Crimson County Divine Continent.
Central Plains.
Five Poisons Mountain.
The mountain was not particularly high, but it was shrouded in mist year-round. Rotting swamps bred venomous insects, which exhaled miasma capable of corroding flesh and bone. Herb gatherers and woodcutters alike dared not approach, calling it a deathtrap.
Inside a cave dwelling somewhere on the mountain.
A plain-featured youth in green robes was forming hand seals, seemingly cultivating.
Suddenly.
His face alternated between green and white, as though he had suffered a cultivation deviation. He threw back his head and spat out a mouthful of vital blood. "The Venerable Self and the main body have led me astray..."
Then he fainted.
While unconscious, fragment after fragment of memory surfaced in Aaron's sea of consciousness, and he sorted through them one by one.
Crimson County Divine Continent... the Five Regions under Heaven... orthodox Mystic Sects... unorthodox paths and heretical ways... the Nine Great Demonic Traditions... Eastern Sea rogue immortals... Golden Daoist!
He slowly awoke, gazed at his hands, and sighed. "So... I'm still alive?"
He was the main body's second Nascent Soul. Yet when the main body had been forced by the Venerable Self to ascend to the Immortal Realm, it had actually sent him ahead to scout the way!
Every last one of them was a damned bastard!
And at the thought of the tribulation of Ascension, even Aaron's second Nascent Soul could not help but tremble in fear.
"From the looks of it... something must have gone wrong during the Ascension. I was knocked out of the ascension passage and sent to this world... Even my Nascent Soul was annihilated, with only a spark of true spirit remaining undimmed, allowing me to seize a body and be reborn?"
"This world is surely not the Immortal Realm... but according to