Since ancient times, communication between Heaven and Earth had always been severed. Between the land and the Void, it was fundamentally impossible to establish any effective exchange. Even with the marvels of Daoist arts, even though the two patriarchs of Dao and Buddhism in the Void, along with the patriarchs of every lineage, possessed immense supernatural powers and great mana—capable of cleaving earth and opening heaven with a single thought in the Void—and even though their traditions were passed down upon the land—
Even so, the barrier between the land and the Void remained absolute. Only at exceedingly rare moments, with the right time, the right place, and the right person, when every harsh condition imaginable had been met—
Only then could a few scattered words be transmitted down from the Void.
Generally speaking, whichever tradition flourished most during a given millennium and formed the greatest karmic ties with the land—if it later encountered a suitable prodigy, and that prodigy attained the Dao Fruit of Human Immortal at the proper time—might be able to communicate with the Void.
And after establishing communication, the things obtained came in every variety: perhaps an extraordinary passage of scripture, perhaps a fragment of Daoist or Buddhist teachings, or perhaps all manner of secret accounts concerning the Void and the land.
At the same time, once such things had been obtained, the information learned had to be spread outward. Otherwise, even after becoming a Human Immortal, one could not ascend. Should one force an ascension, the patriarchs of the Upper Realm would strike them down, or even directly scatter their Dao Fruit and divine soul, reducing them to flying ash.
Within the cultivation world, there were countless opinions on the matter. Some said that the patriarchs of the Upper Realm did this because they hoped