At midnight, Water Mouth City was filled with repeated phenomena of achieving immortality and attaining the Way.
Paper money drifted through the streets and alleys in the south of the city, turning to ash the moment it touched the ground; dark-red blood seeped from the earth at the docks, winding along the cracks between the bricks; several bright-red lanterns hung suspended in midair, and a woman's long, drifting sigh could be faintly heard...
Demonic qi howled across the sky as swarms of wraiths escorted Yin Qianzhang to Wish-Fulfillment Abbey.
Yin Qianzhang appeared inside the main hall and noticed that five small statues were becoming vividly lifelike. Clearly, the Immortal Ascension Sect disciples connected to them were about to become immortals.
Once they set foot into Yin Immortality, it meant they had advanced to outer sect disciples.
"Cough, cough, cough."
"Three Incense Lady doesn't dare show herself. I'd like to see how this Immortal Ascension Assembly ends."
Yin Qianzhang clutched his chest and kept coughing. Wax oil seeped from his back, and his gaze rested on the statue in the center.
The central statue also showed subtle changes. A faint light radiated from its surface, but its appearance remained blurred, as if it could not become exactly identical to Ren Qing.
"You're becoming an immortal too? Three Incense Lady laid out this scheme just to let you become an immortal?"
Yin Qianzhang panted heavily. Behind him, four wraiths entered the hall.
"My lord, the Immortal Court Sub-Diagram has been retrieved."
A wraith carefully took out a yellowed sheet of human-skin paper. Bits of flesh and blood still clung to its edges.
The so-called Immortal Court Sub-Diagram was rumored to have been refined from the corpse of a True Immortal of the Immortal Ascension Sect. There were a total of one hundred