If Yuxuan had not yet reached perfection and was stuck at some bottleneck along the way, there would be nothing they could do.
He Pingsheng looked at his master expectantly.
Yu Ning said, "He reached perfection long ago!"
"Unfortunately, he's stuck at this final bottleneck and just can't get past it!"
"Come to think of it, your Martial Uncle Yuxuan is already a hundred and seventy or eighty years old. He only has twenty or thirty years left before his lifespan runs out!"
"He reached perfection in the Foundation Establishment Realm a full sixty years ago. Over the years, he's taken no fewer than ten Origin-Reaching Pills. Unfortunately, they were all either middle grade or low grade, so he's never managed to break through!"
"By now, he's probably long since given up and devoted himself entirely to teaching his disciples!"
"Why are you asking about all this?" Yu Ning asked curiously.
He Pingsheng did not hide anything from her. He told her the truth. "The Grand Supreme Elder is in seclusion now, and it'll be another sixty years before he emerges. But the sect is tangled with competing factions. I'm worried Elder Wuwei and the others will keep me under their thumb, so I want to take this opportunity to cultivate two Golden Core cultivators!"
"Once you enter the Golden Core Stage, Master, if Martial Uncle Yuxuan can do the same, I'll have both of you supporting me and won't have to worry about threats from behind."
Yu Ning nodded. "That's true. With your Martial Uncle Yuxuan and me supporting you, your Grand Ancestor Chongyang will naturally have to support you too. Then you'll be able to gain the upper hand over Wuwei within the Great Void Sect!"
"That's exactly what I was thinking," He Pingsheng said.
"Let's go!" Yu