of questions he wanted to know.

528. Jiang Yan's Grand Plan, the Evolution of the Shushan World into a Cultivation World

Jiang Yan withdrew his divine sense; he was quite satisfied with his current strength.

According to his deduction, the strongest existence in the entire cultivation world right now was none other than the Evil Sword Immortal.

But that guy, at most, was probably only at the late stage of Void Refinement and Dao Integration.

He still had three parts of his consciousness origin that had not been retrieved.

One was naturally suppressed within the Demon Locking Tower; with Jiang Yan's current abilities, it was absolutely impossible for him to get out.

The other two...

According to the inherited knowledge that had inexplicably appeared in his mind, one part of the origin was suppressed within the top-grade treasure, the Heaven-Swallowing Box.

The Heaven-Swallowing Box was still in the deeper level of the sect's treasure vault; right now, Jiang Yan couldn't even take it out.

The last part of the origin was in the Seven-Colored Jade Pool of Shushan; that place had not appeared yet either.

Logically speaking, even if the origin from the Demon Locking Tower returned, the Evil Sword Immortal would at best be at the peak of Void Refinement and Dao Integration.

But this realm posed no threat to Jiang Yan.

Samadhi True Fire, Five-Colored Divine Light, Thirty-Six Heavenly Dipper Methods.

These three great divine abilities could pin him down firmly; although he couldn't be killed, it was enough to suppress him for eternity.

Not to mention, Jiang Yan also had the Earth Immortal treasure, the World-Purifying Glazed Bottle, and the half-step immortal treasure, the Three-Colored Exquisite Pagoda.

Plus the Zhaodan Divine Sword, a Golden Immortal treasure that was the natural nemesis of all evil spirits.

Killing an Evil Sword Immortal who hadn't recovered to his peak might be impossible, but suppressing him so he would never see the light of day again was easy.

The Evil Sword Immortal was no longer his match; for the moment, the only thing left that was troublesome was the Heavenly Demon Leader and his horde of demons.

Even if Jiang Yan dealt with the Evil Sword Immortal, it would ultimately take time.

During this time, the Heavenly Demon Leader and his horde of demons would be enough to ravage the current Shushan to the ground.

As such...

Improving the foundational strength of Shushan was the most important thing at the moment.

Jiang Yan had also found a specific target.

The Aeons in the neighboring Star Rail world, although there was a huge gap in strength, such as the Aeon of the Hunt who had a relatively narrow Path.

Roughly calculated, he was at most at the peak realm of Refining Spirit to Void; as for his actual displayed strength...

In the Tree and Sea universe, he was estimated to be at the early stage of Refining Spirit to Void.

Not yet approaching the single-universe level.

The remaining ones with broader Paths, such as Elation and Nihility, those two, after specializing, were definitely at the Void Refinement and Dao Integration stage.

Their actual combat power could also change from the single-universe level of Refining Spirit to Void to the Void Refinement and Dao Integration stage that truly involved the multiverse.

If placed in some worlds that didn't know the true Immortal Dao, these two would likely become the Immortal Emperors of those worlds.

Unfortunately, for the Supreme Immortal Dao that encompassed all phenomena, the multiverse was just an existence that couldn't be brought to the table.

Starting from the Earth Immortal stage, all were high-status ultimate lifeforms capable of creating a multiverse.

However, even so, those Aeons were enough.

But for the time being, Jiang Yan hadn't planned on letting Star Rail join as well.

Having just contained the Honkai world, other plans should be slowed down.

However...

Right now, Jiang Yan had to consider another matter.

From the consciousness of those old demon clan antiques from the cultivation world who had come to this world, Jiang Yan had roughly figured it out.

The current cultivation world, with the arrival of the Day of Dharma Destruction, was itself on the verge of collapse.

Coupled with the endless ravaging of demon cultivators and the Heavenly Demon Leader, the origin of the cultivation world was in jeopardy.

It was only one step away from falling from the status of the Supreme World, second only to the Immortal World.

Jiang Yan couldn't help but feel a bit sad; after all, that was the true home of cultivators.

But things had reached this point, and he couldn't change anything now.

It seemed that the cave heaven he had created, the Shushan world which had now evolved into a Great Thousand World, had become the final refuge for the remaining cultivators.