About two hundred kilometers away from the Western Gate, many valleys, large and small, were naturally formed by a combination of hills and forests. In such a valley, despite the midday sun, it was dark because it was filled with dense, large wild trees that did not allow the sunlight to reach well.
Among them, 5 to 6 men were using a specific movement formation technique to chase a boy about 200 meters away from them at the same speed, and they also launched various types of attacks.
The boy's entire body was wrapped in black clothes, on top of which were countless small and large talismans and various items made from the skins of unknown beasts. And on his head was a bamboo hat; in a word, he looked like a dead man from a black coffin who had risen from the grave.
The boy, despite being chased at this moment, was lamenting his past, repeatedly unlucky, in his mind.
How terrible is my accursed fate in Heaven that no objective or event is completed without a life-and-death risk!
He could not believe that just by buying a few special items from an auction house, the injustice, oppression, and life-threatening risks to his already miserable situation had increased by 200%, where survival had become almost impossible.
His luck was so bad that, after being teleported, he found himself in a strange and terrifying place. In this new location, even after struggling to reach a city, his fate did not change; instead, it got worse.
Firstly, inside an ancestry shrine of his homeland, he was struck by a strange golden-colored bone, which caused him to lose his dynasty, family, wealth, all happiness, and security to live.
Even the opportunity to speak to his father alone for the first time in his ten years of life was snatched away before he could say anything, as his entire body terrifyingly vanished until he was suddenly transmigrated to an unknown place.
After being teleported, he found himself on a mountain peak. When he looked ahead through the parting purple fog, he saw a strange and terrifying city-sized place in front of him, which looked like a huge, round ball of fire surrounded by countless mountains, which almost stopped his previously fearless heart.
A short while later, when he had calmed down a bit and descended from that mountain, various small and large, even hill-sized, ferocious beasts suddenly advanced towards him from the front, roaring loudly as they attacked.
Then, just before Jiutian was about to completely despair, various animals and beasts came from behind him and from both sides and started fighting among themselves and with the other party.
While it was not strange for beasts to attack each other, the fact that other ferocious beasts were protecting him was a very strange and surprising matter.
But even then, this extraordinary event was unimportant to him, because due to clashes from all sides, powerful energy waves, dust from the ground, and fragments of trees were hitting his body.
And especially, the intensity and severity of those remaining energy clashes and scattered blows were so great that, despite wearing a powerful protective robe and being protected by various spiritual beasts, his body was cut and torn in various places.
Because of these, Jiutian was bleeding from various parts and felt unbearable pain, yet somehow surprisingly recovered very quickly.
And just when he was going to think about the fast recovery that could be seen with the naked eye, a more terrifying scene that made his whole body shudder came into his sight: the blood from his wounds was attracting almost all the surrounding beasts as if it were some kind of nectar for them.
At that time, he felt so much fear that he completely lost his voice and was already on the brink of collapse.
But his rapid recovery reduced his bleeding, saving him from yet another life-threatening situation.
After surviving a few seconds of the hellish situation, he noticed that the demonic beasts, which had no knowledge or intelligence and were completely guided by their instincts, were the only ones attacking him. Some spiritual beasts, besides protecting him, had also carried him on their backs to a specific shelter.
Then, after somewhat protecting himself from the cruelest situation, he suddenly felt a lot of changes happen in his body, such as physical strength, stamina, and raw speed that were beyond the imagination of an ordinary person, which completely transcended his physical structure. that had transformed from his previous boyish form to the form of a 1.76-meter adult.
As a result, his appearance had also changed drastically, so that instead of a 10-11-year-old boy, there was the impression of a 15-16-year-old youth.
And this strange behavior of the spiritual animals and birds centered around him, the golden shade in his blood, along with his fast wound healing—all of these changes were alien to him.
Later, despite his newfound strength and ability, Jiutian fled for his life every time they were rampaging, because all of these towering giants possessed unimaginable destructive power that was beyond his comprehension.
Due to his previously strong background, at Jiutian's coming-of-age ceremony, from the shocked, jealous looks of various powerful Clan cultivators and their rumored knowledge about his Heaven Grade 'Heavenly Hearthflame Judgement Roots,' he knew the physical changes were not because of his heavenly spiritual roots, but due to that bone, which had miraculously disappeared or merged inside his body and changed his physical structure.
And observing the crazed and submissive behavior of even very large and powerful beasts and birds due to the influence of this bone, he understood that it was probably the bone of some powerful bloodline beast, which was preserved in his family.
After much thinking to save himself from such a hellish environment, Jiutian started his journey in the opposite direction of the strange realm he saw in the distance, with the help and cooperation of various spiritual beasts. And thanks to the contribution of those beasts, along with satisfying his hunger, Jiutian found a much more dangerous yet safer path.
After struggling for about 8 months to protect himself from being killed over several thousand kilometers, he found several tribal villages along the riverbank.
Later inquiring, he finally reached a large city after 10 months of coming to this continent.
After entering the city and asking the people around, he learned that the city's name was 'Verdant Pulse City.' This city was one of the main and largest cities of the Dragon Throne Citadel.
