Although, as an ascender, asking how to leave the Devil Realm carried the risk of drawing attention.
Since it was something Fang Xiao had arranged, he had to consider not only freedom, but also his path of cultivation.
Thus, Six Desires did not hesitate for long before agreeing at once.
After explaining everything, Fang Xiao did not linger any longer.
After all, they were still within the territory of the Hao Li Saint Ancestor. It was better to be careful in all things.
In the days that followed, Six Desires regularly sent the information he had gathered into the Profound Yellow Spiritual Gourd.
It included not only the situation in the Devil Realm, but also recent developments regarding the convergence with the Spirit Realm, with every faction urgently preparing for war.
Meanwhile, Fang Xiao remained within the Small World, watching over the process of devouring Seventh Order power.
Unless there was something special that required instructions, he almost never left Earth Star.
Time turned, years flew like a shuttle, and forty years slipped away.
For mortals, that might have been half a lifetime, or even most of one.
But for cultivators, especially high-level cultivators, it was merely a brief period of secluded cultivation—perhaps even only the beginning.
On this day, Six Desires was once again preparing to head to the mine vein for work as usual.
Compared to the Deity Transformation cultivators continuously being sent in, he was now considered an old hand in this mine vein.
Of course, during this time, quite a few people had been unable to accept such lowly labor and often came to urge him to escape with them.
Six Desires sternly refused them all.
At first, his unwillingness to leave this place had merely been due to Fang Xiao's instructions, choosing to lie