"Show the way?"
Jiang Lu suddenly realized, "So it was you who led those ghosts here."
"Ghosts?" True Love Taoist chuckled, "You seem to be misunderstanding something. The vile spirits are on the other side of the fissure. The beings I serve are noble immortals!"
"Immortals..." Jiang Lu expressed doubt, "Aren't only those who ascend allowed to be called immortals?"
"Who told you that ascending necessarily means leaving this world?" True Love Taoist retorted.
Jiang Lu had an epiphany, and everything suddenly made sense.
He had suspected that there were gods in this world because the Spirit Realm's flow of time was 1000:1, a ratio that once existed only in the Tower of Redemption.
Now it seemed his original hypothesis was correct, even though one could not ascend in Jiu State, there were still dormant deities present, and these deities were the immortals the True Love Taoist spoke of.
