Chapter 512: Ascend to Immortality

Time flows like water, years slip away.

Tianyuan City.

In the blink of an eye, several years had passed.

The chaos brought by the convergence of the Three Realms seemed to have no effect on this sanctuary of cultivators; instead, it grew even more bustling and noisy.

On this day.

In the city, atop an unremarkable teahouse.

A middle-aged man with a stern appearance, clad in a yellow robe, sipped tea.

"Brother Ji."

"Even I would have to go through considerable trouble."

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Indeed, there was no demonic temptation trial—no sense of experience at all.

In the True Immortal Realm, there are still mortals, even Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Void Transformation cultivators—these make up the overwhelming majority.

To them, becoming an immortal seems within reach, yet the Ascension Trial remains a great threshold.

Gao Fei wore a tall crown and flowing sleeves, his attire steeped in ancient elegance: "There is only the True Immortal Realm in all existence. The other one hundred twenty-eight thousand middling worlds, the countless small worlds like grains of sand… all were born from a single thought of the Dao Lord when he was still the 'True Illusion Dao Jun.'… Enough, just look at this and you'll understand."

Low-level cultivators had gone red-eyed over this, killing demons and monsters daily outside the city.

Boom!

As he spoke, he handed over a jade tally.

In Tianyuan City, the teahouse.

This light, it is said, originates from the Immortal Realm and only manifests when a Great Ascension cultivator undergoes the Ascension Trial—its radiance dazzling, multicolored, seeming to contain all things, illuminating the Nine Heavens and Ten Realms—in theory, every high-level cultivator in the Spirit Realm can see this 'Heavenly Light'! He let out a loud laugh, allowing the Ascension Trial light to envelop him entirely, his body rising, rising… into layer upon layer of storm clouds.

"Not bad… that man is truly about to undergo the Ascension Trial?"

Someone like Fang Xing was utterly unprecedented.

Fang Xing's face was filled with bewilderment: "So… this is what 'true' means in 'True Immortal'?"

Only now, as he truly bore the Ascension Trial light, did he feel a hint of challenge.

Vast amounts of information poured down upon him.

He didn't even need to use the pills he had prepared.

In a daze, he seemed to directly confront the origins of these two laws.

With a soft laugh, a woman's figure descended.

Even Great Ascension cultivators are plagued by the Nine-Nine Tribulations every so often—they still cannot claim true immortality or freedom.

"Is that… the Immortal Gate?"

In ancient times, due to a great calamity, the Dao Lord—then known as the True Illusion Dao Jun—established an army to select True Immortals, creating countless middling and small worlds to widely spread the Dao.

"This Ascension Trial is far stronger than the Nine-Nine Tribulations… if those two human Great Ascension cultivators dared to attempt it, they'd be dead for sure!"

Fang Xing stared at his body, now restored to 'reality,' his heart trembling: "So… the cultivation world is also illusory? And was created by a fourteenth-level master who wields the Dao of True Illusion?"

The middle-aged man was none other than the ruler of the Donglong Imperial Court.

The woman laughed softly and sat across from the stern-faced man.

It was only after his tribulation that the convergence of the Three Realms opened, allowing a Great Ascension demon ancestor to cross over and directly target him.

Even…

"Brother Ji, why aren't you overseeing your Donglong Imperial Court? Why have you come here?"

The term 'Dao Jun' refers to beings beyond the True Immortal Realm!

Splash! He stepped out of the pool to find an immortal greeting him: "I am Gao Fei. Congratulations, friend, on emerging from the True Illusion Immersion Pool, transforming illusion into reality, and attaining the True Immortal Realm!"

"So… I was false all along?"

"One day, I too shall ascend and become an immortal!"

Both men's expressions shifted slightly as they turned toward the mansion district of Tianyuan City: "That… is the Ascension Trial light? It has begun…"

"The Wan Hua Cauldron was always a divine treasure of the Immortal Mansion. With my Time-Space Lotus power, its defense reaches the level of a fourteenth-level True Immortal!"

Fang Xing realized his body was turning illusory! No—not turning illusory, but having always been illusory!

The truth must be that the matter of the demon and the cauldron's spirit had leaked; among demonic sects, there are many secret arts capable of transmitting final images and messages before death.

"It has begun."

Fang Xing flicked his sleeve and floated into the air, gazing at the streams of Ascension Trial light.

The ruler of the Donglong Imperial Court and the Grand Elder of Lingyue Sect, both filled with excitement, sensed the arc-shaped light-gate standing above the Spirit Realm, visible only within the Ascension Trial light.

The middle-aged man sighed softly.

The True Immortal Realm! This realm was boundless, divided into numerous Immortal Domains.

"If this Ascension Trial could break through True Immortal defenses, then no cultivator would ever have succeeded in ascending." Only the first layer of storm clouds summoned roaring purple-gold thunder dragons.

"Time Law? Space Law?"

Each Immortal Domain contained countless planets and continents—entirely comparable to the star systems or even galaxy clusters of the Great Xia world.

Fang Xing silently grumbled, focusing solely on defense as the Ascension Trial light wrapped him repeatedly, passing through layer after layer of tribulations before being drawn into a certain gateway.

No wonder he had never detected anything amiss—this cultivation world was fundamentally superior to the Creator's universe.

The tally was long, inscribed with "Overview of the Immortal Realm"—it was clearly a universal jade tablet of the True Immortal Realm.

In Fang Xing's view, he was a fourteenth-level expert.

