Time flowed on, and twenty thousand years passed.
Ten Thousand Beast Island, a vast bluestone square. At the center of the square stood an Immortal Ascension Platform.
Yuan Rui sat cross-legged near the Immortal Ascension Platform, his eyes slightly closed. A great deal of yellow bristle could be seen over his body, while a yellow glow enveloped him.
After a while, the Immortal Ascension Platform began to shake violently.
Yuan Rui sensed it. The yellow glow around him faded, and all the yellow bristle vanished. He opened his eyes.
As though recalling something, he took out a round Dharma Disk and formed a hand seal. A dense cyan light screen appeared, covering the entire Immortal Ascension Platform.
A multitude of mysterious runes surfaced across the Immortal Ascension Platform, and a cyan light pillar shot into the sky, only to be blocked by the cyan light screen.
The cyan light pillar dispersed, revealing a tall, lean yellow-shirted youth with a huge yellow gourd strapped to his back.
Yuan Rui changed his hand seal and injected another incantation into the round Dharma Disk. The cyan light screen vanished.
"This is Ten Thousand Beast Island. Did you ascend from the Azure Mystic Continent Realm Cluster, Fellow Daoist?"
Yuan Rui asked.
"I am Wu Shan. I ascended from the Tianlei Realm of the Azure Mystic Continent Realm Cluster. Are you also from the Azure Mystic Continent Realm Cluster, Fellow Daoist?"
The Yellow-Shirted Big Man asked cautiously.
Yuan Rui nodded. "That's right, which is why I am responsible for guarding the Immortal Ascension Platform. Fellow Daoist Wu, do you wish to remain free, or join our Ten Thousand Beast Sect? Our Ten Thousand Beast Sect has existed for less than five hundred thousand years. Our strongest cultivators are True Immortal cultivators, and we have cultivation