Ascension

Ye Hanjun looked up at the tall tower in front of him with a dazed look.

The structure of this tower is very simple. From a distance it looks like it has only ten floors and is at most 500 meters high.

However, the closer you get, the more awe-inspiring the primitive aura of the tower becomes.

It was not until he reached the bottom of the tower that Ye Hanjun suddenly realized something.

In his eyes, the tower was more than 100,000 feet high. Every time his eyes moved upwards, the tower would continue to grow taller, as if it would be impossible to see the top of the tower forever.

"Is this the legendary 'One Pass to the Sky'?" Ye Hanjun sighed.

In the legends of the heavens and myriad worlds, there are countless examples of the Nine Seas, Eight Mountains, and Seven Abysses.

But when we reached the three pools, two gates and one passage, there were very few relevant clues.

Especially this "Tian Tong Ling Tower", Ye Hanjun could not find the answer even after asking the gods.

In the end, it was only after much trouble and relying on its identity as the Pillar of Heaven that they finally located it.

This place - strictly speaking, belongs to the very edge of the world!

This is an area beyond the reach of divine power. Without the blessing of the world's will, it would be a daydream to want to peek at the tip of the iceberg.

"Big tadpole, I'm really looking forward to this journey!"

Guagua, who had turned into a Tibetan Sutra Frog on his shoulder, was filled with excitement:

"This is an invitation from our ancestors! It's exciting to think about traveling to the Land of Nirvana with them!"

“But I’m not ready to completely detach.”

Ye Hanjun tapped Guagua's belly and said calmly:
"According to what the Ancient Pure God said, the only way for the God of Favored Spirits to go to that world is to choose to transcend."

"I am the crown of the human race, favored by the will of chaos, and more favored by the current world than the spirit race."

“So if you only go once, it seems you have the right to turn back.”

"This trip might be rushed and we won't be able to enjoy it to the fullest."

"Enough, enough!"

Guagua shook his head happily:
"Just go and see the world. I'm not ready to be detached!"

"After all, I have so many friends in the real world. I can plant plants in the Solar Abyss, train bird cubs in the Heaven Realm, visit Little Langdang in the Desire Realm... There are so many fun things to do that I can't keep up!"

"Be careful that you will be described as the 'God of Mischief' in future history books."

Ye Hanjun pinched the little guy's chin, joked, straightened his clothes, and slowly pushed open the tower door in front of him.

"Squeak-"

There was no dust on the door and it was not difficult to push it open.

But Ye Hanjun still sensed that there was some existence watching him in the dark.

There was also a kind of law fluctuation that was filled with a sense of tearing, hovering above his head and could land at any time.

"Son of the World, you are here."

The plain and dull voice echoed in the soul out of thin air, like a dragonfly touching the water, stopping as soon as it touched.

Ye Hanjun raised his eyebrows. His address changed again?
Son of the World... That's a really strange description.

"As you can see, the Tongtian Spiritual Tower was actually built by us."

"Its only function is to connect to the outer world. It is the intersection between the world of dependent spirits and the world outside the heaven."

"No matter what you see or hear later, when you return to the world of the spirits, you must pretend that you don't know anything, otherwise you may lose your status as a pillar of the Heavenly Dao..."

A flat voice chattered on and on, explaining.

Ye Hanjun listened quietly, not missing a single detail, for fear of making a low-level mistake.

"Okay, I'll let Chuan come pick you up, relax and don't resist."

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of rune arrays lit up in the empty tower.

There was a pair of eyes opening and closing in the air, and then Ye Hanjun saw a stream flowing down from top to bottom, as light as a ribbon.

After wrapping it around his waist, she gently lifted him up. In an instant, the surroundings became faster and the environment changed drastically.

"vomit……"

Gua Gua, who mastered space magic, felt his stomach churning and his head dizzy.

Ye Hanjun resisted the urge to faint, remembered Jingshen's instructions, relaxed his muscles little by little, and tried his best to keep his mind empty.

After a long time, there seemed to be water splashing in my ears.

Ye Hanjun opened his eyes and froze in place.

