After saying that, he looked up at the three of them. "By the rules, ascended cultivators must first enter the Immortal Cleansing Pool to be reborn."
"Please, the three of you."
He raised a hand in invitation. As Lin Qi quietly observed the situation, the middle-aged cultivator at her side was the first to step down from the platform and head toward the pool where flecks of gold churned upon the water.
He looked thoroughly familiar with the process.
Lin Qi followed him voluntarily and discovered that with every step down the stairs, the pressure on her body grew heavier.
She paused briefly before continuing downward as though nothing had happened.
The cultivator holding a scroll at the side reminded them calmly, "There is an array on the teleportation platform that shields you from the realm restrictions of the Xuantian Realm and protects you for a time. But in the end, you must walk down on your own. Only then will you be able to live normally in the Xuantian Realm in the future."
Lin Qi's expression did not change after hearing this.
The cultivator beside her, however, earnestly cupped his fists toward the man. "Thank you for the reminder, Senior!"
Just as they reached the Immortal Cleansing Pool, Lin Qi noticed a disturbance at the adjacent Ascension Platform.
Several purple-robed cultivators with formidable auras had suddenly flown in from afar. With their eyes wide open, they stared fixedly through the array on the Ascension Platform at the newly ascended cultivators.
Their weapons quietly appeared in their hands.
There were also three people on the neighboring Ascension Platform—two women and one man. All appeared quite young, though their exact ages were unknown.
One of them was a Lantern Woman Cultivator. Her bearing was outstanding, her brows and eyes seductive, yet