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Before I could explain, Xiao Li had already come over from the Boundary Dock. Her eyes were wide with terror as she said, "The Xia Immortal's Household is indeed from the Nine Provinces Realm? The entire Nine Provinces Realm is rumored to have vanished. The Deliberation Office has come to summon you for questioning."
"What?! The Nine Provinces Realm vanished? Every realm has its own trajectory of operation. How could it disappear into thin air?!" Bai Ruoqi exclaimed in shock. Then she turned to me with a look of sudden realization. "Could it be..."
"Shh... Silence." I gestured for her not to continue. Bai Ruoqi's face paled. Naturally, there was no need to explain how important a realm was to the Divine Court. The Nine Provinces Realm was even ranked among the Divine Court's most important realms. To vanish without a trace over such a major matter—heavens knew what sort of upheaval it would cause!
"Let them in," I said. At the same time, Xiao Chu and the others, who had gone to the back mountain to investigate everyone's transformations, returned and said, "Aside from the guardians whose cultivation is insufficient, most have already completed their transformation into Dao Bodies. There are currently more than seven hundred ninth-grade Dao Bodies, but no guardians have yet reached the eighth grade."
"Is entering the eighth-grade Dao Body really that difficult?" I couldn't help asking. By then, Bai Ruoqi and Xiao Li, who had come to report the news, had gone to receive the immortals from the Deliberation Office. Only Xiao Chu and the others remained.
"Of course it's very difficult. Preaching is the easiest method, followed by cultivating on one's own. Naturally, if both can be done simultaneously, progress will be even faster," Xiao Chu replied.
"Then aside from cultivating here,