"One day in our cave was worth a thousand years in the outside world. By that calculation, we had cultivated for nearly three thousand years already, hadn't we? If we still couldn't achieve anything, how would we have the face to meet the elders of our sect?" Lu Huaming joked.
"Haha, exactly. Time really flowed like water. Thinking back to before we entered seclusion, it felt like yesterday." Bai Xiaotian rubbed his smooth, bald head and laughed as well.
As the two spoke, Fu Donglai emerged from a secret chamber, looking puzzled. "What is going on? Why is there such a violent disturbance in the world's spiritual energy?"
"Such powerful fluctuations... I'm afraid someone has broken through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm." Lu Huaming looked toward the other secret chambers.
As soon as he finished speaking, the stone door of one of the chambers opened. Nie Caizhu emerged gracefully in feathered robes, her bright eyes gleaming. Her aura was ethereal, yet no powerful cultivation fluctuations radiated from her.
Bai Xiaotian's eyes immediately lit up at the sight.
"Sister-in-law, have you... reached the Heavenly Venerable Realm?" he hurried over and asked.
At some point, Bai Xiaotian realized that he could no longer keep up with Shen Luo in cultivation. Thus, he could only lord his seniority over Shen Luo, calling Nie Caizhu "sister-in-law" every time he saw her.
"I am still some distance from becoming a true Heavenly Venerable. However, I have mastered the Witch God Art. I can gather the power of the Twelve Ancestral Witches within me, and while activating the Heavenly Fiends Divine Baleful Formation, I can fight a Heavenly Venerable," Nie Caizhu said.
Her words were quite modest, but everyone else was deeply shocked. To fight a Heavenly Venerable, one's combat strength had to be equal to,