A Fifty-Thousand-Year Adeptus Faked Her Death to Escape? Huo Yuhao Reveals the Truth Behind Ascension, Shocking All Gods!

"Immortal Chi Yuan?" The passerby froze for a moment, then reverence appeared on his face. "You mean that... Immortal Chi Yuan of Mount Taixu?"

"Mount Taixu?" Otto's eyes lit up slightly. "She was there?"

"Yes." The passerby nodded, but then a trace of regret appeared on his face. "But you came too late."

"Too late?" Otto's heart suddenly sank. "What do you mean?"

"Immortal Chi Yuan ascended in broad daylight three months ago." The passerby's voice carried a hint of emotion. "It was said that, atop Taixu Peak, bathed in heavenly flames and rosy clouds, she transformed into a streak of light before countless witnesses and ascended to immortality."

"Ascended... to immortality?" Otto's voice trembled slightly. "You mean... she... left this world?"

"Yes." The passerby nodded. "That was the greatest event in the Divine Continent in a thousand years! Countless cultivators witnessed it with their own eyes. Rosy clouds filled the sky, immortal music resounded everywhere, and Immortal Chi Yuan slowly rose into the air amid that radiance before finally vanishing beyond the horizon."

"No... impossible..." Otto's face instantly turned deathly pale. "How could she... How could she just leave? I searched for five hundred years... five whole centuries!"

He suddenly seized the passerby by the shoulders, his voice bordering on hysteria. "Where did she go? Where did she ascend to? The Immortal Realm? Where is the Immortal Realm? I have to find her!"

"H-How would I know?!" The passerby was startled by Otto's appearance. "The Immortal Realm is a place from legends. How could ordinary people like us possibly know where it is?"

Otto slowly released him, his gaze becoming hollow and lost.

He had searched for five hundred years.

He had crossed countless mountains and rivers.

He had prepared himself to stand against the entire world.

Yet when