Bai Shengyi didn't know why, but she could clearly feel that after overcoming the last lightning tribulation, her emotional fluctuations had reduced significantly.
It was as if that lightning tribulation, which had offered no trial, existed solely to strip away her emotional fluctuations.
Of course, this was not impossible, as there had always been the saying, "To become an immortal, one must first sever the seven emotions and six desires."
But none of this could hinder Bai Shengyi's eagerness to see Qin Si.
"Ayi, what are you looking at?" Yue Bufan worried that Bai Shengyi might miss her ascension time, affecting her ascension.
Only Qinglan's gaze flickered, "Are you looking for A Si?"
"Does Master know where he is?" Bai Shengyi's gaze was direct.
Upon closer inspection, that clear gaze bore an eight or nine-tenths resemblance to Daojun Qinglan.
The same ethereal, the same indifferent.
Qinglan subtly shifted away, pondered for a moment, and then said, "He's probably fighting." If his previous perception was not mistaken, he had sensed A Si's aura before the small bugs that had been secretly prying away.
It seemed she wouldn't be able to see A Si.
A wave of disappointment surged in Bai Shengyi's heart, yet even this disappointment came and went quickly, as if unable to stir a ripple within her.
She frowned slightly.
"Master." The Reincarnation Brush and the Dream-Weaving Vine, having spent the most time with her, sensed her displeasure and rushed to comfort her, "You'll always be able to see Little Si Qin."
"It's not because of that," Bai Shengyi said, looking inward at her body, and found that the black mist fruit was indeed nestled in her dantian again.
Within the dantian, the original fiery stellar river had become even more vast and magnificent, with verdant light spots scattering like the most dazzling stars. In the boundless stellar river, brilliant nebulae emerged and disappeared, and the black mist was coiled behind one such nebula.
After the lightning tribulation, it seemed to have grown by another circumference.
"Master?" The Reincarnation Brush reminded, "It's time to leave."
According to the rules, those who become immortals cannot linger in their original small world.
Bai Shengyi snapped back to reality and stepped onto the Ascending Immortal Ladder, only to see the celestial dew scattering from the heavens become more sweet and abundant, the white immortal ladder radiating a more ethereal immortal energy, and immortal music resonating through heaven and earth as if singing her farewell.
"Farewell, Immortal Monarch Rongku!"
A vast immortal pressure spread from where Bai Shengyi stood. Yue Bufan, Daojun Hongyi, Venerable Feiyun in plain sight, and the high-level cultivators of various sects hidden in the shadows, all involuntarily bent their waists and bowed, their mouths opening instinctively.
Qinglan watched this scene and also spoke indifferently, "Farewell, Immortal Monarch Rongku."
In three thousand years, the Divine启 Small World had produced another ascension!
Within the mustard seed layer, Liu Tianyun knelt on the ground, covered in blood, panting. Suddenly, he stiffened and abruptly stood up.
"She actually managed to ascend!"
Xu Ye, half-dead, was pulled out of Bai Qingjiang's body by the red boundary solitary flower. He shook his head in disbelief, "Impossible! How could the Heavenly Dao allow a Spirit-Tethered Bone to ascend! If a Spirit-Tethered Bone becomes an immortal, wouldn't that..."
"Bang!"
Before he could finish speaking, the red boundary solitary flower smashed him towards the ground, directly shattering his spiritual body.
"Bang bang bang!"
After being smashed again and again, soon Xu Ye could no longer speak, leaving him with only a single breath.
"Kill him."
Qin Si walked over from Liu Tianyun's side. Not far away, Liu Tianyun's clone lay on the ground with no signs of life, while Qin Si was enveloped in blood and filled with malevolence.
Seeing Qin Si's unstable aura, the Wuji Canghan Sword suddenly emitted a cold glint, instantly calming Qin Si down again.
After a few breaths, the boundary solitary flower discarded Xu Ye's spiritual body, which then turned into specks of starlight and dispersed into the mustard seed layer.
Chui Ming licked his claws and wagged his tail as he walked out from the shadows, huffily saying, "That little girl ran off."
"However, I smelled Chu Tianle's aura on that little girl." Spirit beasts have extremely keen senses, and Chui Ming, as a Xuanjing Tiger, was even more so.
Especially since she knew that Shenqi Mountain had never stopped searching for Chu Tianle's whereabouts.
"I think the aura is quite strong, the little girl probably stayed with Chu Tianle for a long time."
Qin Si, who had already torn through space and was heading towards Bai Shengyi's ascension location, replied, "Go back and investigate where that female cultivator came from."
No one knew how many steps the Ascending Immortal Ladder had, nor when this guiding immortal ladder would disappear.
Seeing Bai Shengyi walking so slowly, many cultivators below couldn't help but worry for her.
"What's going on? Immortal Monarch Rongku is walking slower and slower? Is she still injured from the lightning tribulation?" someone couldn't help but ask.
Another person said, "Why does she look like she's waiting for someone?"
"No way? At this point, why wouldn't she hurry to ascend to the upper realm and wait for someone?"
As soon as the words fell, the immortal music abruptly stopped. A spatial rift appeared above the Land of the Extreme West, and a figure in blood-red robes strode out, flying towards Bai Shengyi's direction with eagerness.
"Who is that?"
"Sect Master Qin of Shenqi Mountain!"
Qin Si reached the vicinity of the immortal ladder in a few steps. When he tried to step further, he saw the immortal light from the ladder erupt, resisting him and preventing him from getting closer, as if any further movement would tear him to shreds.
Bai Shengyi's gaze turned cold, her fingertips swirling with spiritual energy as she tapped on the immortal ladder.
The immortal light on the immortal ladder extinguished, flickering with a hint of wronged unwillingness.
"Ayi," Qin Si's phoenix eyes held a smile, showing no trace of his recent ferocity, "I've come."
No words were needed; in their simple exchanges, a thousand emotions were understood.
Bai Shengyi's tensed lips finally curved upwards, a joyous smile spreading. She said softly, "Qin Si, wait for me to return."
They both knew that the Shenqi Small World belonged to the Chongyuan Middle World, and ascending to the immortal realm also meant ascending to the Chongyuan Middle World. Therefore, ascension was not necessarily a good thing, and one might not be able to return after ascending.
But they also knew that Bai Shengyi would definitely return.
The Shenqi World needed higher-level cultivators to seek a glimmer of hope for itself amidst the fluctuations caused by the appearance of the Universal Secret Realm.
Bai Shengyi withdrew all her thoughts and stepped into the final immortal ladder.
"Dong!"
The immortal music paused, and a crisp sound echoed across the land. A great door opened before everyone. Bai Shengyi felt a familiar aura from this door before being instantly sucked in.
"Ayi!"
Qin Si and Yue Bufan watched Bai Shengyi disappear suddenly, exclaiming in unison.
"That is the Gate of the Immortal Path. She should have arrived in the Chongyuan Middle World now," said Daojun Qinglan.
If it were usual times, Qin Si would have immediately realized that Daojun Qinglan's cultivation was not enough to know so many things. But now, his mind was entirely occupied with Bai Shengyi, and he had no energy to think about such matters.
"I want to ascend too."
Qin Si suddenly uttered five words, which struck the ears of the few like a thunderbolt from the heavens.