01, The Runaway Huang Rong Picks Up a Transmigrator

Above the East Sea, the sea breeze gently stirred, and waves rose and fell.

A single-masted boat rode the wind and waves, sailing towards land.

A young woman, dressed in flowing white, with her hair tied up with a golden band, looking about fifteen or sixteen years old and incredibly beautiful, stood steadily on the crossbar above the mast, facing the incoming sea breeze. One hand held the mast, the other was on her hip, as she craned her neck to gaze ahead.

When the coastline became faintly visible, the young woman's eyes curved into crescents, and her lips lifted into a smile. She spoke to herself with a hint of boldness:

"Land, here I come, Huang Rong! Hmph, this time, I'll stay outside for at least half a year... no, a whole year! I won't go home for a full year, let's see if Daddy gets worried!"

The young woman's name was Huang Rong, the daughter of the Master of Peach Blossom Island, a "forbidden area" that struck fear into the hearts of East Sea fishermen.

She had recently had a big argument with her father and was currently running away from home.

Just then.

Huang Rong was eagerly watching the approaching coast, imagining the carefree and comfortable life of wandering the jianghu alone, when suddenly she saw a figure fall from above. With a splash, it landed heavily in the water in front of the boat, right before her eyes.

"Huh, drowning themselves? Who's so desperate?"

Huang Rong had been lost in thought, imagining her adventures, when she suddenly saw someone fall into the sea. Her first instinct was that she had encountered someone trying to end their life, but she quickly realized something was wrong.

Although they weren't far from the coast, there wasn't even a single rock breaking the surface around the boat, let alone a cliff. There were no other boats either.

So, where did that "suicidal" person fall from?

Huang Rong blinked her eyes and looked up with a puzzled expression, seeing the clear blue sky with fluffy white clouds...

Uh, white clouds, blue sky... the sky?

That person, fell from the sky?

Huang Rong's eyes lit up, as if she had discovered something amazing. With a light leap, like a light white cloud, she gracefully floated down from the mast to the bow of the boat. She bent down, picked up a long bamboo pole, and extended it towards where the person had fallen into the water.

Hmm, the person hadn't sunk after falling into the water and was currently thrashing desperately on the surface. Judging by the splashing water, it seemed that the person didn't actually want to die very much.

So when the bamboo pole was extended towards them, the person immediately reached out with both hands, disregarding everything else, and held onto the pole tightly.

Seeing the person grab onto the bamboo pole, Huang Rong smiled slightly. Without seemingly exerting any effort, she simply lifted the bamboo pole slightly, and with a splash, the person flew out of the water.

Then, Huang Rong shook the bamboo pole like a large spear. The pole first bent downwards, then bounced back up sharply.

A force of elasticity and vibration, transmitted through Huang Rong's lift, reached the person's hands, causing their tightly clasped hands to suddenly go numb. They involuntarily released their grip, and their body instantly soared into the air, drawing an arc in mid-air, flailing their limbs, and flying over Huang Rong's head. With a thud, they landed on the deck.

As an experienced transmigrator who had already gone through one reincarnation and lived a second life, Lu Chen never expected that his first physical transmigration would come so suddenly and awkwardly.

He closed his eyes, opened them, and found himself in the air above the sea. Before he could even react, his body uncontrollably plunged downwards. Before he could even shout "Holy crap," he had already crashed into the water.

His swimming skills were very average; he could only manage a few clumsy strokes in a swimming pool. Now that he had fallen into the sea with waves even when there was no wind, if he didn't want to die, it seemed his only option was to give up this transmigration and choose to return.

But in that case, if he couldn't leave enough "imprints" in this world, he wouldn't be able to find this world and transmigrate here again next time. And having wasted this opportunity, he didn't know how long he would have to wait for the next transmigration.

So Lu Chen didn't want to give up easily.

Besides, he had seen a small boat not far from him before falling into the sea.

So he decided to struggle a bit more, thrashing desperately in the water, kicking up large splashes, hoping to attract the attention of the people on the small boat and get their help.

Heaven rewards the diligent. As he was desperately splashing water, a life-saving bamboo pole was indeed extended towards him.

Lu Chen thus got onto the small boat.

However, the way he got on board was not very comfortable.

He didn't know where the person who saved him got so much strength; they directly used the bamboo pole to flip him onto the boat. When he landed on the deck, he almost felt like his body was falling apart.

As he was hissing and rubbing his back, struggling to sit up, a slender figure with her back to the setting sun stood before him.

Lu Chen squinted his eyes, adjusting to the light, and then he saw clearly that the person who had flipped him onto the boat with a bamboo pole was surprisingly a delicate and pretty young woman who looked frail and weak.

The young woman was already as beautiful as a painting, with exquisite features. At this moment, her white clothes and black hair danced in the sea breeze, and the setting sun behind her cast a golden-red outline on her, making her appear like a young immortal maiden flying through the air, cloaked in the evening glow.

Then.

Lu Chen heard this young immortal maiden, in a clear and sweet voice, ask a question with a tone full of curiosity:

"Are you an immortal?"

An immortal?

If I were an immortal, would I be this pathetic?

Lu Chen couldn't help but laugh bitterly:

"I'm not. I'm just an ordinary person who unfortunately fell into the water. I should thank you for your help in rescuing me, miss..."

"Ordinary person?"

The young woman looked disbelieving:

"Can an ordinary person fall from the sky?"

"Uh..."

Lu Chen thought for a moment and said in a negotiating tone:

"If I said I was swept into the sky by a tornado, and the wind happened to dissipate when I passed by your boat... would you believe me?"

