Four Heavenly Monarchs

[Your physical body had long since reached the fourth-tier late-stage peak.]

[You could break through to the fifth tier whenever you wished.]

[But you still decided to postpone it.]

[First, if you broke through now, the fifth-tier body refinement tribulation could not be concealed. The Void Whale Lord in the Deep Sea would notice immediately.]

[Would that then lead to other unforeseen complications? For instance, might it put the Void Whale Lord on guard and affect your upcoming plan to surround and kill it?]

[Second, you wanted to understand how the Demon Abyss Realm had drawn in an Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.]

[If that method could be replicated, you hoped to do it again during your fifth-tier body refinement tribulation.]

[Other cultivators could not flee Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons fast enough, but in your eyes, they were rare, unmissable feasts for strengthening the essence of your divine soul.]

[If you underwent the fifth-tier body refinement tribulation ahead of time, would you not miss this once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity?]

[Advancing your Body Refinement cultivation to the fifth tier would certainly greatly increase your strength, but it would make little difference when surrounding and killing the Void Whale Lord.]

[With you, Heavenly Monarch Extreme Sword, Maitreya Heavenly Monarch, and Heavenly Monarch Skycang joining forces, the four human Heavenly Monarchs already had more than enough strength to surround and kill the Void Whale Lord. Your chances of killing it outright were ninety percent.]

[The remaining ten percent had little to do with strength. That would depend on luck or Heaven's will.]