After a moment of silence, the man in the Confucian robe suddenly transmitted his voice. "Little friend, if you wait for the Taiqing Sect's envoy to arrive, you and the other ascenders will likely all encounter danger!"
Su Yi's expression did not change. "What makes you say that?"
The Confucian-robed man's gaze flickered. "Since time immemorial, you are the first batch of ascenders to arrive in the Immortal Realm. You have long since drawn the attention of all the major forces here."
"But do you know why, today, only people like us came to receive you?"
"It is very simple. The Taiqing Sect sealed off the news and played a trick of feinting east while attacking west!"
"A year ago, the Taiqing Sect spread word that the Immortal Realm gate leading to the human world would most likely appear at ascension sites within the four continents of Nether Continent, Gold Continent, White Continent, and Jade Continent. Jing Province alone was never mentioned!"
"This is called stealing the sky and swapping out the sun, feinting east while attacking west!"
"And the reason the Taiqing Sect did this was to seize every person ascending into the Immortal Realm and hold them all in its grasp!"
After hearing this, some of Su Yi's doubts were finally answered.
Even before the Era of Immortal Fall, every opening of the Immortal Realm gate had drawn enormous attention throughout the Immortal Realm.
At such times, countless immortal Dao factions would appear and dispatch envoys to select successors from among the ascenders, according to the rules established by the Central Immortal Court.
Yet now, after the passage of eternity, when the Immortal Realm gate opened once more, this ascension site in Jing Province seemed extraordinarily deserted. Only a dozen or so immortals were serving as Immortality Guides.