232 Starligh

"Owner Bu, are you ready?" Jin Rou asked the old man by his side. They were in front of a majestic golden gate activated by Jin Rou, "This is a gate towards the Outer Heaven. You only need to enter this gate and just endure a little."

"Endure a little?" Owner Bu swallowed his saliva as beads of sweat started rolling down his aged face.

As far as he remembered, ascending to the Outer Heaven was easier said than done as it has many stages of endurance.

The first one was surviving the Lightning of Heaven for several hours. The lightnings were so powerful that even the genius Immortal Emperors of other worlds had died here. Take note, Immortal Emperors were the peak of the mountain in Grivexia. If even Emperors could die here, what more for those cultivators lower than this realm?

Of course, one could use a treasure in order to lessen the damage. But only treasures from Outer Heaven could do. Perhaps, it might not even work.

The second stage was a deep purple see. After you passed the first stage, you will need to suffer loss of oxygen for a few minutes while ascending the waters. Just imagine, you will no longer breathe and treasures didn't work here in this stage. So you need to rely on you sheer will to survive. Mostly, here in this stage had the most casualties as the ascenders were being tested by their fighting spirit.

The last stage was a small stone. After you survived the upward diving, you will see a small stone floating in your sight. That stone would bring no harm, but it will judge you whether you qualify to ascend successfully or not.

So far, out of 100 ascenders, only 5 or fewer could ascend successfully.

That's why Owner Bu was renowned during his prime. With this difficulty, no wonder fewer and fewer were willing to try to ascend as most of the emperors just chose to stay in Grivexia.

Jin Rou could see the worry in Owner Bu's eyes so he chuckled, "Owner Bu, don't worry. As I'm here, of course, I won't let you experience something horrible like that. You will just feel a slight tinge of pain, that's all."

Owner Bu was stumped to hear this and thought, 'did it mean that the Youngmaster has a way to bypass those torturing stages?'

Thinking about this, he again gulped his saliva. Just what kind of existence did he encounter that it could cheat the ascending stages? Not just that, he could even create a gate going to the Outer Heaven in a casual manner! What kind of cheat was this?

Even in the Outer Heaven, he didn't know any famous experts capable of doing this!

What's more, what's this slight tinge of pain? Perhaps if Owner Bu had the same cultivation like Jin Rou's, it would really be a slight pain. But hey, they are far from each other! It's like an ant and a dragon tearing the skies.

What doesn't hurt you didn't mean it would not hurt me too! He exclaimed in his heart.

The calm and composed Owner Bu was now dripping with cold sweat. But after a short while, he just gritted his teeth and entered the gate.

What could he do? He needed the Youngmaster's help, thus, all he could do was abide. Furthermore, with the character of the othet party, he knew that Jin Rou would not abandon him if anything were to happen.

Seeing this, Jin Rou could not help but laugh. Owner Bu was overthinking things too much. He could easily tell by observing the old man's face.

After Owner Bu entered the gate, Jin Rou flicked his finger and a white pigeon appeared. He attached a small book in its foot and casually wrote something.

After he finished writing, he said to the pigeon, "Go, give this to her and stay by her side. If anyone dares to bully her, you have my permission to cripple the culprit!"

"I understand, Master." The pigeon bowed its small head and took off.

Seeing the pigeon flew, Jin Rou looked back at the gate and smiled, "Well then, time to see what the Outer Heaven looks like!"

"Poof!" Jin Rou just disappeared without any fluctuations. It was like he didn't exist there at all.

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"It's really a slight pain..." In a vast grassy plane, an old man and a young man appeared out of nowhere. The old man was checking himself if he got some injuries but just like Jin Rou said, it was only a slight pain and nothing more.

"I told you, right?" Jin Rou smiled, "You just need to believe me."

"I'm sorry..." Owner Bu was ashamed of himself. To think that he didn't believe Jin Rou at all. That's really a shameful thing to think of.

Jin Rou smiled. This type of thing was no longer rare to him. And it's not a big deal for him, too. He looked at the vast plane and asked, "So how about you give me an introduction about this world?"

Owner Bu was surprised. Isn't Youngmaster a resident of this world? Why would he ask him something like this?

But he didn't think too much about this and just obeyed, "As far as I know..."

This world was called 'Starlight'. In this world consists hundred millions of powerhouses called Constellations. In each constellation, it has hundred thousands to millions of cultivation sects. Sometimes, those apex constellations has empires and kingdoms. Each constellation's territory span around millions of miles away, depending how powerful the constellation was. But one thing was for sure, all of those constellations were far stronger than any of the sect Jin Rou encountered in the previous worlds.

In fact, one mere weak constellation here could annihilate the whole Grivexia and the lower worlds!

While Immortal Emperors were common here, True Monarchs were not as common. Though, every constellation had at leasf a few True Monarchs.

But take note, True Monarch was revered in this world as this was the first step to take towards Godhood!