This rule alone ensured that no experts dared to grow complacent, not even at the peak.
Because of this strange and terrifying truth, many experts in the Middle Domain firmly believed that the true lifespan limit of the Divine Rank wasn't just ten thousand years.
They argued that the ten-thousand-year cap wasn't a natural boundary of the Divine Rank itself, but rather a restriction imposed by the world they lived in. Their belief was simple yet profound—the world they inhabited simply couldn't bear the presence of beings who had lived beyond that limit.
