Shi Kang knew that the more powerful a heavenly treasure was, the slower it would develop sentience. That was the law of heaven and earth.
Take the Nine Heavens Purple-Gold Lightning in the great underground hall, or the Bodhi Ancient Tree on his body.
The Nine Heavens Purple-Gold Lightning had likely taken only a few decades to gain sentience, while the Bodhi Ancient Tree was of far higher grade and had taken nearly a thousand years to develop intelligence.
It was not that it did not want to be faster, but that heaven and earth were deliberately suppressing it.
Once a heavenly treasure fully gained sentience, it could devour all kinds of resources to increase its strength. Its growth rate would be so terrifying that even heaven and earth would fear it.
Shi Kang looked at the skull creature in the distance, whose sentience was becoming increasingly human-like, and said calmly,
"If it was the first to transform, while you only just finished transforming, then for it to fully gain sentience, it will take quite some time, won't it?"
The skull fairy said, "Yes, conservatively speaking, it will need more than a hundred years."
After speaking, the skull fairy added, "Given its strength, once it gains sentience, its cultivation will advance rapidly. Its strength will increase dramatically, and it may even touch the threshold of a Heavenly Sovereign. By then, it would be the perfect opportunity to take its Nine Heavens Purple-Gold Lightning."
What a good thing to remember.
The skull fairy had made an excellent calculation. First, she would cling to Shi Kang and make him wait a hundred years.
If Shi Kang forgot, the Nine Heavens Bone-Suppressing Skeleton would naturally devour the Bone Clan. Even if he still remembered, after a hundred years, the Bone Clan could rely