The one about to ascend was none other than Pill Saint Chu Yan!
Once Luo Chen reached Central Province, Fu Chaosheng stopped concealing the inside story and solemnly told him and the others.
Truth be told, Luo Chen had been stunned when he first heard the news.
He had heard tales of that man since childhood, and among Pill Refiners, the Pill Saint's name rang like thunder.
People marveled at his mastery of the Pill Refinement Art, yet they had never stopped criticizing his departure from the Mingyuan Sect to join the Heaven Origin Dao Sect.
But now, it seemed it had all been worth it!
He had crossed the threshold of Spirit Transformation and was about to ascend—the ultimate goal of everyone striving for immortality.
Countless efforts were all for this ending.
But the Pill Saint's outcome made one thing clear: sometimes, the choice mattered more than the effort.
If he had remained in the Mingyuan Sect, could he still have ascended?
Probably not. No news of a cultivator ascending had come from the Eastern Wasteland in over a thousand years.
Fu Chaosheng had shared this inside information so solemnly, clearly hoping to encourage them to join Star Gate.
They would not be joining the Heaven Origin Dao Sect directly, but Star Gate offered a bright future all the same.
First came rumors of a mighty cultivator from the Southern Border, then the Pill Saint from the Eastern Wasteland. Both had cultivated to the Spirit Transformation Realm within Star Gate, proving that the Heaven Origin Dao Sect did not discriminate against outsiders.
That was why Winter Mountain Man and Lu Qiuzhen had rushed straight to Heaven Earth Peak the moment they entered Central Province. They could hardly wait.
Now, standing in Zhi Gu City and gazing at the faint