I Tried to Ascend, and Got Stripped of My Personhood

To cure the deep-rooted ailment in his body, Mo Long boarded the Ascension Platform and headed for the Upper Realm in search of a fortuitous opportunity.

The elders described the Upper Realm as something like heaven and hell, so Mo Long had prepared himself for its dangers. He had learned to take everything in stride.

But after getting used to eating raw food and sleeping rough, after ten years of slaughtering river fish and mountain pheasants had made his heart detached and serene, just when he was ready to drift away in this desolate, uninhabited Upper Realm...

By sheer coincidence, he suddenly arrived in another part of the Upper Realm.

He stared expressionlessly at the bustling city before him. Some people might look calm, but their hearts had already been shattered for quite some time.

So the sect that was supposed to greet him... hadn't been destroyed? It was thriving and ruling over the region?

So the person he'd been engaged to... hadn't died either? They'd made a name for themselves and had admirers at every turn?

So all those cultivators who had ascended at the same time as him...

They were all living the good life, while he was the only one struggling to survive in the wilderness????

Meanwhile, the Peace Hound on the back mountain of the Ten Thousand Arts Sect jolted awake from its nap, scrambled up, and charged into the elders' hall, its fur standing on end as it frantically sounded the alarm.

The elders struggled to make sense of the chaos of werwerwer barks:

"What is it saying? What is this dog saying? Did anyone understand?"

"It... Something terrible has happened! It says a wilderness great demon has crossed realms from the Four Extremes Land of Peril!"

Theme: The Way follows nature