Chapter 2573: Chapter 2573: Ascension Pool

The myriad heavens and planes are just a ’collective term’.

Within the Vast World, there are a total of eighty-one heavens and planes.

At the same time, within the Vast World, countless mortal planes surround those eighty-one heavens and planes like stars arching around the moon, setting off those eighty-one heavens and planes like lofty ’emperors’!

Generally speaking, people of the mortal planes, whether they are ’half-step immortals’ or ’Nine Tribulations Loose Immortals’, once they ascend, they will ascend to the nearby heaven and plane.

For example, the mortal plane ’Yanhuang Plane’, because it is adjacent to the heaven and plane ’Jade Emperor Heaven’, the half-step immortals and Nine Tribulations Loose Immortals from the Yanhuang Plane, once they ascend, will usually ascend to the Jade Emperor Heaven.

But nothing is absolute.

Once the Vast World falls into turmoil, the ’space’ between any mortal plane and the heaven and plane adjacent to it will also be shaken and twisted along with it...

At such a time, those who ascend from mortal planes will find it very unlikely to ascend to the heaven and plane adjacent to their home mortal plane.

Of course, the Vast World does not fall into turmoil all the time.

Only once every ten thousand years will a bout of turmoil occur, and it lasts for a thousand years.

In other words:

The chance of encountering a period of turmoil in the Vast World is only one in ten.

...

It had to be said, Wyatt Barnes’s luck was pretty good.

The thousand-year-long turmoil that appears only once every ten thousand years in the Vast World had begun less than a year ago, and would continue until a thousand years later.

So, with Wyatt Barnes ascending at this time, the odds of him ascending to the heaven and plane ’Jade Emperor Heaven’ were exceedingly small.

Shrouded and drawn away from the mortal plane by the ’power of ascension’, in the process of ascending toward one of the heavens and planes, Wyatt Barnes’s consciousness had vanished; as for what happened in between, he knew nothing.

When his consciousness returned, he discovered that he was in a pool shrouded in white mist.

"This place is..."

As soon as he regained consciousness, Wyatt Barnes began to look around, discovering that this pool he was in was as large as a soccer field back on Earth.

Moreover, not far from him, figures were appearing one after another.

After these figures appeared, their eyes remained tightly shut, as if they had fallen into a deep sleep...

In addition, Wyatt Barnes also noticed that quite a few people around him, after he opened his eyes, also opened theirs, and there were even some who had clearly opened their eyes before him.

"This place... is one of the heavens and planes?"

"Hahahaha... I’ve ascended! I finally ascended!"

"So this is the ’Heavenly Immortal’ realm? It really is different from before... The Saint Origin within me that was mixed with Immortal Origin has completely transformed into ’Immortal Origin’. Looks like this is all thanks to this ’Ascension Pool’."

"I’ve long heard that once we half-step immortals ascend to a heaven and plane, we will enter that heaven and plane’s Ascension Pool, and only after successfully achieving ’Heavenly Immortal’ within it will we regain our consciousness and wake up... Now it seems that’s indeed the case! I don’t even know when exactly I achieved ’Heavenly Immortal’."

"Heavenly Immortal... so this is a Heavenly Immortal?"

...

At the same time, as Wyatt Barnes pricked up his ears, he could clearly hear the rising clamor from all around, obviously the voices of those who had regained consciousness.

"Heavenly Immortal?"

Hearing these people, Wyatt Barnes instinctively looked inward, and sure enough, he discovered that the Saint Origin within his body that had been mixed with Immortal Origin had completely transformed into Immortal Origin.

And his cultivation, without him noticing, had stepped into the realm of ’Heavenly Immortal’.

"Also... my clothes are actually gone."

At the same time, Wyatt Barnes realized that he was completely naked, and it was only thanks to the white mist coiling within the Ascension Pool, covering most of his body, that he wasn’t fully exposed.

"But... why do they all have clothes?"

At the same time, Wyatt Barnes noticed that everyone around him was wearing clothes.

However, upon a closer look, Wyatt Barnes picked out the clue:

The clothes on these people were all condensed from Immortal Origin and were not made of fabric.

"And those people... the clothes on their bodies are condensed from Saint Origin mixed with Immortal Origin."

Soon, Wyatt Barnes realized:

The people around who still had their eyes tightly closed and had yet to regain consciousness were also wearing clothes; they were not naked like him.

"Moreover, the clothes on their bodies, condensed from Saint Origin mixed with Immortal Origin, also seem to be constantly changing in essence... The Saint Origin is continuously being assimilated by the Immortal Origin."

"It probably won’t be long before their clothes, originally condensed from Saint Origin mixed with Immortal Origin, become clothes condensed purely from Immortal Origin."

"Looks like they made preparations before ascending... whereas I had no idea about any of this."

Wyatt Barnes was no fool; it wasn’t hard for him to realize this.

"Brother Wise as well... he didn’t even remind me."

While Wyatt Barnes urged the Immortal Origin within his body to transform into a violet robe to cover himself, he smiled wryly.

