This estrangement was not because it was difficult to meet often, but because the gap in status between you had now become quite vast. When you had yet to verify the Dao, it had not been so obvious, but with your current cultivation realm, Hu Cheng, Li Qingluan, and Meng Yuan, who had only just condensed a top-grade third-rank Dao Fruit, might never reach it in their lifetimes. The odds were only two or three out of ten.
For this very reason, your friends found it difficult to keep their State of Mind calm. Everyone was the same—who did not want to advance further in cultivation? And with you, someone who, so long as you did not die, was certain to become the Snow Emperor and had an eighty to ninety percent chance of cultivating to the Quasi-Emperor realm, they inevitably felt a measure of dependence amid their reverence.
When it concerned the Dao Path they dreamed of day and night, no one could remain calm. Ye Chen, on the other hand, got along exceptionally well with Meng Yuan and the others. Just as you had in the past, none of them harbored too many tangled thoughts or mixed anything else into their relationship.
Yet you could do nothing about this. You could not blame your friends, much less halt where you stood and wait because of these factors. Perhaps you understood as well that the road to scaling the summit was always lonely...
In the 873,158th year, after Hou Ba gathered the required items, you helped him complete his awakening with remarkable ease.
Everything was simply too unbelievable. Even Hou Ba felt as though he were dreaming, but having endured bitter days, he understood very well what this meant. With two Immortal Physiques and one Divine Eye, a smooth