" This place is less than three hundred miles from where I'm refining pills, little friend Dongfang. You've finally awakened." Yihua Daoist's voice rang out from among the clouds. Then his figure emerged, strolling through the clouds. It seemed he had been by Lu Xiaotian's side all along. In truth, to a Golden Immortal, a distance of less than three hundred miles was no different from standing right beside someone.
"How long was I asleep?" Lu Xiaotian asked.
"Almost three years," Mu Xia said, her voice brimming with delight. "The rest of us had thought about trying to wake you, but Senior Yihua Daoist said it might affect your cultivation in the future. We could only let it be. We never expected you to recover so quickly."
The wait had felt unbearably long, but once Lu Xiaotian awakened, that stretch of time seemed insignificant. As for refining pills for Xue Daoyuan, it was now the last thing on Mu Xia's mind.
"It's truly remarkable that little friend Dongfang awakened within three years. You're one step closer to reaching the Golden Immortal Dao," Yihua Daoist said, studying Lu Xiaotian again and again in astonishment. Though Lu Xiaotian had faced only a clone of the Corroding Slaughter Heart Demon, the demonic realm had been an immense trial. Lu Xiaotian was currently only at the Profound Immortal realm, but in Yihua Daoist's eyes, thanks to the pill's Sacred Spirit and Lu Xiaotian's attainments in the pill dao, his Primordial Spirit could already rival that of a Heavenly Immortal.
The size of one's Primordial Spirit was one thing. Most Pill Saints had fairly powerful Primordial Spirits, but when it came to using them in combat, they often fell short. Very few among the many Pill Saints could do what Lu Xiaotian had. That was