The answer from Eldest Senior Sister was the one Lu Yang least wanted to hear.
The cave abode fell deathly silent. Even the usually lively Immortal Fairy stopped talking and remained silent.
"Then, Eldest Senior Sister, how much longer until you merge with the Dao?" Lu Yang forced the question out with difficulty, bitterness filling his heart.
"About a thousand years." Yun Zhi did not dare estimate the exact time too precisely.
"A thou—"
Lu Yang nearly choked himself to death. Wasn't that still a long way off?
Even if he crippled his cultivation now and started over ten times, it would still take less than a thousand years.
"Yao Sheng also said that the more often you take action, the shorter the time until you merge with the Dao. How many times can you still take action, Eldest Senior Sister?"
Yun Zhi snapped her fingers. The mental space transformed into a box world. Yun Zhi, the Immortal Fairy, and Lu Yang stood at the center of the box world, surrounded by a sky full of dazzling stars.
"My Golden Core stars are my Dao markers. They represent my existence in this world. Every time I take action, one Golden Core star disappears. Once all the Golden Core stars vanish, I will merge with the Dao through my body, replace Heaven with my heart, and at that point, no trace of me will remain in the world. Everyone will forget that I ever existed."
After hearing this, Lu Yang felt bitter and deeply blamed himself. He had never expected that Eldest Senior Sister taking action would have such grave consequences. In the past, whenever something happened, he had actually asked Eldest Senior Sister to come help him.
"Then when I often asked you to help me with the Imitation Fist,