It was difficult for him to describe in words what he saw. Amid the shining stars, the sky and earth seemed infinitely vast.

Some areas are very empty, while others are very crowded.

The pitch-black whirlpools are lined up in formation, and no one knows where they lead to. Each one has a creepy sense of crisis, which makes people fearful.

"Welcome to the Outer Worlds. This is the first stop. We call it the 'First Entrance'."

The person who made the sound was right beside him. Ye Hanjun turned his head and saw a stream.

This stream is only a hundred meters wide, but it is coiled around a planet like a very thin giant python.

His body is made up of light blue water, and as it rushes forward one can hear the sound of thousands of horses galloping.

When I listened carefully, I felt like it was an illusion. The surroundings were extremely quiet, so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

“I am Chuan.”

The extremely thin giant python spit out its tongue, and its dark blue eyes examined Ye Hanjun with great interest:

"Son of the World? Interesting."

"Go ahead. I'm waiting for you. As the most orthodox leader of the human race in the lower world, you have the right to know the secrets of the outer world."

Ye Hanjun blinked, but before he could speak, a stream of water came from behind and pushed him into a whirlpool.

"Shhh!!"

When Ye Hanjun opened his eyes again, he felt that a long time had passed and fatigue was rising deep in his soul.

The surroundings changed again, this time it was pitch black.

Ye Hanjun was certain that even his eyes could not see more than ten meters away. This experience beyond his ability was bound to stimulate a strong sense of crisis.

"Wow~~~"

A beam of orange light shone on him, which was very warm.

The uneasiness and panic lingering in my heart were gradually suppressed, and the situation seemed to be back under control.

Ye Hanjun looked above his head in surprise. There was a lamp there, and the burning flame was in the shape of a cat's paw, which was extremely special.

It is so huge, and there is no obvious difference from the planet we just saw. It is rooted in the darkness, magnificent, mysterious, and beautiful, making people want to get closer.

“This is the lamp.”

"For some reason, he is temporarily dead. We moved his body here and can use it as a light source."

"temporary?"

Ye Hanjun hadn't found the speaker yet, so he asked subconsciously.

"Well, according to calculations, he still has a 10% chance of being resurrected. Whether it can be successful or not depends on his luck."

Under the orange cat-paw headlights, a little deer kicked its hooves, treating the empty space as flat ground, and walked over leisurely.

Guagua's eyes immediately widened as he stared at the snow-white deer, almost jumping up with excitement:
"Ancestor?!"

"How come you are smaller than the original melon? Did you use some magic to transform yourself, or are you just this big? So cute!"

"little guy……"

The snow deer stopped, and a hint of annoyance appeared in his intelligent eyes:
"To be honest, I've tolerated you for a long time."

"Am I really that old? Do you have to call me ancestor? Can't you think of other names?"

"Then... Sister Jing?"

Guagua is quick-witted and he blurts out the answer as soon as his little brain works.

"This is acceptable!"

Xuelu showed a teachable expression and was about to give a compliment or two.

In the silent darkness, a brush came rushing over, dotted the void, and drew a huge word "惊", which seemed to have blood flowing.

"Jing, be more careful."

"They are all over 400,000 years old monsters, and they still call me sisters. My scalp tingles when I hear them!"

"What, you have an opinion?"

The snow deer stared at the brush with its raised chin and threatening eyes, which was extremely oppressive.

"Of course... no!"

The big brush changed the subject and circled around the snow deer, saying earnestly:

"Look, I seem to have been born a few seconds later than you."

"If I call you sister, will you agree?"

"roll."

The snow deer raised its front hooves and kicked hard, and the big brush immediately jumped up and down, begging for mercy.

"..."

Ye Hanjun and Guagua tacitly entered the state of petrification. It seems that the ancestors of Minggu still have some childishness.

They are completely different from the high and mighty ones imagined. Even though they are beyond the world outside the heavens, they have deep bonds with each other, and their friendship cannot be severed.

"Okay, how can we play around like this?"

A ball of twisted light mist slowly flew over and instantly took the form of a human, which was exactly the same as Ye Hanjun.

When Ye Hanjun met Him face to face, it felt like he was looking in a mirror, which was quite subtle.

