"By all rights, it shouldn't!" Feng Wu answered almost without thinking. "After all, Shenhua Continent has also reached the upper realm before..."
"This is all old talk!" Xiao Hua stopped Feng Wu from continuing and shook his head. "When we went to the upper realm before, that was the effect of the Heavenly Prison; it was different from the Heaven and Earth Laws! Ascension is a transformation process. Who can guarantee that changes in the Heaven and Earth Laws will not affect Shenhua Continent?"
"Then... Fellow Daoist, how do you intend to decide the fate of the Creation Sect disciples on Shenhua Continent? Let them choose for themselves as well?" Huang Tong struck straight at the heart of the matter, looking meaningfully at Xiao Hua as he asked.
"Alas..." Xiao Hua sighed deeply, his tone evasive. "I cannot let them choose, because needless to say, when anyone faces death, they will seek out a glimmer of life..."
"Namo Maitreya Buddha..." Maitreya Buddha World Honored One proclaimed the Buddha's name. "Then does the Bodhisattva's choice mean sending all the citizens of Shenhua Continent to Xiaoyu Continent?"
"To tell the truth," Xiao Hua replied, "I truly want to, but... I dare not!"
"Alas, of course you don't dare!" Thunderclap True Person said. "Those are hundreds of millions of citizens! If you send them over, there will be more of them than all the cultivators of Xiaoyu Continent put together!"
Xiao Hua rubbed his nose. "That is precisely my confusion and... concern!"
"Take one step and count one step!" Thunderclap True Person was equally helpless. "After Fellow Daoist entered the Myriad Monster Realm, hadn't the Heaven and Earth Laws of Shenhua Continent already changed somewhat? Perhaps there will be some surprise in the future!"
"I hope so!" Faced with the Heaven and Earth