"The first person to ascend as a citizen was about to appear..."
"Would she make it?"
Fire Leopard Three stared at the white jade skeleton in the starry sky. His mouth went dry, and excitement surged through him.
The hope of becoming a citizen was right before his eyes!
The radiant road to immortality was right before his eyes!
"An Immortal Sect Citizen, an Immortal Sect Citizen..."
All around him, countless cultivators watched the sky with longing and envy: the Blood River King, Spirit Transformation cultivators from many minor worlds, and Nascent Soul Cultivators. Their thoughts ran wild. How they wished they were the one beneath those ascension thunderclouds.
Among them were members of the Stone Person Race, the Fire Spirit Race, the Fox Race, the Ox Race...
They had grown used to being treated as lesser beings.
During the reign of the Horned Demon Imperial Clan, throughout the rebellion, and even in ages further past, they had been slave races. Their souls, lifespans, and flesh had all belonged to their masters.
In the Immortal Sect era, their lives had changed as utterly as heaven and earth turning upside down. They no longer had to fear being killed at any moment, their souls torn out and refined.
But they all understood that they could never be equal to Immortal Sect Citizens. Still less could they ever advance beyond Spirit Transformation. A cold boundary stood between them.
And now, a glimmer of hope had appeared!
More than four hundred years ago, the Great Sun Spirit Transformation Strategy had emerged and shaken the boundless stars of the realm. Across the entire star region, who knew how many people had raised their moral-character scores by a full notch? Cultivators of the myriad races had become more enthusiastic about that subject than ever before.