The moment Yuan Ye's question left his mouth, Yu Xianyu froze where she stood.
For no other reason than that not long ago, she had taken a master—the current commander of the Dou'e Army, King of Dai Mountain Ji Jinglu.
And before this journey to the Heavenly Palace, her master had specifically emphasized that she was to ask the "Heavenly Dao Deep Sea Diver" one question—were there true immortals in the depths of the Heavenly Sea?
As Yu Que's legitimate daughter, she had of course read the history of the collapse of the Era of Immortals. Living within the Central Empire, where what she saw was as deep as an abyssal sea, she knew even more of a vague legend—
It was said that when the Era of Immortals collapsed, apart from the Nine Immortal Palaces each maintaining their inheritances through secret threads, the immortals had also used supreme Immortal Arts to condense a group of the most learned and most promising immortals into [immortal seeds], allowing them to leap beyond the calamity of that era's destruction and soar above the nine heavens. This was called "ascension."
These true immortals would escape the final great calamity, cultivate "above the heavens," and descend in the most glorious of eras to once more rule the age.
Yet among the thirty-six heavens spoken of by the Daoist Sect, there was not a trace of immortals in any one of them.
After turning it over in her mind, there was only one place where this legend could possibly be made real—the depths of the Heavenly Sea.
If immortals truly still existed, they could only be hiding there.
Fifteen-year-old Yu Xianyu had only just reached the Soaring Dragon stage of the Dao Vein and had yet to step through the gates of the Inner Palace.