Spiritual energy is poison, and ascension is a trap.
Spiritual energy in the cultivation world grew increasingly scarce, and powerful cultivators ascended one after another.
But I found a black broken sword on an ancient battlefield, one that could devour spiritual energy, with unknown runes engraved on its blade.
On the day I faced my tribulation, my grandmaster turned into a golden beam of ascension and shot into the sky, only to be precisely disintegrated among the clouds by a mysterious beam of light.
The broken sword suddenly trembled, and a line of tiny text appeared:
"Warning: High-entropy energy release detected. Initiating cleanup protocol."
Huge words reading "Ascension Prohibited" appeared across the starry sky, as countless silver warships poured out of a shattered star gate.
