Upon hearing this, the six members of the Sword Sect and Mad Blade all felt their hearts leap. The Immortal Realm! This was what they had been pursuing all along; how long had it been since the Lingyun Continent last produced a cultivator who ascended?
Moreover, the inability to ascend was not due to insufficient cultivation among the cultivators, nor was it caused by a blocked ascension path. Rather, ascension was simply not permitted, leaving a backlog of Mahayana cultivators accumulated in the Lingyun Continent specifically to counter the impending Zerg disaster.
Among the major sects, cultivation clans, and high-level cultivators of the Lingyun Continent, this was no longer a secret. Therefore, the moment Hou San let those words slip, everyone was startled inwardly, though they kept their expressions completely neutral.
Chapter 739