Everyone ascended, but I didn't get on board

Chapter 249 The Past of Blue Star

Qiu Ci's lips twitched, and suddenly she felt an urge to spank her. Why was she like this? Are all the people of Earth this unreliable?
She took a deep breath, suppressing the impulse in her heart, and steered the conversation back to the main topic, asking seriously, "What exactly happened on Blue Star back then? Why is our home planet in my sea of ​​consciousness? And why am I the only one left behind? What's the deal with this agreement?"

She bombarded all her questions with them, but Chu Hongge simply tilted her head and answered with five words.

"I do not know!"

Autumn Farewell: "..."

Are you kidding me?!
So why did you leave the projection? Did you come here to laugh at her?
"Oh dear, don't be so agitated. I'm telling the truth." Chu Hongge picked up her cup and clinked it against her milk tea. "The Ascension Plan was a top-secret plan led solely by my nephew. Even after everyone ascended, the United Government didn't know the specifics. My junior uncle did participate in part of it, but he refused to talk about it, so it was even less likely for me to know."

Qiu Ci could sense that she truly didn't understand, so she asked again, "Then what about cultivation? Why does Blue Star know so much about cultivation?"

“Oh, I know that, because I made it,” Chu Hongge replied.

"what?"

"Let me think where to begin." She pulled her to sit on the sofa and answered while gulping down her milk tea, "It was probably more than ten years after you fell asleep, the year I graduated from high school, when I suddenly transmigrated to the world of cultivation, and then Earth was invaded by aliens."

"Aliens?!" Why are we talking about aliens again?

“Yes, you heard right, it’s aliens.” Chu Hongge nodded to confirm. “Our original universe didn’t just have Blue Star as a life-bearing planet. At that time, Blue Star was powerless to resist. It was by accident that I made contact with my motherland and introduced the cultivation techniques of the immortal cultivation world to Xia Country. Blue Star thus began the era of the entire nation cultivating immortality.”

"And then what happened?" Qiu Ci asked nervously. "Did we win?"

“Of course we won.” She nodded. “Not only that, we also completely stabilized the passage between the two worlds, helped the cultivation world solve the problem of the demon invasion, and the two worlds established long-term friendly relations. Those few thousand years were the most peaceful period for both sides.”

"The most peaceful?" Qiu Ci was stunned. "What happened later?" A series of war scenes immediately flashed through her mind.

"Don't overthink it. Blue Star isn't fighting with the cultivation world." What are you thinking? With her and her junior uncle around, how could there be any internal conflict between the two sides?

"What happened?"

“It’s a problem with the demon race.” She sighed, then frowned as if she had thought of something troublesome. “After we cleared out the demon race, the demon world merged with the cultivation world. Later, we discovered that there are many spatial gaps in the demon world, and those gaps connect to different worlds.”

"..." Are the demons really that powerful? Invading other people's lands everywhere.

“Initially, we planned to seal all these gaps, but we later found that it was impossible to seal them. Moreover, these worlds are strangely connected. Once a gap is opened, the two worlds will begin to merge, and this connection is irreversible.”

"Three Thousand Continents!" Qiu Ci thought of this term instantly. Could it be that the current Three Thousand Continents are all merged from various worlds, and that they were originally independent worlds?

“That’s right, those merged worlds are the three thousand continents you see now. They’ve merged together to form one great world,” Chu Hongge confirmed her answer. “Blue Star tried many ways to stop this merging, but all failed. We also discovered that this merging has affected Blue Star as well. Blue Star is also moving closer to the three thousand continents and will eventually become one of the continents of this great world.” “Then what happened? Why did Blue Star reappear in my sea of ​​consciousness?” Qiu Ci asked.

"And then? Then we ascended!" Chu Hongge answered matter-of-factly. "After ascension, the so-called fusion is no longer a problem. As for why Blue Star is in your sea of ​​consciousness now, I guess it's because it is, after all, our mother planet, and everyone doesn't want it to become part of the greater world, so they've hidden it."

And then it was hidden in her sea of ​​consciousness?

“We all left then, and you were the only one left behind, so it’s most convenient to keep you in my mind.”

"..." So she's just a shelter?
Chu Qiuci was exasperated. Why was this reason getting worse the more she asked? It sounded so sophisticated before, but suddenly it became so casual.

She had a vague feeling that something must have happened in between, but even Chu Hongge didn't know. For example, how did they discover that they could leap to ascension, and why did they insist on keeping her here? What exactly was the so-called ascension plan?

All of this intrigued her, but the most important thing right now was, "How can I ascend and reunite with you?"

But Chu Hongge gave her an unexpected answer: "You don't need to do anything."

"Huh?" What does that mean?
"You know, the entire population of Blue Star has already ascended to immortality. Do you understand what 'the entire population' means?" she suddenly asked.

“I know, but I…” She stopped mid-sentence, realizing a possibility, “You mean…”

“That’s right, including you.” She nodded affirmatively. “The reason you’re still in this world is because you entered a long period of deep hibernation. Your body needs time to adapt to the ascension process, and you can feel the difference between yourself and others, right?”

"..." She did feel it. Putting aside her cultivation level, which increased so quickly, she initially thought it was all thanks to the system, since it always synchronized the information with her. But after encountering other systems, she began to have doubts.

Because they are both undergoing body penetration, the other hosts bound to the system suffer from unstable cultivation after the penetration, but she is different. Her cultivation seems to have always belonged to her, and is more stable than normal cultivation.

I had always thought it was because she was a human from Earth and had different system permissions, but now it seems that's not the case. Rather than the cultivation coming from her body, it's more like... the unsealing?
It unsealed the power that originally belonged to her.

If she has actually been in a state of ascension all along, then all of this makes sense.

"But my cultivation is clearly stuck at the Celestial Immortal level." She still couldn't understand why she was stuck at the Celestial Immortal level if her cultivation was originally her own and not synchronized with the system.

Ever since the system malfunctioned, she has been unable to break through to the Celestial Immortal realm, and her cultivation seems to have died out.

“That’s normal,” Chu Hongge nodded knowingly. “Because the Institute of Techniques only calculated the cultivation techniques up to the Celestial Immortal stage. We were all at the Celestial Immortal stage before we ascended.”

"..." Then what about the Golden Immortals and Immortal Venerables in the Immortal Realm? Are they considered to be good students?