Chapter 1: Immortal Realm
"Are there really immortals in this world?"
The strong wind is blowing, and the sound of the whistling air in my ears is no longer as fierce as before. At this moment, a man of about forty or fifty years old wearing a dragon robe is actually standing in the clouds, and under his feet it looks like The clouds were constantly falling, and when he looked up, the entire sky was approaching him.
That’s right, this man is “ascending!”
But this man is actually a real mortal. He wears a dragon robe. He was originally an emperor, ruling thousands of miles of land, and was loved by millions of people. But now, because of a strange stone, he has to bid farewell to the throne of the human world and go to the world. A heavenly world full of countless unknowns.
Under the man's feet is a dark stone slab the size of a basin. This stone slab is natural and very simple, somewhat similar to basalt. But speaking of this stone slab, it really has a deep bond with this man.
It turns out that when a man is born, a meteorite falls from the sky and is known as the "flying fairy from the sky". At that time, there is a god in the northern sky, with golden light and silver light. The bright light makes people unable to open their eyes, but it does not hurt anyone. , on the contrary, what the mortals on the ground felt was the sound of wonderful music that seemed to come from the world of gods. It made people want to dance and feel like they were about to become immortals. It was incredible and indescribable!
And because of the flying immortals outside the sky, the emperor at that time, the man's father, immediately led his troops to the place where the meteorite landed. The poor little prince who was only a day old was caught in the conspiracy of the harem to fight for favor and power. Fortunately, a noble man came to his rescue. The little prince who was originally going to be secretly killed escaped death, but from then on he began a long civilian life.
"Speaking of which, you and I are really destined to be together?" Although the man is in his forties or fifties, his back is still strong, and his resolute face is not so weathered. You can still see that it looks like it was carved out by a carving knife. His face once looked so happy and free.
"You and I came into this world on the same day. As a result, you were brought into the palace by your father to be enshrined, but I narrowly escaped death and came to live in a common village. But my childhood was happy. Qingcao Village was me... No, it was me, Qingcao. The village is my first home. Dad, mother, and Qingqing, thirty years have passed in a flash, and they have also left this world for thirty years. If I had not chosen to join the army, would I have been able to protect Qingcao Village? , can you always be by their side and give them the happiest home?" Looking down at the dark stone slab, Zhou Hao's thoughts were all lost in the past.
When he joined the army at the age of seventeen, the whole world was in a state of panic and tension. The reason was that several ambitious princes tried to mobilize troops to attack the Zhou Dynasty, which existed in name only. Because the previous monarchs were too stupid, He was too corrupt, and never paid attention to the emperor's own work. He did not do anything. Furthermore, he neglected military power and emphasized civil servants, which greatly reduced the country's military strength. This led to the gradual decline of the entire country, and the national destiny was indeed worse than before.
With thousands of years of ancient history, the Great Zhou Dynasty rose up in troubled times. The first Zhou emperor swept away all enemies in the world. He was simple and rude to the outside world, and dealt ruthlessly, never giving the enemy any breathing space. Internally, he ruled with benevolence and law, and governed the country according to the law, so that the people could enjoy a prosperous and peaceful age. . It is precisely in this way that the Great Zhou Dynasty won the inheritance of national destiny for thousands of years. The Eight Wastelands and the vastness of the four seas all respect the Zhou Emperor!
It’s just that people’s hearts are not as old as they used to be. If the forest is big, there will be any kind of bird. A huge dynasty that has stood for thousands of years will naturally breed the power of decay. In just a few hundred years, the Great Zhou Dynasty has had four emperors, although none of them were short-lived. But every one of them, without exception, doted on the greedy ministers and corrupted the imperial court, as if it was God's deliberate act, that is, "the long-lasting union must break up"!
"I joined the army at the age of seventeen and fought in seventy-three battles. At the age of twenty-six, I was named the 'Guanshenghou' and became a general respected by the world." At the age of twenty-nine, I learned the truth about my life experience, inherited the throne and became the The victorious emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. When I was thirty years old, I finally fulfilled my years of volunteering to join the army, quelled the uprising of the Eight-Power Allied Forces, and brought peace to everyone's hearts again. I am forty-seven years old this year. Forty-seven years have passed. I thought that there is nothing surprising about your stone. But today you are taking me to the unknown territory. Is it possible that I, Zhou Hao, still have no future in this life? Mission accomplished? "The man in the dragon robe stroked his beard, looked down at the stone slab under his feet and thought to himself.
Originally, today was the "Sealing the Heaven Sacrifice" ceremony held once every 50 years in the Zhou Dynasty. The Emperor of Zhou was required to lead hundreds of civil and military officials to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to God, in order to pray for the eternal destiny of the Zhou Dynasty and the peace of the country. The Heaven-Sealing Sacrifice has always been the most solemn sacrificial ceremony in the Zhou Dynasty, so Zhou Hao wanted to use the flying immortals from the sky who were born with him as a sacrifice to worship God to show his solemnity.
