Wu Long raised his hand, looking at it with both nostalgia and unfamiliarity.
'This feeling… it's been quite a while', he thought as a smile appeared in the corner of his lips.
Advancements in Minor Realms were simply stages of the same transformation.
Advancements in Major Realms were a transition between different transformations themselves. They brought qualitative and quantitative changes to his body, mind, and soul, as well as expanded his abilities beyond that of a normal human.
Unlike those, however, the advancement into a Greater Realm was what was called an ascension, a fundamental elevation of him as a being from one to another, allowing a new set of transformations to be possible within him.
This happened because advancing into Greater Realms required the shattering of one of the so-called 'Heavenly Shackles' - restrictions of the Heavenly Daos on any being.
