Part Two: Cultivation World, Volume One: The Tianxin Sect at Death's Door, Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal

This is a desolate planet, filled with sand and fierce winds, devoid of human habitation. Even cultivators would not linger in such a place.

The wind howled fiercely, sending huge boulders flying and crashing into another rocky area. Chaos reigned, but miraculously, on the outer edge of a mountain range, there was a spot—a few meters in diameter—where not a single grain of sand or stone was flying! Upon closer inspection, it could be seen that this unaffected area was shaped like a six-pointed star.

Within this six-pointed star, for an unknown period of time, only that a very long time ago, the Teleportation Array had not lit up again. However, a million years later, that familiar cyan light flashed once more, and a young man appeared.

Zhong Heng, who was once a Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal, has now fallen to the point where everyone hates him. Speaking of his cultivation history, it is truly full of hardships. He was orphaned at a young age and always wanted to cultivate. However, when cultivation became the only way to get ahead, cultivation was no longer pure.

Unless you have a talent that is rare even once in a millennium, you must pay enough crystals!

One Grade Lv Crystal = 100 High-Grade Crystals = 1000 Mid-Grade Crystals = 10000 Low-Grade Crystals! A single Low-Grade Crystal is enough to cover an ordinary person's living expenses for a year! To join a cultivation sect, one must be under sixteen years old, and another must contribute one High-Grade Crystal! A High-Grade Crystal is something an ordinary family can't earn in a lifetime.

Zhong Heng, however, always longed to cultivate immortality. Lacking money, he engaged in business and earned a lot of crystals through his wisdom. But by the time he had enough to pay for it, he had long passed the age of sixteen.

Therefore, Zhong Heng decided to exchange crystals for cultivation manuals. He would stop at nothing to achieve his goal, resorting to both enticement and coercion... Zhong Heng finally began his cultivation journey. A cultivation genius, he was self-taught and reached the Tribulation Crossing Stage in just a thousand years. Most importantly, he successfully Tribulation Transcendence!

Perhaps the benefits of wealth for cultivation are simply too great. By the time Zhong Heng had Great Accomplishment, his already highly developed business had earned him countless crystals. Most importantly, in the year Zhong Heng Great Accomplishment, his Zongheng Trading Company received an item from someone else, and what Zhong Heng the most was that this item was a Top-grade Immortal Artifact!

Zhong Heng was ecstatic, but his future also fell because of this Top-grade Immortal Artifact!

Purple Peak Sect the core sect of a second-level cultivation planet under Qilong City, one of the five holy lands of the Cultivation World. It is a large sect, much larger than Zhang Xingfeng's Tianxin Sect back then, and its strength is at least ten times that of the Tianxin Sect.

The Second Elder of the Purple Peak Sect, who was also at the Great Accomplishment stage, learned that Zhong Heng possessed this treasure and wanted to obtain it. However, he also knew Zhong Heng's strength, so he used the power of the sect. The value of a top-tier immortal artifact is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Refining immortal artifacts requires specific secret techniques. There are few immortals and sects that can refine immortal artifacts, which makes them precious. As for divine artifacts? Only in the "Illusory Vision Extreme Domain," a natural barrier, can a "Divine Descent" occur once every ten thousand years. Only at that time can one obtain a divine artifact.

Forging divine artifacts? Only the legendary figure Pangu possessed some skills in this area, but unfortunately Pangu had no successors, and this method has been lost.

In the Immortal Realm, some lower-level Heavenly Immortal even rely on top-tier magical Law Artifact. Of course, some obtain Low-grade Immortal Artifact, and a few obtain mid-level or even better ones. These people may have high status in the Immortal Realm due to the high status of their sect elders.

Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal generally use lower to Mid-grade Immortal Artifact. Of course, if you join one of the three major powers in the Immortal Realm, you can obtain a mid-grade Low-grade Immortal Artifact Mid-grade Immortal Artifact; otherwise, you'll likely still have a lower-grade one. Golden Great Luo Golden Immortal generally obtain top- Top-grade Immortal Artifact. Nine Heavens Profound Immortal usually possess lower or mid-grade divine artifacts. Immortal Monarch always possess divine artifacts, though the exact level is hard to say. And the Three Immortal Emperor always possess top-grade divine artifacts!

Top-grade Immortal Artifact are common equipment for Great Luo Golden Immortal. It's conceivable that the Second Elder of the Purple Peak Sect, who is about to become Heavenly Immortal, is determined to obtain this treasure. That's why things happened that Zhong Heng crazy!

When their attempt to seize the goods failed, the Purple Peak Sect ruthlessly destroyed the Zongheng Trading Company and exterminated Zhong Heng's entire clan. Perhaps some survivors remained, but Zhong Heng had no chance to find them. He could only flee; the Purple Peak Sect had given him no further opportunity. Could he possibly resist? A large sect like the Purple Peak Sect would have at least ten experts at the Great Accomplishment stage! And of course, they possessed immortal artifacts!