But no one expected that in the middle of the Sealing Heaven Ceremony, when Zhou Hao personally placed the dark stone slab on the Taishan Altar, a miracle happened!
At that moment, the sun and the moon lost light, the mountains and rivers changed color, and the wind and clouds changed unpredictably. The whole world seemed to darken. Only the fairy clouds at the altar were hazy and radiant. Zhou Hao, who was closest to the altar, was immediately enveloped in the endless light. When Zhou Hao opened his eyes, he was already like this.
Looking down, the once thousands of miles of mountains and rivers have completely disappeared, there are only layers of clouds and heavy clouds. Zhou Hao can't do anything at this moment, and he doesn't dare to move, because this is the only place in his life at this moment. Only an area the size of a washbasin can be guaranteed, otherwise it will fall into the clouds and end up with no life!
"How long do you have left? Black guy, you can't stop, can you? Do I have to stand on top of you to death? Sitting to death? Sleep... Oh, you're too young to sleep, will you starve to death?" Zhou Hao He realized that if, as he suspected, this black slate would not stop, or if it did not stop in a place where humans could live normally, then he would really have no choice but to wait for death.
Boom!
Suddenly, at this moment, a sudden change occurred. Zhou Hao found that the surroundings darkened for an instant. The sky that was just clear and clear just now turned black and winter-like. The sky was filled with thunder and lightning, and the arcs were still a strange red color. Zhou Hao is also a human emperor who has gone through countless vicissitudes and seen countless great things in the world, but he has never seen red lightning! Not only that, in this dark sky, there are countless shadows and strange screams all around. Some of these shadows look like people, but many of them are headless people, like ghosts, and some look like animals, with blood-red eyes open. Their pupils were extremely ferocious, and some of them looked strange and unheard of. They were like demons and enchantments, and they let out shrill, weird laughter. When Zhou Hao heard his ears, his whole body went cold, and he almost collapsed on the dark stone floor.
But fortunately, this slate also has a "bad temper"!
Although the simple board surface is bumpy and uneven, there are countless golden veins rising from it, guarding Zhou Hao in the middle like a curtain made of horses.
Invincible to all evil!
"It's amazing. What are these golden veins? They can actually stop the monsters outside. The origin of this stone is definitely not small. Oh my God, can I really see the legendary gods today? These are really amazing. It's so amazing, so unbelievable." Looking at the countless shadows around him with their teeth and claws but unable to touch a single hair of his own, Zhou Hao, who was protected by golden veins, was surprised and happy. Although he was in a dangerous situation, But he didn't care at all.
Maybe this is the power of diverting attention!
I don't know how long it took, but Zhou Hao finally stepped on the dark sky. In the blink of an eye, the sky was clear again, and the dark stone slab continued to carry him up into the vast blue sky.
"Is this how it is to become a feather and ascend? It's so boring. How long will it take to ascend? I'm already hungry. How long will it take? It won't take ten days and a half, right? How can I survive like this? "Zhou Hao, who was really hungry, squatted down, looked at the golden patterned curtain that had not disappeared, and complained: "Why do I feel like I am a prisoner now? No, I am not even as good as a prisoner. I don’t even have the right to eat.”
However, the dark stone slab still rose as usual, although the speed was really fast, so fast that even the speed of lightning could not keep up, and what was even more powerful was that it kept accelerating. At the beginning, Zhou Hao could still see the clouds floating. In the air, he is afraid that as soon as the golden striped curtain is removed, he will die due to lack of oxygen and the inability of his heart rate to keep up with such a high speed.
Before the hunger pangs stopped, Zhou Hao and Shi Ban had already entered the cold, cold space. I wonder how Zhou Hao, a mortal, could have seen such magnificent scenery.
"Oh my God! What is this? Where is this? There are so many stars, so beautiful, but they are still so far away, but this one is so close, as if you can reach out and touch it. It's so big, really so big, that blue one It seems to be the sea, the green ones are forests, and there are so many mountains and rivers. Oh my God, my God! Is that the earth? I actually live on the stars. The stars are so huge. They can contain mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, forests and grasslands. Everything on the earth is in the stars." Zhou Hao is going crazy. After living for so many years, he has seen countless treasures in the world and visited countless mountains, rivers and seas, but he feels that today has really opened his eyes. , and at the same time he also realized his own insignificance and the insignificance of human beings.
"I come from the stars!"
Zhou Hao lowered his head downwards. Because the stone slab was still accelerating, in just a few moments, the planet he had lived on disappeared before his eyes.
"Black guy, think about it, it's really sad for us people. From birth to death, we still don't know what the world we live in is like. The sky is so big, no wonder it is said that the sky is superior and the earth is inferior? From this point of view, the earth is It’s really impossible to compare the same with the sky! Alas, there are so few things that a person has seen in his lifetime. Fighting for power, wealth and splendor, war and peace, the value of life is wasted on these things. It is really not worth it. If this If there really is a god in the world, I must be a god, a god with boundless power. I want to travel around the universe, see the real big world, and appreciate the real starry sky!" In this empty space, Naturally, Zhou Hao couldn't find a creature to chat with, so the dark stone slab was used by him to make up for it.
