Swallowing the Stars: Starting with a Meteor Tear

Chapter 282 Arrival in Junyang City

Although the Abyss Continent is known as a holy land for cultivators, with numerous sects of immortal cultivators and demon cultivators, not everyone has the opportunity to embark on the path of cultivation.

Among the descendants of some cultivators, there will also be some who are not suitable for cultivation. Such people will be expelled from the sect, left to fend for themselves, or placed somewhere to return to a life like ordinary people.

Over time, the number of such people increased, and together with some mortals who originally lived on the Abyss Continent, these people would intermarry and reproduce, gradually developing into some rather large mortal kingdoms.

Sometimes, these mortal kingdoms will occasionally give birth to some outstanding "immortal seedlings" with cultivation talent. If these "immortal seedlings" can attract the attention of cultivators who are traveling outside, they may have the opportunity to rejoin a sect and come into contact with a wider world of cultivation.

It can be said that these mortal kingdoms also serve the function of supplying fresh blood to various cultivation sects.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, even if there is a great battle between cultivators, they will try to avoid these areas where mortal kingdoms gather, so as not to cause too much damage to them.

Junyang City is a medium-sized city belonging to the Great Yan Dynasty, an ordinary mortal kingdom on the Qianyuan Continent.

The entire city spans over a thousand kilometers in circumference, and the number of ordinary people living within it is in the hundreds of millions.

On this day, a master and a servant arrived in Junyang City.

In front of a grand villa near Tiantong Avenue in the western part of Junyang City, a tall, thin old man in gray with a white beard led a boy in brocade robes who looked about five or six years old and was somewhat thin.

"Young Master, this will be our residence from now on. Please settle in for now. If there is anything you are not satisfied with, please tell this old servant and I will do my best to make arrangements."

The gray-robed elder, Qi Ying, smiled kindly at the brocade-robed boy beside him.

Although the boy was small and thin, his dark eyes were exceptionally bright.

He gave a soft "hmm," but replied in a tone as mature as a little adult:

"Uncle Qiying, I have already left Ziyang Sect. You don't need to call me Young Master anymore. Just treat me as a junior in your family and call me by my name."

"Young Master is too kind. How could this old servant address you by your given name?"

The old man in gray couldn't help but shake his head.

"We've already left the Ziyang Sect and will be living in the mortal realm from now on. Titles like 'Young Master' are rather eye-catching."

The boy shook his head and said, "How about this, from now on you can call me Young Master or Young Master, but don't mention the title 'Young Master' anymore."

"this"

The gray-robed elder hesitated slightly, then readily agreed, "Yes, young master!"

"Um."

Only then did a smile appear on the boy's face.

"Uncle Qiying, I'll go familiarize myself with the place first. If you have time, could you find me some books to read? Travelogues, strange tales, historical legends, the more the better. Oh, and also find me a few books on external martial arts cultivation methods for ordinary mortals."

"Yes, young master."

The old man in gray nodded with a smile.

"Okay, you can handle the arrangements. Don't worry about me, I'll just wander around here by myself."

The boy in the brocade robe gave another instruction, then went into the depths of the courtyard on his own, leaving the old man in gray standing silently in the front courtyard, lost in thought.

The boy in the brocade robe followed the winding corridors of the courtyard and soon arrived at a secluded little courtyard.

He stopped running around and instead sat down on a stone bench in the courtyard, lost in thought.

"I've been staying in the Ziyang Sect's old lair, constantly surrounded by a group of powerful rogue immortals. I didn't dare to cultivate blindly, for fear of accidentally being discovered."

The boy in the brocade robe thought to himself, "I never expected that they would release me on their own initiative. It's like heaven is helping me!"

The boy in the brocade robe was the embodiment of Zhou Yang's spark of inspiration.

Six years ago, a spark of inspiration of his was carried by a mysterious golden current, traversing endless time and space to arrive in this world.

Then, this spark of inspiration was reborn as the son of the sect leader of the Ziyang Sect, an extremely powerful immortal cultivation sect in this world.

Having such a background should have been something to be extremely happy about.

However, the truth is quite the opposite.

Because the fetus's body was eroded by external forces while in the womb, and a large amount of its life energy was transferred to another twin fetus, the body's origin and dantian were severely damaged, and the entire dantian even showed signs of "leaking sky".

This also prevented the body from gathering Qi and transforming it into a pill, thus depriving it of the path of cultivation.

Ziyang Sect is, after all, a powerful sect composed entirely of cultivators. A "waste" who is destined to be unable to embark on the path of cultivation cannot possibly stay in Ziyang Sect for long.

Especially since his father is the current sect leader of the Ziyang Sect, it is even more impossible for him to lead the way in violating the sect's rules.

So, on the day Zhou Yang turned six, under the arrangement of Master Mingxu, the sect leader of Ziyang Sect and also the father of this body, an inconspicuous old servant took the six-year-old Zhou Yang away from Ziyang Sect and traveled all the way to live in Junyang City.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will probably spend the rest of his life in Junyang City, like all the other ordinary people in the city, growing up, becoming an adult, getting married, having children, until he grows old and dies peacefully, ending his life in a mundane way.

"Before, I was constantly under the watchful eyes of a group of powerful Loose Immortals. I didn't even dare to emit too strong a soul fluctuation, for fear of attracting their attention and being eliminated as an 'old monster' who had possessed my body, let alone trying to cultivate."

Zhou Yang, who looked like a five or six-year-old child, thought to himself.

It was quite a coincidence that the father of this body, Master Mingxu, also had the surname Zhou in his secular family, and he happened to choose the character "Yang" to name the child, which was exactly the same as Zhou Yang's name, thus avoiding some awkward situations.

"I didn't dare to try it before, but now that I'm far from the Ziyang Sect and only have an old servant named 'Seven Shadows' by my side, I'm receiving much less attention, so I can give cultivation a try."

The traditional cultivation method in this world is the Golden Elixir Path, which involves refining essence into qi and then gathering qi to form an elixir.

Logically speaking, because his dantian was damaged and showed signs of leakage, he should not be able to embark on the path of cultivation.

However, these were not problems for Zhou Yang.

He is not a native of this world; his mind contains a large number of different cultivation methods.

Similar to the Cosmic Cultivation Method that Devours the World, and the Stellar Transformation Technique, one starts from the body and gradually transitions to the comprehension of laws, without any requirement to gather qi into a pill. The other takes a completely different approach, directly changing the step of gathering qi into a pill to condensing a constantly circulating and aggregating 'nebula', thus embarking on the path of cultivation.

Both cultivation systems allow Zhou Yang to easily solve the problem of the "Heavenly Leakage".

Which cultivation method should I choose to practice?

(End of this chapter)