Before the Heaven and Earth Ascension, when the attention of all top-tier forces was drawn to the plans of merging realms, they relaxed their suppression on those first-rate forces, thus allowing many powerhouses from those first-rate forces to seize the opportunity to break through and ascend to the realm of the Supreme Strong.
Originally, as Pei Xuanjing told Wu Shijiu, there was a different concept between breaking through to the Supreme Strong before the Heaven and Earth Ascension and after. Those who managed before had a chance to catch up, while those after would completely lose the qualification.
Including Wu Shijiu, many powerhouses at the Seventh Level of the Spiritual Realm took the risk to break through, but no one expected that they had been fooled, or rather, it wasn't about being fooled but that the preparations of these top-tier forces went far beyond this.