He knew very well:

As an old hand of the Sanders Estate, Wally Sanders naturally knew that when a person ascended, aside from being unable to take anything from the mortal plane with them, they also couldn’t take their mortal clothing.

They had to use the power within their body to condense and transform it into clothes to wear, so they wouldn’t end up stark naked after ascending into the ’Ascension Pool’ of the myriad heavens plane.

Wyatt Barnes, however, had no idea about this:

It wasn’t that Wally Sanders hadn’t reminded him, but that in Wally’s subconscious, this was ’common sense’ for anyone about to leave the mortal plane and ascend to the myriad heavens plane, and there was simply no need to mention it.

"These people around me... should all be just like me, ’ascenders’ who’ve just arrived in the myriad heavens plane."

At this moment, Wyatt also found it easy to guess that much.

In the past, he’d heard the Tower Spirit of the Seven Treasures Jewel Tower, ’Elder Fire’, say that after people from the mortal plane ascended to the myriad heavens plane, they would appear in the Ascension Pool.

And the function of the Ascension Pool was precisely to help those who had ascended to the myriad heavens plane become immortals.

In addition, once you left the Ascension Pool, you could never enter it again.

For the simple reason that only ’ascenders’ who had just arrived in the myriad heavens plane, whose power had yet to fully transform into pure Immortal Origin force—those like half-step immortals and Nine Tribulations Loose Immortals—could enter the Ascension Pool.

"Among these ascenders, there’s actually not a single woman..."

At the same time, after Wyatt glanced around for a while, he discovered that:

Among the group of ascenders around him, there wasn’t a single woman. Every last one of them was a man like him, each with different looks and bearing:

Some were dressed sloppily, some ordinarily, and some in bright, flashy clothes.

Some were tall, some short, some fat, some thin.

There were young men, middle-aged men, and even elders who looked over seventy yet were still brimming with energy.

"Looks like no matter which mortal plane it is... there aren’t many female cultivators who can ascend to the myriad heavens plane."

Wyatt thought to himself.

He could understand this, since most women’s innate cultivation talent really wasn’t as good as men’s...

Of course, he was only talking about most women.

There were still a small number of women whose talent was extremely high, vastly surpassing most men!

Just as Wyatt’s attention returned to himself, feeling quite pleased with his current ’Heavenly Immortal’ cultivation...

"What the hell are you all yelling about? Shut the hell up for me!"

All of a sudden, an impatient cold shout came from the edge of the pool.

The voice seemed to contain some kind of magic, instantly suppressing the din within the Ascension Pool...

The group, including Wyatt, all turned toward where the voice came from.

And they saw:

Standing at the edge of the pool was a young man in silver armor.

The young man looked ordinary, but his body was powerfully built, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted. Right now he was glaring with a pair of bell-like eyes, sharp light shooting out of them as they swept across the group—those who, like Wyatt, had just ascended, attained ’Heavenly Immortal’ in the Ascension Pool, then regained consciousness and opened their eyes.

After a brief silence among the group, one young man in brocade robes standing in the Ascension Pool suddenly let out a cold laugh:

"What the hell are you supposed to be? You dare call yourself ’laozi’ in front of this Young Master? We’re talking here... what the hell’s it got to do with you?!"

As soon as the brocade-robed youth spoke, quite a few of those standing in the Ascension Pool nodded in firm agreement.

At the same time, they all looked toward the burly youth in silver armor at the pool’s edge with mocking expressions on their faces...

Among this group standing in the Ascension Pool, which one of them wasn’t some ’heaven’s chosen’ of their own mortal plane?

The fact that they’d successfully overcome tribulation and ascended to the myriad heavens plane was enough to prove their talent and strength.

Precisely because of that, each and every one of them carried their own pride. How could they possibly tolerate someone yelling and barking in front of them?

"Hahahahaha..." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Almost as the brocade-robed youth’s words fell, a wild, unrestrained laugh came from outside the pool.

A moment later, another young man in silver armor appeared before everyone like a ’ghost’.

Unlike the burly silver-armored youth, this one had an average build and a handsome face.

After he appeared, the first thing he did was look toward the burly silver-armored youth, then tease with a smile, "Liam King, looks like you’re getting worse with age... now even an ascender dares to shout at you in your face."

"Ace Fenning!"

The burly silver-armored youth ’Liam King’ heard this and his already dark expression grew even darker.

He glared fiercely at the newly arrived silver-armored youth ’Ace Fenning’, then turned to look at the brocade-robed youth, his eyes blazing as he coldly laughed and said, "Kid, if you’ve got the guts, you can just stay in the ’Ascension Pool’ for the rest of your life and never come out! If you dare step out, I..."

"And what if I do come out?"

The brocade-robed youth cut Liam King off, leaping out of the Ascension Pool to appear right in front of him.

He had the look of a ’newborn calf unafraid of tigers’.

"This guy... is about to be screwed."

Wyatt looked at the brocade-robed youth and frowned slightly. When his gaze fell back on Liam King, a hint of wariness appeared in his eyes.