"I am the illusion."

Mirror image Ye Hanjun nodded and said straight to the point:

"I invited you to Tianwai this time mainly because I wanted you to understand one thing."

"Are you puzzled as to why we are unwilling to return to the lower world and personally stop the evil deeds of the "disaster"? "

"It's very simple. Our arrival will only overwhelm the lower world and intensify its destruction."

"Secondly, we don't have much sense of belonging to the lower world. Although we were born there, our origins are different after all, and what we desire in our hearts is different."

Mirror image Ye Hanjun had no expression on his face. He paused and continued in a factual tone:
"The ancient Celestial Lord wanted to rule the lower world, but we, the first generation of the Dark Ancients, just want to know why the ancestral planet is in ruins and why we were sent to another world to survive."

"Ancestor Star?"

Ye Hanjun noticed new keywords.

Thinking of what he saw and heard in the illusion, he asked tentatively:

"Are you referring to your true birthplace, the place where you have not yet gifted your origin to the current world?"

"Ah."

Huan nodded, and with a thought, a beam of orange light shone into the distance:

"We call our origin world 'Ancestor Star'."

"We have been searching since we arrived in outer space. We found a clue at the end of the ancient universe, and we found it in the new universe. It is right here."

Ye Hanjun listened, glanced at him, and suddenly felt a chill on his back.

The warm light was vast and boundless, increasing forward, and an eternal path of light was paved in an instant.

In that final dark place, there seemed to be a broken star, scattering dazzling diamond-like light.

"This is the ancestral star. It has been destroyed."

Jing came over and led Ye Hanjun and Guagua onto the light path, his expression slightly dejected:
"The ancestral star is far more prosperous than your world. When it was at its peak, it was like the gap between the gods above the gods and the holy beasts, as vast as the chasm between heaven and earth."

"There are currently two speculations. One is that a shocking war once broke out here, and the ancestral star was destroyed by force."

"Another theory is that the lifespan of the ancestral star has come to an end, and it has gone from extreme prosperity to extreme decline. Some of the remaining origins have fled, while others have brought bloodline seeds like ours to visit other worlds and find new soil to inhabit."

Mo snorted and said gently:
"We prefer the latter."

"There are clues that the remaining origin is divided into at least five parts. Perhaps there are life forms similar to us in other planes of space."

"But, the description of the outer world is too general."

"It is already extremely difficult for us to find our ancestral planet. It will take hundreds of thousands or millions of years to discover other large planes with life. It is still unknown whether we can survive until then. If we expect too much, we will be easily disappointed."

"But..." Mo changed the subject again, "We still have an important discovery!"

"Before we found our ancestral planet, there were already travelers from other dimensions who had been here!"

Mo wrote a series of "疾" characters, and the long light path instantly reached the end.

Ye Hanjun opened his eyes wide. This was the closest location to the broken ancestral star.

Looking closely at the magnificent fragments of the world, swaying back and forth unconsciously, I felt myself as small as a speck of dust, so long-lost and yet so real.

"Kacha!"

Huan stretched out his arm, extending it infinitely, and suddenly reached into the fragments, grabbed a smaller one, and dragged it out with force.

He said that He has the power to make His wishes come true.

But this process was still extremely difficult. Divine light surged in the darkness one after another. Mo, Jing, and other ancient rulers lurking in the dark, all lent a hand and worked together to help.

"Hoohoo!"

The debris was finally dragged out.

Its shape is a bit like half a pillar, with many patterns carved on it. Some supreme being once touched it with his palm and left a mark on it.

"Ying, come here."

Huan handed the fragment to another black shadow.

The black shadows are wriggling, seemingly shrouded in darkness, but in fact, a colorful splendor is growing.

"Wow~~~"

Ye Hanjun saw a scene that he would never forget.

It was a pile of ruins, and it was suspected that it was a building like a palace courtyard. Even though it collapsed, it still retained 20% to 30% of its grandeur when it was intact.

There stood a group of powerful creatures.

The most exaggerated one is undoubtedly a divine ape, with a giant dragon horn on its head, blazing flames in its eyes, dragon scales on its body, and every muscle bulging.

