The ascension process had seemed endlessly long, yet also like a single instant.
When Gong Caiyu opened her eyes, she saw the azure sky of the upper realm, the vast spiritual energy around her, and faintly sensed the Rules of Heaven and Earth between heaven and earth, perfected to their utmost limit.
As well as the Ascension Cleansing taking place within her body and soul.
"Danger..."
A thought surfaced in Gong Caiyu's heart.
She immediately concealed herself and flew away in the direction opposite Thunderflame Domain's Ruling Center.
According to the records of the Central Court inheritance, the Sword Master had erased the aura of Northern Plains cultivators from the ascension Spirit Seeking Magic Treasures of the two great True Sects. But whether stronger beings could detect and repair it remained unknown. She still had to prepare for the worst.
In the training of Tushan Maids, combat, slaughter, and infiltration had always been of paramount importance.
Gong Caiyu was not the slightest bit rusty at this moment. She swiftly fled into the distance while silently considering her options.
If the concealment within the True Sect ascension Spirit Seeking Magic Treasures had failed, and the one coming to capture her was a Deity Transformation Cultivator from a True Sect, she had a chance to escape.
If it was a Void Refinement cultivator, then death was certain.
If it was an expert from the Artifact Sect, then she should kill herself at the fastest possible speed, lest she implicate the Sword Master...
Suddenly, Gong Caiyu halted.
Before her, an old man of skin and bones had appeared at some unknown moment. He was incomparably gaunt, as if fire had baked every drop of fat from his body, leaving only a tough hide wrapped around a steel-like skeleton.
The old man's eyes rolled