So this mission had come to them, most likely because that lord had deliberately intended to temper them.
At that thought.
Yu Chengguang immediately seemed to understand, excitement rising within him.
A realm beyond the world had appeared near the immortal city.
It was very likely caused by a spatial rift.
This could not be ignored. For independent cultivators, possessing a world of their own was nothing unusual.
Some of their grotto-heavens were entire worlds apart from the mundane.
Some even contained their own sun, moon, and stars.
Thus, strange lights from other worlds were not unheard of.
But some worlds beyond the heavens were particularly special.
So special that many sects maintained year-round missions to pioneer the outer heavens and search for such worlds.
So long as one discovered one and reported it, one could obtain a great deal of Dao merit.
And for an individual cultivator.
If one discovered a world beyond the heavens for oneself, there might even be a stroke of fortune hidden within it.
Yu Chengguang had heard of such a case.
There had once been a powerful cultivator whose path to rise began when he encountered a world beyond the known realm.
That world happened to contain a Dao Enlightenment Tree.
Relying on the Dao Enlightenment Tree, that cultivator had risen from a poor mortal to a renowned powerhouse in his own right.
Even now, his name still carried considerable weight within the Grand Heaven Dao Sect.
After all, that powerful cultivator was now an inner sect elder of the Grand Heaven Dao Sect.
Yu Chengguang knew of him because, unlike other cultivators who had grown up from childhood to become sect elders.
That True Person Qi of the Grand Heaven Dao Sect.
Had truly risen step by step from a Rogue Cultivator.
When