Time passes differently in Cultivation—without a sense of years, in the blink of an eye, centuries go by.
On this day, thunderclouds churned atop Mystral. Corvus Crowley's hair flew wild, and the third eye upon his brow fully awakened.
As his eyes opened with a flash of silver, in one glance he shattered eighty-one bolts of Heavenly Tribulation thunder, becoming the first disciple to ascend after Venerable Master Serenity made her ascent.
Before leaving, he gripped Luna's hand tightly, "Luna, I'll be waiting for you in the Immortal Realm."
Three hundred years later.
Rhys Blackwood attained enlightenment in the Abyss of Myriad Demons, proving his Path through killing.
The pitch-black demon mist formed a staircase to the heavens, and he ascended, climbing over heaps of white bones.