Zhou Hao was swearing and expressing his ambitions. Looking at this unprecedented visual feast in front of him, the space formed by the combination of brilliant stars and dark sky really opened his eyes.
He had a similar feeling many times - the world is so big!
But this time he truly realized his own insignificance and his powerlessness. He recalled that when he walked out of Qingcao Village and came to the military camp at the age of seventeen, he looked at the thousands of miles of joint camp and hundreds of thousands of people singing and fighting. His heart was shocked by the size of the country, but the fast horse under his hip was enough for him to conquer the distant land. His desire is so great that even though the earth is vast, he feels that human power can compete with it, and one day he can travel all over the mountains and rivers!
But at this moment, he really can no longer comfort himself with the idea that man can conquer the sky. The universe is really ridiculously big. Not to mention that man can travel thousands of miles around the world with a horse. Even if man can ride an eagle and soar in the sky, it is impossible for him to fly out in this space. How far, because no matter how big or huge it is, it is impossible to describe the world. Zhou Hao thinks that maybe only the legendary immortals with boundless power can truly travel within the universe, right? Man, it’s absolutely impossible!
"The stars are shifting, this is the star shifting in the true sense!" Zhou Hao still had a trace of the majesty of the Great Zhou Shenghuang at this moment. He saw through the golden patterned curtain that the starry sky was retreating rapidly, and countless stars seemed to be spinning away from him. At this location, at this moment, for him, there is no rotation of the earth, only the rotation of the sky!
Cuckoo, cuckoo.
However, Zhou Hao's stomach started to growl again at this time. He was covering his stomach and looking up, repeating in his heart: Stop quickly, stop quickly, stop quickly, stop, stop, stop...
"Ah, that's it?"
Finally, Zhou Hao's eyes were fixed on a place that was different from other places. The stars in the sky seemed like water flowing into the sea. The stars were shining brightly there, and the stars like glass also flowed across there. Circle after circle of ripple-like things filled the space. It was simply a source of starry sky, as if it were a world, and as if it were the center of the entire universe.
The white clouds and mist extend vastly into the depths of the boundless starry sky, with no edges visible at all. It seems to be a pure land, white, clean, and spotless, all surrounded by white clouds. The area behind is absolutely vast and terrifying. The most eye-catching thing is the stone tablet standing there.
At this moment, the dark stone slab under Zhou Hao's feet miraculously slowed down, and finally stopped directly at the place called the cloud platform, with the stone tablet directly in front of him.
"Stop, stop...stop? Stop like this?" Zhou Hao couldn't believe it. He thought he would be starved to death by the "Hungry Demon", but who would have thought that the stone slab actually stopped.
The golden veins disappeared, and the stone slab returned to normal and lay quietly at Zhou Hao's feet. Zhou Hao raised his head. Directly in front of him was a white stone tablet that was ten feet high and three feet wide.
"Xian-domain!"
The two large red characters on the white stone tablet are bright and translucent, as if they had just been written on it. These two characters are written with flying dragons and phoenixes, with iron hooks and silver strokes. They are written with incomparable style and can be called peerless calligraphy.
Zhou Hao was shocked, and then he became ecstatic and said: "The Immortal Realm, this is the Immortal Realm? Oh my God, I, Zhou Hao, have come to the Immortal Realm. I am going to become an immortal. I will be an immortal from now on, hahahaha..."
"No, no, this is not true, this is not real, how can there really be immortals? It's so ridiculous, I must be dreaming, yes, I am dreaming."
"Ah, it hurts so much, it hurts so much. It's not a dream, it's really not a dream. This stone tablet stands in this pure white holy land. This is clearly the center of the universe. There are piles of stars in the sky here. The stars are brilliant and full of brilliance. God. How could it be wrong to say that this is a fairyland?"
Finally, Zhou Hao finally plucked up the courage and vowed to find out. He held the dark stone slab in both hands and strode forward. He wanted to take a look at the stone monument first. After all, this was the first time he had seen the neutral monument in space.
Bang bang bang!
After touching the stele several times, Zhou Hao found that nothing special happened except for the areas that were shorter than his height. This stele was no different from an ordinary stele. Gradually, Zhou Hao became more courageous. He actually Pick up the dark stone slab and knock it on the stone tablet.
It didn't matter. The tall stone tablet actually responded. The red word Immortal Realm on it sent out circles of golden ripples. The ripples expanded. When they reached Zhou Hao's position, he immediately felt a wave of ripples. How could Zhou Hao, a mortal, resist the extremely strong suction?
The next second, he was immediately sucked into the stone monument by ripples, and then a black hole appeared on the surface of the monument. Poor Zhou Hao was sucked into the unknown black hole before he could even scream. In panic, he threw away his only amulet. ——The dark stone slab was also thrown on the cloud platform next to the stone tablet.
"Cena! My black guy, my flying fairy from the sky! Cena! Cena! Cena!..." Zhou Hao was shouting hysterically in the black hole.
