The Bitter End Gives Way to Sweetness!

"Though I failed to arrive half a day earlier and protect you through your ascension, it doesn't matter. This Dust-Cleansing Ascension is ultimately inferior to Ascension Dust-Cleansing. Had I come earlier, you would instead have had to endure quite a bit of hardship."

Lu Qingfeng and his disciple Lin Ye entered Two-Qi Peak and walked into Polarity Hall. Knowing that his disciple's ascension had been obstructed, and that she was likely forcing a smile, he did not hurry to discuss it. Instead, he talked about everything but the matter at hand, lest he make his disciple worry, grow dejected, or even despair and fall into utter misery. He spoke first.

"..."

Upon entering Polarity Hall, Lin Ye had just happily taken out some immortal tea to respectfully offer her teacher. Hearing his words, she froze where she stood.

Dust-Cleansing Ascension.

Ascension Dust-Cleansing.

Lin Ye naturally knew of both.

She cultivated the orthodox-grade Luofu Sword Canon passed down by Lu Qingfeng, an immortal cultivation true law that pointed directly to the Earth Immortal realm. It contained descriptions of the Earth Immortal stages.

The first Earth Immortal realm was the 'Dust-Cleansing Realm.'

The terms 'Dust-Cleansing Ascension' and 'Ascension Dust-Cleansing' represented the two paths to becoming an Earth Immortal.

In one, Dust-Cleansing came first.

In the other, Dust-Cleansing came later.

There was no need to elaborate. The former referred to the path she had originally intended to take—

Establishing a dojo in Seven Treasures Mountain and using it to transform into a blessed land, thereby proving the Dao and becoming an Earth Immortal.

This was the 'Blessed-Land-Creation Earth Immortal' path.

As for the latter, it was even more difficult.

It meant forcibly opening a path through the fog of longevity, then throwing open the immortal gate in one stroke and achieving the orthodox