The young girl's lips curved upwards, her slender eyebrows slightly raised, looking like she had discovered the truth:

"You can even ride the wind, and you're still saying you're not an immortal?"

"..."

So my explanation can be interpreted like that?

Lu Chen was speechless.

"Alright, I've read quite a few legendary tales. I know that immortals love to hide their identities when traveling in the human world. Some even pretend to be beggars, so pretending to be someone who drowned isn't that strange."

The girl smiled playfully, winking at him and giving him an "I understand" look:

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about you falling from the sky. This is our little secret. But..."

She drew out the end of her sentence, her bright, expressive eyes looking at Lu Chen, waiting for him to take the bait.

Lu Chen was quite perceptive and continued:

"But what?"

"But you have to tell me how to get to the Immortal Realm. Or when you go back, can you take me there for a visit?"

"Ah?"

"Is something wrong?"

"This..."

The girl seemed hard to fool.

The key was that Lu Chen himself couldn't really explain the "falling from the sky" incident. Relying on the fact that he could return at any time, he simply admitted some truths in a roundabout way:

"The place I came from really can't be considered the Immortal Realm..."

He had already lived a second life. The world he now considered his "Main World," compared to Earth in his previous life, had many incredible supernatural and mysterious elements, but it truly had nothing to do with the "Immortal Realm."

However, the girl, who had long believed he came from "beyond the heavens," didn't care about all that. Seeing that he finally admitted it, her eyes immediately lit up as she looked at him: "Elaborate!"

"Well, before we talk, shouldn't we introduce ourselves first? My name is Lu Chen, Lu as in land, Chen as in steady. May I know your name, young lady?"

Although she was eager to learn about the "Immortal Realm," introductions were also customary. The girl immediately smiled sweetly and said clearly:

"My name is Huang Rong. Rong as in hibiscus."

Huang Rong?

This name!

Looking at the girl's exquisite beauty, recalling the way she easily flicked him onto the boat with a single bamboo pole earlier, and then seeing the environment they were in, Lu Chen's heart trembled. He asked:

"Miss Huang, was the technique you used just now to pole me onto the boat martial arts?"

Huang Rong smiled sweetly:

"Just a small trick, not considered profound martial arts, not worth mentioning."

Not considered profound martial arts?

But it was still martial arts!

Was this beautiful, delicate girl, who was alone in a boat on the sea like a fairy, indeed the beloved daughter of the Master of Peach Blossom Island, the Eastern Heretic, Huang Yaoshi?

I can't believe I've transmigrated into the Condor Heroes World...

And this perfectly met Lu Chen's needs!

He needed to find a world with extraordinary martial arts to accumulate the resources for growth that he couldn't find in the Main World!

What martial arts were suitable for him in the Condor Heroes World?

There were quite a few!

This daughter of the Eastern Heretic right in front of him should have the martial arts he needed!

Just as he was full of excitement and flights of fancy, Huang Rong extended her fair, soft little hand and waved it in front of him:

"What are you spacing out for? I'm waiting for you to tell me all about the Immortal Realm."

Lu Chen snapped back to reality, suppressing his excitement. He cleared his throat, about to speak, but then didn't know where to start.

Huang Rong looked at Lu Chen's short, inch-long hair, like that of a secularized monk, and his strange clothes – this was also solid proof that she was certain he had an extraordinary background. She guided him patiently:

"First, tell me about the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of people in the Immortal Realm. What do you usually eat? Do you feed on wind and drink dew, abstaining from food? Or do you eat dragon liver and phoenix marrow, or celestial mushrooms and precious herbs? Besides riding clouds and wind, do you also ride dragons, phoenixes, or giant roc birds? And, and..."

Seeing Huang Rong asking questions like a curious child, Lu Chen quickly made a 'stop' gesture:

"Miss Huang, don't be in a hurry. I've already said, the place I came from can't be considered the Immortal Realm. We don't feed on wind and drink dew, nor do we have dragon liver or phoenix marrow to eat. In terms of food, we're no different from you, at most we have a wider variety of ingredients, richer seasonings, and more ways of cooking. As for travel, it's worth mentioning, but we don't have dragons, phoenixes, or giant roc birds to ride..."

Lu Chen told Huang Rong about vehicles like cars, trains, ships, and airplanes one by one.

These means of transportation, which were extremely common in his understanding, sounded incredibly magical to Huang Rong.

Steel cars that could drive on their own without being pulled by oxen or horses, capable of traveling hundreds of miles in an hour.

Trains that could also travel hundreds of miles in an hour, carrying thousands of people at once or hauling tens of millions of catties of goods at once.

Giant steel ships that could travel on the sea like walking on flat ground even in a storm, without needing to rely on wind power or ocean currents, and could carry hundreds of millions of catties of goods.

And there were "airplanes" that could carry hundreds of people into the clouds, riding the wind for ten thousand miles in a single day...

With these modes of transportation that sounded like something out of a fairy tale, unbelievable, even unimaginable, yet accessible to everyone, what else could Lu Chen's world be but the "Immortal Realm"?

As for whether what Lu Chen said was true or false...

She had seen him fall from the sky with her own eyes, so how could it be false?

In any case, Huang Rong absolutely trusted her own eyes.

For a moment, her beautiful eyes sparkled with wonder. Her original idea of traveling the Jianghu on the mainland and living a carefree life on her own instantly changed to visiting the Immortal Realm.

I want to go to the Immortal Realm.

I really want to go to the Immortal Realm and play!

Then I'll come back and show off to Daddy, making him green with envy with those divine contraptions!