[The Immortal Returns to the City]

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If the Amitabha Great Emperor, the Void Great Emperor, or the Sun Sacred Emperor had stood before him, Lin Xian would still have made one final attempt to struggle.

But the Ruthless Great Emperor's reputation preceded her. Who wouldn't tremble at the sight of her?

Her past feat of slaughtering all kings had made even the Supreme Beings of the restricted zones cry out, "You're a little extreme."

The instant the Tianshu Saintess, a Desolate Slave, appeared, Lin Xian did not hesitate or delay. In a flash, he decisively activated the spacetime voucher.

Of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, fleeing was the best!

A glimmer of light swirled. The Tianshu Saintess, a Desolate Slave, stood frozen in place, her already vacant gaze becoming even more bewildered. Where was her disciple? Where had that huge Tianshu disciple gone?!

"Hey, hey, hey, Earth, I'm back!"

Thunder rumbled across the sky as Lin Xian made his dazzling entrance. Based on the spacetime voucher's properties, time travel was not random; it sent one to a time or place tied to oneself by karma.

Therefore, Lin Xian believed he would return to Earth—his hometown before his transmigration, the place where the dream had begun, the original starting point.

Yet when the light faded, Lin Xian froze.

In the middle of nowhere, beside an abandoned factory, several streetlamps flickered and buzzed beneath the pitch-black night. Roaring zombies wandered everywhere. A seductive, uninhibited pink-haired mature woman was fighting a scruffy girl in white wielding a kitchen knife, while a young man who appeared to be an esper controlled boulders weighing thousands of pounds with sweeping attacks.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions rang out without end. Lin Xian sucked in a breath. "Holy crap, where the hell did this send me? Is this still Earth?"

"Kid, you're an ordinary person too, right? My worldview got shattered today as well."

A young man bound by ropes on the ground looked up and, with sharp eyes, spotted an unfamiliar youth in the corner. Taking advantage of everyone's distraction, he hurriedly wriggled over like a Caterpie and crawled to Lin Xian's feet, revealing a fawning smile. "Do me a favor and untie these ropes."

"Kid?"

Lin Xian looked at his limbs and body. He was slender and graceful, crystal-clear and radiant, no different from a youth in the prime of life. His skin was fair as mutton-fat jade, more delicate than a woman's, as if an immortal spirit had descended into the world.

Then he inspected the Wheel of Life within his body and sensed the twelve cracks upon it. Lin Xian came to a realization: he had consumed sacred fruit and divine spring water, which had restored his youth.

He had become stronger—and younger!

Lin Xian's mood instantly improved. A smile curled onto his lips as he teasingly asked, "A college student, huh?"

"Holy crap, how did you know?" The young man was immediately startled, a trace of suspicion appearing in his clear eyes. Then he cautiously asked, "Do you know me? Are you a junior from Nankai University?"

"Pah, that can't be right. Our ages don't match either."

"Clear eyes, a springtime Caterpie—what else could you be besides a college student?" Lin Xian snorted, then stroked his chin and muttered, "Nankai University? What kind of weird name is that? It sounds a little familiar."

"Kid, what's your name?"

"Spring, bug, spring bug—doesn't that mean stupid? That bastard was calling me clear-eyed and stupid! And you're the kid here. I'm a whole generation older than you!" The young man flew into a rage from humiliation and cursed furiously in his heart.

But considering his current predicament, Zhang Chulan could only take a deep breath and comfort himself that a true man could bend and stretch. Then he put on a cheap, ingratiating smile. "Big bro, my name is Zhang Chulan. I'm a proper college student, a good citizen. Please help me out. Little Zhang will repay you generously someday."

"Zhang Chulan..."

Like a ray of light tearing through chaos, Lin Xian's eyes instantly lit up, and he finally understood. "So it's this Earth."

The Earth of The Outcast was also Earth, and like Lin Xian, it had deep karmic ties to him.

This was the place he should have come to during his first transmigration, the place where he was supposed to carry out his mission.

No wonder the spacetime voucher had brought him to this Earth.

"System, are the missions for The Outcast still available?"

Lin Xian asked within the lake of his heart, "I remember there was a main mission and a side mission."

An ethereal voice rang out as System 10086 replied, "Restarting missions."

[Side Mission: Claim first place in the Rites of Luotian]

[Main Mission: Defeat the Old Heavenly Master on Mount Longhu]

"The Rites of Luotian, the Old Heavenly Master."

Lin Xian narrowed his eyes. The Rites of Luotian were nothing to worry about, merely youngsters fooling around. The Old Heavenly Master's strength, however, was unfathomable.

What did The Outcast mean? "The One" referred to Zhang Zhiwei, the Heavenly Master of Mount Longhu, known as the Daoist Tian Tong—the number one figure in the current world of espers.

In a world where innate espers possessed countless methods and acquired esper experts emerged one after another, Daoist Tian Tong stood alone at the summit, dominating the world for a century. He was in a league of his own.

In other worlds, there might be a gap between the strongest person and those ranked second or third, but they could still exchange a few moves.

But in the world of The Outcast, the Old Heavenly Master truly made everyone else seem beneath one man. Whether they possessed one of the Eight Extraordinary Skills or were among the Ten Elders of the righteous path, all were dealt with in a single move.

"Daoist Tian Tong's combat power is hard to judge. He might be at the peak of the Life Spring realm, or he might be at the Divine Bridge realm. There's a tiny chance he's at the peak of the Divine Bridge realm. He can't possibly be comparable to a Shore realm cultivator, can he?"

Lin Xian calculated inwardly. His cultivation was currently at the late-stage peak and perfection of the Life Spring realm, half a step into the Divine Bridge realm. Although it was a watered-down realm piled up through sacred fruit and divine spring water, the Shrouding the Heavens cultivation method treated the body itself as the seed and made the flesh invincible. It was true cultivation, vastly superior to urban superpowers; they were not even on the same level.

If he paired it with a couple of ultimate techniques, he might not be unable to fight.

"Watch out! Dodge!"

Zhang Chulan suddenly shouted, anxiety filling his eyes. He tried to use the Golden Light Spell to save him, but the Gu insect Liu Yanyan had planted inside him continued obstructing his meridians, preventing him from using his abilities.

Though countless thoughts raced through Lin Xian's mind, only a few dozen seconds had passed in reality. Zhang Chulan had just tried to escape when the two groups fighting noticed the problem.

A boulder weighing thousands of pounds was shattered by Xia He's kick, and countless fragments shot toward him with ingenious force.

"Xia He, how dare you hurt an ordinary person!" Xu San erupted in fury. The esper world had an ironclad rule: espers could kill one another, but they were forbidden from interfering with ordinary people.

The ones enforcing this ironclad rule were the NDT Express Company behind Xu San. As a quasi-state-owned enterprise, it represented the authorities in restraining the esper world.

What Xia He was doing was like a robber killing a passerby in front of the police—an utterly blatant provocation.

"An ordinary person? How could anyone who dared show up here be an ordinary person?" Xia He smiled seductively, but she knew exactly what she was doing. She had not used much force just now; it was more of a test. Even if he were an ordinary person, at most she would give him a concussion and seriously injure him.

Hurting someone and killing someone were judged by two different standards in the company's evaluation system. Even Xia He, a completely lawless all-nature demon, understood that.

After all, criminals understood the law best.

"But if I were an ordinary person, I'd be crippled even if I didn't die." Lin Xian spoke quietly. Behind him, strands of platinum divine patterns extended like chains, radiant and glittering as they pulverized the flying rubble. Beneath the black night sky, they made him seem inhuman, sacred beyond measure.

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