His shoulders can hold up the sky, his head can look at the stars, and his eight arms can control the world. With one roar, thunder rolls in the sky; with two consecutive roars, the eight directions and four poles are turned upside down.

There are also two divine angels, although they only have twelve wings on their backs and at first glance they are not as good as the divine scriptures.

But one of them had glazed wings on his back and a sword in his hand.

The sound of swords rang in the ears, as if to shatter the sky.

The sword energy is surging, and the proud posture is clearly visible.

The other is the ultimate embodiment of darkness and corruption.

No light can be reflected from His body, and any colorful color that touches the edge of His domain will be wiped out.

He was too cold, stagnant and empty, as if he was the master of heaven and earth and the source of all evil.

Gua Gua couldn't help but shiver, and quickly passed him and looked at the next creature.

The fourth one is a skull dragon!
His dragon soul is golden, brighter than the rising sun, yet it exudes a chilling aura like the underworld!
Beside Him, the river of samsara roars and rushes.

Thousands of strange and bizarre undead monarchs surround Him. There is no doubt that He is the absolute king, ruling over the laws of death, and is the true God of the Undead!
The fifth one is a giant mantis!

Half of His body is red, and the other half is dark blue. He holds a sickle in his hand and stands deep in the void.

The thunder tribulation was hanging above His head, the sea of ​​thunder was flowing under His feet, and the surrounding space collapsed, forming a supreme world of its own.

This is still not all, Ye Hanjun looked at the sixth god.

It was a tree, with six roulette wheels floating behind it, in six colors: gold, purple, blood red, pitch black, dark blue, and pale white.

They correspond to a law respectively and combine with each other to give the tree a sense of boundlessness and depth, making it an object that must not be desecrated.

The seventh one is a Qilin, stepping on the red lotus fire.

The eighth statue is bathing in the River of Time, and is suspected to be the goddess of the witch clan.

The ninth statue is a rat with a beer belly.

The tenth one was extremely small, curled up into the shape of a stone tablet, making it difficult for Ye Hanjun to recognize it.

But the eleventh one was extremely eye-catching. When Gua Gua noticed it, his eyes widened and he never looked away.

It was a small rabbit, with white pupils and a hint of rose gold.

He is very cute and elegant. Even though he is standing among a bunch of ferocious beasts, he looks so cute, and the style of the painting is completely different.

What’s even more amazing is that every time He blinks, the stars in the sky twinkle. The beauty is so gorgeous that Gua Gua is stunned!

"Gululu... Who is this? Even cuter than the old ancestor!"

"His cry is so pleasant, chirping, I'm almost melted by it!"

Gua Gua puffed up his cheeks, feeling both envious and curious.

"They are the contracted life forms of the White Emperor. In their world, they seem to be called 'pet beasts'."

Huan pointed at the image of the human man who was drinking tea with his back to them, and said concisely and pointed out the main point:
"He is the White Emperor."

“Although I can’t see his appearance clearly, there is no doubt that he has left traces here, and his strength has reached the pinnacle.”

"We have investigated the remaining clues in detail and finally deduced that this person is most likely a plane traveler who once came to the ancestral planet, witnessed its ruin and decline, and then left again."

Jing nodded, with a gentle smile in his eyes:
"How is it, are you interested?"

"Beyond this world, there is also the sky, and the sky is a very broad description, referring to the collection of all planes."

"Beyond a time and space so far away that it is unimaginable, there are beast-controlling civilizations similar to the spirits and humans, and there is likely more than one. There are countless possibilities."

"Son of the World, after you have dealt with worldly affairs and cut off worldly thoughts, consider carefully whether you want to join us in searching for a more glorious and splendid world."

"Becoming stronger is just a process, not a goal."

“We want to explore the unknown, understand the mysteries, and gain insight into the truth.”

"This is what we, the so-called Hadean rulers, are currently doing..."

……

Ye Hanjun was silent for a long time.

It would be a lie to say that I didn't yearn for it. The description of such a completely different beast-taming civilization was too attractive.

However, the seeds of faith have been planted. When they will sprout is another story... (End of this chapter)