"Your cultivation was never at the Great Completion stage to begin with, and you achieved it through hard work after birth. You're on the verge of becoming an immortal now. If you recklessly throw yourself into this, you'll have to wait hundreds more years to ascend.
"You'll have to stay here until your cultivation overflows. Have you even thought about any of that? Listen to your Second Grandma and get out of the way.
"This is no place for a little girl like you to interfere."
Old Mother Li Shan pretended to scold her angrily.
But Xiao Jiu, standing in the distance, seemed not to hear a word. She gazed at Tang Sanzang with eyes as tender as water.
"Heh, I'd have to wait a hundred years? That's wonderful! That means I'll get to see you here once, and I'll have one more chance to meet you.
"I hope I can seize that chance next time." She gave a soft laugh, then turned around and gazed solemnly at the empty space in the distance.
So what if it cost her a hundred years of cultivation? So what if she had to wait another hundred years? This was his problem. Even if it killed her today, she would help him settle it.
Sun Wukong was stunned, too, at a loss for words.
When Tang Sanzang heard what this would cost her, he rushed forward without hesitation, trying to stop Xiao Jiu. But it was already too late.
A vortex had formed at Xiao Jiu's chest. Brimming with her powerful life force, it shot toward the barrier before her.
"No! Don't! Ah! Xiao Jiu!" Old Mother Li Shan saw it from far away, but she was a step too slow. The ball of light had already shot out.
It slammed into the