The thunder over the Netherbright Sword Grotto-Heaven gradually faded.
Within the shattered space stood two cultivators whose skin hung in tatters, leaving little but white bone and scraps of flesh. Supporting each other, they walked toward the ascension immigration passage.
The higher-grade heavenly tribulation had brought a stronger cleansing. Amid visions of flowers raining from the sky and golden lotuses springing from the earth, a wave of golden light swept over them, restoring their bodies and further tempering their souls and flesh. Their future Dao Paths would be a little smoother for it.
This was the treatment afforded to citizens of a world-cluster hegemon.
In every respect, it far surpassed what they had received in the Netherbright Sword Grotto-Heaven. The two could not be compared.
The two ascending cultivators gradually vanished from sight.
"More than two thousand years. At last, two suitable sword heirs have emerged. No, inheritors..."
The Netherdark Inheritance watched them leave, her feelings complicated.
For this day, they had screened candidate after candidate and endured countless failures. Only then had they raised the citizens the Immortal Sect needed, who had finally ascended successfully.
The depth of an upper-realm Immortal Order's inheritance truly far exceeded the likes of the Skullblood Vine Demon.
They could deliberately cultivate the ascending immigrants the Immortal Sect needed. How efficient that was remained hard to say; they had paid a heavy price for this day, emptying many of their stores.
But in the end, they had succeeded.
These two junior disciples would grow within a world-cluster hegemon power. Their future achievements might surpass their predecessors'.
"Now we can rest easy about the order's inheritance."
"Even if the two of us die in battle someday, fall in a sword duel, we'll still be able to face our master and tell him everything that happened