Ascending by Borrowing the Path

Nine Nether Void Realm, Nether Dark Sky—Chaos hung hazy and dim.

A colossal vortex of unknowable millions of miles in diameter slowly revolved. Compared to the incomparably violent space-time currents at its outskirts, the "eye" at its center was clearly far calmer.

At some unknown moment, a figure silently appeared deep within the "eye."

At this time, crystalline mountains floated in the void ahead, quietly blossoming with multicolored radiant clouds. Countless immortal script runes continuously emerged within that radiance.

These crystalline peaks were exceedingly strange. They stood upside down, their summits hanging below, while their roots had been flattened into ritual platforms nearly a hundred miles across.

A careful count revealed eighty-one such inverted crystal peaks, precisely corresponding to the Ascension Platform's eighty-one formation pillars.

Gazing at the crystal peak formation ahead, Zhao Sheng's eyes burned with fervor. Since his reincarnation until this day, this was the first time he had personally seen the Ascension Grand Array in its complete form.

Without question, these eighty-one crystal peaks were the Ascension Grand Array's most vital formation foundations. The Ascension Platform was merely a tiny portion displayed in the open.

Zhao Sheng flashed forward and instantly landed atop one crystal peak's ritual platform. He swiftly sat cross-legged, and divine light immediately blazed from between his brows.

His divine sense expanded in a vast surge, blanketing the crystal peak beneath him in the blink of an eye.

In an instant, innumerable immortal script runes flooded into his mind like a raging torrent, rapidly forming tens of thousands of obscure and inscrutable formation nodes.

Before long, the crystal peak gradually lit up. The radiant clouds covering it were like the rising morning sun, quickly illuminating the surrounding darkness.

Zhao Sheng immersed himself in the pleasure of unraveling the Ascension Grand Array's mysteries and forgot