Ren Yunzong's phantom shook his head. "The Heavenly Absolute Grass alone won't do, of course. But Tianjue Peak's origins are shrouded in mystery, and the grass is only one of its products."
"Where the Heavenly Absolute Grass grows thickest, there's another thing called the Heavenly Doom Stone."
"The Heavenly Doom Stone works much like the grass, but its effect on cultivators is far greater."
Su Shi'er looked at Ren Yunzong and could not help exclaiming, "The Heavenly Doom Stone... To think such a wondrous thing exists."
Ren Yunzong's phantom said evenly, "As the saying goes, the Great Dao has fifty parts, the heavens reveal forty-nine, and one escapes to man. The Dao of heaven and earth is incomplete, so there is always a ray of vitality."
"In the Cultivation World, each realm is a heaven unto itself, and the gulf between them is hard to cross. Yet people also say man can triumph over heaven. Otherwise, if sheer strength decided everything and the strong swept all before them, how could the weak have any room to survive?"
"But back to the matter at hand. If we collect eighty-one Heavenly Doom Stones and incorporate them into the formation, then have nine Nascent Soul Cultivators activate it together, we can drive their power to its limit and direct it all at the person trapped inside."
"When that happens... even if our opponent has reached the Out of Body stage, they'll temporarily be suppressed to the Nascent Soul Stage."
"But by my calculations, that effect can last no more than two hours. That will be our best chance to destroy them."
Su Shi'er nodded repeatedly. "Even if we had only an hour, or a quarter of one, we'd have to try."
"How much longer until you return to life, Sect Master?"
"Three years