Later, he ascended to heaven, thinking he was free, but he was wrong! The Purple Peak Sect also had a powerful influence in the Immortal Realm. The founder of the Purple Peak Sect, the Purple Peak True Person, was a high-ranking figure in the power of the Great Emperor Ziwei. The Zifeng True Man didn't even know about this matter. It was just a word from the juniors of the Purple Peak True Person that led some immortals who were currying favor with the Purple Peak True Person to start hunting down Zhong Heng, who had just become Heavenly Immortal Zhong Heng.

Run, run, run!

With nowhere to run, Zhong Heng reluctantly handed over the ceiling artifact and gestured, hoping that the people of the Purple Peak Sect would give up their pursuit of him!

However, he was too optimistic. The Purple Peak Sect had taken the Top-grade Immortal Artifact, but they still pursued him relentlessly. Zhong Heng went mad, but he was the weakest of the Heavenly Immortal. In the end, he had no choice but to flee into the perilous Nine Lü Wonderful Mountain of the Immortal Realm! In the Nine Lu Mystic Mountains, Zhong Heng was extremely cautious. He spent nearly ten thousand years in the belly of this mountain and finally entered the realm of the Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal. He couldn't hold back any longer. Ten thousand years had passed. He thought the Purple Peak Sect had given up, but he was wrong. For immortals, time means nothing. He was still being hunted down by the Purple Peak Sect.

Having just left the Ninth-Rank Mystic Mountain, he was forced to flee back to it. However, the reason why the Ninth-Rank Mystic Mountain is a great danger in the Immortal Realm is that it is ever-changing! Zhong Heng could no longer find the mountain's interior. In a daze, he entered a black cave. When he regained consciousness, he found that he had arrived on this desolate planet.

"The Cultivation World? Hahaha... Hahaha... It's the Cultivation World! Heavens, you haven't completely wiped me Zhong Heng yet! Heavens, this is the cultivation world! The Cultivation World, what an enchanting aura!" Zhong Heng excitedly sensed the surrounding Spiritual Qi, the Spiritual Qi of the Cultivation World. In the immortal realm, there was plenty of immortal spiritual energy, but here there was none. So Zhong Heng was overjoyed to confirm that this was the Cultivation World, the Cultivation World he had dreamed of returning to.

"In the Cultivation World, will my life, Zhong Heng, still be so unlucky?" Zhong Heng smiled slightly. He was confident that with the strength of Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal, he could definitely live well in the Cultivation World.

Zhong Heng was excited because he had returned to the Cultivation World. If you asked any ordinary immortal in the immortal realm what they most wanted to do, they would definitely say: Return to the Cultivation World!

Every ordinary immortal longs to return to the Cultivation World Cultivation World, where they are the bosses, able to walk with impunity, fawned upon by countless cultivators, sought to become their disciples, and recruited by numerous powerful forces! But in the immortal realm, they can only cower, bow their heads, and live the life of a lowly immortal.

However, returning to the Cultivation World is extremely difficult! Two major conditions have stumped almost all ordinary immortals.

First: It's impossible for the immortals of the three major powers to return to the Cultivation World, because the three Immortal Emperors would not tolerate their Cultivation World leaving. In other words, the Immortal Realm must not belong to the three major powers!

Second: Having enough Immortal Crystals to exchange for the opportunity to undergo trials at the Immortal Gate. Only by succeeding can one pass through the Immortal Gate. Of course, the Immortal Crystals required for this trial are staggering: 1000 Immortal Crystals! One Immortal Crystal = 100 High-Grade Immortal Stone = 1000 Mid-Grade Immortal Stone = 10000 Low-Grade Immortal Stone = 1000 High-Grade Crystals. A typical Heavenly Immortal needs one High-Grade Immortal Stone to cultivate for a year. The preciousness of Immortal Crystals is unimaginable. Even Top-grade Immortal Artifact only cost 100 Immortal Crystals in the Immortal Realm. 1000 Immortal Crystals! Only the most powerful forces in the Immortal Realm can afford that. Of course, Demon Crystal are equally precious; Zhang Xingfeng, who had just arrived in the Cultivation World, was already a super-rich man!

Even Immortal Monarch, who is second only to Immortal Emperor, probably only has a few hundred thousand Celestial Crystals, while Nine Heavens Profound Immortal probably only has tens of thousands, and Great Luo Golden Immortal usually only has a few thousand Celestial Crystals!

However, the training in the Immortal Gate is extremely difficult; without the strength of Great Luo Golden Immortal, don't even think about it!

The lucky Zhong Heng accidentally entered the cultivation world in the "Nine-Rank Wonderful Mountain". This was truly lucky. It seems that this guy's luck has turned around and he has started to have good fortune!

Zhong Heng took out a "locator" he used in the Cultivation World in his early years from his "Xuanhuang Bracelet". Looking at the "locator" that had not been used for ten thousand years, Zhong Heng sighed and said, "Alas, old friend, I have to rely on you again. Luckily I did not abandon it back then! Hehe, who would have thought that I, Zhong Heng, would be able to enter the Cultivation World? I am really too lucky!"

