"What way out?" Xia Ruize asked at once.
This old monster was far more formidable than we had imagined. Although his body was still restricted by Li Tianjian's former cultivation, the cultivation at his core was unfathomable. After all, he was an ancient immortal from primordial times. If he truly recovered his full strength here, even a hundred of us might not be able to defeat him.
Just think—Li Tianjian had been a generation-spanning overlord, with grandfather and grandson sharing one body. Wherever he went, he was an existence defying the heavens. Yet he had been drowned to death while proving the Dao, like a landlubber who had fallen into the water, at the hands of this old monster. It was downright terrifying.
Proving the Dao was no good thing. For us, who were currently in the Chaos Realm, it was no different from courting death. We had not seen Li Tianjian bubble up even once since then!
So, while the old monster's body had yet to recover to such an overwhelming state, scheming up some tricks to set him up was a good idea. Xia Ruize was sharp too, asking the very question I wanted to ask. I forcibly suppressed the violent power within me, preparing to erupt at the right moment.
"This old man is currently lacking a sword spirit. These twelve sword manuals containing sword-spirit meridians can remodel your bodily meridians, turning you into existences exactly like the spirit of this Heavenly Sword artifact. Thus, one of you three will stay behind, swallow these twelve sword manuals, and become this old man's artifact spirit, at this old man's command. The other two can leave. This old man still needs to cultivate here for eight or ten years, recover his body, and refine the artifact spirit anew. Only