Chapter 60: A Whole New World, Mountain-Like Immortal City

  The colossal warship desded slowly, heading toward the shadows in the distance.

  As the Immortal Path warship desded, the dusty winds and gloom across Heaven ah instantly dispersed. In one er of the nd, a massive city built upon spiritual veins gradually came into view, t between Heaven ah.

  Lofty towers, imposing edifices, and steel structures more magnifit than mountain ranges rose in interwoven rows, f this grand Immortal city that transded the mundane.

  The warship was tinuing its dest.

  Withiy, tless shuttle?like lights fred up, resembling a swarm of bees, as though ing out to greet it.

  An Jing was stunned for a long while as he watched the warship disappear into the distant sky, merging into the shadows of the city.

  Only ohe dark clouds overhead came together agaiurning the entire wildero dimness, did he finally snap out of his daze, sug in a sharp breath. “What oh was that?! They even have warships now?!”

  Amid the desote mountains and open wilderness, the martial artist from the Huaixu Realm was overwhelmed by this se that exceeded his entire frame of reference, so stunned he could not move a muscle.

  When the parted clouds finally closed up and the hazy dust once again bhe entire world, the Immortal Path warship had fully touched down behind the city. Only then did An Jing wipe away the cold sweat on his forehead and sat himself on a nearby rock.

  He began to think it through carefully.

  “What sort of world is this?”

  Still gazing in the dire of the distant city, An Jing tried to steady his nerves. “Ever since I saw those firearms and Spiritlight Guns, I khis world’s level of teology wasn’t low.”

  “But now it’s obvious that it’s far beyond merely ‘not low’—it’s at aremely high level!”

  “Hm, that’s quite an ingeniously crafted Magical War Treasure*, something only a major sect could fe.” In his mind, the Sword Spirit curred. “However, what I wanted you to be wary of was the cultivator inside.”

  “In that Void Sky Shuttle is a Golden Core True Monarch who may have already realized 【Immortal Attai】. His Divine sciousness covers this entire area of Heaven ah and observe our every move.”

  “What he observe about us?” At these words, An Jing sprang up in arm. “Could he find out we’re from another world? he sehe aura of another world on us?”

  “That’s impossible. I’m the one who opehe Grand Void Passage. As long as My sword radiance remains, you’re sidered a native of this world, and no one sense anything unusual.”

  The Sword Spirit denied An Jing’s guess, but Its tone was still quite serious. “However, the fact that he might have noticed us at all is already extremely dangerous!”

  “So he ’t discover that, huh.”

  An Jing’s nervousness abated somewhat, a back down, though still feeling perplexed. “If that’s the case, then what’s shtening about it?”

  That tense exge finally snapped him out of the awe he had felt upon witnessing the Immortal Path warship.

  Once he calmed down, An Jing shifted his gaze to the wilderness and townships beyond the mountains. “This expanse of nd may appear desote, but there are plenty of human vilges and towns out there.”

  “That Golden Core cultivatht notice us, but at worst, he’ll just assume we’re cultivators expl the depths of these mountains.”

  “Better safe than sorry.” The Sword Spirit was exceedingly cautious about such matters. “An Jing, you mustn’t uimate your own significe, especially since you bear a Heaven?Ordained Fate. That alone makes it easy for you to get swept up in all kinds of trouble.”

  “Still, it seems this realm has mao retain the heritage of Qi Refining cultivation, which differs from the Heaven?Ordained Fate Martial Path of the Huaixu Realm.”

  Hearing that, An Jing paused in slight fusion. “Does having a Heaven?Ordained Fate really make it so easy to get caught up in trouble?”

  “For others, that might not be the case,” the Sword Spirit said. “But the two omens your Heaven?Ordained Fate has dispyed—one being ‘Red Star Guarding the Heart,’ stemming from your experiences of fleeing disaster and joining a demonic sect, and the other ‘Taibai Dev Mao,’ arising because of Me—are both supremely inauspicious signs.”

  “However, those great misfortunes terbance each other, so your luck won’t be too bad—maybe even quite favorable. But even so, it means you’re destio be at the ter of tless is and flicts, frequently fag bloodshed—just like how you were inexplicably drawn into the enta betweehe Heavenly Demons, and the Imperial Sect of the mortal world. Granted, you’ve had det fortune so far and are still alive and kig, but if you’re not careful, you could die without leaving a body.”

  “I see.”

  An Jing fell silent for a while. He didn’t seem ed about the Sword Spirit’s caution and instead grinned. “It looks like the life ahead is going to be pretty exg.”

  With that, he once more peered at the shadowed se of the city where the Immortal Path warship had hen he made his way to the cliff’s edge and took in the y of the nd around him.

