"Qingshan, doesn't the Immortal Realm have heavenly tribulations for attaining immortality too?"
Xuan Yuan Pan looked at Li Qingshan and asked in puzzlement, "With your current abilities, wouldn't it be safer to take us straight into the Immortal Realm, then find a way to trigger a heavenly tribulation? Why insist that we undergo the Ninety-Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation in the Lower Realm?"
The others were curious as well.
Li Qingshan explained, "The Immortal Realm does indeed have heavenly tribulations for attaining immortality, but its laws are powerful. Those tribulations mostly test your cultivation; they cannot truly remold you, down to your very bones."
"The Lower Realm's ascension tribulation is different!"
"If Lower Realm cultivators wish to defy heaven and change their fate, shed their mortal bodies, and enter the higher plane of the Immortal Realm, they must undergo the harshest test of the Lower Realm's Heavenly Dao. The Ninety-Ninefold Heavenly Tribulation contains not only destructive power, but also a trace of an exceedingly precious blessing of ascension!"
"Once you survive the heavenly tribulation, the Heavenly Dao Origin will cleanse your body, Primordial Spirit, and Dao Foundation. That gives you a firmer foundation than cultivators native to the Immortal Realm, making it easier to go further in the future!"
Li Qingshan paused, then continued, "That is also why all the major factions in the Immortal Realm are willing to recruit ascenders from the Lower Realm!"
"At the same cultivation level, those who truly ascended by surviving a tribulation through their own strength are often stronger than cultivators native to the Immortal Realm, and their Dao hearts are firmer too!"
Understanding dawned on everyone.
Long Aotian grinned. "So ascenders are hot commodities in the Immortal Realm! I thought we'd all have to start out mining once we got there!"
Li Qingshan's expression immediately