"This time, my ascension to the Immortal Realm is truly different from before."
Fang Qing stood atop the Mobilization Platform, listening to the thunderous cries of loyalty from below and feeling the heavy tiger tally and general's seal in his hands. He could not help feeling somewhat moved.
In the Eternal Life Realm, he had also ascended to the Immortal Realm before. But back then, he had only been a Half-step Golden Immortal. In the Heavenly Court of the Immortal Realm, emperors stood everywhere, and there were several Heavenly Monarchs. Order was strict, and ranks were clearly defined.
When a Half-step Golden Immortal like him ascended, he was no more than an ant. He had needed to tread carefully and accumulate strength in the outside world. How could he ever have possessed such authority and grandeur as he did now, arriving in the Immortal Realm and immediately taking control of an army?
Yet in the Grand Emperor Heaven Immortal Realm, though it too was a first-rate Immortal Realm, the rules were somewhat different.
The first through ninth levels of the Shattered Realm were the primary stages of cultivation.
Even the Heavenly Emperor was merely at the ninth level of the Shattered Realm, with Shattered Dao cultivation.
Although the gap between the first and ninth levels of the Shattered Realm remained as vast as a heavenly chasm, compared to the terrifying disparities of the Eternal Life Realm, where the difference could span countless eras, this gap of "nine levels" was not wholly unreachable.
Especially for Fang Qing, who possessed the Supreme Emperor Ancient Snake Talisman and the Sacred King's inheritance.
More importantly, there was status.
By relying on his towering merits in the lower realm, he had directly been granted a position of real authority as an Immortal General, commanding eight