"What? Only... a few months??" Han Zhu nearly cried out. It was utterly lacking in the bearing of a Golden Core cultivator, and even a trace of jealousy flashed through his eyes.
"Yes, exactly!" Xiao Hua said with an ingratiating smile. "This child has not even reached fasting yet, but he entered this Heart Extinction Realm. This junior fears something may happen to him. This junior cannot awaken him, so I beg Senior to show mercy and wake him. His mother at home is terribly worried!"
"Hahaha~" Han Zhu laughed loudly and pointed at Jiang Liuer. "There is a worldly saying: one does not know one's blessings while sitting amid them! This Heart Extinction Realm is something this old man sought for hundreds of years without obtaining it. Yet this child, having only just begun practicing the Heart Sutra, entered such a hard-won realm... This is simply a peerless stroke of fortune! You... you actually want to wake him? You... you are simply harming this child!"
"But... he has already grown so thin, and his life force is drifting away. If he is not awakened... wouldn't that harm him?" Xiao Hua asked, though joy filled his heart.
"Alas, the so-called Heart Extinction Realm resembles our Dao Sect's Immaculate Realm. All thoughts, all vital auras, even life force itself are stilled and extinguished. Only amid such extinction can one find one's true self! Moreover, the longer one remains in the Heart Extinction Realm, the more beneficial it is to one's Buddhist cultivation! It may even... even allow one to reach the legendary realm of the Buddhist Sect's supreme Buddha! Tell me, do you still wish to awaken him?" Han Zhu sighed.
"Hehe, if that is so, then naturally this junior will not awaken him!" Xiao Hua said with a smile.
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