The energy and fortune of this world would not be lacking, but its rule power was only sufficient to support a single Tower Ascension. Once that limit was exceeded, the Heavenly Dao of this region would unleash backlash tribulation lightning and destroy whatever threatened it.
Thus, after all these years, the two opposing camps across the two continents had only two Tower Ascensions.
All beneath Tower Ascension were ants. As long as each side still had one Tower Ascension holding the field, the situation could remain stable.
Therefore, entering Tower Ascension was neither a matter of fortune nor a failure to inscribe Dao Patterns to the Tower Ascension level. Rather, the current Heavenly Dao Law simply could not provide enough support for one's breakthrough.
The Star Sword Ancestor had come to borrow the Dao Essence scattered by the Spiritfall Storm to force his way into Tower Ascension. He had calculated the timing precisely.
Although the Azure Heaven Sword Domain had no shortage of Half-Step Tower Ascension cultivators, Yan Jueshuang was still an elder of their own Sword Domain. How would the Sword Domain's disciples and direct disciples view someone brazenly forcing a breakthrough while her bones were not yet cold?
Did they still intend to remain in the Sword Domain?
The Spiritfall Storm would not easily disperse. It was, after all, Heavenly Dao Law. Under normal circumstances, the Sword Domain would prioritize benefiting its lower-ranking disciples. After all, it was only natural for elders to grant some favor to the younger generation; it violated no taboo.
Only after the funeral arrangements were complete would high-level cultivators absorb it and brave tribulation to reach the same realm as the deceased. That was the dignified way.
Yet the Star Sword Domain had now broken the etiquette that ought to have been observed,