[Sea of Suffering].
Waters of infinite concepts churned, reflecting a chaotic palette of colors. Ang Xiao stood upon them, his gaze immediately falling upon a sky-climbing pillar of light in the distance.
"Is this... forging a Dao?"
A hint of astonishment surfaced in Ang Xiao's eyes. "Isn't this an Ascension Ceremony? No... forging a Dao *is* his Ascension Ceremony?"
His expression quickly turned grave.
An Ascension Ceremony, on the surface, sounded like a Gold-Seeking Device—something that could be made to succeed as long as one had good aptitude, a strong background, and made careful preparations.
But in reality, that couldn't be further from the truth.
The difficulty of the two wasn't even in the same league. The most important metric for success was to achieve something "Unprecedented" to gain recognition.
In other words:
