He said to Li Dai: "Do you remember what I told you back then? The fragments of the Soul of Allure, and that woman's self-detonation, destroyed an entire great realm. Of course, she wasn't committing suicide; she was accumulating fortune and merit for her rebirth, preparing to break through the final realm and become an immortal, indestructible sage upon her recovery."
"But becoming a sage is far too difficult. Back then, countless mighty deities pulled out all the stops just to break through. In any given world, it is completely normal for a true sage not to appear for millions or even tens of millions of years. After all, once you reach such a high level, time ceases to feel like time; it isn't measured in years. A year or two is far too fleeting for such beings. Therefore, the spans of time they experience—virtually every stage, or a single period of secluded cultivation—last for millions or tens of millions of years. Their time is measured in units of that magnitude."
"Of course, I mention this simply to tell you that several hundred thousand or a million years, which seems agonizingly long to you, feels no longer than the snap of a finger to true sages and mighty beings."
Chapter 960