Under a thousandfold time acceleration, Ju Hua's latest retreat passed in the blink of an eye, lasting more than three hundred million years.
Three hundred million years under time acceleration amounted to just over three hundred thousand years in normal time. That was nothing in most places, but within the True Spirit Palace, it was no short stretch.
After all, a Dao Lord's Dao Integration never lasted more than nine years. Whether they succeeded or failed, cultivators might spend a little time reviewing their insights there, but it was exceedingly rare for anyone to stay for tens of thousands of years at a time!
This was Ju Hua's second visit to the True Spirit Palace's twelfth level, and this time he had used it continuously for sixty years. That had made Emperor Jingming, who guarded the palace, very curious. He had been waiting for Ju Hua to come out, wanting to see what was going on.
What Emperor Jingming hadn't expected was that he would be waiting for more than three hundred thousand years.
"Could Ju Hua have come here specifically to go into seclusion? But this is the True Spirit Palace!" Emperor Jingming sat cross-legged outside, bored. He had racked his brains, but still couldn't figure out what Ju Hua had come here for.
Surely he wasn't attempting Dao Integration with another Reincarnated Body?
Everyone knew that Ju Hua had already achieved Dao Integration with three Reincarnated Bodies!
Just then, the space before Emperor Jingming flickered faintly. Without him noticing at all, Ju Hua had appeared there.
"Jingming, sorry for the trouble this time!" Ju Hua said to Emperor Jingming, who was lost in thought. Then he took a step and vanished in an instant.
"No trouble."
Emperor Jingming instinctively waved a hand, but the next moment, his expression