The only way

Chapter 932 Secrets of the Spirit Ruins Realm

"Then why are there still people who ascend to immortality? If there are still people who ascend, it means that the path to ascension has not been completely cut off?"

Yes, the world underwent a tremendous change 20,000 years ago, but Chonghe Zhenjun said that the Lingxu Realm had not had anyone ascend to immortality for tens of thousands of years, not 20,000 years.

Since ascension has ceased, how did those who ascended ten thousand years ago achieve it?
"Because that one ascended not to the heavens, but to the underworld."

Underworld!

When Chonghe Zhenjun mentioned this Mahayana cultivator who had ascended to immortality, his eyes were filled with undisguised admiration.

"The Spirit Ruins Realm during that period was insane. The severance of the path to cultivation plunged countless cultivators into confusion and despair."

Countless cultivators lost their will to cultivate and chose to sink into the mundane world. Some immortal sects chose to withdraw from the world and never leave the mountains again, devoting themselves to arduous cultivation.

More often than not, it's about being possessed by demons.

The text recorded in the secret history of the Sanqing Daoist sect is filled with fragmented memories and profound darkness.

However, there were also some cultivators who were unwilling to accept this, especially the geniuses of that era, as well as those who had already cultivated to the Nascent Soul and Mahayana stages.

They consider themselves to be of extraordinary talent, the pride of their time, and ascension to immortality is a foregone conclusion for them.

So how could they accept that their future was cut off like this?

Driven by their unwillingness to accept this, countless methods of ascension emerged.

Some Mahayana cultivators wish to continuously comprehend the laws of Heaven, resonate with Heaven and Earth, and draw upon the Heavenly Dao for their own use, thereby breaking through the boundaries of Heaven and Earth and ascending to the Upper Realm.

There are Mahayana cultivators who have cultivated diligently for ten thousand years, hoping to reach the limit of Mahayana cultivation, the limit of this world, and to practice the method of breaking through the limit.

Some Mahayana cultivators crossed the sea specifically to seek out forbidden places in the celestial realm, especially those places with ancient legends and connections to the heavens, hoping to find a path to the upper realm.

Some cultivators gathered the power of their sects to forge a magical artifact capable of breaking through boundaries and finding other realms, thereby gaining access to other realms where ascension is possible.

Even more advanced cultivators extend their lifespans continuously until there is no way to avoid it, and then exert all their strength to trigger the tribulation of ascension, trying to gamble on that slightest possibility.

However, some of the monks took a different path.

The path to ascension to the heavens is severed; that is the end for cultivators, but not for demonic cultivators!

It is said that demons do not go to the celestial realm after ascending to heaven. So, although both are ascension, perhaps the ascension of demons is unaffected?

Therefore, the demonic cultivators, who were originally hated by everyone and were being suppressed, actually became rampant and prosperous for a time.

Ironically, even demonic cultivators at the Mahayana realm failed to ascend.

And so, the demonic cultivators vanished like a fleeting flower.

But the unwilling monks took another path.

Ghost cultivator.

Ghosts are inherently difficult to form naturally, and even if they do, it is extremely difficult for them to embark on the path of ghost cultivation.

Because at that time, there was no complete and orthodox ghost cultivation method in the cultivation world. Most ghost cultivators appeared by chance and their cultivation level was not high.

However, at that time, there was a human cultivator with extraordinary talent who cultivated smoothly all the way to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. Not long after entering the Mahayana stage, he announced that he would go into seclusion.

Thousands of years later, the ghost cultivators who reappeared before the world were at the Mahayana stage.

Furthermore, he is currently undergoing the tribulation of ascension.

This is the first time in tens of thousands of years that a human cultivator has undergone the ascension tribulation.

Because it was the first time, no one knew whether it would be successful or not.

All that is known is that when the immortal sects arrived at the place of tribulation, the place had already become a dark and gloomy place, teeming with all kinds of cold and ghostly creatures, and the sky was covered with dark clouds, making it impossible to see the sun.

Only the spiritual energy fluctuations of the Mahayana stage ghost cultivator and the lingering power of the Ascension Tribulation remained in the air.

