Little Tower flew over from afar and circled the two of them.
"One is your wife, and the other is your son. Isn't praising them just a roundabout way of praising yourself?"
Li Qingshan said with a perfectly straight face, "I'm merely stating the facts."
"I think your thick skin is starting to rival the Heavenly Emperor's back in the day."
Little Tower spoke irritably.
"If you're bored, go stand guard outside."
Li Qingshan's expression darkened.
"Tch! When you need me, it's all 'Tower Lord.' When you don't, you chase the Tower Lord away."
Little Tower grumbled, but his body honestly obeyed, flying to the entrance of the space to stand guard over the three of them.
Li Qingshan took out the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.
Having absorbed the essences of the Immortal-Slaying Gourd, the Heaven-Refining Gourd, the Time Gourd, and the Heavenly Mystery Gourd, the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd had undergone a transformation as profound as shedding its old flesh and bones.
On the gourd's surface, the chaos ancient vine flickered in and out of view, while four different kinds of Great Dao divine light intertwined. Its spirituality had grown far more than tenfold.
"Time Divine Light!"
Li Qingshan activated the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.
A silvery-white ray of time divine light descended, enveloping Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an.
The flow of time within the space instantly began to accelerate.
A hundredfold!
A thousandfold!
Ten thousandfold!
By the end, time within the time divine light flowed ten thousand times faster than in the outside world.
Li Qingshan sat upright before the Heaven-Devouring Divine Furnace, continuously circulating the Heaven-Devouring Creation Godless Dao to refine the two half-step Immortal Emperor Dao fruits into the purest Great Dao essence, feeding it little by little into Xuan Yuan Nihuang and Li Chang'an.
The refining process was exceedingly slow.