Back in the lower world, on the martial world's ascendancy platform.
A dark skinned man wearing grey robs sat crosslegged at the center of the platform. With his hair in disarray, spiting a carefree and enthusiastic smile at the corner of his lips, with him gently stroking his stable, he had a thoughtful and inviting air about him. Had it not been for the thousands of bloodied bodies littering the platform to the point that no spot was touched by blood.
As spectators stood in stunned silence, the members of the Iron Flame sect had a nonchalant expression as though everything was as it should and that it was all to be expected.
Just then their attention was drawn to a beautiful woman with a body that would make an honored monk question his allegiance to Buddha.
She wore a black dress with her white hair freely falling down her back.
Even with all that had happened around her, no fear or distress could be shown on her face. Instead, a mischievous smile appeared on her face as she tried to hold back her laughter.
Just as she was about to say something, the man seated atop the pile of corpses finally spoke in an exhausted yet carefree manner. Qin'er, aren't you supposed to be my dear companion? Why do you always like making things difficult for me? Ever since we became dao companions, you've become more and more mischievous yet very obedient in...'before he could say anything else, a blade made of qi struck just a few inches close to his manhood.
Of course these two figures were Ms. Qin and Auron who had been dao companions for over fifty years now and were getting ready to ascend.
Yet for those who follow the martial dao, the task of ascending is hundred times more difficult, hence a low success rate.
Yet the feet of these two were so legendary that their legends would be sung for generations to come.
From the creation of an entirely new herb coveted by nine palace realm cultivators to the formation of the martial realms martial stele which focused the luck of the entire world on to the stele blessing those written on it with faster cultivation, comprehension and good luck in all one does yet. This led to a series of large scale massacres with some sects and families disappearing in a single night, bringing about an era of karmic luck where both the young and old participated for a chance at ascending in a single step.
This became much worse when someone accidentally broke through the nine palaces and went to the higher planes with him as an example. Old foxes from all over the place started beating up kids to accumulate karmic points, as only defeat was enough for those. Only those that had the strength of up to five organs realm could defend themselves as more and more martial artists ascended with more talents sprouting by the day and all this was done by Arthur, yet he was not the most ridiculous as the title for craziest went to Qin Ye.