Ethan slept for 16 hours, only the last four hours were left.

And that was more than enough for the World of Origin to undergo a tremendous change. The Golden Age of Cultivation had started, Heavenly Dao was being completed even more as time passed. Spiritual Energy was abundant, allowing the cultivators to quickly rise in strength.

Heavenly, Earthen and Spiritual Physiques were perfected one after another as the Dao of Heaven and Earth was filled. Powerful bloodlines appeared within the Spirit Beast race, Divine Forgers were born in the Dwarf Race, Humans attuned to the Dao also appeared.

Beings who commanded whole forests with a single word appeared in the Elf Race. Many other races, despite weaker than the ones at the top, also started to rise in strength as geniuses were born endlessly. It was a blessed era, for Heavenly Dao had completed 1.000 years and was more than self-sufficient as around 160 years passed since the Seven Immortals ascended.

Cultivators at the peak of Ascending Decay Realm appeared continuously, and so they were going through the Immortal Tribulation. Some failed and became nothing but forgotten dust in the long river of time, others ascended and for it were honored by the Mortals.

As powerful cultivators rose and fell, the once deserted Immortal Realm, which originally had only the seven Keepers of Knowledge, was now filled with more life.

The realm of Immortals was infinitely harder to breakthrough than the realm of Mortals.

Even after nearly two hundred years passed, the seven Keepers of Knowledge were still in the first realm, the Pure Immortal Realm. The first realm was divided in two steps, the Perfect Immortal and Flawless Immortal. It wasn't from Low to Peak like the five mortal realms of cultivation, it just had Entry and Peak.

It was hard to the point that even from the Perfect Immortal to the Flawless Immortal step, its difficulty was the same as going directly from the Open Body Realm to the Ascending Decay Realm. And it was just the first realm.

Leaving the ranks of Mortals is easy for very talented beings, however, this can't be applied to the realms of Immortals.

Of course, just as it was infinitely harder, the title 'Immortal' wasn't just a title. The lifespan of someone at the Ascending Decay Realm could reach up to 5.000 years, while the lifespan of someone at the Pure Immortal Realm could reach up to 50.000 years. A difference of more than ten times.

...

World of Origin, somewhere in the Immortal Realm.

While it was still a bit deserted as only around 160 years passed since the seven Keepers of Knowledge ascended, quite a few extremely talented cultivators ascended. Some of them knew they wouldn't be able to surpass the Pure Immortal Realm, while others were extremely confident they would breakthrough.

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From the thirty Floating Islands, seven were under the rule of each Keeper of Knowledge. Some Immortals didn't want to associate themselves with the Seven Immortals despite being teleported to their Floating Islands, they didn't want to be under someone, after all. After passing through the dangers of the 'sea', they found new Floating Islands and settled there.

Many of them were of different races and forces, so they tried to get along and create new forces. Talented Spirit Beasts who were lucky enough to be teleported to Hei Gou's Floating Island came under his banner, and so the Immortal Beast Alliance was formed.

The remaining six Keepers of Knowledge also formed their own forces, attracting Immortals who just ascended.

Huge cities enough to cover half of a Floating Island were created in the occupied ones. Many beings at the Pure Immortal Realm became Dao Companions, and despite having lower fertility rates as they became stronger, they just needed more time.

Year 165 of the Immortal Calendar.

In the first 100 years, quite a few Immortals ascended, and it only took 65 years for the Immortals to raise the number of living beings at the Immortal Realm even more. Due to their extremely high life level, they had low fertility but their offspring were born at least at the low Ascending Decay Realm.

Under the overbearing Immortal Qi and careful guidance from their elders, these offspring easily arrived at the Pure Immortal Realm and stepped in the Perfect Immortal step. In less than 50 years, these offsprings also had their own offspring, and so the cicle kept going.

The once deserted Floating Islands slowly started to get filled with life.

...

In a Floating Island, Ye Tian was sitting in lotus position within a huge palace. He had formed a force named Primal Chaos Mansion, it covered thirty percent of a Floating Island, and there was also a city that covered another twenty percent. The remaining half of the Floating Island was filled with specially planted Trees made artificially with Immortal Qi.

Though the city was extremely large and could easily occupy ten percent of the whole Mortal Realm in area, there were only a few thousand Immortal living in it. Because the Immortal Realm was still in its early development, most forces wouldn't attack each other, not to mention beings of the same force.

They were all striving to populate the Immortal Realm.

Ye Tian slowly opened his eyes as they shone with multi-colored brilliance, 'Finally, I've arrived at the peak of Flawless Immortal step. Huh? My physique... It seems to be slowly evolving?'

He was extremely shocked! According to his inherited Knowledge and the one given to him by the 'young man', only 3.000 physiques existed between Heaven and Earth. Heavenly Physiques only amounted to 100, but according to his knowledge, there was no physique above them, 'How can that be possible? Isn't the Heavenly Physique the highest kind of physique?'

However, he more than 600 years old now, Ye Tian has experienced a lot and quickly calmed down. This was a good sign, so he doesn't need to worry too much, 'It's just that this will take a long time. According to this rate, it'll take four hundred years before it evolves. By then, I'll be able to arrive at the next realm.'

Similar scenes occurred with the remaining six Keepers of Knowledge, and all of them were extremely confused. While some of them didn't have inherited memories from a physique or a bloodline, they had the overall knowledge about both things. It wasn't to blame them, of course.

Not only them, but also an extremely small amount of offspring from powerful Immortals at the peak of the Perfect Immortal step were evolving. Some of them weren't born with Heavenly, Earthen or Spiritual Physiques and Bloodlines, but with something superior...

Year 166 of the Immortal Calendar...

Ethan woke up.