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Few or tens of millions at most. Oldest disciple vanished 4 millions years ago. As the story progresses the time table gets more ridiculous and screwed, especially with ludicrous difficulty that chinese had whe translating numbers

Or her consciousness has reincarnated into Xia while her body became a puppet

Ten day, counted oufside, spent in cultivation space would be like cultivating for a thousand years normally.

Maybe both? But now there is a very high chance that Lu's puppet and consciousness within Xia would merge for the resurrection of the goddess

Looks like it. She called her "perfect creation" not "perfect disciple"... Alnost as if she was creating an empty puppet to be used. And then thete was this comment about Goddess that became puppet in Lu talisman owned by Lu.

Changing genders of characters in this novel is irritating ... This shows how much the translator cares about the work

Overused fraze Golden core cultivators are said to be able to so it. They level mountains with every punch already

Last line of defence, that is just before ultimate defence that is used before desperate end of line defence, that is just a bit before the very last ultimate end od the line unexpected sure rescue defense

Divine Lighting Sect, not Blood Sea Palace ...

He would be long gone, as it has been what? Over 30k years since they met? Most people they knew are long gone, even their great grandchildren might not be alive anymore.