"Ha!"
Hearing Fang Yang's words, the Yuhua Great Emperor smiled an inscrutable smile, without a trace of worry.
"The Ruthless Empress is extraordinary indeed. That fleeting glimpse of her six thousand years ago remains etched in my memory. But we are both Great Emperors. Why would I fear her?"
"As for leaving the Big Dipper and returning to Yuhua Ancient Star, I did so only because I felt guilty."
"The Holy Spirit Method requires one to place one's Primordial Spirit inside a material and begin gestating anew, drawing on the power of heaven and earth to become a mark of the Great Dao. Even with my improvements, which remove the need to gestate for millions of years like a true Holy Spirit, it still takes hundreds of thousands of years to reach completion."
"By then, the Ruthless Empress will likely have crumbled into the dust of history. You seem to hold your sect's founder in great esteem, young man.
"If you attain the Dao and become a Great Emperor one day, then cultivate the Holy Spirit Method, you might have a chance to witness that day."
"Even a Great Emperor cannot defy the number of his days!"
A trace of sorrow crossed the Yuhua Great Emperor's face. When he had first attained the Dao, he had been brimming with ambition, determined to become immortal within a single lifetime.
Then, in the twilight of his first life, he had no choice but to take the Undying Divine Medicine and live out a second.
Only then had he recognized his own mediocrity. Though no weaker than most ancient emperors and Great Emperors, he likely held no advantage over the handful of supreme figures like the Emperor Venerable and the Undying Emperor.
Becoming immortal would be harder still.
That was why the Yuhua