Ascension to the Divine Mountains
For a long time, people believed that descending from the Divine Mountains was equivalent to reaching the God Realm, and that those who survived immortal-king lightning tribulation were considered gods.
In reality, that wasn't the case. This was a misconception.
The true definition of a god was to possess a divine spark. Only by ascending to the Divine Mountains could one be considered to have ascended to the God Realm.
The rest of the Divine Mountains were nothing more than a transfer station.
The God Realm had existed for over a hundred million years. However, its history began with the Great War of Gods and Demons. The first God Emperor, God Emperor Ziwei, established the God Realm's complete structure.
The God Realm's complete structure was divided into nine Divine Mountains, each of which had a long history.
The leaders of the Nine Divine Mountains were also the nine emperors of the God World.
The nine emperors were the highest existences in the God Realm. No one knew for sure who was stronger or weaker among them. Outsiders could only assume that they were evenly matched.
However, these nine emperors were led by God Emperor Zhou Wu of the Central Divine Mountain, who intimidated all the races outside of the God Realm.
… …
The Northern Divine Mountain's structure was actually a vast, boundless sea called the Sea of Innocence. It flowed from the top of the Divine Mountain to the bottom.
Of course, it wasn't entirely a sea; there was also land.
The Northern Divine Mountain's Ascension Pool was guarded by a squad of eight year-round. The squad rotated every hundred years to receive newly ascended supremes.
Right now, the eight of them were chatting casually.
"I guess we've run into some bad luck lately. I heard from our brothers from the other Divine Mountains that the number of ascenders on their side has skyrocketed. Our Northern Divine Mountain, on the other hand, hasn't had a single ascender in years."
"Our Northern Divine Mountain's location isn't particularly good, especially since it's surrounded by sea. It's only natural that the supremes didn't choose to come here," snorted an older, middle-aged man. "If they don't come, it can only be said that they're short-sighted. Do they really think it's that easy to enter the Four Directions Palace or the God Emperor's Palace?"
"Shh." The squad hurriedly signaled for him to keep quiet. "We're talking about the Four Directions Palace, not the Four Directions Palace."
Tens of thousands of years ago, the Eastern Divine Mountain's Four Directions Palace hadn't changed its name. However, a few thousand years ago, Emperor Bi 'an changed its name to the Four Directions Palace and ordered his subordinates to refer to him as "Your Majesty." Many could tell that he was challenging Zhou Wu.
However, whether it was Bi An or Zhou Wu, they were not people that ordinary people could talk about.
The slightly older middle-aged man also realized that he had made a slip of the tongue and quickly shut up.
At this moment, the ascension pool next to the team began to rise, and all of them stopped chatting.
"A Supreme-Being has arrived."
The woman in the group raised her eyebrows, and the rest of the people also stared at them.
The job of guarding the Ascension Pool was very boring. The only fun was now.
"How many do you think there are?" The others immediately shrugged and said, "How many more can there be? With this kind of tolerance, there definitely won't be more than three."
All of a sudden, the clouds in the Ascension Pool soared into the sky, and the clouds around the Ascension Pool expanded several times.
"This … I'm afraid there are at least a dozen people."
The few people in the team looked at each other. Although they wouldn't get a raise for receiving more than ten Supreme Martial Artists at the same time, this was still enough for them to be proud of after a meal.
"How many people are in the Divine Mountain's records right now?"
"I think it's the Easternmost Divine Mountain's Four Direction Palace's record, twelve."
"Perhaps we'll break the record this time."
As they chatted, the fog in the Ascension Pool grew thicker and thicker, and the eyes of the team guarding outside grew brighter and brighter.
"So … so many people are ascending at the same time. Could it be that they all know each other? If that's really the case, then the bandits outside are in for a calamity. "
In the God Realm, every Divine Mountain had such a faction: the bandits.
The meaning of their existence was to plunder the wealth of newly ascended Supreme-Beings. After all, newly ascended Supreme-Beings were the weakest of the Divine Mountains. More than forty percent of those who ascended actually died as a result.
However, no one from the Divine Mountains ever interfered. The bandits were organized, and there were even rumors that they had diviner-level experts among them. If the Divine Mountains wanted to exterminate them, they'd suffer great losses. As a result, the Divine Mountains never made up their minds to eradicate the bandits. However, the various factions had come up with a few countermeasures.
"You can't say that. In the end, ascenders are just ascenders. They haven't received systematic instruction on how to use divine power, and they're only earth supremes. No matter how many of them there are, they're no match for those jackals."
Someone in the team disagreed, then sighed softly.
"It's a good thing they're lucky. Next month is when the Academy starts recruiting students. If they can make it through the last few days, then they'll survive."
"Hey, why do you guys care so much? All we need to do is get them in touch."
The others nodded. Indeed, they didn't need to worry about such things. What they needed to do was smoothly get the ascenders out of the Ascension Pool and explain the situation to them.
As for whether they lived or died, that wasn't something they had to worry about.
If he died at the hands of the bandits outside, then it could only be said that he wasn't tough enough.
Right now, the only thing they cared about was how many ascenders were hidden within the fog.
"So this is the Divine Mountains?"
Ye Zichen stood alone in the Ascension Pool. In truth, he'd been here for a while now. As soon as he arrived, he sensed boundless divine power pouring into his body, transforming his not-so-pure divine power into pure divine power.
If his strength had been one before he'd ascended to the Divine Mountains, then now it was ten.
"The Divine Mountains are truly wondrous. The level of the Lower Lands is also much higher. Even with my strength, I can't see beyond a thousand meters with my divine sense, nor can I fly."
Ye Zichen looked at his fist and muttered to himself. The fog around him gradually dissipated.
"Spread out, spread out! How many people do you think are waiting for us inside?" asked the shortest youth in the team excitedly.
"There are about twenty of them."
"I think there's more than twenty."
Everyone had different opinions. They all stared intently at the dispersing fog around the Ascension Pool, slowly disappearing from their vision.
"Something's not right!"
At that moment, someone in the team blinked.
"It doesn't feel like there's a dozen or twenty people inside at all."
The team outside the Ascension Pool frowned. When the fog completely dissipated, they saw Ye Zichen staring at them. He even waved at them.
"Hello, you …. Were you waiting for me?"
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