The world of martial arts, the immortal swordsman in the mortal realm.

Chapter 1, Episode 01: Huang Rong, who ran away from home, picked up a time traveler.

On the East China Sea, a gentle sea breeze blows, and the waves rise and fall.

A small, single-masted boat, braving the wind and waves, sailed towards land.

A beautiful young girl, about fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in flowing white robes and with her hair tied up in a gold ring, stood steadily on the horizontal mast atop the mast, facing the oncoming sea breeze. She held onto the mast with one hand and placed the other on her hip, gazing ahead with her head held high.

As the coastline came into view, the girl's eyebrows curved into smiles, her lips turned up, and she spoke to herself with a touch of pride:

"Ludi, here I come, Huang Rong! Hmph, this time, I'm going to play outside for at least half a year... no, a whole year! I won't come home for a whole year, let's see if Father gets anxious!"

The girl's name was Huang Rong, and she was the daughter of the owner of Peach Blossom Island, a "forbidden place" that fishermen in the East China Sea feared.

She recently had a big fight with her father and is currently staying home.

now.

Huang Rong looked expectantly at the approaching shore, imagining the carefree and leisurely life of traveling the world alone, when suddenly she saw a figure fall from above and crash heavily into the sea in front of the small boat right in front of her.

"Huh, committing suicide by jumping into the sea? Who would be so foolish as to do that?"

Huang Rong was lost in thought when she suddenly saw someone fall into the sea. Her first instinct was that she had bumped into someone who was trying to commit suicide, but she immediately realized something was wrong.

Although it was not far from the coast, there wasn't a single reef protruding from the sea around the small boat, let alone any cliffs. There were also no other boats around.

So, where exactly did that guy who "jumped into the sea" fall from?
Huang Rong blinked, tilting her pretty face up in confusion, and saw fluffy white clouds floating in the azure sky...

Uh, white clouds, blue sky... the sky?

Did that person fall from the sky?
Huang Rong's eyes lit up, as if she had discovered something extraordinary. She immediately leaped lightly, like a light white cloud, and gracefully floated down from the mast to the bow of the boat. She bent down, picked up a long bamboo pole, and handed it to the spot where the person had fallen into the water.

Yes, that person didn't sink after falling into the water; they're currently struggling desperately on the surface. Judging by the splashing water, they clearly don't really want to die.

So when the bamboo pole was handed to him, the man immediately reached out with both hands and hugged it tightly.

Seeing that the man had grabbed the bamboo pole, Huang Rong smiled slightly. Without any apparent effort, she simply lifted the bamboo pole upwards, and the man flew out of the sea with a whoosh.

Then Huang Rong shook the bamboo pole like she was shaking a spear, and the bamboo pole bent downwards first, and then snapped back upwards.

A surge of force, generated by Huang Rong's flick, was transmitted to the man's hands, causing his hands, which were tightly gripping the bamboo pole, to go numb. He involuntarily loosened his grip, and his body instantly soared into the air, tracing an arc as he danced and leaped over Huang Rong's head before crashing onto the boat deck with a thud.

……

As a seasoned transmigrator who had already reincarnated once and lived a second life, Lu Chen never expected that his first time in physical body incarnation would come so suddenly and in such a sorry state.

With one blink of an eye, I found myself above the sea. Before I could even process what was happening, I was suddenly plummeting downwards. Before I could even utter a "Holy crap!", I crashed straight into the sea.

His swimming skills were mediocre; he could barely manage a few splashes in the pool. Now, fallen into a calm sea with towering waves, it seemed his only option to avoid death was to abandon this time-travel journey and return home.

But if you do that, you won't leave enough "marks" in this world, and you won't be able to find this world again to travel back in time. And if you waste this opportunity, who knows how long you'll have to wait for the next time you travel back in time.

Therefore, Lu Chen did not want to give up easily.

Furthermore, he had seen a small boat not far from him before he fell into the sea.

So he decided to struggle one more time, splashing around on the surface of the sea with all his might, hoping to attract the attention of the people on the small boat and get them to help him.

As fate would have it, just as he was desperately splashing around in the water, a life-saving bamboo pole was indeed handed to him.

Lu Chen boarded the small boat.

However, the way to board the ship was not very comfortable.

The person who rescued him had some incredible strength; he used a bamboo pole to lift him onto the boat, and when he landed, he was nearly broken apart.

Just as he was hissing and gasping for breath, rubbing his back and struggling to sit up, a slender figure with its back to the setting sun stood in front of him.

Lu Chen squinted, adjusting his eyes to the light for a moment, before he could see clearly that the person who had lifted him onto the boat with a bamboo pole was a delicate and frail-looking young girl.

The girl was already beautiful with exquisite features. At this moment, her white dress and black hair danced lightly in the sea breeze, and the setting sun behind her cast a golden-red glow on her, making her look like a fairy maiden riding the wind and draped in the evening glow.

then.

Lu Chen then heard this young fairy ask a question in a clear, sweet, and curious tone:

"Are you a fairy?"

immortal?

If I were a god, would I be in such a sorry state?

Lu Chen was both amused and exasperated.

"No, I'm just an ordinary person who unfortunately fell into the water. I'm very grateful to the young lady for saving me..."

"Ordinary people?"

The girl looked incredulous:
"Can an ordinary person fall from the sky?"

"Um……"

Lu Chen thought for a moment and said in a consultative tone:

"If I said that I was blown into the sky by a tornado and the wind just happened to dissipate when I passed by your boat... would you believe me?"

