Tathagata, Come Out!

Lu Ren: "So you still don't want to come out?"

Ao Li shrugged. "This place is dangerous. Even Hanging Mountain is only peaceful for the moment. Once a certain time comes, even Hanging Mountain may no longer be safe."

"So you refuse to come out no matter what?"

"If you get the chance to become a Golden Immortal, or find a way back to the real world, then it won't be too late to let me out."

"If I meet with an accident on this Path to Ascension, wouldn't that mean you can't survive either?"

Ao Li snorted softly. "Only a fragment of my true spirit remains. Without outside help, even if I came out, my soul would scatter within a few decades. I might as well stay here obediently, where there's still a sliver of hope."

As she spoke, Ao Li glanced sideways and encouraged him, "Young man, I think highly of you. Perhaps you'll have the fortune to reach Golden Immortalhood. At that time, you'll be able to go anywhere under heaven. The beginning of the Golden Immortal realm is where everything truly begins."

Lu Ren did not press the matter further. "It's only reconstructing a physical body. I'm not asking you to leave the Inner World Universe."

Ao Li hesitated at that, then shook her head slightly. Yet she suddenly thought of something and urged, "Why don't you find a way to pull that True Phoenix over? If I can obtain her essence blood, I can use a secret Dragon Clan art to perform something akin to phoenix nirvana. Using my true spirit as the foundation, I can reconstruct a body of flesh and blood and restore my true True Dragon form.

"After all, the True Phoenix exists on the same level as the True Dragon. If