"Dao Ancestor Beichen, our Third Elder, Hong Yun, has also come to seek your guidance!"
Ever since Beichen had instructed Hong Yun last time, his cultivation had gone smoothly. He was in high spirits now, arriving with a hearty laugh.
Hearing that the two elders, Zhen Yuanzi and Hong Yun, had arrived, Beichen's voice rang out from within the palace: "Elders, please come into Immortal Island Palace so we can talk!"
Inside Immortal Island Palace, Shi Ji, Tongbi, and Chiliao were cultivating in several secluded smaller halls farther inside, so they would not disturb the main hall.
Zhao Gongming and Sanxiao were also in that area with them, each having claimed a hall for Sanxiao Palace and Gongming Manor. They spent their free time together, but never came to fool around in the main hall.
As for Bai Xiaoya, as the palace's guardian attendant, she stood watch at the entrance to Immortal Island Palace every day, cultivating with the help of the Immortal Palace's Dao aura.
Beichen arrived at Immortal Island Palace first. He looked Bai Xiaoya over and nodded in satisfaction. "You've already developed a hint of saintly might, and your cultivation has improved quite a bit. You're at the Half-Step Quasi-Saint level now?"
Bai Xiaoya replied happily, "That's right! I've hit a cultivation bottleneck these past few years, and I was just waiting for you to have some free time so I could ask how to proceed on the path to the Quasi-Saint Realm!"
"The Quasi-Saint Realm isn't easy to reach. Keep cultivating diligently for now. You'll need at least ten thousand years of accumulation before you should consider attempting to break through to Quasi-Saint."
Though aphids had an impressive origin, even one connected to the Chaos beyond the Xuanhuang, she still couldn't reach an extremely high realm