The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

This world is called the Celestial Mystery Realm, a world where the cultivation of immortality is flourishing.

The plane with magical energy is the cultivation plane of the Tianxuan Realm, while the other three are mortal planes.

The spellcasters here are called cultivators, and their cultivation talent is determined by the quantity and quality of their spiritual roots.

Cultivators rely on their spiritual roots to absorb and refine the spiritual energy, or elemental energy, that matches their spiritual root attributes into their dantian.

Its cultivation system is mainly divided into three stages: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, and Golden Core. Advancing in a stage not only means being able to control a larger amount of spiritual power and cast more powerful spells, but also significantly enhances one's physical strength and lifespan.

The spiritual energy within a Qi Refining cultivator is in a gaseous state, and their lifespan is no different from that of an ordinary person, approximately one hundred years.

The spiritual energy within a Foundation Establishment cultivator liquefies, granting them a lifespan of three hundred years. The sword flight technique witnessed earlier is a common skill among Foundation Establishment cultivators.

A Golden Core cultivator's spiritual energy condenses into a solid Golden Core, granting them a lifespan of up to five hundred years.

Once the Golden Core is formed, the Heavenly Dao will soon send down a guiding light to lead the cultivator to the Spirit Realm to continue their cultivation.

The owner of this memory was a cultivator in the late Foundation Establishment stage who was originally in seclusion in his own sect. He only recently went out to attend the ascension ceremony after receiving an invitation from another sect.

The cultivation civilization is a well-developed and powerful system among the many magical civilizations in the universe, and related information is not uncommon in the Otherworld Archives.

Although Moran has never personally set foot in a cultivation world, he has systematically read and studied the general rules, cultivation techniques, and even many spellbooks of such worlds.

However, due to the lack of magical talents unique to the cultivation world, such as "spiritual root" and "spiritual foundation," he has not tried to cultivate any cultivation techniques. He only has a theoretical understanding and occasionally converts his own magic power into spiritual energy of corresponding attributes to perform some cultivation techniques that interest him.

According to her knowledge, many cultivation worlds do indeed have a layered structure. When a cultivator reaches the upper limit of their current level, they will ascend to the next level with a higher concentration of spiritual energy and more perfect laws to continue their cultivation through methods such as "ascension".

However, within the boundary membrane of the Tianxuan Realm before us, there is no higher plane with a higher concentration of spiritual energy.

If there is anything, it would only be the level eight world connected by the black gold pillar, and the super-level thirteen giant plane at the source.

But that's another world. Ascending there is no different from handing over the spellcasters that this world has nurtured at great expense to another world. It will only cause the world's essence to be continuously lost as the cultivator ascends.

"Wait... the source is being lost?" Moran recalled the different figures he had seen many times in the pillar of black gold energy: "Could it really be an ascension passage!"

She immediately changed the direction of the flying carpet, increased her speed to the limit, and sped towards the Xuan Tian Sect in this memory.

Three days later will be the ascension ceremony of Elder Lingxiao of the Xuantian Sect!

She had to see for herself whether this so-called "light of guidance" for ascension was really what she thought it was.

Xuantian Sect.

The Ascension Platform hangs high above the clouds, surrounded by fluttering banners, and spiritual energy transforms into tangible golden lotuses that float and sink in the void.

Thousands of cultivators gathered here, their faces filled with awe and longing.

In the center of the platform, Master Lingxiao, dressed in a moon-white Taoist robe, exuding an air of otherworldly grace, closed his eyes and concentrated, awaiting that sacred moment.

At noon, the world suddenly fell silent!
A pure and dazzling golden beam of light descended from the sky, precisely enveloping Lingxiao Zhenren.

The pillar of light contained extremely pure energy, emanating a soothing and uplifting rhythm of the Great Dao. A deafening roar of cheers and envious admiration erupted from the audience!

"The guiding light! It's the guiding light!"

"The Lingxiao Ancestor has achieved perfect merit and ascended to immortality today!"

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The Xuan Tian Sect was filled with joy. However, in Mo Lan's perception, the energy fluctuations of the guiding immortal light were exactly the same as those of the dark golden energy pillar.

Lingxiao Zhenren's figure gradually blurred in the golden light. As he was being guided away, Moran clearly felt that the boundary membrane of this world had weakened a little, which meant that some of the original power had been lost.

The matter is now clear: this guiding light is actually a dark golden energy pillar.

Every time a cultivator ascends to immortality, a portion of the world's primordial power is taken away by them and eventually falls into the hands of a giant plane.

The golden light dissipated, and the ascension platform was empty.

The cheers reached their peak as everyone celebrated the "successful ascension" of yet another predecessor.

For cultivators themselves, "ascending" to a place with richer spiritual energy and a higher level of world is undoubtedly a dream opportunity.

However, for the Tianxuan Realm itself, this was a slow process of bleeding.

Each ascension of a cultivator signifies the permanent loss of a portion of the world's origin.

If this continues, the world will gradually degenerate. When its primordial power becomes so thin that it can no longer maintain the circulation of spiritual energy within the world and cannot foster spiritual roots for cultivation among intelligent beings, it will completely degenerate into a level zero world.

Moreover, it is a level zero world where resources have been squeezed to the extreme and it will take a long time for it to recover.

Moran quietly left the jubilant crowd and returned to the Mirror Space of the Witch's House. She needed to calmly consider a way to break the deadlock.

She clearly realized that trying to solve this problem from the perspective of cultivators was futile.

The ascension passage that giant world used its own boundary membrane to disguise itself was, in the eyes of cultivators, no different from ascension between different planes within the world.

Having never encountered the "Well of the Sky," they cannot understand the origin of the world, the relationship between world consciousness and intelligent beings, and naturally find it difficult to realize the essential difference between "ascension across worlds" and "ascension within worlds."

Right now, the only solution is to try to sever the giant, dark golden energy beam that is reaching out from the world.

As long as the connection can be broken and the continuous loss of the source can be stopped, the source power of this world will have a chance to slowly recover, and the world consciousness will eventually recover.

But before taking action, there is a crucial question that needs to be answered—what exactly is wrong with the 'Well of the Sky' in this world?
Normally, once a spellcaster's power reaches the world's limit, they should be guided to the Sky Well located within the boundary membrane to continue improving themselves by completing tasks issued by other worlds.

Even in cultivation-themed worlds, there should be similar places.

If the Sky Well hadn't failed to function, the disguised "ascension passage" wouldn't have had a chance to be used.

"We must find the Sky Well of the Celestial Mystic Realm!" Moran made up his mind, ordering Kaba to activate the Starry Ark while he used divination magic to determine the location of the Sky Well in this world. (End of Chapter)