In the Ascension Realm, many people actually don't have names.

Because the name itself is a code name and a sign of social inheritance, a name is usually made up of a surname, with the surname coming from the ancestors of the past and the first name coming from the ancestors' expectations of themselves.

Neither of these things existed for cultivators in the Ascension Realm.

No one remembered where they came from, and no one knew where they were going.

But people always need something different, and they always have to have a name for each other. Instead of letting someone else give you a nondescript nickname, it's better to give yourself a name.

The short-haired guest used to have a name, and he still remembers that his first name was Chang Xiao, and he gave himself a very simple meaning, just laugh often.

But he only laughed for less than half a year in his first life, and was killed by something that flew from nowhere.

Later, he learned that in this new world, there was such a thing as a flying sword—by the time of his fourth life, the flying sword was already a thing that everyone had.

The short-haired man doesn't like swords, so he's not destined to laugh.

When he was in the fifth life, he changed his name to Buxiao. As a result, before the fifth life was finished, the name was canceled by himself. Since then, the short-haired guest has become a person who has no name in the Ascension Realm.

He doesn't like to use swords, so naturally there is no sect willing to take him in, and if there is no sect, there is naturally no master, uncle, brother or even apprentice...... Without these things, names would no longer be a necessity for survival.

For a long time, he was always alone, going from one island to another in the Ascension Realm.

At that time, the islands in the Ascension Realm were very interesting, and each island had different scenes and scenery - of course, there were also a lot of magic weapons and spirit stones. Many people go "treasure hunting" in it, and short-haired customers are also part of them.

The only difference is that others care about better flying swords and more spirit stones, while short-haired people care more about the little things that record strange images in the Ascension Realm.

He had seen those images, and from the images, he knew that the Ascension Realm they lived in now was different from the previous Ascension Realm.

Now it is the world of immortals, and it used to be mortals.

Mortals are troublesome, and in the video, they often need to eat, drink, and go to the toilet frequently. They couldn't wield flying swords and magic weapons, and spent their days walking back and forth in a few rooms on the island, laughing or crying at unfamiliar images - the only regret was that the contents of those images were missing.

The short-haired man is an immortal, but he finds himself envious of those mortals.

For immortals like the short-haired Ke who have completely given up their cultivation, the life of the Ascension Realm is more like a torture.

For him, the entire Ascension Realm was a huge prison, and the people who kept shuttling and walking in it were all prison inmates. They are fighting and brawling more and more frequently, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger. When something like the Void Stone appears, almost every battle of the Void Stone will cause a bloody storm on the rivers and lakes.

And the short-haired guest is an outsider who strayed into this prison. In prison, people like him often live the worst.

Rebirth in the Ascension Realm, at the beginning, there may be a very mysterious sense of novelty, because no matter what kind of misfortune you have suffered before, when you open your eyes, everything is gone.

Even if you were pierced through the chest by a flying sword before, even if your limbs were cut off entirely...... The intense pain before dying seems to be recalled, but when I look closely, everything is normal all over my body, as if it has just passed, but it is just a nightmare.

However, there are more deaths and more rebirths, and this novelty gradually disappears, and it becomes a part of the rules of the world—and the most cold and terrifying part—because everyone must live in the Ascension Realm.

Yes, it must be lived.

In such a world, short-haired people find that being alive itself is increasingly a torture.

After being reborn enough times, the short-haired man keenly noticed that the sect's power began to increase day by day. There is no place for people like him.

For quite some time, about four hundred years after the Ascension Realm, the short-haired man himself fell into a great depression, and he began to feel disgusted with everything in this world. At that time, every time he found himself alive, he would try his best to kill himself once in the fastest time.

A hundred years, for short-haired customers, it is just a short awakening fragment of more than 500 times. It wasn't until these suicide experiences that the short-haired man understood that he had no freedom to die in this world.

There's an inexplicable emotion that dominates the short-haired man, and it's probably a rebellion - he begins to want to chase after this mysterious force that keeps him alive.

It has been more than 900 years since this chase.

To be honest, short-haired customers have long lost hope of chasing this goal.

In the past 900 years, he has tried almost every way he can think of, including taking images of himself after his death, and then trying to find a way to save these images so that he can see them two months later.

Including going to the battlefield in person, to see a large number of dead bodies unknowingly, corroded into white bones, and finally gradually weathered into the air...... He even chased after the winds, guessing that they eventually blew the ashes together......

Reasonable, absurd assumptions...... He came up with an unknown number of kinds.

But in the end, he failed.

But the short-haired man wasn't discouraged by failure – or rather, because he didn't dare to be discouraged. Chasing this goal itself is already the only pillar that the short-haired man has found in this world, which can keep him alive without going crazy.

But, just as he was holding this pillar and looking for it as usual, he met Yan Xiu.

