The Vast Universe stretched on, its boundless void fading into the distance.
Amid the twinkling stars, a stream of light flashed into being.
One moment it was still before the eye; the next, not even its trail remained.
To the native creatures of some primitive planets, that wisp of light might have seemed like a shooting star—wondrous, yet ordinary.
But to the one within the stream of light, everything felt hazy and dreamlike.
The thunderous cries of farewell still seemed to ring in Luo Chen's ears, yet he knew he had long since left the Mountain Sea World behind.
Sensing the immense Spiritual Opportunity around him and the tremendous pull from somewhere far away, even Luo Chen, whose heart was usually as still as a lake, could not help but feel it surge.
This was ascension!
With the aid of an entire world's Spiritual Opportunity, he leaped across the endless universe, bound straight for the sacred land of cultivation that cultivators dreamed of most—the Immortal World!
Fragments of records concerning ascension surged through Luo Chen's mind.
Countless Greater Worlds existed throughout the endless universe, each with its own wonders, but only the Immortal World stood at the center of the cosmos. Every Greater World had some inexplicable connection to it. Whenever a cultivator broke through the limits of their realm and was expelled from their Greater World, they would journey to the Immortal World.
Such a journey could never be completed merely by crossing the void. Only by being borne aloft by Spiritual Opportunity was success possible.
That was what they called "Ascension by Soaring"!
Yet even amid his excitement, Luo Chen could not shake a few doubts.
According to the records of ascension he had gathered, a cultivator's ascent usually took only an instant. The immense pressure of traveling