"Thank you both for clearing that up!"
After calming the turmoil in his heart, Ning Wangshu thanked Xuan Yuan Longcheng and Xuan Yuan Yulong.
Xuan Yuan Longcheng and Xuan Yuan Yulong hurriedly waved their hands.
"You're too kind, Ning Xian Zun. If you hadn't saved us, we would likely have died long ago. And if you hadn't risked your life to hold that demon back, we would never have lasted long enough for Jingxiu to awaken the Human Emperor Sword and bring it here."
"Nor would we have lasted until the Western Emperor's incarnation appeared to eliminate that demon."
"In that case, the catastrophe would certainly have descended ahead of time..."
Xuan Yuan Longcheng spoke.
"Indeed. By risking your life in that battle, you bought us precious time, allowing the Western Emperor's incarnation to appear and slay that demon. We didn't even have to expend the Human Emperor Will within the Human Emperor Sword."
"Without you, there's no telling how this crisis would have ended..."
Xuan Yuan Yulong echoed his sentiments.
Ning Wangshu said slowly, "We were indeed fortunate this time. Still, I never imagined that the immortal mansion in the Qinling Mountains concealed such a demon."
"And those immortals from the Thirty-Three Heavens broke the seals on that mansion. Otherwise, that demon shouldn't have been able to break free, revive, and emerge so easily."
Ning Wangshu was not merely saying that.
They truly had been fortunate this time.
His true body had happened to return to Earth, and he had mastered the Flying Immortal Strike, the first form of the Jade Pool Flying Immortal Technique, allowing him to break the seal on that enormous bronze door and get out.
Had he been even a little later, the outcome might have been entirely different.
Without his true body arriving in