Chapter 2571: Chapter 2571: Waiting for Ascension

Wyatt Barnes had long been mentally prepared for the matter of ’ascension’.

Especially after Rocky Cloud appeared, imprisoning his family and friends, forcing Keer to leave him; he wished he could ascend to the ’Celestial Realms’ immediately.

Because only then would he have the hope of rescuing Keer and his family and friends!

Otherwise, if he couldn’t even reach the Celestial Realms, how could he talk about rescuing people?

Of course, he also knew that even if he ascended to the Celestial Realms, it didn’t mean he had the power to rescue Keer and the others.

But at least, in the Celestial Realms, his cultivation could break the shackles of a ’half-step immortal’ and achieve the true status of an immortal!

In the mundane realm, his cultivation had reached ’half-step immortal’, and that was already the limit, with no way to progress further.

To progress further, he could only go to the Celestial Realms.

"The power of ascension, is it finally here... I’ve been waiting for you for so long!"

Realizing that the power enveloping him was the ’power of ascension’ about to draw him to the Celestial Realms, Wyatt couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement in his heart.

"Once this power of ascension appears... it seems it will soon draw me to the Celestial Realms!"

Thinking back to the scenes of Lainey Don’s swift ascension, Wyatt mused internally.

"Before ascending, I need to notify Walter Simmons and Brother Wise... otherwise, they might think I’ve disappeared."

Thinking of this, Wyatt raised his hand, took out two ’communication jade slips’, left messages on them, and infused them with power, sending them as two swift beams of light shooting across the sky, leaving his room.

Just as Wyatt sensed the power of ascension enveloping him becoming more intense, his body also lost almost all sensation.

"I’m about to ascend..."

Faced with this situation, he easily realized that he was about to ascend!

Not only had his body lost nearly all sensation, but he could also feel:

The power of ascension enveloping him was pulling him, seemingly wanting to take him somewhere.

"Huh?"

Just as the pulling power from the ascension force was getting stronger, Wyatt suddenly froze for a moment.

Because he found that after the ascension force grew stronger, it suddenly weakened drastically in a strange way...

At the same time, the ascension power enveloping him also became thin.

As for the power that was pulling his body, seemingly attempting to take him somewhere, it directly disappeared!

"What’s going on here?"

"Could it be... this isn’t the ’power of ascension’?"

At this moment, Wyatt felt as if he had been made a fool of, even thinking he made a huge blunder.

However, in the next second, he denied his thoughts.

"It... it... is actually... devouring the ’power of ascension’?!"

Once he regained his senses a bit, Wyatt was shocked to discover:

The ’broken iron piece’ he held in his hand had at some point extended a devouring force, like a greedy child, continuously consuming the power of ascension enveloping him.

It was as if the power of ascension was a delicious treat to it!

The power of ascension continuously appeared, enveloping Wyatt, trying to draw him away from the mundane realm to ascend to the Celestial Realms...

Yet before it could take him away from the mundane realm and ascend to the Celestial Realms, the ’broken iron piece’ in Wyatt’s hand continuously devoured it, preventing it from gathering strength to take him away.

In an instant, more than ten breaths passed.

"Is it not over?"

Wyatt could feel the power of ascension enveloping him had never stopped.

Even though the power of ascension never stopped, it still couldn’t draw him away from the mundane realm to ascend to the Celestial Realms.

Because, every time it gathered strength to take him away, the ’broken iron piece’ in his hand would mercilessly consume it.

The ’appetite’ of the broken iron piece completely shocked Wyatt.

"This... this is simply a ’bottomless pit’!"

Wyatt smiled bitterly.

Moments later, a light bulb went off in his mind, prompting him to try storing the broken iron piece in his ’Storage Ring’...

But he discovered:

The broken iron piece, devouring the power of ascension, seemed to completely ignore the Storage Ring as if it didn’t exist.

"Elder Brother Ling Tian, are you about to ascend?!"

Just as Wyatt felt somewhat helpless and frustrated, the voice of Wally Sanders, the Elder Ancestor of the Whitehead Family and a Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal, called out urgently from outside.

"Brother Wise."

Wyatt smiled bitterly as he walked out of the room, rising into the air to stand beside Wally Sanders, with a face full of helplessness and a wry smile.

"Is this... the ’power of ascension’?"

When Wyatt came out, Wally Sanders’ gaze was drawn to the nearly transparent force enveloping Wyatt.

He could sense:

This power doesn’t belong to the mundane plane. Even the Immortal Origin Force of him, as a Nine Tribulations Loose Immortal, is far less pure.

Thus, only one possibility remains:

This is the ’Ascension Power’ that draws Wyatt Barnes away from the mundane plane to the heavenly realms.

"Yes."

Wyatt Barnes nodded.

"I thought the Ascension Power had already taken you away... but I didn’t expect you to still be here."