The Xuanhuang Bracelet was Zhong Heng's secret Law Treasure for business. The Xuanhuang Hand Saw was a Low-grade Immortal Artifact, ranking third among bracelets. Now, this Xuanhuang Bracelet had become the only immortal artifact he had.

"That despicable Purple Peak Sect actually stole my top-tier immortal weapon and even chased after me, the Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal! Fine, now I, the Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal, will settle my scores and avenge my wrongs!" Zhong Heng stood in the Teleportation Array, activated it, and disappeared in a flash of light.

Mingling Star, one of the five great holy lands of cultivation, is the only first-level cultivation planet among the countless planets in the northern region of the Cultivation World, where 20 million cultivators reside.

Inside a tree outside Mingling Star, there is a Teleportation Array of Mingling Star.

"Little Dragon, I hereby formally appoint you as an elder of my Tianxin Sect. This Yin Yang Mountain is your gift! Well, with your current cultivation level, you shouldn't take out your divine artifacts too often, lest you attract the covetousness of other experts. Alright, I'll also give you this Giant Battle Saber that I forged. It's a Top-grade Immortal Artifact! It's more than enough for you to use. It's best not to take out your divine artifacts unless it's a matter of life and death!" Zhang Xingfeng said to Little Dragon with a smile.

After entering the Cultivation World, the group was still worried about Xiao Lin, but Zhang Xingfeng believed in the protective power of the Sky-Opening Divine Axe. Moreover, he had clearly seen the axe with its powerful aura, and he was convinced that Xiao Lin was perfectly fine. He had simply arrived in the Demon Realm.

When Zhang Xingfeng arrived at Mingling Star, his first action was to appoint Little Dragon as an elder of the Tianxin Sect. Zhang Xingfeng's move could be described as... extremely insidious. He was making Little Dragon serve the Tianxin Sect for his sake, but for his own sake as Little Dragon elder.

Zhong Heng stared blankly at all of this. As soon as he stepped out of the teleportation channel, he heard Zhang Xingfeng talking to Little Dragon.

"A divine artifact? Top-grade Immortal Artifact?" Zhong Heng's mind was still a complete blank for a moment.

Zhong Heng, still possessing the shrewd business acumen he always had, reacted instantly and ran to Zhang Xingfeng, saying, "These seniors, could you please take me in?"

Zhang Xingfeng looked at the guy in front of him, feeling confused. "This guy seems to have reached the realm of Luo Tian Heavenly Immortal. When did such an immortal appear in the Cultivation World? Isn't it said that immortals are extremely rare in the Cultivation World? Senior? Junior?"

Zhang Xingfeng instantly understood. It seemed that the guy in front of him couldn't tell his cultivation level and thought that his skill must be higher than his, which was why he said that. He knew that in the Cultivation World and the immortal world, among experts who didn't know each other, the one with higher skill was considered a senior.

However, immortals are extremely rare in the Cultivation World. Many super sects invite immortals as guest elders. You should know that although some super sects have considerable influence in the immortal realm, how many of their experts from the immortal realm can actually return? Generally, only one or two super experts from super sects return, and their power is mainly around the Great Luo Golden Immortal.

But this guy in front of him actually wanted him to take him in? Zhang Xingfeng was curious, and a smile involuntarily appeared on his face, "Why do you want me to take you in?"

Zhong Heng looked at Zhang Xingfeng, smiled, and said, "Senior, could you please listen to my story?"

"Brother Feng, someone's telling a story, hehe, Leyue, come and listen!" ***Yan walked over with a smile, beckoning her good friend Leyue to the side.

Zhong Heng saw that everyone was looking at him, gave a bitter smile, and slowly immersed himself in his memories. "I was orphaned since childhood, but I wanted to cultivate immortality... Yes, it was a celestial artifact that destroyed my Zhong family's Zongheng Trading Company and almost wiped out my descendants! It made me spend ten thousand years in the Ninth Grade Mystic Mountain! I am irreconcilably opposed to the Purple Peak Sect. It's either them or me! It's either me or them!" As he said this, Zhong Heng was already gritting his teeth.

Zhang Xingfeng's skill level was far superior to Zhong Heng's at this moment. Moreover, because the power of Wuji was higher than that of the Limitless Power, his divine training, which was nurtured by the power of Wuji, was also much stronger. He was certain that everything Zhong Heng said was true!

"Alright, you'll be following me from now on. This is a top-tier immortal sword, consider it my gift for meeting you! Big brother, let's go, we're going to Mingling City!" Zhang Xingfeng tossed an immortal sword to Zhong Heng without hesitation, then turned and set off!

Zhong Heng took the immortal sword in a daze, and it took him a while to react. Looking at Zhang Xingfeng, he was full of surprise. This silver-haired man in front of him did not ask anything and just gave him a Top-grade Immortal Artifact. It was a top-level immortal weapon!

Seeing that the group had already gone quite far, Zhong Heng quickly followed them, heading together towards Mingling City, which was not far away.