"Wan Jiang?!"
Embracing Origin Old Ancestor Xiao Sheng was startled, yet he still gripped that mining pickaxe tightly. Then he burst into loud laughter. "I never expected a junior like you to ascend as well?"
There was none of the shame and indignation he had felt back then on his face. Instead, he was exceptionally gratified and delighted.
Wan Jiang stood alone in the wind, utterly disheveled, his gaze even turning somewhat clouded. He had grown up listening to the Old Ancestor's legends and had personally witnessed his ascension. Now, he found it hard to accept the sight of that legendary figure, beaming with health in the Immortal Realm as he mined away.
Ascending was not supposed to mean becoming a miner in the upper realm!
The upper-realm cultivators oppressed us so cruelly. How could the Old Ancestor join forces with them!
Over these ten thousand years, more and more lower-realm cultivators had ascended to the Five Elements Immortal Domain. By now, over thirty thousand domain ascenders had arrived in this mine pit. Yet because the Heavenly Foundation Stone mine tunnels were simply too vast, even if they wished to meet, it might take them years.
But without exception, these domain ascenders were extraordinarily patient and enduring.
Among them were even several who began mining without a word. For years, they had not uttered a single complaint, yet it was not difficult to see the immense resentment in their hearts, merely waiting for the day they could soar into the heavens in the Five Elements Immortal Domain.
"Old Ancestor!" Wan Jiang cried, ashamed and furious.
"Hehe, This Seat knows what you are thinking." Xiao Sheng stroked his beard with one hand and smiled calmly. "Come sit in my cave dwelling."
"...Yes." Wan Jiang gritted his teeth.
They then went to