Xu Ci's mouth twitched, but he immediately greeted you with a smile.
"Come now, young friend Jing. This is fate bringing us together, a Heavenly Mandate."
You asked curiously, "What do you mean when you say this concerns ascension?"
Ascension was an elusive thing. The last ascension had occurred five thousand years ago, before the Four Great Continents existed.
Since Ancient Antiquity, the cultivation world had gone five thousand years without witnessing anyone ascend in broad daylight. Now, across the Four Great Continents, the Righteous Nine Sects, the Unorthodox Nine Schools, and the Demon Sect Seven Schools all regarded ascension as the ultimate Great Dao.
Seeing no one else around and realizing he could not keep it from you, Xu Ci finally said, "This place is famous for its kilns far and wide. Even cultivation sects prize several of its finest porcelains as treasures. But there is one kind the world knows nothing about."
"It is called Life-Bound Porcelain. It can alter fate. Inscribe the birth date and hour of an infant less than a day old upon it, then fire the porcelain, and that child's Root Bone will be blessed beyond measure. Gifted with extraordinary talent, the child will be said to have the potential of a Golden Immortal."
You could not help being surprised. In cultivation, one's Root Bone and talent were decreed by heaven, bestowed at birth. Never had there been a way to change them afterward.
Such a secret art defied all reason. If it truly worked, it could shake the Four Great Continents.
Your gaze darkened. "If it truly grants the 'potential of a Golden Immortal,' why has Xuyang Commandery never produced even one cultivator in the Dao Embryo Realm?"
Xu Ci chuckled. "The art has indeed been passed down. But the most crucial material