“Oh, I’ve read books like that. Like, you get power from how many people burn incense at how many temples, but it makes you a god, instead of cultivating to a Heavenly Tribulation first. Most of the work to ascend for cultivators is internal, worship and shit empowers you afterward. I’ve cultivated to immortality and all, I can fly on a sword and perform inedia and all that jazz, but I haven’t focused a ton on making it past Nascent Soul.” Unsaid: he also fucked up the cultivation stages so badly in PIDW by forgetting what he’d already written that Nascent Soul sort of doesn’t work right? Which Cucumber-bro had beaten him over the head with a fan for multiple times.

“I don’t like, mind logistics! I’m good at them! I just don’t see the point in moving to the Heavenly Courts to start over from the bottom doing the same shit. I’m doing fine as I am!” And he’d no longer be able to see the mean sexy ice prince of his dreams.