He called it "to a certain extent" because he had discovered that this talisman plaque could not help him withstand too much of the Human Realm's worldly power.
In other words.
If he relied only on this talisman plaque, then if he truly were a remnant of the Purple Zenith Realm, it would likely be difficult for him to travel to the Human Realm.
"Then... what does Purple Chi Lord intend? To temper me? Or does he have some other purpose?" Wei Tu frowned inwardly as he pondered Purple Chi Lord's intentions here.
At first, he had thought that the hundred years Purple Chi Lord mentioned referred to the time he would spend traveling to and lingering in the Human Realm... But now, it seemed just as likely that it was preparation time reserved for him to figure out a way to enter the Spirit Realm on his own.
"Could it be that Mahayana immortals like Purple Chi Lord also lack the ability to descend to the lower realm with ease? And that is part of why he has yet to retrieve the Nanhua Lost Treasure?"
Wei Tu boldly ventured a hypothesis.
But upon thinking of this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief—because if one could descend to the lower realm merely by borrowing "Mahayana power," then the "enemies" from those ancient saintly aristocratic clans would be exceedingly troublesome to him.
—Once it was exposed that he was Xuanling Fairy's "successor," those ancient saintly aristocratic clans would have little difficulty turning their attention toward the Human Realm, this lower-class realm.
The origins of every ancient saintly aristocratic clan could be traced directly back to the Mahayana cultivators of the human race throughout the ages.
Purple Chi Lord could let him "descend to the lower realm" so easily. Naturally, as