The girl's lips curled up, her delicate eyebrows slightly raised, as if she had discovered the truth: "You can ride the wind now, and you still say you're not a god?"

"..."

So, can my explanation still be understood in this way?
Lu Chen was speechless.

"Alright, I've read quite a few legendary tales, and I know that when immortals travel to the human world, they always like to hide their identities. Some even pretend to be beggars, and it's not uncommon for them to pretend to be drowning people."

The girl winked at him with a grin, giving him a knowing look:

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone about you falling from the sky; it's our secret. But..."

She drew out the last syllable, her bright, clear eyes looking at Lu Chen, waiting for him to continue.

Lu Chen, being quite perceptive, continued:
"But what?"

"But you have to tell me how to get to the Immortal Realm. Or when you go back, will you take me to visit the Immortal Realm?"

"what?"

"What is the problem?"

"This……"

The girl didn't seem easy to fool.

The key issue is that Lu Chen himself couldn't explain the "falling from the sky" incident, and since he could return at any time, he simply admitted to certain truths in a roundabout way:
"The place I came from can hardly be called a celestial realm..."

He has lived a second life, and now it is the world that is considered his "main world". Compared to his previous life on Earth, although there are many incredible supernatural phenomena, it is indeed unrelated to the "celestial realm".

However, the girl, who had long assumed he came from "outer heavens," didn't care about all that. Seeing that he finally admitted it, she looked at him intently and said, "Tell me in detail!"

"Well, before we start talking, shall we introduce ourselves? My name is Lu Chen, Lu as in land and Chen as in composure. May I ask your name, young lady?"

Although eager to learn about the "Immortal Realm," it was only natural to get to know each other. The girl immediately smiled sweetly and said in a clear voice:
"My name is Huang Rong. Rong as in hibiscus."

Huang Rong?

The name!

Looking at the girl's stunning beauty, recalling how she had easily lifted him onto the boat with a bamboo pole, and then looking at their current surroundings, Lu Chen was startled and asked:

"Miss Huang, was the way you used the bamboo pole to lift me onto the boat just now a martial arts technique?"

Huang Rong smiled sweetly:
"A little trick, nothing profound, not worth mentioning."

It's not considered a high-level skill?
That's martial arts too!

Is this charming young girl, sailing alone on the sea like a fairy, really the beloved daughter of Huang Yaoshi, the master of Peach Blossom Island and the Eastern Heretic?

I never imagined I'd be transported to the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes...

This perfectly meets Lu Chen's needs!
He needs to find a world with extraordinary martial arts to accumulate the resources for growth that he can't find in the main world!
What martial arts style suits him in the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes?

That's quite a lot!
The woman in front of him, the daughter of the Eastern Heretic, should possess the martial arts he needs!

Just as he was filled with excitement and daydreams, Huang Rong stretched out her fair, soft little hand and waved it in front of him:
"What are you daydreaming about? I'm waiting for you to tell me all about the immortal realm."

Lu Chen snapped out of his daze, suppressed his excitement, cleared his throat, and was about to speak when he didn't know where to begin.

Looking at Lu Chen's short hair, resembling that of a monk who had recently left the monastic life, and his strange attire—which was also her irrefutable proof of his extraordinary background—Huang Rong patiently and persuasively guided him:

"Let's talk about the food, clothing, shelter, and transportation of the immortals. What do you usually eat? Do you live on the wind and dew, abstaining from grains? Or do you consume dragon liver and phoenix marrow, and precious herbs and herbs? Besides riding the clouds and wind, do you also ride dragons, phoenixes, and roc when you travel? And also..."

Seeing Huang Rong asking questions like a curious child, Lu Chen quickly made a pause gesture:

"Miss Huang, please don't be hasty. As I've already said, the place I've come from can hardly be called the Immortal Realm. We don't eat dew or drink the wind, nor do we have dragon liver or phoenix marrow to eat. In terms of food, we're not much different from you, except that we have a wider variety of ingredients, more seasonings, and more ways to cook. As for transportation, it's worth mentioning, but we don't have dragons, phoenixes, or rocs to ride..."

Lu Chen told Huang Rong about all the modes of transportation, including cars, trains, ships, and airplanes.

These means of transportation, which were perfectly ordinary in his mind, sounded incredibly magical to Huang Rong.

A steel car that can travel hundreds of miles in an hour without the need for oxen or horses to pull it.

The same train can travel hundreds of miles in an hour, carrying thousands of people at a time, or tens of millions of kilograms of cargo at a time.

A giant steel ship that can move as if on flat ground in storms at sea, without relying on wind or ocean currents for propulsion, and capable of carrying hundreds of millions of kilograms of cargo.

There are also "airplanes" that can carry hundreds of people into the sky, riding the wind and traveling thousands of miles a day...

Based on these seemingly fantastical, unbelievable, and even unimaginable means of transportation that everyone can ride, what else could Lu Chen's world be but the "Immortal Realm"?
As for whether Lu Chen's statement is true or false...

Everyone saw him fall from the sky with their own eyes, how could it be fake?

Anyway, Huang Rong absolutely believed her own eyes.

In an instant, her beautiful eyes were filled with a strange light. Her original idea of ​​traveling the world on land and living a carefree life changed to a trip to the immortal realm.

I want to go to the immortal realm.

I really want to go to the fairy realm!

Then come back and show off to your father, making him drool with envy over those amazing mechanisms!
(End of this chapter)