Following the reminder from Ancestor Lu Xiucheng, Chen Dengming and Su Yanyan finally concluded their retreat, which lasted three months in the external world and ninety years within the Heavenly Longevity Hall.
The ninety years seemed to pass in the blink of an eye. Time had reversed its course, and almost overnight, Chen Dengming had become a senescent man nearing four hundred years old, no longer the hundred-year-old infant he had been when he first entered the Longevity Sect.
The two left the Heavenly Longevity Hall and stood in the small plaza outside the hall, where incense of longevity was burning. They looked around and found themselves in a strange land filled with an ancient and vast aura.
The mountains here stretched endlessly, vast and imposing. Some huge gray mountains were majestic and imposing without a single plant—ruins resembling faceless giants stood silently, guarding this long-silent world.
