"Although you, Miss Elarina, called it a blessing.
But in my understanding, so-called Spiritual Ascension was merely humanity's sublimation along its own path.
What did you think?"
Faced with her question,
Su Wen unexpectedly seemed to adopt an entirely serious demeanor.
He stopped pretending outright.
Clearly, this was an extremely blasphemous way of putting it!
Thus, Elarina could not help narrowing her eyes. She stared into Handsome Scholar's eyes, then asked in an intensely restrained tone:
"Courier,
did you know what you were saying?"
"What I was saying? Of course I knew."
Even under the pressure of her peak fifth-stage Golden aura, Su Wen was not affected in the slightest!
After all, it was not his first or second time indirectly reaching the fifth stage through various means.
Although many of those methods had been one-use measures,
those experiences had nevertheless given him a thorough estimate of how he should perfectly advance next, stabilize himself, and wield the power of the fifth stage.
In other words,
"I came to negotiate terms, Elarina."
"You,
negotiate terms with me?"
The Witch in black thigh-high stockings seemed to have heard one of the funniest jokes in the world.
"You did not think bringing that thing in your hand over here would be of much help to me, did you?"
Yet Su Wen merely smiled and wagged a finger.
"That was not what I meant."
Then,
he actually took a step forward.
Afterward, close to the Witch's ear, Handsome Scholar slowly whispered a few words:
"Do you want to know how to reach the sixth stage?"
In an instant, Elarina's pupils seemed to shrink.
She directly grabbed Su Wen by the clothes at his chest.
"If you thought it was amusing to make this sort of joke with a 'kind' Storm Witch,
then I