The Glazed Heavenly Emperor smiled faintly. "Of course they're connected. Originally, the Savage World's World Origin had no consciousness, and cultivators could ascend freely. But once it developed a consciousness, it felt that those who ascended had absorbed vast amounts of energy from its world before leaving. It felt cheated. After all, that was extremely harmful to its growth!"
"So once it gained self-awareness, it wanted to grow faster and become an even more powerful world. That was why it severed the Ascension Passage!"
Fang Chen had never imagined that the Path to Immortality had been cut off this way.
Yet he still had many questions. He knew that in the Primordial Period, the Savage World had been home to many Immortals, and not all of them had chosen to ascend.
Some Ancient Powers even had Immortals guarding them.
After the Ascension Passage was severed, those deathless Immortals should have remained in this world. They were immortal and imperishable, so there should still be Immortals here. Yet now they had all vanished.
He asked the Glazed Heavenly Emperor, "Senior, there were still many Immortals in the Savage World during the Primordial Era, weren't there? After the Ascension Passage was severed, what happened to the Immortals who remained on the Barbaric Continent?"
The Glazed Heavenly Emperor continued, "Later, the World Will discovered that even after it severed the Ascension Passage, living beings still absorbed the world's energy as they cultivated, hindering its growth. So it began attacking Cultivators, starting with the strongest Immortals. But those Immortals were powerful and refused to surrender without a fight. They resisted, and a fierce battle broke out against the World Will. That battle was exceptionally brutal. Countless cultivators fell, the Immortals were nearly wiped out, and the World Will was gravely wounded!"
"Before falling into