Chapter 1 Getting Started

Having figured out how to enter the Mystical Realm, Ye Chuxiao actually felt confident enough to embark on it.

According to Qiao Wuqi's teachings, after the body is tempered with the energy of heaven and earth, one can enter secluded meditation once they believe they have accumulated enough 'luck'.

By observing life and death in a subtle way through a state of suspended animation, one can enter the Mystical Realm.

Upon entering the Mystical Realm, one's lifespan exceeds that of ordinary mortals, with the length of the increase directly linked to the amount of luck.

Of course, if one hasn't accumulated enough luck and forcibly enters secluded meditation, there's a possibility of it becoming real, truly dying during the breakthrough.

Because of this, Daheng officials, who have a certain 'fixed number' of luck to distribute, are particularly popular among cultivators.

Being in public service is indeed conducive to cultivation, it's not just empty talk.

Many cultivators without other options are racking their brains to become officials.

Ye Chuxiao is currently a silver badge in Daheng's Six Doors, an official of the seventh rank. If it were just for the luck needed to break through to the Mystical Realm, the luck brought by a silver badge position would be barely enough.

Moreover, Ye Chuxiao once spread the idealistic spirit root in another world, pioneering the shared spirit root cultivation method, which had a far-reaching impact. This also forged connections with all living beings, accumulating a large amount of luck for him.

Even if the controllers of that world would constantly dilute Ye Chuxiao's influence within it.

It certainly wouldn't be erased in three or five years, it would take at least decades of constant attrition and replacement.

There is always a process.

"However, according to Qiao Wuqi's explanation, the subsequent cultivation in the Mystical Realm, Transformation Realm, and Wisdom Realm are all closely related to lifespan and luck. In other words, during the cultivation process, expanding one's influence and constantly demanding more luck is an inevitable path."

"Closing the door, hiding in a small building to become unified, and then going out after cultivating into an immortal, that's just a beautiful 'fantasy'."

The three men, who had toiled all night, parted ways at the entrance of Pingliang Ward, agreeing to another adventure next time before separating.

Friendship between men is sometimes so simple and unadorned.

After separating from Zhao and Qiao, Ye Chuxiao neither returned to the Ministry of Justice nor went to the Ministry of Justice's prison, but instead returned to the small courtyard located in a corner of Shenjing. Although it had nothing, it inexplicably made Ye Chuxiao feel at ease.

This was probably the feeling of 'home' that the predecessor's memories had left for Ye Chuxiao.

As for the 'home' of his previous life, not only could he not go back, but the impressions and memories had long been blurred.

Ever since his parents divorced when he was young in his previous life, and then quickly remarried, Ye Chuxiao's impression of home was forever buried with his grandfather, who took care of him until he went to college and then passed away, on the hillside of his hometown.

He only remembered the wild chrysanthemums that bloomed all over the hillside that year.

After sweeping the fallen leaves in the courtyard, he scooped a spoonful of rice from the rice jar into the pot and chopped a plate of cured sausage, throwing it into the pot to simmer together.

Looking at the white smoke jumping out from under the pot lid and the firewood burning under the stove, Ye Chuxiao let out a long sigh of suppressed frustration.

Walking out of the Ministry of Justice's prison and entering the Six Doors system.

Ye Chuxiao certainly didn't have the right to refuse, but he also didn't dislike this change.

Indulging in the 'sense of accomplishment' in the small world of the Ministry of Justice's prison was a very dangerous thing.

The 'world' in the prison was too small, and when it developed to its limit and could no longer satisfy the increasingly greedy appetites of those Ministry of Justice officials, it would be the time when the backlash of Ye Chuxiao's numerous 'reforms' arrived.

Understanding this point, jumping out of the Ministry of Justice's prison system, wasn't it a wise move to lay out plans in advance?

Ye Chuxiao didn't know if Ye Chuyu hadn't returned yet, or had simply hidden his tracks, and went elsewhere with his fellow disciples and teachers of his true identity.

As for Ye Chuqi, if he hadn't seen the note stuck in the crack of the door, Ye Chuxiao probably would have forgotten that he had such a cheap younger brother.

"Big brother! I'm going to Yaoshan with my classmates for a spring outing, and I'll be staying outside for a while, don't worry, don't disturb!" Ye Chuqi's note was very brief, merely casually explaining where he was going.

Ye Chuxiao even suspected that he wasn't going on a spring outing, but going to soak in a wine vat.

This cheap younger brother always seemed so mysterious.

He hadn't even started practicing cultivation officially, but the breadth of his external interactions made Ye Chuxiao, the elder brother, ashamed of his inferiority.

After setting up protective and warning formations in the courtyard, Ye Chuxiao first went to bed for a good night's sleep.

When he was full of energy, he continued to practice swordsmanship, practice talisman, formation, and flying sword techniques, and other methods.

Cultivation isn't just lofty discussions of principles, but also a daily and tedious perseverance and exercise.

Without those tedious and boring persistence and exercise, any theory is just empty talk.

Even if Ye Chuxiao's talent is high right now, he still has to be down-to-earth.

For several days in a row, Ye Chuxiao cultivated according to his usual rhythm, without the slightest hint of impatience or anxiety.

Zhao Shibaibai, on the other hand, asked Ye Chuxiao several times, wanting to know if there was any follow-up on the 'temporary residence permit'.

After all, the idea was Ye Chuxiao's, and it was Jin Sanniang who submitted it upwards.

No matter what, Jin Sanniang's team should play a sufficiently important role in this matter, biting off a large piece of meat.

Zhao Shibaibai wasn't greedy for money, he just had five wives and eight children to support.

Among the three of Ye, Zhao, and Qiao, Zhao Shibaibai was the most financially strapped.

Half a month passed in a flash, and a 'rumor' suddenly spread among the cultivator groups of Daheng.

The artifact refiners of Daheng's Tianji Institute, with the help of Daheng's national treasure, the Wuji Seal, created a batch of 'Changheng Tokens'. Those who hold this token can stabilize their soul and body, increase their luck, and be free from external interference.

This news was just that to ordinary cultivators.

But it was completely different for those who possessed inter-world qualifications.

Inevitably, some associations arose.

Subsequently, the Six Doors of the Ministry of Justice announced that all inter-world travelers from other worlds should report to the Six Doors yamen within three months.

Soon after, the two pieces of news were combined.

Inter-world travelers who report early can receive the Changheng Token as a reward.

With this token in hand, they no longer need to consume 'fate points' every month to continue their identity.

The Changheng Token will conceal their aura and actively block the capture from the Ark of Creation.

This was undoubtedly a temptation for some cultivators who were short on fate points.

Daheng has at least a dozen years of complete Great Dao time left. During this period, the adverse effects caused by traveling to any other world and cultivating can be slowly smoothed out in Daheng's world with the help of this world's balance.

Like Ye Chuxiao, the bit of chuunibyou (a Japanese term for "middle school second-year syndrome") he had contracted has also been 'cured'.

Of course, this was also because he hadn't been deeply affected.

After a period of warming up, the Six Doors began to show their sharp fangs.

They forcibly broke into seven cultivation families, arresting the inter-world travelers they had hidden, shocking the world.

Some inter-world travelers who had originally been unscrupulous in order to expand their power also restrained themselves because of the Six Doors' iron-blooded methods.

Just after the Six Doors broke into seven major families in a row, Jin Sanniang's team received an order to negotiate with the Liu family of Hedong, to get the inter-world travelers hidden by the Liu family of Hedong to accept the 'temporary residence permit'.