Pu Lu had been in Celestial Xia for several months now, spending most of his time adapting his cultivation. The dao mechanisms of the Unfettered Realm differed from those of Celestial Xia, and he needed to adjust as quickly as possible.
In truth, the higher one's cultivation, the longer the adjustment took. The simplest method was to slay one's worldly body once, then wait for one's divine qi to reflect back.
When divine qi entered the world, it could harmonize itself. Naturally, that saved a great deal of cultivation effort.
Yet those of the Void-Entrancement Realm were not people who had plucked superior fruition. Even with ritual methods to guide them, it would still take years, perhaps even more than a decade.
He could not wait that long.
Not to mention that, after arriving in Celestial Xia, he still had much to familiarize himself with. The most pressing matter before him was that, within at most one or two years, Origin Xia and Celestial Xia would clash.
In their previous encounters, Origin Xia could not be said to have suffered crushing defeats, but it had gained no advantage whatsoever. Instead, Celestial Xia had grown stronger with every battle. Origin Xia must have realized where the problem lay.
After ten years of truce, when Origin Xia came again, it would surely descend with the force of thunder and a weight of ten thousand jun. From what he had learned, Celestial Xia still fell short of Origin Xia in hard strength and was undoubtedly short on manpower. At a time like this, he had no wish to shrink back. He wanted to join this battle.
As he harmonized his qi, a young dao attendant came running in with a golden cauldron in his arms and set it outside the curtain. "Venerable, an