When I woke up, I wanted to go home.

Chapter 343 Ten Thousand Years is Just Right

"Ninth Brother, it's been a hundred thousand years already. We've destroyed over a hundred thousand of the Light Immortal Venerable's avatars, but we haven't even gone far from the center of the Immortal Clan. This can't go on forever!"

Little Gold, one of the few who had just joined forces to kill a Celestial Venerable, spoke up.

"No matter what Ninth Brother does, there's nothing he can do."

If we keep fleeing in one direction, the celestial avatars blocking our way won't just appear every ten days or half a month."

Xiao Rou, one of the little ones, answered on behalf of Zhu Chongjiu.

"Logically speaking, if we just break out in one direction, we will eventually escape the encirclement."

How could we possibly be surrounded by those avatars of immortals? Hearing Xiao Rou's explanation, Xiong Da, who rarely spoke, stepped forward and asked a question.

"Brother Xiong, I, Xiao Tu, know this."

Because the immortals are faster than us.

"If we just keep fleeing in one direction, won't the Immortal Venerable use his speed advantage to get ahead of us and intercept us?"

"What should we do?

If we keep taking one step forward and two steps back, one day we'll be completely surrounded.

In the beginning, it would take several months, or even more than half a year, to encounter a Celestial Venerable.

Now, it's great; I run into one every ten days or so on average.

"If this keeps up, we'll be exhausted even without the Celestial Venerable coming to capture us."

After Xiao Jin finished speaking with a dejected look, he suddenly remembered something and asked Zhu Chongjiu.

"By the way, Ninth Brother, didn't you say back then that you were using the Dao techniques of Immortal Venerables to increase your cultivation?"

They've already swallowed over 10,000 people, they're almost at the Venerable level, right?

Are you planning to take this opportunity to advance to the Venerable level and then lead everyone to launch a surprise attack?

And also and.

"Once you advance to the Venerable level, the rest of us will be of one mind with you. Doesn't that mean we'll also advance to the Venerable level by then?"

After hearing Xiao Jin's words and thinking about them carefully, everyone realized that it was indeed true.

Their previously worried expressions have now turned into beaming smiles.

However, Zhu Chongjiu's next words brought everyone back to reality.

"The Devouring Immortal Venerable's Dao Technique can indeed increase one's cultivation level."

But this is similar to how when someone is hungry, not only can they eat their fill, but they can also gain strength.

Have you ever thought about this?

You can eat five bowls of rice, but someone forces you to eat ten.

Even if you don't overeat, it will still take time to digest all that food.

Besides, I've already eaten over ten thousand bowls of rice.

Moreover, those are the Dao techniques of immortals, which are all hard food that is difficult to digest.

At this moment, my body felt like it was about to explode.

The food was too good to digest.

If you gave me a secluded place to retreat to for tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years, I would ask you to do so.

I believe that even if I don't reach the Venerable level, I'm only one step away.

"Why…!

I wondered why my cultivation level hadn't changed much in the past ten thousand years.

It turned out that Ninth Brother hadn't digested what was in his stomach yet.

If it's not digested, it certainly can't nourish us.

Ninth Brother, what should we do next?

Are you still slowly swaying in one direction like this?

Xiao Jin asked with a dejected look on his face?

"No, this time we really need to change our battle strategy."

Otherwise, just as Xiaorou said, the encirclement will shrink, and the enemy will gather in greater numbers.

One day, we will be completely surrounded.

"Ninth Brother, how do you suggest we change it?"

No matter what we do, I, Xiong Da, will always be willing to be at the forefront for Ninth Brother!

"Sycophant!" Xiao Jin muttered, pursing his lips.

Zhu Chongjiu glanced at the cheeky Xiao Jin and continued:

"In the past, although it seemed like we were going around in circles, taking one step forward and two steps back, we were actually always moving in one direction."

According to my estimate, if Xiao Hei goes at full speed, it will take about ten years to reach the boundary of the Proterozoic Eon.

Those immortals are well aware of our thoughts.

They also knew that we dared not flee in only one direction, so we could only go around in circles.

However, the reason I have done this for the past 100,000 years is not because I have never dared to flee directly in one direction.

Another point is to mislead them.

Let them think that we are helpless and can only let them slowly shrink our encirclement.

Ultimately, this left us with nowhere to retreat.

One hundred thousand years.

This is the best time.

Not too early, not too late...!

Seeing that Zhu Chongjiu only said this much before gazing into the void and falling silent, Xiao Jin anxiously said, "Brother Jiu, could you please explain it more clearly?"

What do you mean by 100,000 years? It's neither too early nor too late.

And you still haven't said how it will change?

Seeing Xiao Jin's impatient expression as he asked him, Zhu Chongjiu said angrily, "You were quite smart when you were little, weren't you?"

Among everyone, you are the one with the highest IQ.

Why do we seem to regress as we grow older?

I don't know... go ask your little sister Rou!

After saying that, Zhu Chongjiu plopped down on Xiao Hei's back, seemingly exchanging something with the little black dog as they traveled.

Seeing this, Xiao Jin could only look helplessly at Xiao Rou.

"The change that Ninth Brother mentioned means that we will no longer just stay in the same place, but will change our strategy and rush towards the edge of the universe as quickly as possible."

Although our movement towards the edge of the universe over the past 100,000 years has not been as fast as traveling a straight distance, we have been moving forward one step and backward two steps, and we are getting close to the edge of the Immortal Realm.

Ten thousand years, plus the remaining distance, is exactly what Ninth Brother said.

If we do it too early, we'll be too far from the edge of the universe, which means we'll have more time to be captured by those immortals.

If we delay for a few more years as originally planned, although that would bring us closer to the edge of the universe, the immortals are not fools either.

Although they couldn't pinpoint our exact location, they could deduce our route from various clues.

By then, even if the encirclement hasn't been completely tightened and we're completely surrounded, anyone with eyes can see our intentions at a glance.

This 100,000 years doesn't simply refer to time; there are many other factors involved.

So Ninth Brother said, "One hundred thousand years, that's just right."

Xiao Rou finished her analysis word by word, and the children all had different expressions.

Xiong Da didn't listen at all. Just like he said, he would do whatever Ninth Brother told him to do. Why think so much?

The other children seemed to understand, sometimes nodding and sometimes shaking their heads.

After pondering for a while, Xiao Jin continued to ask Xiao Rou, "Then, based on the remaining travel time..."

"I estimate we'll be at least a year or two behind in terms of travel time before those Immortal Venerables completely block our way!"

If we advance to the appropriate distance towards the edge of the universe, do you think the immortal venerables of the immortal race will not be able to see it?

Given the current situation, the Immortal Clan must assume that we will continue with our current plan, slowly advancing towards the edge of the universe, and then making a final assault once we have advanced to a suitable distance.

Since the Celestial Venerable of the Immortal Clan could think of this, do you think they might have made preparations in advance?

So Ninth Brother said that ten years is just the right time.

It was surprisingly difficult to defeat them.

Let them make what they thought was impossible possible.

This would greatly increase our chances of reaching the edge of the universe.

When Xiaorou said this, everyone finally realized what was going on.

"Therefore, from now on, I will no longer let you guys practice on the Immortal Venerable's clones."

Immortals who stand in their way will be killed; whoever gets in their way will be killed.

If you can kill someone with one strike, you won't use two.

We must travel as quickly as possible.

As soon as Zhu Chongjiu finished speaking, a hundred-foot-tall black creature beneath him let out a deafening roar and then disappeared from sight.