A Gathering of Heroes, Competing in Splendor

Over the past year, Li Chunyi had not contacted him once.

Presumably, he had deliberately waited until today.

Since he had received an invitation, Wang Yu did not dawdle. Following this Nascent Soul Deacon, he silently withdrew from the crowd before the hall first. However, Lan Feng did notice this point, though he did not expose it.

"Interesting. It seems there are still changes to the quotas this time. I wonder which unlucky wretch will be pushed back."

In truth, judging solely by the order of the Ascension Channel—

Once one was outside the top five, it completely lost all value, with no meaning to speak of. If one honestly queued until one's lifespan ran out, there would still be nothing one could do. Logically speaking, the Upper Realm should not have arranged it this way.

Yet after soul-searching Honored Xia, Wang Yu had obtained quite a few secrets, especially regarding this Ascension Channel.

It turned out—

The Ascension Channel of the Mountain Sea Realm had originally been arranged by the Ruthless Law Lineage at great cost. Countless years ago, the Lesser Extreme Palace had once also been one of the Ruthless Dao inheritances in the lower realm.

The channel existed to receive outstanding Spirit Transformation Cultivators and let them arrive in the Upper Realm as early as possible to cultivate. The gap in environments was enormous, and the supply of resources was also extremely abundant. They could more quickly obtain trustworthy mid-level powerhouses to replenish the losses on the Human-Demon Battlefield.

It maintained the young and vigorous branch of the law lineage, ensuring it flourished without decline.

However, there had never been a wall in the world that did not let wind through. In that era, the intensity of the Human-Demon Battlefield was extremely great, and other law lineages