Year 24 of the Cosmic Calendar, Hometown.
A young man at the great completion of Core Formation, only a step away from the heavenly barrier of the Primordial Spirit, set foot upon Hometown's soil.
"Wuhu!" The young man drew a deep breath and shouted, "From now on, the vast sea is free for fish to leap, and the high sky is free for birds to fly! Hahahaha!"
He rolled his neck and leapt down from the star shuttle docking port suspended above ten thousand fathoms of clouds.
Beyond the cloud layer lay the boundless splendor of the world below.
Lights stretched from the pitch-black horizon all the way into the distance. In the east, a pale strip of fish-belly white had just appeared.
In fifteen years, Hometown had changed completely.
Unlike Divine Land, where countless existing powers made sweeping alterations difficult, Hometown had begun as a planet inhabited only by cultivators. Much of its architectural planning had followed the standards of immortal cities.
After the Cosmic Calendar began, although the Immortal Alliance implemented mass migration and moved populations from their native lands to Hometown, cultivators had long remained the mainstream population here.
Moreover, as Immortal Alliance technology advanced, the threshold for cultivation itself continued to fall.
Naturally, the density of cultivators remained extremely high.
And that led to...
Hometown's overall style looking far more modern than Divine Land's.
Great metropolises packed with towering buildings stood everywhere. Even deep at night, the streets were shoulder-to-shoulder with crowds.
The young man whistled. "Wuhu! Nice! This young master has been free from today onward, so the rule about not being allowed out shopping in the middle of the night has to change too! I'm going to shop till my heart's content!"
—After shopping, I'll head to the Zhengtian Division and apply to become