Shen Yuan froze.
The first time he had learned of the title Ascension Daoist was from that enormous stone stele in the Falling Cloud Grotto-Heaven.
The previous Sect Master of the Falling Cloud Sect had attempted to lead the entire sect to ascend to the Upper Realm with the cultivation of an Earth Immortal, only to be struck by heavenly retribution under the influence of the Heaven-Earth Severance. In the end, the entire sect perished, body and soul extinguished.
In the words he left behind before his death, he had mentioned the Ascension Daoist.
According to the previous Sect Master of the Falling Cloud Sect, the Ascension Daoist was a peerless prodigy whom the founding patriarch of the Falling Cloud Sect had deduced through divination at the cost of all his painstaking efforts, one capable of saving the Falling Cloud Sect in its hour of peril.
Yet until the Human Emperor enacted the Heaven-Earth Severance and the world was left with no path to ascension, the previous Sect Master of the Falling Cloud Sect had still failed to await the legendary Ascension Daoist. Instead, he suffered heavenly retribution for forcibly leading his disciples in ascension.
As for the Ascension Daoist from the prophecy, Shen Yuan had also wondered whether it might be himself.
After all, his arrival a full ten thousand years late was quite consistent with the Ascension Daoist's disappearance.
Moreover, the Artificially Stupid System's novice guidance quest had pointed directly to the Falling Cloud Sect. Continuing to cultivate and develop within the Falling Cloud Sect, then becoming a Daoist Child through the various conveniences granted by the system, was not impossible.
But the question now was, how did the Yunmeng Dragon Lord know about the Ascension Daoist?
Shen Yuan's heart was full of doubt.
He had never traveled