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The day after Ascension Pavilion's founding ceremony ended, news of it spread throughout the Nine Provinces and Ten Domains, continuing onward to even more distant regions and causing a mounting sensation.
The establishment of an immortal sect was naturally major news in this world. When that sect was also uniquely different, claiming to possess multiple paths to ascension—especially paths that had never existed in conventional understanding before—a tremendous uproar was inevitable.
At present, Ascension Pavilion was the only hot topic in Bai Prefecture's cultivation world. Nearly all independent cultivators were asking how to join Ascension Pavilion, while ordinary people who were not cultivators were equally interested in it.
Most ordinary people lacked Spiritual Roots and could not embark on the Daoist path to ascension. Yet the multiple Immortal Paths proposed by Ascension Pavilion gave them fantasies they had never dared entertain before. Thus, within a single day, millions of mortals gathered at Ascension Pavilion's mountain gate, creating an unprecedentedly grand spectacle.
Beyond Bai Prefecture, however, such fervor was somewhat more restrained. Restrictions of distance and distortions during the spread of information caused people from other prefectures to harbor greater doubts toward Ascension Pavilion. They believed this rising immortal sect was merely seeking attention, and whether it could be trusted remained to be seen.
For example, in Azure Prefecture, tens of thousands of miles away from Bai Prefecture, most people merely laughed off the news regarding Ascension Pavilion. Very few truly took it to heart.
At that moment, in a teahouse within a major Azure Prefecture city filled with cultivators, a storyteller was recounting the latest important news from other prefectures. His focus was Ascension Pavilion's founding ceremony.
"Everyone, I'm sure you have already heard today's topic. Seven days ago, I mentioned Ascension Pavilion.
Then just yesterday, Ascension Pavilion officially established