"Jiang Shunhua is at the Sword-Undoing Gate and won't be back anytime soon. The banquet has already begun, though. If we don't leave now, everyone will probably come urge us again," Zhao Qian said.
"But Martial Uncle's condition..." Zhang Xiaofei looked at me expectantly.
I shook my head. "Even I would probably have trouble clearing out the root of it. The only way would be to abandon this network, because even if we cleansed part of it—or even all of it—the contamination has filled the core of the network. It would still become infected again. After all, this is very likely the influence of a Seventh Extremity Laws, and it possesses the ability to correct itself."
"But Senior Brother, aren't you the Eighth Extremity Creation Immortal Venerable?" Zhang Xiaofei asked.
"Even if I am, this isn't the Creation Heaven. Besides, if Auntie could attain the Dao, this problem would resolve itself. Why would she need me to solve it? So, when all is said and done, her cultivation isn't enough to attain the Dao, but without attaining the Dao, she can't let the network grow and break free of its restrictions. It's a dead end. Of course, there is still another way." I smiled.
"What way?"
Everyone perked up. I thought for a moment, then shook my head. "Abandon this network and be reborn through the Ghost Gu, starting over and growing again."
The instant they heard that, everyone's spirits withered. It seemed they had all asked Miao Xiaoli about it already. After all, I had previously used the Ghost Gu to be reborn, so they had probably asked her about it these past few days.
"Yitian, that won't do. Auntie isn't willing. I won't treat this illness anymore. Since it isn't really a problem, I'll simply follow the Heavenly