Above Ascension-to-Immortality Town.
Countless mortals seeking immortality and the Dao gazed at Heavenly Terrace Mountain of Prayer to the Sage, which soared into the heavens. They watched immortal ships arrive, some towering and imposing, some exquisitely beautiful, others vast and ethereal, hovering in the sky as though halfway up the mountain. They watched immortals stride through the air and ride the clouds, free and at ease, and longing rose in every heart.
Ming Yueye, who came from Ming Continent, was no exception.
What she yearned for, however, was to become one of those lofty Immortal Clan mighty figures who could command the world-a Dao Lord.
Although the Nine Provinces were all the Dao Ancestor's private domain, there were still varying degrees of closeness between them.
Seekers of immortality from the same province naturally gathered together.
The southern part of Ascension-to-Immortality Town was where the people of Ming Continent congregated.
At that moment, Ming Yueye was staying in a luxurious courtyard residence built in the south of town, waiting for the Immortal Ascension Assembly to officially begin.
As one of the nine prodigies renowned throughout the Nine Provinces, Ming Yueye had not traveled to Central Continent alone.
She was Ming Continent's most gifted seedling for immortal cultivation and had also been born into one of its great noble families. Thus, Ming Continent's noble factions had contributed money, resources, and manpower to escort her all the way here.
Everyone who had placed a wager on her hoped she would enter one of the Three Teachings and become a disciple under one of the Dao Ancestor's direct disciples.
But only she knew that her purpose on this journey was not to join those direct disciples of the Dao Ancestor in the Three Teachings, but to join the Luofu Immortal Sect, the last of