Green-robed Xiao Hua emerged from the Nascent Soul and waved his hands repeatedly, shouting, "This feels awful, awful! It's like wearing a pair of undersized shoes, or a robe so tight it's suffocating—I can't even move!"
"If the shoes are too small, make them bigger. If the robe is too small, alter it!" Jade Slip Xiao Hua said earnestly. "Our household is poor, so make do with it!"
"How am I supposed to make do?" Green-robed Xiao Hua rolled his eyes at Jade Slip Xiao Hua and pointed at the two Nascent Souls. "These useless things can't even be nourished with Five Qi True Thunder. If we cultivate them slowly, wouldn't that take thousands, even tens of thousands, of years?"
"Something is still better than nothing!" Jade Slip Xiao Hua naturally understood this as well, and continued, "Besides, if all our fellow Daoists can get used to these things, then when I encounter danger, everyone can come out and help, right? It can't be like the battle with the Five Brocade Cloud Diagram last time—everyone clearly could have acted, yet no one could get out!"
"All right, all right..." Green-robed Xiao Hua waved a hand. "Think of a way yourself, Fellow Daoist! I know you've always been mulling over how that bald old donkey Guzhen's two hundred-odd years of cultivation rivaled fifth-grade Yuan force. But don't forget—that is the cultivation path of Buddhist Protectors. It has no future!"
"Hehe..." Jade Slip Xiao Hua gave a rare embarrassed laugh. "I was merely thinking about it. Must you drag it out to make me lose face?"
"A gentleman is open and aboveboard!" Green-robed Xiao Hua's voice drifted away as his figure vanished once more.
Jade Slip Xiao Hua immediately tried it. Sure enough, the instant the Five Qi True Thunder touched the