  From half the mountain, he could see swathes of grayish-green wooded ridges extending all the way to the banks of a distant great river.

  Because the Immortal Path warship had stirred the cloud yer, the hazy rain clouds began to colpse to either side, creating a curtain of muddy rainfall apanied by rumbles of thunder.

  Those casg storm clouds bore down toward his location, which y deeper in the mountains.

  Soon enough, the rain arrived.

  “An Jing, the Demonic Camity Baleful Qi is extremely dense here, and the rain is full of pollution. We should steer clear of it.”

  Before the rain curtai in, the Sword Spirit sensed something amiss and warned him, “Though you bear a Heaven?Ordained Fate and thus have high resistao such things, it’s still better not to stay out in it for long.”

  “Got it.”

  Always oo heed good advice, An Jing promptly withdrew into the cave.

  The scattered raindrops quickly turned into a dense shower, yet the temperature did not drop; it felt more like a humid, sweltering southern rainstorm.

  Deeper ihe cave, An Jing raised his hand to catch a drop of rainwater, disc that it was actually violet-blue. Meanwhile, the occasional droplets that spshed onto him made his Heavenly Will Demonic Sect robes sizzle a wisps of smoke.

  “Acid rain?”

  This strange phenomenon made An Jing pause in surprise—his attire had been crafted by Hanging Fate Manor specifically for its “Champion.” Although it was not meant to block bdes, it was exceptionally sturdy and made of superb materials.

  Who would have thought this otherworldly acid rain would corrode it so effortlessly, causing it to emit smoke?

  More arming still was that, despite the rain’s potent corrosive pollution, he felt no disfort. He only found the raindrops to be somewhat warm!

  “Ever since my Heaven?Ordained Fate awakened, my physique truly became different from other people’s.”

  Pulling back to the deeper part of the cave, An Jing found a raised ft stoo sit on iation. Gazing at the dazzling violet-blue rain curtain shrouding Heaven ah outside the entrance, he muttered to himself, “No wonder. Without a Heaven?Ordained Fate, it’s impossible to advance past Internal Energy and attain Internal Fortification. This capacity to withstand corrosive Demonic Qi is the key.”

  Even now, An Jing still didn’t really uand what sort of Heaven?Ordained Fate he truly had. Those two dire omear Guarding the Heart and Taibai Dev Mao—enabled him to wield Scarlet Death ons. Undoubtedly, his Heaven?Ordained Fate was extremely powerful, at the very least a Strae, and possibly even strohan Bai Qinghan’s, b on a Divie.

  Its power even allowed him, without sciously activating his Heaven?Ordained Fate, to be immuo the corrosive rain of this world. Such a Heaven?Ordained Fate was An Jing’s greatest asset for surviving in the Huaixu Realm and in this new world alike.

  Even so, depending on fate alone would never be enough.

  Thus, with nothing else to do as the downpour forced him to squat in the cave, An Jing spoke with the Sword Spirit, carefully s through the information they had gathered about this other world.

  —First, this other world had experienced a demonic camity akin to what had happened in Huaixu. The barren nd and its corrosive rainfall were proof enough. Although the murky Camity Qi in the rain had been blunted by Heaven ah numerous times, it remairemely dangerous.

  —, for certain reasons, this realm tio uphold a Qi Refining cultivation system. This was wele news for An Jing, because the Sword Spirit was a master of that system. Although He was unfamiliar with martial arts, He was truly skilled in Qi Refining. Whether it raisi treasures or providing guidan Daoist Arts, or even improving cultivation teiques, He could do it all. With the Sword Spirit around, An Jing would not be a totally clueless “outsider” in this realm.

  —Lastly, this world possessed civilization, towns, and eveies further away. In short, there were people and resources here, and the teological level was extremely advanced. In the field of 【Artifact Refining】, their craftsmanship was nothing short of exceptional.

  The Purified Five Metals required by the Radiant White Spirit Diviri An Jing practiced would probably not be difficult to obtain in this realm. Given that the entire Immortal Path warship was very likely made of Spiritual Steel, it roof that this realm had abundant Five Metals.

  As long as he could mih the towns of this realm, An Jing would have a ce to obtain more resources, rapidly strengthening himself to deal with any potential threats he might fa the Huaixu Realm. And with a high-level cultivation teique like the Diviri, even a minor adva would yield a massive surge in bat strength.

  By utilizing the resources of both realms, An Jing could grow at a rate beyond imagination, making it impossible for foes iher world to anticipate him.

  (End of Chapter)

  *As far as we know it goes Magical Artifact --> Spiritual Artifact --> Magical Treasure --> Spiritual Treasure. There's also been a mention of "Dao Resonance Spiritual Treasure" but we're ly quite clear on that level yet.