Chapter 554

Luo Tian blinked his eyes and said, "It wouldn't be that he was caught to dig mines, right?"

Sima Tianchen was startled and said, "You actually know about this?"

"Is it really?" Luo Tian asked in surprise.

Sima Tianchen said, "According to that senior, some ascenders are indeed caught to dig immortal mines. But that senior was not; he was even more miserable and was directly caught to be a slave."

"A slave?" Luo Tian asked in surprise.

Sima Tianchen sighed, "Yes, a former overlord suddenly became a slave; one can imagine the despair of that senior! However, that senior's luck was considered good. He found an opportunity to escape and happened to encounter a world crack that only appears once in ten thousand years, and escaped back to the Tianyuan Realm from it."

"You must know that ascending from the Lower Realm to the Upper Realm is simple, but the difficulty of returning from the Upper Realm is much greater! That senior being able to do it can already be called having destiny bestowed upon him."

"Even so, when he returned, his life was already in danger, and he soon fell. However, he also brought back news of the Upper Realm."

"The Upper Realm is divided into multiple regions, controlled by different factions. Among them, some are friendly to ascenders, and after ascending, one can cultivate step by step. But the vast majority treat the lives of ascenders like grass, and once discovered, they are directly caught and used as slaves until they die."

"People from the Lower Realm who ascend up there depend entirely on luck as to where they end up. Unless a special Ascension Platform is built in the Upper Realm, connecting to the Lower Realm through luck and energy to specifically receive ascenders."

"But unfortunately, building an Ascension Platform requires too many resources and strength; none of the predecessors of my Tianyuan Realm could build one."

"Therefore, the ascension of practitioners in the Tianyuan Realm is basically a life of nine deaths. So, after practitioners in the Tianyuan Realm reach the Heavenly Gate Realm, they will all continue to stay here to fight for a chance to become an immortal of the mortal world. Only when their lifespan is nearing its end and there is no hope of becoming an immortal of the mortal world will they consider ascending to gamble with their lives!"

After listening, Luo Tian finally realized.

So, the matter of ascension was actually this troublesome.

"Alright, three City Lords, I have one more thing I would like to trouble you with," Luo Tian said.