Back on the Sacred Stone Plane, Sandru hurried over to greet him.
"How did it go?"
Looking at the Yellow Springs avatar before him, Sandru could clearly tell that something had changed, though he couldn't say what.
"Great. I've already dealt with the enemy. Here's his head. Just attach it to the corpse. By the way, we underestimated him. This guy was stronger than we thought—you probably wouldn't have guessed it, but he was around level 19 before.
Although his strength was broken down in the end, his realm remained. Just now, he tried to blow himself up, but I suppressed him.
That power is still in his body. If you work quickly, you might be able to preserve some of it."
"Level 19?" Sandru looked at the Yellow Springs avatar in surprise. "You suppressed him that easily. What level are you now?"
"My true self has reached level 20. I'd lowered my strength before, but once my true self broke through, I was naturally able to recover."
The Yellow Springs avatar spoke proudly.
"What?"
Hearing this, Sandru cried out too. He never would have imagined that Liu Zhi had already reached level 20 in the few years he'd been away.
"Then what should we do now?" Sandru quickly came around. It was only natural for Liu Zhi to reach level 20. He'd always leveled up quickly.
Besides, when the Yellow Springs avatar arrived, he'd already said that Liu Zhi's path forward was clear now; all he needed was time to accumulate strength.
Now that the time had come, taking that final step would naturally be easy for Liu Zhi.
"Just keep doing what you were doing. We can't stop halfway just to go back and take a look."
The Yellow Springs avatar understood Liu Zhi's thinking best.
After all,