"Seems like there's no movement anymore. What's going on?" Dragon Horse muttered. "Could he already be dead?"
The Thunder Sea remained violent, every bolt capable of killing hundreds or thousands of Severing Dao Kings. Yet the fluctuations of battle had vanished, leaving everyone baffled and unable to tell what was happening in the depths of the Heavenly Tribulation.
"Qin Immortal might be resting and healing his injuries," Ye Fan guessed.
"Who knows what opponents he'll encounter inside the Ancient Heavenly Court? Still, there's no need to worry. There's an old saying on Earth: good people die young, while scourges live for a thousand years. She won't die that easily."
That was right. The scourge Ye Fan referred to was not Qin Sheng, but the Ruthless Emperor.
Ye Fan's logic was perfectly sound. If the Ruthless Emperor did not die, how could Qin Sheng possibly die?
If Great Saint Lord Qin died, what would the Ruthless Emperor eat?
In a sense, Ye Fan felt that being parasitized by the Ruthless Emperor was not such a bad thing. At the very least, no one else could take Qin Sheng's life.
If the wolves must exist, heaven need not; if Ruthless must perish, heaven cannot remain!
"I just wonder how many levels Qin Immortal can advance this time," Ye Fan said.
"The dog I raised once said that even ancient Great Emperors, when advancing into the Sage King Realm or Great Saint Realm in their youth, could almost only stand on the first level. But I think Qin Immortal might be an exception."
The further one traveled down the road of cultivation, the harder it became. The gap between every realm grew greater, making continuous breakthroughs increasingly difficult.
In the original timeline, after Ye Fan successfully passed his Sage King Heavenly Tribulation, he