Good fortune leaned against disaster, and disaster lay hidden beneath good fortune; Tian Xiaojian's situation had indeed become unfavorable to the extreme.
At this very moment, however, Lin Xuan's circumstances were not much different from his.
To call the two of them a pair of brothers in hardship would not be wrong in the slightest.
The only difference was that what Tian Xiaojian worried about was how to shake off his pursuers, Shatter the Void, and leave the Underworld.
Though the Corpse King Jinyue and Heavenly Sha Bright King were not easy to provoke, so long as he could leave this place, they likewise would be unable to do anything to him.
The problem was that the pursuers were biting too tightly at his heels.
And Shattering the Void was no trifling matter. Without absolute certainty, Tian Xiaojian did not dare act rashly; otherwise, if even the slightest error occurred, the consequences would be more than he could bear.
Leaving Tian Xiaojian's predicament aside for the moment, the trouble Lin Xuan faced was entirely different from his.
Calling it trouble was actually somewhat inappropriate. To put it correctly, this was indeed a tremendous opportunity.
It was just that things like opportunity often existed side by side with danger.
What Lin Xuan was considering was how to let the Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core advance at the same time.
This sounded easy enough.
But the Second Nascent Soul and Demon Core would interfere with each other during advancement, so the difficulties he faced were by no means small.
If he succeeded, the benefits went without saying. Yet if he failed, Lin Xuan would inevitably face the backlash of his magic power. In lighter cases, his vital energy would be greatly damaged; in serious ones, his cultivation realm would fall.
And