"Master's meaning is... even if we never thought of ascending, would ascension come looking for us?" Ji Lian's first reaction was surprisingly not fear, but she murmured thoughtfully, "Ji Yun and I never considered this point."
"No... you've actually already thought about it, in the future." Chen Xuan shook his head.
Ji Lian was momentarily stunned, then she too understood.
He was referring to this Grotto Heaven.
Although its original intent was to be used as a refuge for the Sect, relying on the Sect's protective formation and soulless bodies to fend off the attacks of Inner Demons, suppressing and dispersing cultivators' power, maintaining the cultivation system at a relatively low level, in itself delayed the moment of ascension's arrival.
Even though Ji Lian did not understand the principle behind it, her strategies implicitly aligned with the theory Chen Xuan speculated.
