Becoming evil makes you ten times stronger, but becoming a demon gives you hundredfold strength-Chapter 399 - 327

Long ago, the children from the Immortal Sect promised everyone, "I’m a young noble lady from a wealthy family fallen on hard times. If you all lend a hand and wire me a certain amount of money, I will definitely bring you back home with me to enjoy the finest food and drink when things get better."

Soon, once they were struck with pain, they ceased their wailing.

"You can’t even take root in your own land, and you dream of returning to the city all day long, thinking our place is poor and lousy. Yet you still expect those below you to risk their lives for you?"

However, this also proves from one aspect just how opulent the Old Immortal Gate is.

They went as far as to name the higher education examination system the Ascension List!

A few years ago, within the Martial Arts Miniature World of the Immortal Sect, Golden Core Experts were merely there for show, and the real competitors were those in Qi Cultivation; but even such simulations caused annual headaches for the sect’s financial officers, and Mirror Twelve had to exhaust all resources, relying on the power of others.

Now, the system for the Ascension List allows even Nascent Souls and Golden Cores to enter and simulate!

Upon entry, one is met with densely packed doors, each leading directly inside. The reason behind this design during the elaborate reconstruction was to allow transfer to over a hundred different regions, thus preventing being ambushed or trapped by enemies.

On the human skin, the Blood Shadow Ancestor had written the door to pass through, how to meet him, and some precautions to note. However, Meng Yu didn’t plan to follow them, convinced that even entering would not lead to death— at worst, he’d lose a sliver of Divine Sense.

For him, who had achieved significant progress in Growing Golden Lotus through cultivation, losing that sliver of Divine Sense wasn’t a big deal. While others at Foundation Establishment might suffer for a month, he could recover seven times overnight.

Choosing a door at random, Meng Yu found himself amidst green mountains and blue waters.

The air was fragrant with freshness, and the sound of trickling streams filled the atmosphere. Whether it was the flowing water or the grass and trees, everything was completely realistic.

The scroll transformed into a mark on the back of his hand. From that moment, until the Ascension List was closed and the competition among the Four Major Sects concluded, he could enter anytime he wished. Even the Blood Shadow Ancestor couldn’t revoke his access.

The shapes of the marks were inconsistent, decided by the inviter. The Blood Shadow Ancestor chose for Meng Yu the insignia of the Blood Demon Sect, a drop of blood.

The mark served to identify oneself; normally hidden, it showed three different colors when revealed.

Foundation Establishment in green, Golden Core in gold, and Nascent Soul in deep red.

While the shape of the mark and Sect identity could be falsified, the color of the mark couldn’t.

This was designed to prevent misunderstandings, bragging, playing the pig to eat the tiger, and various scams.

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Since he came with just a sliver of Divine Sense, aside from his clothes, he didn’t bring anything else, neither the Storage Bag nor any Magical Treasures.

Meng Yu wasn’t worried. He came across a cold spring with several gloomy purple bamboos nearby.

It was a very tough plant, with weight comparable to metal. It grew a segment every ten years and had no other added effects apart from its toughness and solidity.

He picked the oldest and most durable purple bamboo and, using the Shaoyang Mysterious Skill, fashioned a greenish crystal-clear bamboo staff tinged with purple that he placed at his waist.

The world is vast with places like Sleepless City and Eternal Night Palace where life-and-death battles and extermination of entire Sects occur. However, far away in other places, they were beginning to recruit talents through competition.

According to the information provided by Ao Wu, in four months, the Ascension List would start the grand competitions among the Four Great Sects, inviting miscellaneous Loose Cultivators and minor factions for a fair and equitable selection contest. Outstanding performance could provide an opportunity to become disciples of the Orthodox Sects.

It was the stage countless talents dreamt of, but what truly mattered was the four months leading up to it, gatherings amongst the various heavyweights!

The Cultivation World is vast, so vast that communication between Sects and regions often takes years. To remedy this, the world recreated a new Divine Artifact—a higher education online system from a million years ago in the Immortal Realm—using the occasion of the meeting to facilitate exchanges under the guise of touring and recreation.

For Golden Core Nascent Souls, the examination wasn’t particularly important; what mattered was the chance to engage in various trades over six or seven months, especially during the first four, providing an excellent time for various heavyweights to gather for chatting, and even to trade in disguise.

The Ascension List ensured no one would die, and the fighting capability at the Second Order was fair. Once this large public server opened, excluding sworn enemies, everyone would receive an invitation.

The host didn’t worry about Nascent Soul True Monarchs creating trouble. Each Nascent Soul True Monarch could only bring one other person, and no matter how deviously that master and disciple acted, with everyone being at Second Order cultivation, what’s to stop ten or eight from ganging up on them?

Meng Yu read on with great interest; the beginner’s guide was very useful.

Upon their first entry, everyone started with nothing, but it was possible to create various things, such as weapons, Magical Treasures, and all kinds of dwellings, materializing them as they would appear in the real world. Many Golden Cores and Nascent Souls even built caves, Magical Treasures, and weapons inside.

Even if the Ascension List were to close, the data inside would remain, and logging in after decades or even centuries, one could still inherit and refurbish these creations for use.

It was like the video game "Minecraft," where you could play "Minecraft" on a computer and create a computer within "Minecraft" to play the "Minecraft" video game.

Ao Wu warned Meng Yu that it was best not to offend anyone upon entering.

In the first four months, the density of Golden Cores and Nascent Souls was too high. As for why Ao Wu didn’t get an invitation, it was because her family thought she was too prone to offending people, being too young.