"Wan Jiang?!"
Embracing Origin Ancestor Xiao Sheng was startled, yet he still gripped that mining pick tightly. Then he threw back his head and laughed. "I never expected a junior like you to ascend as well!"
There was none of the shame and indignation he had worn back then. Instead, his face was filled with unusual gratification and joy.
Wan Jiang stood alone and disheveled in the wind, his gaze turning somewhat clouded. He had grown up listening to legends of the Ancestor and had personally witnessed the Ancestor's ascension. Now, he found it difficult to accept the sight of that legendary figure, rosy-cheeked and vigorously mining in the Immortal Realm.
Ascension was not meant to turn one into a miner in the upper realm!
The upper-realm cultivators oppress us so cruelly—how could Ancestor join forces with them?!
Over these ten thousand years, more and more lower-realm cultivators had ascended to the Five Aggregates Immortal Domain. More than thirty thousand Domain ascenders had now arrived in this mine pit. Yet because the Heavenly Foundation Stone mine was simply too vast, even if they wished to meet one another, it might take years.
But without exception, these Domain ascenders were extraordinarily patient and enduring.
A few of them had even begun mining without a word. Over the years, they had not uttered a single complaint, yet it was not hard to see the immense resentment buried in their hearts. They merely awaited the day they would soar into the heavens within the Five Aggregates Immortal Domain.
"Ancestor!" Wan Jiang said, ashamed and indignant.
"Hehe, I know what you are thinking." Xiao Sheng stroked his beard with one hand and smiled calmly. "Come, sit in my cave dwelling."
"...Yes." Wan Jiang gritted his teeth.
They then went to a crude cave dwelling,