Ascension

Ascension is the act of reaching the Heaven.

There are 3 different ways to ascend. You have to choose one and forget the two others. The three methods are all explained at the Gate of Heaven when you beat the 20 Adventures.

## Ascension through the Array of Heaven

This is the first method of ascending. After clearing the 20 maps on explore you reach the Gate of Heaven, within is the Array of Heaven. Inside the Array of Heaven are 4 floors to beat in order to become Ascended.

* 1st Floor : two Humans at Ascension I.
* 2nd Floor : three Immortals at Ascension II.
* 3rd floor : six Monsters at III-IV.
* 4th floor (and last) : eight Immortals at Ascension IV ; V ; VI ; VII ; VIII ; IX ; X ; X.

You can try to beat the 4 floors once per day. You lose nothing from defeat (like it is in the 20 Adventures)

If you ascend through the Array of Heaven you get:

* 4000 stat points you can contribute freely between the 4 main attributes.
* the Twilight Spell Avatar
* the Heaven Card background

## Body Ascension

This is the most difficult method of ascending. You need to reach the Gate of Heaven and a body realm of Heavenly Being.

If you ascend with Body you get:

* 1000 Live Essence
* 1000 Vital Energy
* 1000 Strength
* 1000 Dexterity
* 1000 Perception
* the Golden Body Spell Avatar
* the Heaven Card background
* the Hell Card background

## Guided Ascension

This is the easiest, and most common way. If there are already ascended players in your server, guided ascension is available. You still need to finish explore 20 and try and fail at least once in the Array of Heaven. Then you are offered the possibility for guided ascension. If there are already ascended players and if they have already gotten an Immortal Beast, they can send it to help one player ascend per day.

If you ascend with help you get:

* 1000 Live Essence
* 1000 Vital Energy
* 1000 Strength
* 1000 Dexterity
* the Twilight Spell Avatar
* The Heaven Card background

## First ascended

* If you are the first one to ascend on your server you gain the Immortal of Dragon and Tiger Title.
* After the first player ascends:
	+ every player on the server gains the Lv.1 Skill, The Heavenly Book of Intangible
	+ the Immortal Seeking feature becomes available (until you ascend)
* After the first Body Ascension every Player on the server gains the Lv.1 Skill, Unformed Mantra

## Strategy

* Guided ascension
	+ It is the fastest, easiest, best way
	+ Unless you're going for the hard achievement on purpose, do it! Growth in Heaven is exponential, you need to get there as soon as possible or it will be very hard to catch up.
	+ The other two options can be done for the glory of it, but they offer no in-game advantage
* Array of Heaven
	+ If you're the first ascender on your server, you don't have a choice and must defeat the Array of Heaven
	+ It requires a lot more stats than just finishing explore 20
	+ Minmaxing is not a good strategy in this game, so the possibility to choose where you spend your 4000 stat points is irrelevant
* Body Ascension
	+ This is way longer (2.5 to 4 times). You basically need to reach the stage where other people ascend, then cultivate Body Realms. This requires 4 times as much Cultivation Base. Update : I calculated how much time it will take with the starting count beginning at Ascension VII (when I could beat the gate alone), and it'll take 4 months if you go to cultivation chamber every day (without additional effects) and with the random books bought randomly in destiny. You could go a little bit faster with buying the book which reward the most 'Qian Kun Infusion' (38 million CB for 30 Beast Nucleus). And obviously by spending real money, you can again reduce the time. But still... It's so long ! I wish heavenly patience to all body cultivator taoists. Maybe create a second account to ascend normally to enjoy the ascended features.
	+ When you reach enough power to deal with the toughest guys in the gate (two Half-immortal X), stop cultivating your realms starting Half-immortal I : it's faster to gather enough CB at this realm or lower than spend more CB for a faint better perception level at higher cultivation realm (like profound immortal). I just advise you to reach Half-Immortal to be able to go in rank 5 sects. Still, continue to improve your Gold Spiritual Root and Qi-gathering Array to raise a little your perception.
	+ The 1000 Perception bonus reward is nice, but it does not catch up your delay
	+ The custom background is cool though