Three Years

Dongbo Xueying was most worried that they would interfere with his cultivation, leaving him unable to gain control of the Black Gourd within five years and forcibly expelled from this world in the end. That would be far too unjust.

Fortunately.

The three Venerables before him—Venerable Xuhuang, the Golden Flame Palace Lord, and the Demon Shadow Manor Lord—did not know this. They too felt that Dongbo Xueying's words made sense.

"We have no hope at all. He can vanish like a demon shadow into the world he himself created. By then, our ordinary attacks will not even be able to touch him. Even if we go all out, we can at most harass him a little; it is simply impossible to kill him." The Golden Flame Palace Lord transmitted, "And in a direct confrontation, he is stronger than me, stronger than Xu..."