"As you said, King Hanli merely flew above the clouds, beyond the Nine Heavens, but never opened the heavenly gate.
"That made me a little curious. Where is the Heavenly Court?
"Does ascending mean going to the Heavenly Court?
"But King Hanli didn't look as though he was ascending...
"Then I remembered that Great-Grandfather had opened the heavenly gate. He ought to know where it leads."
Li Mingyue only half understood what she heard. How could she possibly ponder so many profound mysteries of the Heavenly Dao?
Even Granny Full Moon, with her cultivation, was still far from that legendary ascension.
Looking at Cui Jiuyang's thoughtful expression, she could only shake her head.
But Cui Jiuyang already had an answer in his heart.
Great-Grandfather had said not to ask how high heaven was. That naturally meant that beyond the heavenly gate definitely lay something other than the Heavenly Court!
Because if the answer really were that simple and straightforward, those words would not have appeared here with such solemnity.
All he could say was that the truth was certainly different from what he had instinctively imagined. That was why Great-Grandfather had told him not to ask recklessly.
Taken together with the restrictive spell on the desk, which required cultivation above the Five Extremes to undo, it seemed to imply that his current cultivation only qualified him to learn that the heavenly gate did not lead to the Heavenly Court.
As for deeper questions, such as "What lies beyond the heavenly gate?" and "Where is the Heavenly Court?", he was not yet qualified to know.
All he could say was that this trip home had answered half his questions.
But it had also raised a new one: where exactly had Great-Grandfather gone?
Judging by the intricacy of the restrictive spell he