Thus, Xiao Chen and the Power of Misfortune entered a stalemate. Golden light and gray light entwined and interwove, neither yielding an inch.
"Hong, what's going on? Why has the golden light on the kid stopped growing?" Qiongqi's expression changed slightly.
"It is growing, just extremely slowly."
"It looks like it hasn't moved at all!"
"The change is minuscule. You're too badly injured, so naturally you can't distinguish it."
"Then in your view, how long before the kid can completely shake off the Evil Curse?"
Hong Chidao fell silent. After several breaths, he said, "At the current rate, ten thousand years."
"Ten thousand years? Hong, are you fucking with me again?" Qiongqi roared.
With Xiao Chen's cultivation, how could he possibly live for ten thousand years?
"I would never joke about Young Master's affairs. Although the golden light is slowly increasing and the power of the Evil Curse is gradually diminishing, the rate at which one waxes and the other wanes is far too slow. Completely removing it will take at least ten thousand years! And that is only if the situation does not worsen!"
"Then what do we do? The kid's lifespan simply can't hold out." Qiongqi's face darkened.
"You needn't worry about that. I have Divine Medicine here that can extend his life, and I can give it to Young Master. It's just that by the time Young Master wakes up, he'll probably already be an old man!" Hong Chidao said.
"Heavenly Dao is unjust. Why would they treat the kid like this?" Rage surged in Qiongqi's eyes.
At the age when he should have been at his most glorious, he would be trapped for ten thousand years. When he awoke, his family would have passed on, his old friends would have turned into a handful of yellow