The vast Southern Wasteland stretched beneath a range of rolling green mountains.
The mountains were not tall, yet Spiritual Energy surged into the heavens. Exotic flowers, rare herbs, and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures grew everywhere.
At that moment, space suddenly rippled in a valley. A crack appeared, and a battered figure burst out of it.
It was a woman in white, appearing to be in her thirties, her mature beauty still intact. At present, however, her hair was disheveled, and her clothes were badly torn.
"What a close call!" Gu Manying exhaled deeply and patted her magnificent chest. Recalling what had happened, she still felt shaken.
Her name was Gu Manying, the Great Elder of the Myriad Immortals Sect in the Wudang Realm.
Ten years ago, the laws of Heaven and Earth had changed drastically. Any cultivator who reached the Heavenly Immortal Realm would be drawn by a force of Heaven and Earth, break through the Sky Curtain, and head to another upper realm to continue cultivating. This was known as ascension.
However, after the first batch of cultivators who had already surpassed the Heavenly Immortal Realm ascended, anyone who came afterward had to endure a Heavenly Tribulation before ascending.
Those who withstood it would break through the realms and ascend.
Those who failed would not die, but their cultivation would plummet, and severe injuries were unavoidable.
As one of the eight great sects of the Wudang Realm, the Myriad Immortals Sect naturally had many predecessors who had ascended. Gu Manying was therefore no stranger to the matter.
According to the information passed down by her predecessors, there was an unparalleled force in the upper realm called the Red Dust Hall. Beneath the Red Dust Hall stood the Reception Immortal Platform. Everyone who ascended from the various realms would