noffsinger Chapter 1: Tribulation Transcending to Ascension - The Final Chapter on Blue Star?
Chapter 1: Tribulation Transcending to Ascension - The Final Chapter on Blue Star?
"Wait, what's going on?"
"When my heavenly tribulation was at its peak, I clearly saw the gates to the immortal realm!"
"The golden, glittering Southern Heavenly Gate was only partially revealed, so how did it end up here the moment I opened my eyes?"
"So that last bolt of heavenly lightning wasn't meant to send me to immortality, but rather to knock me off my feet and send me back to my hometown?"
A figure suddenly appeared in the air at an altitude of 10,000 meters.
The shimmering golden divine light flowing around him was gradually receding into his body.
The man hovered in mid-air, looking down at his palm.
His brows furrowed, his mind filled with unanswered questions.
He spoke instinctively, his voice still dazed and confused.
Looking up and scanning all directions, all I could see was a surging sea of clouds.
Not even a trace of the magnificent palaces and pavilions of the celestial realm could be seen.
"This place isn't the immortal realm at all!"
He muttered to himself, his doubts practically spilling out of his throat.
He then took a deep breath, and the next second his face fell.
"Damn, the spiritual energy in this world is so thin, it's like fake liquor diluted with a ton of water!"
"It's not even as good as those remote, desolate mountains and wildernesses in the Cangyuan Realm?"
"This place is so desolate, the spiritual energy is practically gone!"
His name is Lu Jingchen.
It would shock people to hear this: he had just survived a ninefold tribulation.
He is the only ascendant in the Cangyuan Realm in ten thousand years to have withstood the Heavenly Tribulation.
"I spent a full ten thousand years grinding in the Cangyuan Realm!"
"From an ordinary person who couldn't even kill a chicken, he became a unique top boss in the industry."
"All my competitors from the same period have been dead by now, and here I am?"
"So, all these ten thousand years of my life have been spent working for free?"
He was talking more and more outrageous, and he looked like he was about to break apart.
"Does anyone understand, family members? It's been rolled up for ten thousand years, and now it's become a reverse teleportation?"
"They failed to reach the Immortal Realm and instead returned to their starting point? This Heavenly Tribulation really knows how to manipulate mindsets!"
His fingers flew across the keyboard as he quickly formed a magic seal.
He shouted in a low voice, "Condense!"
A pure white spirit sword instantly materialized beneath his feet.
He stood firmly on the sword, his eyes instantly turning as sharp as knives.
"Let's go! Let's go down and see what kind of place this is!"
Before he finished speaking, he transformed into a silvery-white afterimage.
It plunged straight into the thick sea of clouds beneath its feet.
As you pass through layers of clouds, the view below suddenly bursts into view.
Lu Jingchen's pupils suddenly contracted, and he froze in mid-air.
The spirit sword beneath her feet swayed, and she almost lost her balance.
All I could see were towering steel and concrete buildings.
The metal boxes on the road lined up in long rows and moved very fast.
The sound of the horn could be faintly heard even from a great distance.
This art style has absolutely nothing to do with the ethereal, otherworldly realm.
He remained suspended in the air, completely dumbfounded.
His eyes were fixed on the tallest building in the distance.
The four large characters on the rooftop are clearly visible even from thousands of meters away.
"Jinjiang Building?"
He muttered those four words to himself, his voice trembling uncontrollably.
"There's no mistake! Absolutely no difference! This is Earth! This is Earth!"
He was completely stunned; his worldview was almost shattered.
He left this planet 10,000 years ago.
While I was out buying soy sauce, I was struck by a bolt of lightning out of the blue.
He was directly transported to the Cangyuan Realm, a place where the strong prey on the weak.
In that cannibalistic, hellish place, he risked his life every single day.
While others were slacking off, he was working himself to the bone.
While others indulge in romance and enjoy life, he secludes himself for intensive self-cultivation, remaining steadfast in his seclusion.
It endured for a full ten thousand years, outlasting all its contemporaries.
He became the only ascended master in the Cangyuan Realm in ten thousand years to withstand the heavenly tribulation.
The results of it?
After enduring nine bolts of heavenly lightning, the gate to the immortal realm remained unseen.
Instead, when he opened his eyes, he found himself back in the place where he started.
This move is absolutely outrageous!
"No way, does that mean all my ten thousand years of hard work have been wiped out?"
"I had my ticket to the Celestial Realm all in my hands, and they refunded it and sent it back to the starting station?"
"Are you kidding me? Which old fox designed this Heavenly Tribulation using a reverse program?"
He got angrier and angrier as he talked, and couldn't help but feel that it was outrageous, his lips twitching.
But the next second, he suddenly frowned.
Something's not right, something's really not right.
He raised his hand and touched the wind blowing past him.
And there's that familiar yet unfamiliar smell of cooking in the air.
"Wait a minute, I've been grinding in the Cangyuan Realm for ten thousand years."
"How come this place looks almost exactly the same as when I left?"
His brows furrowed even more as his eyes swept across the entire city.
The city layout is familiar, and the building styles are the same as always.
Even the Jinjiang Building is still undergoing exterior renovations.
She looked exactly the same as she did before she left; in fact, she was almost identical.
"Could it be..."
A crazy idea suddenly popped into his head.
His heart skipped a beat.
"I have lived in the Cangyuan Realm for a full ten thousand years."
"Time hasn't progressed much on Earth at all?"
The moment that thought crossed his mind, his blood boiled.
The CPU in my brain is almost burned out by this idea.
If the time hasn't changed much.
And them...
Those two people he had been thinking of day and night for ten thousand years in the Cangyuan Realm.
Is it still there?
Two familiar faces instantly popped into my mind.
One is his gentle, nagging mother who is always worried that he is not eating or dressing warmly enough.
One was his younger sister who always followed him around, calling him "brother" all the time.
I can only imagine how devastated the mother and daughter must have been when he suddenly disappeared back then.
For ten thousand years in the Cangyuan Realm, this was his deepest obsession.
It was also his biggest motivation to climb up the ladder at all costs.
He always thought that once he became an immortal, he would find a way to come back and visit.
Even just a glance is enough to know they are doing well.
And now, after all this time, he's actually come back?
"Mom! Little sister!"
He shouted out suddenly, his voice filled with barely suppressed urgency and trembling.
Even her eyes welled up with tears.
It's been ten thousand years.
He endured ten thousand years in that world where he had no relatives or friends.
Only he knows how many injuries he suffered and how much hardship he endured.
Now, I can finally go home.
I'm finally going to see them.
He clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles turned white.
The spirit sword beneath his feet emitted a buzzing sound, as if responding to his emotions.
"Go home! I'm going home right now!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs, and his entire demeanor changed.
The pressure from the Immortal Venerable of Ten Thousand Years instantly dissipated, only to be quickly withdrawn by him.
They were afraid of disturbing the familiar city below.
He suddenly turned the direction of the spirit sword, its tip pointing directly at the residential area below.
He transformed into a streak of light and plunged headlong towards his home.