Achilles the Immortal was the Astral who had originally proposed the Ascension plan.

As the first leader of the Astrals, Achilles the Immortal had naturally been a genius cultivator. After obtaining his spirit body, he had made breakthrough after breakthrough, quickly reaching the peak of Astral strength.

Afterwards, however, he had failed to advance even a single centimeter forward.

Achilles very quickly realized that he had most likely already reached the power limit of his spirit body and thus would never take another step forward.

To overcome the limits of his spirit body, he had come up with the Ascension plan.

The Ascension plan, in essence, sought to elevate the Astrals, and it was very similar in theory to what the humans had done to upgrade their cultivation system. However, while Achilles had been in the process of developing this Ascension plan, it had changed somewhat.

Diomedes had left too early to know what had happened afterwards, but he could still tell that Achilles was well and truly dead. However, his current strange state of existence gave him some unique properties.

These unique properties included the illusion Method Power that had surrounded and protected the “Desolate Beasts.”

In other words, the Ascension plan had ultimately...