Feng Wanxi delivered a long, impassioned speech.
Yet still no one was willing to step forward and undergo Dao Union.
The crux of it was that no one had expected He Pingsheng to be so ferocious, slaughtering cultivators of the same realm as easily as chopping melons and slicing vegetables. What if the fellow could kill someone an entire major realm above him?
No one wanted to take the risk.
Besides, once they went over, both their clone and their true body would go. If they died, they would truly be dead.
"Your Highness, Holy Maiden!" A man of the Phoenix Race cupped his hands. "Why not skip the second step and proceed straight to the third?"
"Have seven people undergo Dao Union together. Once they're done, they can surround and kill He Pingsheng outright, lest a long night bring troublesome dreams!"
"Wouldn't that be better?"
"Why bother with this extra step?"
Quite a few others shared that thought, and they all looked at Feng Wanxi.
"You don't understand!" Feng Wanxi said. "Everyone who came here wants to try their luck at the Stone Terrace Heavenly Ladder. How high you climb on the Stone Terrace Heavenly Ladder isn't determined by your cultivation. Sometimes, someone who seems weak climbs even higher!"
"To ensure that more people can take part in climbing the Heavenly Ladder, we can't expend so many people on Body Integration all at once!"
"Unless the second step fails!"
"As you all know, the higher your cultivation, the more each level becomes a heaven apart. Once you enter the Body Integration Realm, you can summon the Divine Ability, Heavenly Law and Earthly Form. That is absolutely not something a mere Void Refinement Realm cultivator can contend with!"
"Body Integration against Void Refinement is absolute domination!"
"He Pingsheng would naturally