The Grotto-Heaven was quiet for a moment, then a burst of suppressed laughter erupted.
Zhan Chui laughed the loudest, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Lu Jun! You really are impressive, I'll admit that. But this is as far as you go! The road ahead—you won't be able to walk it!"
"Five Divine Pills. What are you planning to do? Cut yourself into five pieces? Hahahaha!"
Ju Li laughed too, though more restrained, his smile carrying a kind of cold, sinister satisfaction.
"What a pity, what a pity. If he'd only condensed one Divine Pill, he could still keep walking the path ahead."
"But he just had to be greedy and insist on condensing five. Great. Now he's stuck here, unable to go up or down. Tell me, wouldn't it have been so much better to condense one Divine Pill? He just had to show off."
The few Heaven Ascension Realm experts chimed in one after another, and the Grotto-Heaven grew lively again.
Feng Xi's brows furrowed even tighter.
She looked toward Tree God, a trace of worry in her voice. "Fellow Daoist Tree God, what they're saying... makes sense."
"With five Divine Pills, the difficulty of Aperture Opening and Spirit Transformation isn't five times that of one, but an increase by geometric multiples. Lu Jun... has he thought about how he'll continue?"
The Five Elf Ancestors also looked toward Tree God, their eyes full of questions.
Yan Huang hesitated for a moment, but still spoke up. "Tree God, Phoenix Emperor is right."
"I didn't think about it that much before, but now that I do, Aperture Opening and Spirit Transformation for five Divine Pills... really is a dead knot."
"No one in ancient times walked this path not because no one thought of it, but because no one