"Trying to merge Ice Daoist into the Myriad Laws Unitary Intent Art while still at the Nascent Soul stage seems all but impossible now."
Wang Ba stood before the Emperor Willow and gently snapped off a willow twig.
After years of growth in the Secret Realm, with the full support of a fourth-tier Spirit Vein, the Emperor Willow had now grown to twenty or thirty zhang tall.
Though it was neither as towering as the Fire Paulownia beside it nor as tall as some of the Spirit Beasts in the Secret Realm, the fourth-tier Emperor Willow's sap already qualified as a supreme-grade spiritual material for advancement for the vast majority of Spirit Beasts.
Yet Wang Ba's attention was not on the Emperor Willow at that moment.
With Wu Ape King's departure, the once muddled and chaotic Heavenly Secrets had gradually begun to reveal some traceable threads.
Although most remained shrouded in mist, those threads allowed Wang Ba to barely discern a few useful omens.
Among them were some concerning his two incarnations, Ice Daoist and Yuan Magnetism Rail Man.
His original plan had been to complete his fusion with both incarnations during the Nascent Soul stage.
Yet Yuan Magnetism Rail Man had obtained an immense opportunity on Zhongsheng Continent, making great strides in cultivation and realm and disrupting his plans.
Ice Daoist's subsequent departure had most likely been a decision made in response to an inner feeling after Wang Ba became proficient in the Divination Dao.
Although he had followed that feeling at first, he had not understood why. Now, as the Heavenly Secrets gradually became clearer, he was beginning to understand the reason.
"There is indeed an immense opportunity on North Sea Continent, one that only Ice Daoist as he is at this very moment can obtain... now it