Chapter 5005 — The Hope of Returning to the Mortal World
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If it had truly come to blows, even if Wei Zhao could have beaten his opponent, provoking the Central Island Elders' Council afterward and forcing the top-rank clans and sects to intervene in person would have left him in a situation he could never have escaped whole. Thinking back on it now still brought a cold sweat to his skin.
To be sure, Shangguan Tianxia and Ning Shanghe would likely have stepped in when the time came, but Oda Zhou had helped him sidestep this tribulation ahead of time, and Wei Zhao knew he must hold that debt in his heart.
The two went on drinking and chatting, and Wei Zhao suddenly recalled Nan Tian Liuguang, who had appeared together with the others a moment ago, and at once remembered a certain matter—one he had been turning over in his mind for a long while.
"Island Lord Oda, do you happen to know of a way to reach the mortal world?" Wei Zhao asked, a note of hope in his voice.
"The mortal world?" Oda Zhou was briefly startled. Then he remembered that Oda Ba had said Wei Zhao came from the mortal world. He thought it over and said, "I know little enough about that, but I do know that the great alchemist Zhang Lifeng must have a way. There are other paths, to be sure, but they are surely all held in the hands of the top-rank clans. Unfortunately my Oda clan has never touched on such matters, so my information is truly limited."
"That I know as well. What I am asking is whether there is another way to reach the mortal world. I recall that Nan Tian Liuguang, as a guide-envoy, was able to go to the mortal world—only I do not know what method he used exactly." Wei Zhao's eyes were full of expectation.
The thought had taken root in his mind long ago. From what he knew, when Nan Tian Liuguang descended upon the mortal world, his strength had likely been no more than the Nascent Soul stage. If Nan Tian Liuguang could manage it, there was no reason he himself could not.
Only before, his strength had been too low, and after reaching the Nascent Soul stage he had never had the chance to come to the Central Island, until now, when he had become a fine hand of the early Mystic Ascension stage and could finally return. He had meant to seek out Di Xingdao and ask him plainly, but now that Di Xingdao was absent, asking Oda Zhou would serve just as well.
"Guide-envoy?" Oda Zhou was taken aback, then nodded. "That is right—there is indeed such a method for descending to the mortal world. It is no secret in the Island Lord's Pavilion. One need only reach the Nascent Soul stage, and with your present strength at the early Mystic Ascension stage it would be nothing at all. But this method cannot accomplish a true transmission; it can only project your primordial spirit there for a time."
"Mm, I know." Wei Zhao nodded. The first time he had seen Nan Tian Liuguang, he had known at a glance that it was only a primordial spirit body. Otherwise, if travel back and forth were truly so easy, Cloud Step Island and the mortal world would never be so cut off from each other.
"The key to this method lies in one's spiritual sense. Those with a powerful spiritual sense find projection more difficult, but they can remain longer; conversely, those with a weaker spiritual sense, even if they project successfully, can stay at most a few days. And the strength of the projected primordial spirit body depends on the spiritual sense as well—it is bound to be greatly diminished. You may be at the Mystic Ascension stage now, but the strength that arrives there might not even match a Heaven-Rank perfection. It varies from person to person," Oda Zhou explained.