Although the Human Race in each Mortal Realm had no Guide like the Nameless One, the Immemorial Era plane was connected to those realms.
If people could ascend from them, the Nameless One could also intervene in them discreetly.
He could bring them knowledge, for instance, or deliver methods of Cultivation.
Against this backdrop, the first Ascender appeared ahead of time.
The Nameless One appeared before him. The Ascender was an old man, no longer young by mortal standards.
After all, everything had only just begun. Even with a stroke of fortune, ascending at a young age was unlikely.
Now that he had reached the Immemorial Era, though, things were different. He hardly had to worry about his lifespan anymore.
The Nameless One looked at the Ascender with a gratified smile and said kindly:
"Welcome to the Immemorial Era. You are the first Ascender since the birth of the Primordial Human Race. Welcome to our ranks."
The scene felt strangely familiar.
Familiar or not, the Ascender's arrival meant another way for the Primordial Human Race to grow had emerged.
It was an important way to increase their numbers, no less significant than the Primordial Human Race bearing children naturally—perhaps even more so.
"Who are you? Where is this?" the old man asked.
"I am the Nameless One. As for this place..."
"It is the place we of the Human Race strive for."
In truth, by this world's reckoning, the moment Fengyun Wuji had first ascended was already in the past. It was not the present.
The point in time where the Human Ancestor, the Nameless One, stood was even further from the present.
The present lay far, far in the future. How far?
Fengyun Wuji had already condensed several Divine Cores, reached the level of a Lord God, and