The truth of lifespans reaching tens to hundreds of thousands of years and repetitive self-affiliated isolation for cultivation was that it caused one's sense of time to dwindle and induced often unspoken effects on a cultivator's mentality toward time usage and lengths of activities.
The greater one's cultivation, typically, the longer the cultivation sessions take. Despite Wei Wuyin being a mere mortal of slightly over a hundred years of age, his latest secluded cultivation took seventeen years, and it was prematurely ended due to the incoming, dreadfully torturous Calamities of Hell.