Tie Zhu jolted, his body shuddering several times. He rolled his eyes upward in disbelief, his mouth hanging open, unable to speak for a long while.
"Dad... my own dear dad!"
"You're not joking, are you? Did I hear you right? What did you just say? Could you say it again?"
"I said no watching cartoons after we get back," Jiang Chen answered truthfully.
Tie Zhu immediately put on a cheeky grin, rubbing his two pairs of tiny front legs together, flattery practically spilling off his face. "Dad! I was only joking. I heard every word loud and clear. You're going to help me enter the Supreme Powerhouse Realm, right?"
"The resources needed to become a Supreme Powerhouse in the Dharma-Ending Era are terrifying, but our Jiang family has deep enough pockets. One word from you, Dad, and you'll save me centuries of hard work!"
"Wonderful, wonderful! Dad, when are we going to find a place for my breakthrough? Should we pick an auspicious day...?"
"We'll go home and take a look first, then head to Formless City and break through inside the Restricted Zone," Jiang Chen replied calmly.
Tie Zhu grew even more excited. "Generous! Dad, you really are generous!"
The reason it cost so many resources in the Dharma-Ending Era was that, aside from peerless prodigies like the King of Reincarnation who could break through on their own,
ordinary Nine-Step Kings who wanted to break through in the Dharma-Ending Era had to take the path of Divine Sacrifice.
And Divine Sacrifice came in two forms.
The first was to hold it in the Mortal World. This required only a Divine Sacrifice of the lowest grade, but the person breaking through had to endure Heaven and Earth Suppression, with only a slim chance of survival.
The second was to