Chapter 138: A Rough Introduction to the New World
Li Changsheng extended his divine sense and saw more than a dozen people walking not far from his cave. They wore uniform clothing, and their cultivation levels weren't particularly high—most were at the Unity Realm, with two at the Great Ascension Realm, and only the leader, a woman in a goose-yellow dress, had reached the mid-Tribulation Crossing Realm.
"Don't cause trouble. Remember where we are," the woman in the goose-yellow dress, Xiao Hanyue, scolded a naive-looking girl in a low voice.
This was the Chaotic Star Domain, not their peaceful Moonlight Star Domain. In the Chaotic Star Domain, there were many who had committed heinous crimes in other star domains and were being hunted by top-tier factions.
Those who could evade the pursuit of such powerful forces naturally had their own skills, and they were ruthless. If it weren't for the fact that this ruin contained a spiritual herb essential for saving their master, she would never have come to the Chaotic Star Domain.
"Alright!" The scolded girl didn't take the reprimand to heart, acting as if it didn't matter.
As he watched the group leave, Li Changsheng didn't approach them to ask for information. Instead, he quietly left the cave and cautiously explored the ruins.
Seventeen days later.
Li Changsheng emerged from the entrance of the ruins, stopping to observe the surroundings.
For the past ten days, he had been inside the ruins. This place was likely left behind by a powerful force and had been discovered hundreds of thousands of years ago. Many of its formations were still operational, and over the centuries, it had almost become a unique world of its own.
Every time the ruins opened, a large number of cultivators would flood in. However, after hundreds of thousands of years of scavenging, the truly valuable items had long been taken. Yet, this did little to dampen the enthusiasm of these cultivators, all dreaming of striking it rich overnight.
Li Changsheng wandered through the ruins, killing two reckless fools who thought they could challenge him and finding a few decent spiritual herbs, though they were of little use to him. The storage bags of the two he killed contained no immortal jade.
"The concentration of spiritual energy here is indeed much higher than in the Cangqing Realm," Li Changsheng murmured as he felt the dense spiritual energy outside the ruins.
"I'll make a name for myself first, then join the Golden Lion Mountain to lay low and develop for a while."
"In the Profound Yellow Great World, my growth speed shouldn't be too slow."
The entrance to the ruins was extremely remote, located in a shattered part of the Chaotic Star Domain. It seemed as if someone had violently torn this small section of the star domain apart.
Li Changsheng quickly identified a direction and steered his jade boat toward it at high speed.
"Huh?"
A streak of light shot past Li Changsheng.
Although the ruins were in a remote location, the star path was frequently traveled. In the past half day, he had already spotted two Earth Immortals.
But now, a Heavenly Immortal powerhouse had appeared on the giant boat that had just passed him.
Apart from that giant whale in the outer sea, this was the first time Li Changsheng had encountered a being of this level. However, the giant boat had a large hole in it, and the Heavenly Immortal's aura was unstable. Moreover, the people on the boat looked terrified, as if they were being pursued by something.
"Better stay away," Li Changsheng muttered, urging his jade boat to retreat in another direction.
A force capable of pursuing a boat with a Heavenly Immortal on board was surely not simple. It would be best not to get caught in the crossfire.
Five minutes later.
Li Changsheng's expression darkened as he was forced to turn back. Along with him, more than a dozen other boats and hundreds of independent cultivators were also forced to retreat. These cultivators were varied—some rode mounts, others piloted small boats, and some traveled through the star domain alone. But they all shared one thing in common: none of them were weak. The weakest among them were at the Unity Realm, and there was even an Earth Immortal among them.
Among the boats forced to turn back, several had Human Immortal powerhouses on board, and two even had Earth Immortals.
Not far from Li Changsheng, the group led by Xiao Hanyue, whom he had encountered in the ruins, was also present.
At this moment, everyone's expressions were grim.
Li Changsheng blended in with the group of rogue cultivators, his face dark as he looked ahead.
Originally, he hadn't wanted to get involved in this matter, but when he tried to leave earlier, he discovered that the star domain spanning tens of thousands of miles had been sealed with an immortal artifact.
Moreover, there were fleets around preventing anyone from breaking the artifact's barrier and escaping.
The damaged boat that had fled earlier was also forced to return. The people on the boat looked furious, glaring at the fleet of black giant boats slowly converging in the distance.
Li Changsheng cautiously observed this fleet. Each of the giant boats was a top-grade spiritual artifact, enhanced with countless formations. Even a half-step Human Immortal would struggle to damage these boats, and the cultivators on board could easily defend against such attacks.
"This is troublesome," Li Changsheng muttered.
He had already sensed that there was a Heavenly Immortal powerhouse on this fleet. If he were to unleash his full power, he could still escape, but doing so would inevitably expose the fact that he cultivated the Vast Sky Body.
He couldn't guarantee that among these people, there weren't any who knew about the Heaven-Suppressing Sword Scripture. If he were exposed, any one of Elder Gu's enemies would be more than he could handle.
Others also looked uneasy.
On one of the ornate boats, a middle-aged fat cultivator stepped forward, bowing slightly toward the black giant boats, and said, "May I ask why you are blocking our path?"
The middle-aged cultivator was at the peak Human Immortal realm, and his boat even had a mid-stage Earth Immortal on board. Yet, in the face of the hundred black giant boats, he didn't dare show the slightest disrespect.
Others also looked at the black giant boats with grim expressions.
Many recognized that the black giant boats belonged to the Devil Flame Mountain, one of the top factions in the Chaotic Star Domain, with a Mystic Immortal powerhouse at its core. They were not a force to be trifled with.
They were also somewhat frustrated, realizing that the Devil Flame Mountain was targeting the people on the white boat, and they had been caught in the crossfire.
No one on the Devil Flame Mountain's boats answered. Instead, a gray-robed old man walked to the bow of the black giant boat, directly facing the damaged white boat, and said coldly:
"Gong Qianshan, hand over the item, and I'll leave your corpse intact."
An old man with white hair and beard emerged from the white boat, standing in the void, his face ashen.
"Gu Yuan, are you really willing to fight to the death with me?"
"If you dare kill me, Weak Water Palace will not let this go!"
Hearing their conversation, many people's expressions changed.
Weak Water Palace and Devil Flame Mountain were both behemoths in the Chaotic Star Domain, and Gong Qianshan and Gu Yuan were both famous Heavenly Immortal powerhouses in the region.
"Hah!" Gu Yuan sneered. "If I kill all of you, who will know it was me?"
"In the Chaotic Star Domain, isn't it normal for a Heavenly Immortal or two to die every day?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone present changed drastically. Gu Yuan had forced them to turn back because he intended to kill them all to silence them!
"Gu Yuan, we're from the Divine Sword Sect!"
"I'm from the Luo River Sect…"
"I'm from the White Egret Trading House…"
…
Everyone rushed to declare their identities, hoping that with so many factions represented, Gu Yuan would think twice.
Li Changsheng shook his head slightly, then stepped forward and appeared on Xiao Hanyue's boat.
"What do you want?"
Xiao Hanyue's quasi-immortal sword was half drawn, and she looked at Li Changsheng with a tense expression.
Ignoring their caution, Li Changsheng said indifferently:
"Give me all the immortal jade you have, and I'll ensure your safety."