Ascension!
Only moments ago, Ji Chunjun, master of the Jun Tian Sacred Ground and the current ruler of Nine Heavens, had been fired with passion, rallying more than a dozen Dao Integration True Immortals as though he intended to lead them in one final struggle against Li Xian and display the backbone of the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground...
Had ascended!
Ascension was a swift process to begin with.
From drawing down the origin sea to enveloping the ascender and carrying them away as a rainbow, it took less than half a breath.
Before ascending, Ji Chunjun had deliberately retreated at full speed to put distance between them, then rallied more than a dozen Dao Integration True Immortals to burn their immortal power and fight Li Xian to the death, leaving him unable to spare the effort to stop him.
"H-Holy Lord?"
Watching the master of the Nine Heavens Sacred Ground disappear from everyone's sight, wrapped in Great Dao Origin, some of the Dao Integration True Immortals stared blankly, their eyes filled with disbelief.
Their Holy Lord...
Had left them to cover his retreat, then run off himself?
For a moment, these Dao Integration True Immortals truly had something to say but did not know whether they should say it.
There were also some who had thoroughly brainwashed themselves. Rather than feeling angry, they laughed heartily. "Good! The Holy Lord truly has resolve! Staying alive matters more than dying! With his strength in the Celestial Immortal realm, once he develops his grotto-heaven to its limit in the Immortal Realm and gives it a thousand times the immortal power of a Pure Yang True Immortal, intercepting and killing Li Xian as he ascends will be child's play!"
Some even moved themselves with their own devotion.
"As a God Immortal, Dao Transformation was