After Yan Xiu, he met Mr. Wu, and another Mr. Shen, as well as Mr. Ye.

Seriously, after the short-haired guest entered the space station, he even cried excitedly when he saw Wu Xiaoqing eating in front of him - he almost thought that he had finally found a way to free himself and returned to the world from the fairy world.

Soon, something that made him even more excited happened—these three gentlemen actually needed to find the same thing as themselves. The most important thing is that they are far smarter than themselves......

Something that short-haired customers haven't discovered in thousands of years, they only met for a few hours before the other party found the key kind of bug. Although several gentlemen explained something to themselves, the short-haired man simply did not understand what these people were saying - cells, genes, DNA......

But he was still excited, and he was excited not because he understood, but because he worshipped!

Therefore, when the other party proposed to let himself take some people again, go to the islands again, and find the target they were looking for, the short-haired man almost agreed without hesitation - he didn't even ask the other party how many spirit stones he needed to travel, and he was ready to help "at his own expense".

After leaving the space station, the short-haired man felt for the first time that his life in this world was meaningful, and that the struggles of the past 1,300 years were not all fruitless for him.

What the search and rescue team needed him to do was to take dozens of people to investigate the largest islands in the Ascension Territory in turn.

There are many islands in the territory of Ascension, and the size of them is naturally very different.

The smallest "island" may be a patchwork of several large stones, smeared with a little sand - as long as the inside can split the place where a living person is, it can be called a "cave".

And the biggest, even if it is a cultivator, has to fly for more than half a day to get out of it, and it seems that it has naturally become a world.

It's just that in the territory of this Ascension Realm, everyone knows that all the islands are too small, but they are also taboo to be too big.

When many famous and decent families are looking for the foundation of the school, one of the important reference criteria is that the size of the island should not be too large.

The most suitable size is best to allow disciples to cultivate, and to be able to put down magic weapons and spirit stones—this is enough.

No matter how big it is, many sects will even spare no expense to "repair" the island with flying swords. In the Ascension Realm, many "big" sects, such as the Qianyang Gate, only have a few simple cave mansions, but many small sects, such as the Nine Heavens Gate, often have bottomless cave mansions......

The reason for this phenomenon is simple - because the Ascension Realm is too dangerous.

If the island to which the sect belongs is too large, it will become the target of the opponent's attack, and it will naturally be large. A large target is like a huge live target in the face of a flying sword with over-the-horizon strikes.

In the history of the Ascension Realm, I don't know how many sects were inexplicably wiped out in a collective raid launched by a group of enemies or just competitors in an unsuspecting situation.

Imagine one, when a sect lives in a deep cave, when faced with an attack, the entire sect can almost only be beaten passively. The opponent only needs to seal a few main entrances and exits with a flying sword, and then control the flying sword to fight indiscriminately along the passage...... And what about the people in the sect? On the island, it is simply impossible to flexibly avoid flying swords.

Only when the island is small enough, even if the sect faces a sudden attack, even if the exit is sealed, being in it is a matter of forcibly opening a way out with a sword, that is, in an instant.

To put it simply, this is in a world where the cost of attack is much smaller than the cost of defense, and the best defense is always to maintain an offensive posture - even if you lose the opportunity, the most rational thing to do is to transform yourself into an attacker as quickly as possible.

Because of this, all those huge islands for a long time, especially some islands whose materials are difficult to divide. They were all squeezed out of the center of the Ascension Realm.

- In the Ascension Realm, because there is no gravity, all the islands can be pushed. Most of these islands are similar to the Nine Heavens Island, where the Nine Heavens Gate is located, and there are metal buildings from the "Mortal Age". These metals cannot be dismantled, and they hinder the cultivation of cultivators—so generally speaking, only the most declining sects will choose these islands to establish a foothold.

And these islands have now become the target of short-haired customers who need to investigate.

Because of the severance of the spiritual veins, at this time, in the outer area of the Ascension Realm, most of the sects had already moved away. Many of them live in sects where the people themselves have no desire to leave.

Many of them are just like the short-haired customers of the past, and they no longer have any hope for life itself. But they also don't want to die – they're afraid of being born again.

So these people all planned to starve in the sect, and finally resist being forced to sleep—in their minds, if the spiritual veins were cut off forever, probably no one would come to these islands in the future. As long as no one comes, they will sleep forever in the middle, not to be resurrected—in a sense, no different from death.

After checking more than a dozen islands, the short-haired guest found that this phenomenon was actually quite popular—just what he saw, the number of cultivators who had already entered the "sleep" state had exceeded hundreds. Listening to some people who are still alive, there are even larger collective sleeps on some islands.

The short-haired man didn't know whether to be happy or sad - if he had learned earlier that there were still these people, maybe he would have been one of these sleepers by now.