Things like ascending to heaven in a single step did happen in this world.
Take the Heavenly God Tree: eating one of its fruits could turn someone into a Heavenly God on the spot.
And when four Heavenly God Trees combined to form a Heavenly Immortal Tree, that was more astonishing still.
Eating one Heavenly Immortal Fruit could turn someone directly into a True Immortal.
Granted, whether someone became a Heavenly God or a True Immortal by eating a fruit,
their Magical Power, Primordial Spirit, body, and Laws would be the weakest among their peers.
But at least they had reached that realm.
Still, although both were ways of ascending to heaven in a single step,
system experience was very different from Heavenly God Fruits and Heavenly Immortal Fruits.
Using a Heavenly God Fruit to enter the Heavenly God Realm was, put plainly, a matter of having the fruit's power remake the cultivator.
Their body became a Heavenly God Body, their Primordial Spirit became a Heavenly God Primordial Spirit, and their Magical Power rose to the level of a Heavenly God.
Even their own Great Dao was replaced by the Heavenly God Laws within the fruit.
Thus appeared an instant Heavenly God, riddled with flaws.
After taking a Heavenly God Fruit, such a cultivator might be called a Heavenly God, but they were more like a Heavenly God Fruit turned human.
It was only because the Heavenly God Fruit had no Ling or will that the cultivator did not become someone else entirely.
Heavenly Immortal Fruits worked on much the same principle.
Heavenly Gods and True Immortals made this way were the weakest of their respective ranks.
For True Immortals, it was less of a problem; the gulf between mortals and Immortals was too vast.
It normally took a Red