Chapter 1 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

In a dilapidated wooden hut in Lingyun Sect, Canglan Region, a young man laid on the bed, unconscious.

“Where am I?”

Jiang Yiming opened his eyes tiredly. The first thing he saw was an unfamiliar room.

The herbal scent in the room assailed Jiang Yiming’s nose while he was lying on the bed with gauze wrapped all over his body.

The intense pain in Jiang Yiming’s body made him realize that he was severely injured.

“What happened to me?”

Jiang Yiming endured the pain and grunted through his gritted teeth.

That was when he felt a stabbing pain in his head. Dozens of unfamiliar information flooded into his mind, and in the end, Jiang Yiming fainted.

After a long time, Jiang Yiming woke up again with a bitter smile on his face.

Jiang Yiming realized that he had transmigrated!

He had transmigrated from Earth to a cultivation world called the Ethereal Realm.

That realm was a world where people with absolute power took control. It was where the strong established order and preyed on the weak. It was a survival game for the weak.

In the Ethereal Realm, powerful cultivators could fly through the sky and ascend to immortality. There were also precious elixirs that could bring the dead back to life and magical treasures with boundless power.

The realm also had all kinds of powerful forces, clans, sects, and royals. Everyone in the Ethereal Realm wanted to achieve immortal ascension.

The Ethereal Realm had nine provinces. Each province contained several regions in it. Jiang Yiming’s identity was the sect leader of a humble sect in the Canglan Region called the Lingyun Sect.

The sects and forces in Canglan Region were of different ranks. The ranks were from the fifth rank to the first rank.

Legend had it that above the first rank was the Immortal Celestial Sect.

A third rank sect named Huoyun Sect was responsible for Jiang Yiming’s injuries.

In the Canglan Region, all the weaker sects had to ask the higher-rank sect for protection to ensure the survival of their sect.

Otherwise, countless sects and forces would eliminate and overpower the weaker sect, which would lead to the destruction of the sect.

The Lingyun Sect was a fourth rank sect. However, the sect’s rank had fallen to the fifth rank or worse due to an unforeseen event.

The Lingyun Sect was now in ruins, with only devastated buildings left. The magnificent buildings were gone, leaving only sparse wooden.

The sect had only three disciples left.

Not to mention the extravagant buildings like the Pavilion of Cultivation Scrolls and Pavilion of Alchemy, which were gone too.

The entire sect’s heritage was gone now, and not even a single Core Formation technique was left.

The Lingyun Sect could only seek protection from the Huoyun Sect to continue their legacy.

However, the protection was naturally not free of charge. Every year, the Lingyun Sect had to give the Huoyun Sect plenty of spirit stones as offerings in exchange for their protection.

Yet, the Lingyun Sect’s situation was only getting worse than before. They didn’t even have enough spirit stones to offer that year.

A few days ago, the representatives from the Huoyun Sect came to Jiang Yiming. Jiang Yiming wanted to negotiate with them, hoping they could give him some time to gather enough spirit stones to offer.

However, he didn’t expect the representatives of the Huoyun Sect to be so cold-hearted and even beat him up.

They also ordered the Lingyun Sect to hand over the offering within a month, or else the Lingyun Sect would lose the protection of the Huoyun Sect.

But, the Lingyun Sect had nothing to offer at the moment. They wouldn’t be able to gather so many spiritual stones, even if they emptied all their assets.

“That bast*rt Huoyun Sect.”

Jiang Yiming clenched his fist as frustration grew in him and his gaze turned cold.

Nominally, the Huoyun Sect was the protector of the Lingyun Sect. But, they had not fulfilled their duties as the Lingyun Sect’s protector and had only been taking the offerings.

Recently, many sects had been looking for trouble in the Lingyun Sect. However, Huoyun Sect had always turned a blind eye every time Lingyun Sect needed their protection.

Yet, Huoyun Sect had the nerve to continue accepting the offerings from Lingyun Sect, which was shameless and unethical.