Xiao Hua smiled and gently shook his head. "What is there to be happy about? If not for obtaining the fragment of the Myriad Annihilation Heaven Dou, I actually would not have wanted to take the Qingyu Pill now!"
Wu Daoist nodded. "What Fellow Daoist says is correct. Fellow Daoist has already reached the final phase of the Mahayana Stage, yet the medicinal potency of the Qingyu Pill still remains within your body. Perhaps once we leave Star Moon Palace, you will ascend to the Immortal Realm. But we have not yet returned to Xiaoyu Continent, and there are still many unfinished matters. How can we leave just like this?"
True Person looked at Xiao Hua and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist is overthinking it! How could ascension be so easy? Among ten thousand cultivators who reach the peak of ninth-grade Yuan Force, not even one may be able to ascend to the Immortal Realm. Moreover, the closer one gets to the end, the harder cultivation becomes. Though Fellow Daoist has already reached the late Tribulation Stage, without a thousand years of effort, attaining completion is absolutely impossible!"
Demon Venerable Slayer hurriedly chimed in as well. "Exactly, exactly. Big Brother, it was like when you activated the Lightning Evasion Technique earlier. At first, seventy percent of your physical body merged into the void quite readily, but the remaining thirty percent became much slower. As for merging that final half percent into the void, who knows whether that will take until the Year of the Monkey or the Month of the Horse!"
Xiao Hua looked at his incarnations and smiled. "Enough, enough. In any case, my strength has advanced greatly again, and none of you can afford to slack off."
Then Xiao Hua pointed at the jade cases in the