Egging Him On

Lu Ren smiled. "I'm not like them. This Supreme Ascendant's Grotto-heaven means absolutely nothing to me right now. I haven't even broken through to the Celestial Immortal Realm yet."

Though he had yet to break through, once the system finished deriving the cultivation method and he converted all his true cultivation to the new technique, Lu Ren was confident that even without Skill Points, he could naturally enter the Celestial Immortal Realm.

If Lu Ren had been a pure cultivator of the immortal path, the Supreme Ascendant's Grotto-heaven would have held an absolutely irresistible allure for him. Cultivation was, at its core, plunder. The Way of Heaven reduced the excessive to replenish the deficient. To perfect oneself required sufficient resources to study such matters.

Seeing Lu Ren's utterly uninterested expression, Ao Li could not help mocking him.

"If you want to attain the Great Dao and transcend, you must fight for everything. Fight for methods, fight for precious materials, fight for heaven and earth, fight for everything beneficial to yourself. Only then can you glimpse the Great Dao and gain a chance at transcendence."

As she spoke, she looked Lu Ren up and down, her face filled with disdain. "Look at you, with that lazy temperament. Sooner or later, the Jade Emperor and Tathagata will swallow you whole."

Lu Ren was displeased. Naturally, he knew his own path. With the Status Panel, he had no need to perform such tightrope-walking maneuvers, but how could he possibly tell Ao Li that?

He flew into a rage and grabbed Ao Li.

"Today, I'll show you once again what a lazy temperament is!"

After omitting one hundred thousand words, Lu Ren got out of bed while supporting his sore lower back. Looking at Ao Li lying lazily on the bed, he said resentfully,