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Wandering Cultivation Civilization: The Path To Earth

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In a future galaxy where humanity has become a wandering cultivation civilization. Zhao Yuchen,a divine-blooded student awakens his legacy and begins his journey to reclaim Earth, a forbidden world now guarded by alien races.
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 1: The Weight of the Stars

Chapter 1: The Weight of the Stars

The artificial sun had just begun to dim over Heaven's Edge Colony, casting long shadows across the silver towers and glowing sky domes. A faint hum pulsed through the floor beneath Zhao Yuchen's feet as he sat alone near the edge of the outer observatory, high above the residential levels.

From here, you could see the curve of the colony's shell, metal veins snaking across its surface like the lines of fate. Beyond that—black space, cold and quiet. Just watching it made his chest feel heavy.

It was almost Earth's memorial day again. Another year passed. Another year further from home.

Yuchen tightened his fingers around the metal railing. He was seventeen this cycle. Tall, quiet, with eyes too calm for his age. His black uniform was plain, his cultivation aura nearly invisible—but everyone in the Zhao Clan knew who he was. The last direct heir of a bloodline once rumored to be touched by the stars themselves.

Still, he didn't feel special. Not today. Not anymore.

A whisper of wind moved through the sealed observation deck—a sign the atmospheric regulators were resetting. It was subtle, but Yuchen had always noticed the small things others ignored. The quiet rhythms of machines. The flicker in someone's eyes when they lied. The hum of cultivation nodes hidden deep beneath the floor.

Suddenly, the deck lights flickered.

Yuchen turned. Behind him stood his grandfather, Zhao Tianren, robed in deep navy with the clan crest etched in silver on his shoulder. His presence was calm, like a mountain at rest—but beneath it was the weight of centuries.

"You skipped training again," Tianren said without scolding.

"I came here instead," Yuchen replied simply.

Tianren walked to his side, gazing out at the stars. "Do you know what lies beyond the Orion Wall?"

"Old Earth," Yuchen said. "Or what's left of it."

Tianren nodded. "We call it a myth now. But it was real. It is real. The planet where all humans began. Buried, forbidden, stolen by those who feared what it meant."

Yuchen stayed silent. He had heard the stories. A world with oceans, clouds, real gravity. Lush soil that could grow without nanoforgers. And now it was locked away, shrouded by alien guardians, declared a "Seeded World" by the Galactic Assembly. No human had stepped on it in over three thousand years.

"I saw something today," Yuchen said, voice low. "In the clan archives. A recording—buried under firewall layers no one had touched in decades."

His grandfather turned, interest flickering in his gaze.

"It was a memory fragment," Yuchen continued. "A vision from a cultivator who touched the Earth's root system before the exile. He called it awake. Alive."

Tianren exhaled softly. "So, it's begun."

"What has?"

"The pull," Tianren said, placing a hand on Yuchen's shoulder. "You are of the old bloodline. There will come a time when the stars speak to you, when the truth becomes unbearable. That time is now."

Yuchen stared at his grandfather, a quiet determination growing in his chest.

"I don't want to just hear the stories anymore," he said. "I want to see it. Touch the soil. Reclaim what was ours."

Tianren's hand tightened. "Then you must walk a path no one dares walk. Alone, hunted, judged. Even your own kind may turn on you."

"I understand," Yuchen said. "But I've already made my choice."

A moment of silence passed between them.

Then, for the first time in years, Tianren smiled. "Good. Then your journey begins now. Come. There's something buried even deeper than the fragment you found. A legacy we've kept hidden since the fall of Earth."

Yuchen followed without hesitation. The stars watched silently.