Hoo~!
It had taken two months and fifteen more days.
Li Su had finally emerged from seclusion!
There was no helping it. That divine lion had truly scared the wits out of him, leaving Li Su uneasy about his own strength.
Coming out of seclusion did not merely mean he had finished cultivating his techniques. It meant he genuinely felt capable again—strong enough to stir things up at the Yang God realm.
If there had not been so little time left before the Nine-Ring Demon Domain, and if he had not yet needed to secure a spot, he reckoned he could have kept cultivating for another year or half.
Fortunately, though time had been short, he had raised nearly everything that could be raised.
Even the Nine Tribulations Scripture had been forcibly pushed by Li Su to the eighth stage of the fifth layer.
As for why he had not pushed it to the sixth layer—it was simply because he could not endure it. The ninth stage was truly fatal. The eighth stage had nearly struck him to death; he had lost five whole lives before enduring it. Thank goodness he had mastered the Yi Wood Immortality Scripture. Otherwise, Li Su estimated that he would have had to stop at the fifth stage of the fifth layer. Even then, he had nearly died.
The Nine Tribulations Scripture was tyrannical beyond measure. The Heavenly Silkworm Life-Saving Art could not withstand it at all, while the Blood Scripture and the Self-Severing Art were even more useless. It was killing intent erupting from within; once activated, it would not rest until death. It could not be expelled, only endured head-on.
And the fifth layer's ninth stage was the domain of immortals.
Even among immortals, the weaker ones might not necessarily be able to