Years. So many years had passed, and Lex had used up all the resources that the Upper Battlefield could offer him. Still, Pearl and River had only reached the peak of the Nascent Soul, and made no real progress towards the Earth Immortal realm.
Lex did not want to blame them - they were genuinely trying very hard. However, he also found it irritating. It was just the Earth Immortal realm. What was the big deal? Why were they making such a big fuss about this?
He turned his gaze towards the basement. There, in her formation, Pearl even had an Earth Immortal trapped. They had attacked the Guest House with the intention of learning River and Pearl's secrets, and hoping to use them to find Karev. Well, they learned some of the couple's secrets, and that was enough to kill all the Nascent Soul cultivators.
They lacked the ability to kill the Earth Immortal no matter what they did, so they simply trapped him in a formation designed by Lex to keep him from accessing laws.
