Seeing Ning Wangshu suddenly appear, Yaoli lit up with joy and hurried to greet him. "Master..."
"Mm."
Ning Wangshu gave a soft reply, then asked, "A Li, how long was I in seclusion this time?"
"Reporting to Master, you were in seclusion for nearly a thousand years!" Yaoli replied at once.
"A thousand years?"
Ning Wangshu nodded slightly, thinking, That means I've been in the Cangyuan Realm for nearly twenty-two hundred years in total.
That was longer than he had expected before returning to the Cangyuan Realm.
Still, Ning Wangshu had gained an immense amount during his two thousand-plus years in the Cangyuan Realm. His cultivation had advanced straight from the Early Profound Immortal Realm to the Celestial Immortal of the Luo Heaven realm—and he had even reached its peak!
To make such astonishing progress in a mere two thousand years was truly unheard of.
All of it was thanks to the Xiantian Dao Body he now possessed, which let him cultivate a hundred times faster than ordinary immortals.
Moreover, he had that mysterious golden page and the Western Emperor Scripture, which allowed him to refine the Immortal Dao origins within immortal artifacts and use them to increase his Immortal Force and cultivation.
Otherwise, under ordinary circumstances, most immortals couldn't necessarily advance even a single minor cultivation level in just over two thousand years—not even Heavenly Immortals.
Yet he had advanced by nearly two Great Realms!
If other immortals found out, they would probably be dumbstruck!
After reflecting on it for a while, Ning Wangshu looked up at Yaoli again. "A Li, return to the Yaotai Xianmeng and gather those who are willing to risk trying to reach the 'Immortal Realm.' Have them come here to Thousand Absolute Ridge."
"Then I'll tear open the Cangyuan Realm's barrier here. But I