Then, after a few days of inquiry and investigation in the city, Jiutian got a good idea about the place he had suddenly transmigrated to.
This place was not a new realm or domain, as he had previously thought, but a vast continent. The name of this continent was Heavenly Dragon Vein Sanctum, named after the terrifying and hellish Celestial Dragonvein Realm, which was located within the Dragon Vein Territory, right in the middle of the Dragon Throne Citadel.
This Celestial Dragon Vein Realm is a forbidden divine realm located deep in the heart of this continent. This realm opens once every 100 years, and the next time it opens is exactly one decade later.
It is believed that this forbidden realm contains the spiritual root of the mythical creature, the dragon, and whoever obtains it will ascend from mortal to immortal overnight, becoming Heaven.
After hearing these words, Jiutian shivered, a sudden realization completely shaking his body, mind, and soul. At first, when Jiutian appeared in front of that terrifying pocket realm, he could feel a strange, familiar connection between himself and the realm.
As if he had found a long-lost place, a place that was eagerly waiting for him, a place where he belonged.
And Jiutian understood that this feeling was because of the bone that had merged with his body.
Surely, there was a connection between his bone and that realm, or there was some similar remnant within it that was attracting him; maybe that was why he had transmigrated here.
Jiutian did not know if it was harmful or good for him, but he knew well that this was now his destiny.
Which he had accepted in front of his father and all his divine ancestors.
Besides, he had promised his father that he would never give up, no matter how hard it was. So, to return to his father as a victor, he just needs to conquer this place, no matter how difficult or terrifying it is.
With this noble purpose and goal in mind, to prepare himself correctly at the right time, he began to investigate more deeply within the city.
But, unfortunately, this was such an unfamiliar place that, let alone any force related to his previous domain, the local people did not even know his family's surname.
Still, he refused to give up, and after searching like a madman for another month, he finally found some matches. What came before him made him very happy.
Because of these several days of tireless effort, he had found a few familiarities between his previous domain and this continent, which were related to place and powerhouse names.
And his idea may be wrong because all of these places' and powerhouses' names are related to elements.
Although he had not dealt with historical matters before, he had heard various information and stories about the powerful forces and their dynasties around him from the servants at different times.
However, finding a few connections between his previous domain and this place, he was now somewhat certain that this continent must have some connection with his previous domain or its powerful powerhouses.
Which the common people here might not know, but the powerful forces surely would.
For this reason, he started preparing himself so that if he got the chance, he could enter the powerful forces of this continent and later, after 10 years, participate in the opening of this Dragon Vein Realm, conquer it, and return to his former Nine Heavens Sovereign Domain.
But although he had made plans with thought and correct decisions, he had forgotten one major thing about this world: human nature, which he later understood by being beaten unconscious a few times.
And so, he started his cultivation journey with an ambitious plan.
First, at the very beginning of starting cultivation, he was surprised that despite spending about a year in the forests and jungles without any cultivation practice, due to eating various spiritual fruits, the energy
accumulated to the brim in his body, and the physical strength obtained through bone bone, his body had reached the strength of the mid-stage of body cultivation's qi refining.
Because of this, he became so excited about cultivation that he eagerly started spending a small portion of the unimaginable wealth in his spatial ring to acquire the necessary techniques and resources for the next few months.
At first, spending like this seemed like a very minor matter to him in this somewhat safe city.
And after 6 months of going on like this, due to his Heavenly Root and eating various fruits and herbs before, he had an ample amount of spiritual energy in his body, which made his qi cultivation speed even faster. As a result, in just a few months, he reached the second level of qi consolidation in spiritual energy cultivation.
And due to his good comprehension ability, he mastered the minor accomplishment of several techniques, which was beyond the imagination of any other person. Among them was a famous mid-tier Shadow Roc Phantom Steps movement technique and a Raging Flame Thrust attack technique.
Subsequently, his continuous lavish spending on cultivation resources and techniques aroused the greed of the surrounding cultivators, which was getting worse day by day.
Moreover, due to his Heavenly Root, he would get an inside or gut feeling if any injustice or corruption happened around him, and with his prideful nature, he would stand up against the various injustices happening around him.
With such unfolding incidents happening frequently in this cruel world, the number of his enemies gradually increased.
And so, for the next few months after reaching the city, despite going through various incidents and complexities, by using various cultivation resources, his cultivation stage reached its second layer at the speed of fire.
Right then, at a special auction being held, he received an invitation due to the good relationship he had built from buying pills and resources from various shops before.
Although the auction house was mainly aimed at qi cultivators, there were several items that were very important for his fire-based cultivation. That's why he disregarded everything else and bid high to get them. Because of this, he realized the real terror after leaving the auction house.
Because that's the biggest mistake he made, which he still failed to understand well even after being in this city for more than half a year.
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Author's Note:
My revered readers, we have pulled back the curtain on the legend of Jiutian! His origins, his fate, and the singular, grave mistake that led him to this perilous hunt have been revealed. What will happen to him now, pursued by a unified pack of his foes? And how is his tale connected to our other protagonist, Lu Shang, who sleeps soundly while the world trembles in fear of his snores?
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