"Alas..."
The Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor, Nan Qi, sighed deeply and said, "Blue seas turn to mulberry fields; things remain, but people have changed!"
"Now you've already become my senior!"
"He Pingsheng, you must never address me that way again!"
"Let's... just call each other fellow Daoist!"
"All right!" He Pingsheng said. "Fellow Daoist it is!"
"All right!" The Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor took another deep breath.
His heart truly held a jumble of all five flavors.
Back when he had been in the Mahayana Emperor Realm, He Pingsheng had been merely at the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Now that they were in the Immortal Realm, He Pingsheng had already reached the peak of Earth Immortal, while he was still a Human Immortal.
And once He Pingsheng broke through his bottleneck, he would soon become a Heaven Immortal.
In other words, he would then lag two major realms behind He Pingsheng.
How heaven-defying was that?
"Has anyone from your Vermilion Bird Tribe ascended?" He Pingsheng asked with some concern. "Nan Qiqi and the others, for instance!"
"Yes!" the Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor said. "Qiqi ascended, but she was rather late. She only ascended two thousand years ago!"
He Pingsheng nodded.
The Vermilion Bird Demon Emperor said, "If you want to know about what happened after you ascended, you can go ask her. You're welcome to visit Heaven's Destruction Star!"
"We're all over on Heaven's Destruction Star!"
He Pingsheng shook his head. "No need. I don't want to know!"
For him, there was nothing in the Spirit Realm to remain attached to.
Everything he cared about had ultimately ended up inside that Lesser Spirit World.
"Uh..." The Vermilion Bird was somewhat embarrassed. He paused, then said, "This is my master, the Netherworld Empress!"
"The Secret Realm you visited back then was arranged