"Only 100,000 years left!"
Xiao Fei murmured to himself. Although he had expected this, facing this day filled him with unease.
"At most 100,000 years!"
Zhu Yu emphasized again.
"It took me tens of thousands of years just to find a way to escape the Creation Jade Disk.
Then I went through several reincarnations, and 100,000 years passed in the blink of an eye.
Unless you have a faster way to break free and still maintain your strength."
Although Zhu Yu said this, he was not optimistic. He had exhausted all his efforts back then, believing he had reached his limit.
"Furthermore, even if you recover your peak strength within 100,000 years, what then?
You'll merely be an Immortal Lord, unable to make any waves.
The world will be destroyed in 100,000 years, and you will perish along with the entire Immortal Realm."
Zhu Yu's words plunged Xiao Fei into thought.
Even if he managed to break free from the Creation Jade Disk, destruction awaited him nonetheless.
If that were the case, what was the point of escaping the Creation Jade Disk? Was it merely to die more stylishly?
If he remained, the Creation Jade Disk would form its own world, inheriting the current destroyed Immortal Realm, and he would completely transform into a spirit of the artifact.
In this state, he would lose his freedom but could survive forever with this world.
To live or to perish?
Was it to sacrifice life for freedom, abandoning love, kinship, and friendship?
Or was it better to live a dog's life than to die a noble death?
Xiao Fei found contemplating such questions too heavy and decided to set them aside for later consideration.
"Do you know who the true owner of the Creation Jade Disk is, and where they are?"
"I don't know. I am merely a spirit of the artifact and not privy to much information."
Zhu Yu shook his head, a hint of disappointment in his demeanor.
"However, I do know one thing: the Creation Jade Disk is likely incomplete. Even if it forms a new universe, it will not be whole."
"You must have sensed this as well. The space is still missing many things – no sun, moon, or stars, no earth veins, no spiritual veins, nor various mineral resources...
In short, many things are lacking."
"I have recorded some of the information I know in this jade slip. Take it and look at it yourself."
As Zhu Yu spoke, he produced a jade slip and handed it to Xiao Fei.
"Thank you!"
...
Upon returning to his space, Xiao Fei carefully examined the jade slip Zhu Yu had given him.
The three ginseng fruits he had gifted were incredibly worthwhile; he felt no regret for the expenditure.
Zhu Yu had also recorded his method of escaping the Creation Jade Disk within it.
After reading it, Xiao Fei shivered multiple times, lamenting that Zhu Yu was indeed a ruthless individual!
Stripping himself from the Creation Jade Disk in such a manner was akin to carving his soul with a thousand knives, extracting his soul and refining his spirit!
Moreover, he had endured this for tens of thousands of years, suffering immense pain continuously.
After tens of thousands of years, his soul was completely shattered. His repeated reincarnations and renovations were all aimed at finding his fragmented soul.
Furthermore, after millions of years, his soul had still not fully recovered.
Even if Xiao Fei could overcome such pain and use Zhu Yu's method to escape the Creation Jade Disk, he no longer had enough time.
The Immortal Realm was on the verge of destruction, and all living beings would perish with it. Any effort he made now would be in vain.
Moreover, once he detached himself from the Creation Jade Disk, the disk would be damaged again, and the space within would revert to its original state of one or two acres.
All living beings residing within would also die.
The Creation Jade Disk would then have to find a new inheritor for its spirit and grow anew.
In the past, he could have evacuated everyone from the space, but there was no longer such an opportunity.
With the Immortal Realm gone, releasing them would be equivalent to directly causing their deaths.
He didn't possess such great compassion for the fate of others.
But what about his family and friends?
"Forget it. It's better to live day by day than to die a noble death. At least I still have nearly 100,000 years to figure things out."
After much deliberation and weighing the options, Xiao Fei decided not to use Zhu Yu's method for now.
Instead, he had many things to do.
He intended to increase his strength as much as possible before the complete destruction of the Immortal Realm.
Ideally, he wished to advance his cultivation from Immortal Lord to Golden Immortal, or even to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm of a Profound Heaven Dao Venerable.
In fact, even if he were to remain as a spirit of the artifact, he had many clones to act for him, so he wasn't overly concerned.
What he and Zhu Yu truly cared about was the identity of the Creation Jade Disk's owner and their intentions.
Once this true owner appeared, he would fall entirely under their control, enslaved by them.
Therefore, no matter what, having more strength meant more security and a greater bargaining chip in the final moments of crisis.
He needed to improve his strength to gain a chance to turn the tables.
He would not give up until the very last moment.
However, two significant difficulties stood in his way of improving his cultivation and strength, and neither problem was easy to overcome.
One was the material foundation for advancing to the Golden Immortal realm. He needed at least several hundred million immortal stones for the Creation Jade Disk to absorb.
Now that the entire Immortal Realm was nearing its end, he wondered if collecting all the immortal stones in the Immortal Realm would be enough for him.
Moreover, the vast majority of the Immortal Realm's resources were currently controlled by the Demon Alliance.
It was impossible for him to obtain immortal stones from the Demon Alliance; the only way was to completely eradicate them.
Then, seize their territory, occupy their resources, and sleep with their...
Afterward, he would gather all the immortal stones in the Immortal Realm for his sole use.
Given the current disparity in strength between humans and the Demon Alliance, this was difficult to achieve.
Humans had consistently been unable to match the Demon Alliance in terms of Golden Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals.
According to Zhu Yu, just a few days prior, the strongest human, the Profound Heaven Dao Venerable, had been beaten by two demon powerhouses.
With such a situation, how could he possibly destroy the Demon Alliance?
If the Demon Alliance's powerhouses were enraged and attacked directly, it was highly possible that they could wipe out the entire human race.
The other difficulty was that to advance from Immortal Lord to Golden Immortal, one had to comprehend the Great Dao.
Comprehending the Great Dao was entirely different from other cultivation methods.
It required repeated comprehension. One might spend millions of years without any progress, completely in vain, and remain stagnant.
But suddenly, one day, a stone might fall on his head, and with a "ding," a flash of wisdom might illuminate his mind, and then he would achieve enlightenment!
Therefore, no one could guarantee how many years one would cultivate in the Immortal Lord realm before reaching the Golden Immortal realm.