The moment Tian Yongheng's final words fell, the entire First Summit erupted.
It was as if an enormous boulder had been thrown into a calm lake, causing countless waves to spread in every direction.
"Fifty years!?"
"How can it be so soon!?"
"Are you certain?"
"Impossible! The Cleansing is supposed to occur at the end of a Heavenly Karmic Cycle! How could it descend in merely fifty years!?"
"Could the Eternal Lord have made a mistake?"
Countless voices overlapped, some filled with disbelief, others with panic and despair.
Even those cultivators who had already mentally prepared themselves for the worst couldn't help feeling their hearts sink upon hearing that precise number.
To mortals, fifty years could indeed be an entire lifetime. A mortal child could grow into an old man within that period.
But to Immortal Cultivators, especially those standing at the peak of the Lower Realm, fifty years was practically nothing.
