They had even tried every means to swindle away the Dao-Merging Grounds that Senior Qin Yezhou had risked his life to seize from the Abyssal Ruins Battlefield.
It was no wonder Qin Yezhou's Remnant Soul could not accept it at first. Luo Yi would not have been able to accept it either.
The Dao companion of a Heavenly Prodigy had, amid the envious blessings of the crowd, become an Immortal's Contract Beast.
After it happened, every Human Race faction in the Endless Sea fell into a collective silence. They avoided mentioning Qin Yezhou and his Dao companion whenever they could.
But what the Immortal had done was too much. He might as well have ground their faces into the dirt!
How could Qin Yezhou, young and splendid in his finery, have borne such humiliation?
He had sworn an oath in his heart then and there.
He would brave the Heavenly Tribulation, ascend the Immortal Gate, and enter the Immortal Register. He would carve his name deep into the Immortal Court Register.
He refused to enter the Immortal Gate one day only to see his Dao companion beside someone else, reduced to something akin to **.
And so, on a night of driving rain and thunder, Qin Yezhou finally made up his mind.
First, he sought out Tiansuanzi, the Master who had been both teacher and father to him, to say goodbye. He intended to give up his right to inherit the Tianyan Sect's Dao-Merging Grounds and head instead to the Abyssal Ruins Battlefield beyond the Endless Sea, where he would seek another path to immortality.
His reason for making that choice was simple.
A cultivator could raise his cultivation by merging with Dao-Merging Grounds recognized by the Immortal Court, but afterward, the Immortal Court would hold him in an invisible