Chapter 1337: Ancestor Hongjun

With a post-heavenly human body, achieving this level in just a few yuanhui caused Ancestor Hongjun to suspect Luo Fu might be a reincarnated Chaotic Divine Demon more than once.

For this reason, Ancestor Hongjun secretly used the Heavenly Dao to investigate Luo Fu numerous times.

Yet, Ancestor Hongjun detected no trace of a reincarnated Chaotic Divine Demon on Luo Fu, which led him to believe Luo Fu was a true prodigy and monster.

Given Luo Fu's displayed talent, becoming a Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian was merely a matter of time for him.

Of course, Ancestor Hongjun never anticipated this day would arrive so soon.

More importantly, Luo Fu immediately ascended to Hunyuan Peak shortly after his breakthrough.

Moreover, the aura emanating from Luo Fu suggested he was no ordinary Hunyuan Peak.

Ancestor Hongjun did not care how Luo Fu broke through to Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian or how he ascended to Hunyuan Peak.

Ever since Luo Fu condensed the Earth Dao, Ancestor Hongjun had already known Luo Fu must harbor a secret.

If Ancestor Hongjun had truly been curious about this secret, he would have seized Luo Fu outright and forced him to reveal it.

Given Ancestor Hongjun's current circumstances, ordinary secrets held little value for him.

Compared to Luo Fu's secret, Ancestor Hongjun valued Luo Fu himself far more.

Precisely because he valued Luo Fu, Ancestor Hongjun did not mind Luo Fu's insolence.

Compared to Luo Fu's insolence, Ancestor Hongjun wanted to know Luo Fu's true combat power.

Although Luo Fu's aura had reached Hunyuan Peak, in Ancestor Hongjun's view, Luo Fu's combat power was certainly not that limited.

At the Hunyuan layer, crossing realms to fight was nearly impossible.

The gap between each realm above Hunyuan was immense—even minor realms differed by at least several times.

A gap of several to dozens of times was not easy to bridge.

Not to mention the gaps between major realms.

At the Hunyuan layer, even prodigies and monsters found it difficult to cross realms in battle.

Others could not do it, but that did not mean Luo Fu could not.

In Ancestor Hongjun's eyes, Luo Fu was far more monstrous than ordinary prodigies.

As a Heaven Dao-level powerhouse, Ancestor Hongjun had once roamed the Chaotic Void and encountered or heard of many prodigies and monsters.

But Ancestor Hongjun had never heard of any prodigy or monster who, within just a few yuanhui, rose from a mortal body directly to Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian Peak.

Across the entire Chaotic Void, there were indeed younger Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian than Luo Fu.

Yet these extremely young Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian were almost all innate Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian.

Moreover, while their time of birth was recent, their actual age was not necessarily short.

Most innate Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian required long periods of gestation.

It was through the accumulation during gestation that innate Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian could be born with the strength of a Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian.

The Innate Hunyuan Daoluo Golden Immortals were born as Great Dao beings, with extraordinarily noble origins and generally exceptional innate talent.

Thus, after birth, their advancement in strength realm was never slow.

Yet even innate Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian could not reach Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian Peak within just a few yuanhui.

Not to mention Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian Peak—even reaching Mid Stage Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian was nearly impossible.

A few yuanhui were insufficient for innate Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian to fully master their own power, let alone break through realms.

Different realms perceive time differently.

Especially for realms tied to life-layer transformations, perception of time changed drastically before and after breakthrough.

From mortal to Hunyuan layer, a being undergoes two fundamental life transformations.

The first is breaking through from mortal to Immortal.

This transformation turns a being from an ordinary species into an immortal species.

Even the weakest Immortal lives at least ten thousand years—vastly longer than mortals.

The second transformation is breaking through from Pre-Sage to Hunyuan Daoluo Jin Xian.

It is a transformation from ordinary being to Great Dao being.

From the moment of this transformation, a being essentially loses the concept of lifespan.

Unless the Chaotic Void is destroyed, Great Dao beings will never perish from lack of lifespan.

In a sense, this transformation turns a being from an immortal species into an eternal species, granting it the initial trait of indestructibility.

From ordinary being to immortal species, then to eternal species—each transformation fundamentally alters perception of time.

For ordinary beings, the smallest time unit they perceive is a finger-snap, or roughly a second.

One finger-snap equals about 7.2 seconds.

A second or a finger-snap is the shortest time ordinary beings can perceive.

Shorter durations are nearly impossible for them to perceive.

Even if they perceive them, they cannot act upon them.

For ordinary beings, the largest time unit is the year.

An uncultivated ordinary being, even in the Primordial World, lives at most a few hundred years.

The year is extremely significant to ordinary beings.

Between year and second, the most basic unit ordinary beings perceive is the day.

The day is the most direct time change ordinary beings can perceive.

At the immortal species level, the smallest perceivable time unit is no longer a second, but an instant.

An instant is smaller than a second—roughly 0.36 seconds.

Ordinary beings cannot even register the passage of an instant.

Even if they register it, they cannot act.

The long-lived beings are different; in an instant, immortals can unleash numerous divine abilities.

Even the weakest long-lived beings possess a lifespan of ten thousand years.

For long-lived beings, the concept of "year" has lost its measure.

For long-lived beings, their primary unit of time measurement is yun.

One yun equals three hundred and sixty years.

The weakest long-lived beings have a lifespan of roughly three hundred yun.

Of course, lifespans among long-lived beings vary greatly.

For quasi-saints, their largest unit of time measurement is usually yuanhui.

One yuanhui equals one hundred twenty-nine thousand six hundred years.

In fact, most long-lived beings possess lifespans of at least one yuanhui or more.

Such an immense lifespan renders the ordinary mortal's unit of "day" meaningless to long-lived beings.

Converting one yuanhui into days yields an extraordinarily vast number.

For most long-lived beings, their basic unit of time is the year.

That is to say, in the perception of long-lived beings, a year equals a day for ordinary mortals.