Wally Sanders continued speaking, his eyebrows involuntarily furrowing slightly.

"However, from what I know, the ’Ascension Power’ of a half-immortal, once it descends... in the blink of an eye, it will take him away from the mundane plane to ascend to the heavenly realms."

"Could it be that you can sense the arrival of the ’Ascension Power’ beforehand? Did it just arrive now?"

Wally Sanders looked at Wyatt Barnes, a bit puzzled.

"No."

Wyatt Barnes shook his head with a bitter smile. Then, he raised his hand and took out the ’fragmented iron piece’ from the Storage Ring, "It’s because of this thing, constantly devouring the Ascension Power... otherwise, I would have already been taken to the heavenly realms by the Ascension Power."

"This... What exactly is this thing?!"

Wally Sanders studied the fragmented iron piece in Wyatt Barnes’ hand a few more times, astounded.

He had never heard of anything in the mundane plane that could devour ’Ascension Power’ and simultaneously delay a half-immortal’s departure from the mundane plane to ascend to the heavenly realms.

"If I want to leave the mundane plane, to ascend to the heavenly realms... I’m afraid I will have to wait until it is ’full’."

Wyatt Barnes continued to smile bitterly.

"Given the current situation... indeed so."

Wally Sanders nodded, believing that Wyatt Barnes could only wait now. At the same time, he couldn’t help but feel fortunate for Wyatt Barnes, "Luckily, the Ascension Power keeps appearing continuously... if only a specific part appeared and it got swallowed, how would you ascend?"

"Brother Wise, the way you say it... it really is a blessing."

Hearing Wally Sanders’ words, Wyatt Barnes was also so startled that sweat broke out over his body.

If the Ascension Power were really as hypothesized by Wally Sanders, only appearing in a specific part, to draw him away from the mundane plane to ascend to the heavenly realms...

Then, once that part of the Ascension Power was devoured by the fragmented iron piece, he would no longer be able to leave the mundane plane to ascend to the heavenly realms.

"Wyatt Barnes!"

"Are you going to ascend?"

After a while, Walter Simmons’ voice came from afar. Like Wally Sanders, he also rushed over as soon as he received Wyatt Barnes’ message.

However, since he was slower, he arrived only now.

"I am about to ascend... but I still have to wait for a while."

After Walter Simmons came, Wyatt Barnes looked at the fragmented iron piece in his hand, a wry smile even more apparent on his face.

He had thought that before leaving the mundane plane and ascending to the heavenly realms, he wouldn’t be able to meet this good friend.

Unexpectedly, the fragmented iron piece in his hand ’understood his feelings’ and gave him this opportunity.

"What’s going on?"

At this moment, Walter Simmons also noticed that something was not right.

When he learned the whole story, his gaze followed onto the fragmented iron piece in Wyatt Barnes’ hand, laughing, "Wyatt Barnes, this iron piece in your hand, so far, has devoured the Ascension Power for about half a quarter of an hour..."

"Being able to do that shows it’s quite extraordinary."

"Moreover... the longer it lasts now, the more extraordinary it indicates it is. Thus, you have no need to be anxious, you can even hope it lasts a bit longer."

Walter Simmons said these words, naturally, to comfort Wyatt Barnes.

Of course, although he said this to comfort Wyatt Barnes, what he said was indeed reasonable.

"Indeed... it’s so ’reasonable’."

As the saying goes, ’when involved intimately one sees not clearly’, such was Wyatt Barnes’ state just now.

Now, with Walter Simmons’ reminder, he suddenly felt less anxious, the wry smile disappearing from his face, replaced by a calm and carefree demeanor.

"Wyatt Barnes, with your upcoming ascension to the heavenly realms... I’m afraid we won’t know when we’ll meet again."

Walter Simmons looked at Wyatt Barnes, sighed, and in his eyes, an uncontainable hint of reluctance showed.

"Rest assured... as long as fate intends, we will meet again! Even if fate doesn’t permit it, when one of us becomes strong enough and renowned in the heavenly realms, the other will naturally learn of their whereabouts... at that time, we will surely reunite."

Wyatt Barnes said with a smile.

"Then I will wait for you to become famous in the heavenly realms... I hope that when I ascend to the heavenly realms, you will have already made a name for yourself. If so, as soon as I arrive in the heavenly realms, we can reunite."

Walter Simmons also smiled.

"Waiting for you to ascend to the heavenly realms won’t take more than a few years... in just a few years, expecting me to make a name in the heavenly realms, that’s not an easy task."

Wyatt Barnes rolled his eyes at Walter Simmons with feigned annoyance.

"For others... it would be a delusion. But for you, Wyatt Barnes, it’s quite possible."

Walter Simmons took a deep look at Wyatt Barnes, confidently saying:

"In my eyes... you, Wyatt Barnes, are a person who excels at creating miracles!"