Some cultivators performed rituals to rewind the scene, only managing to glimpse the appearance of the person undergoing the tribulation and the moment the ascension tribulation was triggered. The subsequent scene was completely erased by the power of the ascension tribulation.

Whether this Mahayana ghost cultivator successfully ascended to immortality was not determined at the time, but in the following thousand years, many ghost cultivators appeared in the Spirit Ruins Realm, and some cold and yin spiritual creatures grew rapidly.

Some cultivators speculated that perhaps the ghost cultivator from back then had successfully ascended to immortality.

Because of this rumor, many cultivators deliberately transformed into ghosts or raised ghostly creatures.

However, most of the methods of ghost cultivation are also contrary to the laws of nature.

In order to refine themselves into powerful ghosts, or to create a powerful ghost, some cultivators have developed one terrifying method after another.

Ghosts are born from resentment and obsession, grow strong by feeding on resentment and devouring souls, and are vicious in nature.

It caused countless tragedies at the time, so the various immortal sects joined forces to erase the lineage of ghost cultivators.

Furthermore, the ghost cultivator who was suspected of ascending to immortality back then did not leave behind any inheritance, which means that the ghost cultivator lineage did not actually reach the complete method of the Mahayana stage.

If things develop slowly, one ghost cultivator genius after another will naturally emerge over time, but what the Spirit Ruins Realm lacks most right now is time.

The still-imperfect path of ghost cultivation thus returned to silence once more in the Spirit Ruins Realm.

Chonghe Zhenjun admired this ascended ghost cultivator, firstly because he dared to abandon his Mahayana cultivation and start over as a ghost cultivator.

Secondly, this Mahayana ghost cultivator's cultivation path, after extensive research, turns out that he did not rely on such a fast-paced evil method, but only on the cultivation of cold and malevolent energy.

He also worried that regardless of his success or failure, he would create a lineage of ghost cultivators in the Spirit Ruins Realm. Since ghost cultivators are mostly sinister, he directly cut off his cultivation method and refused to pass it on.

After all this turmoil, time slipped away bit by bit. Gradually, let alone ascension, the number of cultivators in the cultivation world who could even reach the Mahayana stage decreased, until now, it had become an extremely difficult thing.

The last well-known Mahayana cultivator was the one mentioned by Chonghe Zhenjun, who lived eight thousand years ago.

That cultivator, who was able to cultivate to the Great Ascension stage in the increasingly depleted Spirit Ruins Realm, was clearly a person of extraordinary talent.

She was naturally unwilling to remain at the Mahayana stage, waiting for her lifespan to run out without being able to advance further.

This Mahayana cultivator chose the same path as some of his predecessors: to traverse the entire Spirit Ruins Realm.

She searched for five thousand years, and one day, she discovered a crack.

A spatial rift leading to the outside world.

No one knew where this rift led, but the Mahayana cultivators, who had wasted thousands of years, only knew that it was an opportunity.

On the other side of the rift might be an endless void, another world, or the upper realm that everyone dreams of.

No Mahayana cultivator with the ambition to ascend to immortality could resist the urge to seize the opportunity after wasting thousands of years.

Even if there is only the slightest chance, we will never give up.

Therefore, after leaving behind his legacy and destiny tablet, this Mahayana cultivator resolutely stepped into the spatial rift leading to the outside world.

Fortunately, since then, apart from the cracks that appeared at the beginning, the life tablet of that Mahayana cultivator has not been completely broken.

In other words, she is still alive.

Of course, some cultivators also spread rumors that they were too far away, and perhaps they would not even know if their life tablets had been lost.

But most cultivators preferred to believe that the Mahayana cultivator who stepped into the rift was still alive.

Chonghe Zhenjun was one of them.

A few cultivators were optimistic, believing that perhaps this Mahayana cultivator had successfully entered another world and might have already ascended to immortality.

Sometimes, not knowing whether someone is alive or dead is actually a source of hope.

At least, this faint hope has barely maintained the peace of the cultivation world in the Spirit Ruins Realm for thousands of years.