They drank fine wine, ate the divine beast meat grilled by Fifth Brother, Vermilion Bird, and listened as Lei Ding and the others kept recounting amusing incidents in the Infernal Realm over the years, along with battles and interesting people the four of them had encountered on their occasional travels through it.
Time slowly passed.
In a flash, more than ten years had passed, and they were still holding their banquet in the garden. Their recent seclusion had simply lasted far too long. Rhodes and the others did not want to immediately return to seclusion, while Lei Ding and his companions were even less inclined to spend long periods secluded. With the power of faith available, they had not neglected their fusion of profound mysteries anyway. All of them had now fused five profound mysteries and begun fusing the sixth. Having temporarily reached a bottleneck in their fusion, the Four Divine Beasts were even less willing to enter seclusion.
Rhodes had considered many things over these years. First, now that he had become a Paragon, should he remain in seclusion and begin refining divine spark essence to strengthen his divine body, raising his strength to its utmost before going out? He also considered that Hathaway had not returned to the Netherworld for a hundred thousand years, and that he should accompany her back to visit Green Leaf Castle. Besides, there was no reason he could not cultivate in seclusion on Nether Mountain. With so many people in the Infernal Realm stationed in the Skyrite Mountains, they could effectively prevent problems from arising. As for Pash, Rhodes did not intend to take him to the Netherworld this time. Sometimes they needed a little privacy, after all, and constantly bringing along a third wheel was hardly appropriate. Besides, it was no