The outside world was exceedingly dangerous, and at any moment it might bring about their deaths and the dispersal of their souls. But it also represented an infinite future.
As for the [Xikong Immortal Realm]—while it was extremely safe, its upper limit had already been set in stone, and they had already walked its path to the very end. Barring accidents, everyone could basically only maintain the current state of affairs. After all, a true dragon could not be raised in shallow waters.
From the perspective of Ke Mingyu and the others,
that was more or less the situation.
Without question, if they were willing to settle for the status quo,
then, as powerful figures who had already climbed into the ruling class within the [Xikong Immortal Realm],
they could fully continue, as they had in years past, quietly enjoying leisurely and comfortable lives.
In this place,
aside from experts of the same level,
almost no one could defy their will.
But—
they were unwilling.
The unwillingness of clearly knowing where the road ahead lay, yet being able only to stop in place.
And that ever-present fear—
the fear that one day, some supreme expert might burst into the [Xikong Immortal Realm] and strangle them to death on the spot as easily as choking baby chicks.
All of it spurred them onward instead of letting them lie flat completely.
At the root of it all,
as [Immortal King Realm] experts,
as powerful figures whose strength, when occupying home-field advantage, was sufficient to contend to some extent with [Immortal Realm] experts from the outside world,
the reason they had been able to rise within the [Xikong Immortal Realm] was naturally because they possessed the corresponding temperament and will.
Even those incomparably long years of extravagant indulgence had found it difficult to