Layer after layer of trial light, thunder, Gang wind, and yin fire—all were blocked by the lotus, exuding an aura of "invulnerable to all arts."

"No—it's the Dao of True Illusion!"

…

Mansion District.

Around the teahouse, an invisible barrier had mysteriously formed, guarded by several Void Transformation cultivators, making it impossible for outsiders to approach.

As for how my original body could cross over—and even smuggle items—it was because the True Illusion Dao here encompassed and accepted the illusory laws of the Creator!

Fang Xing raised his hand and released his flying sword, watching the blade-light entangle and dissipate against the thunder-light, and he couldn't help but admire it.

"The aura of the Immortal Realm… no mistake."

Two years ago, after seizing the cauldron spirit, he returned and ascended to Great Ascension.

These Immortal Domains are ruled by individual 'Dao Jun.'

Amidst countless complex, hopeful, envious, or hateful gazes, streams of Ascension Trial light enveloped Fang Xing and drew him into the Immortal Gate. The celestial phenomena vanished instantly, leaving behind only an eternal legend in the Spirit Realm…

In truth, for Fang Xing, there was absolutely no sense of experience.

According to Fang Xing's estimation, the blood sacrifice power required at least the slaughter of an entire continent's demonic beasts! In the end, the number of demons killed by humans might not even match the number slaughtered by their own kind!

…

Fang Xing also found it meaningless. After lightly accepting the heavy gifts from the Donglong Imperial Court and Lingyue Sect, he scoured the area further, then prepared to ascend to the True Immortal Realm.

Suddenly!

Instead, the vast numbers of low-level demonic beasts and demonic animals still required years of clearing—but to humans, this was no longer a problem; rather, it was a tremendous fortune!

Just as he was gaining insight, he suddenly felt himself falling into a pool of water! No—not falling in, but rising upward from the pool's bottom!

Boom!

But Fang Xing didn't indulge the opponent—he sent the fool to his death, then, like Tongledachengwo, the remaining Great Ascension demons and demonic beasts joined forces to set up a grand array capable of slaying immortals, aiming to exterminate Fang Xing, the "Number One Human Cultivator."

Only beings who cultivated to the True Immortal Realm within an illusory world could ascend, being summoned to the True Illusion Immersion Pool of the True Immortal Realm, truly reborn! And now, the greatest power in the True Immortal Realm is the Dao Court! Its master is the Dao Lord—in Fang Xing's view, an eternal being comparable to a fifteenth-level existence!

Under the power of his Golden-Silver Time-Space Lotus, he instantly transformed into a strange two-colored lotus, enveloping himself within.

"Ha! Friend, are you not astonished?"

The middle-aged man said gravely.

After realizing this, Fang Xing immediately retrieved the Wan Hua Cauldron. Now, its body, flame, and spirit were united, purified by his power, stripped of all bloodlight and demonic energy—it was a true divine treasure of the Immortal Mansion.

Once Fang Xing became famous through battle, the high-level battlefield of the Three Realms' convergence was no longer in doubt.

The Grand Elder of Lingyue Sect could not hide her shock: "Two years ago, when this man passed his Great Ascension tribulation and consecutively slew demonic and demonic beast Great Ascension cultivators, I was already stunned. I never imagined so little time had passed—he's about to ascend and become an immortal, free forever from tribulations…"

In the end, he single-handedly annihilated numerous Great Ascension cultivators, truly establishing his reputation as the "Number One in the Three Realms."

"Ascend! Ascend!"

"Indeed… much more thrilling than the Nine-Nine Tribulations…"

"Perhaps this man truly is a celestial exile reincarnated—even in the Immortal Realm, he must be a great figure, born with an immortal body and immortal bones…"

In an instant, Fang Xing understood many things. He watched as his dantian reshaped into a golden marrow, jade-bone immortal body, then a second layer of pool water flowed over him, forming a thin, gauze-like yet soft and thick immortal robe.

Especially since the loot was scarce—the only demonic beast divine treasure used for the array still carried demonic beast destiny and hidden traps. When the demonic beast Great Ascension died, the demonic realm used blood sacrifice power to summon it back through space.

Fang Xing felt time had passed in an instant, yet also as if ten thousand years had flown by.

Aside from his body, everything he had gathered in the Spirit Realm—storage bags, spirit stones, even treasures, and the Wan Hua Cauldron—were all turning illusory! Splash! The pool water surged, restoring his body to 'reality!' 'Is this… the Law of True Self?'

Fang Xing took the jade tally and scanned it with his spiritual sense.

"Aren't you the same? Why aren't you properly serving as Lingyue Sect's Grand Elder? Why come here? Isn't it because of that news?"

Fang Xing's lips twitched slightly—this had happened to him twice. Who else could be so unlucky?

"Hehe… friend, you're mistaken. We cultivate to borrow illusion to attain truth… though your previous body and treasures were illusions, your understanding of the laws was real. After the Immersion Pool's transformation, you emerge as a True Immortal—among the upper echelons of the True Immortal Realm, granted immortality, free from tribulations—how blissful!"

Gao Fei comforted him: "But the Dao Lord created countless worlds and granted you reality, so you must repay the karmic debt. Thus, every ascended immortal must serve in the Dao Court's army… Fortunately, times are not like those of ancient or primordial eras—the great calamity has passed, no great disasters remain, and your duties are quite leisurely…"

Fang Xing was speechless.

So all these people strive to ascend and become immortals… just to become foot soldiers?

(End of Chapter)