It was a long brutal nightmare, and that's what Chao Li thought while in a trance. After a long time, he slowly tried to open his eyes when he felt he was in a moving carriage.
A beefy, pudgy youth was the first person Chao Li had seen when he opened his eyes, and for a second, he became afraid by seeing that person's face at a close range, but after a moment, that person looked funny to him.
That youth was curiously looking at Chao Li with his beady eyes, which raised the caution of Chao Li, so he was about to ask where he was and who was that person, but before that, he heard a yell from that youth,
"Father, This kid woke up." The youth loudly yelled.
The youth looked like twenty, only because of his sheer size, and he would be much less, and maybe sixteen or seventeen according to Chao Li's guess.
Shortly, a person who looked like an older version of that youth came into the view of Chao Li when he felt he was stopped as that person pushed the curtain of the carriage door.
'These two must be father and son,' That was what Chao Li thought when he saw those two pudgy people.
The older one pushed his hands down as he jumped into the carriage, and suddenly the carriage quivered but adjusted afterward.
"On you go!" the carriage started moving as he ordered.
Shortly after, the older one gently asked, "Kid, are you alright? What happened to you? Why are you unconscious in the middle of the forest?"
That person asked a series of questions,
Chao Li also went to deep contemplation to recall what had happened, and while recalling his face paled as he saw some blurry scenes,
'I killed someone,' Chao Li's face became ugly, as he never thought he would kill a person right after his rebirth, and that too so cruelly. He never killed anyone, even in his thousand lifetimes.
It took some time for Chao Li to calm before gently replying, "Hello, I am Chao Li, and I was kidnapped by the bandits when I lost in the forest, but suddenly some blurry thing attacked the bandits, and in that battle, I was knocked out, and afterward what had happened I don't know,"
That person was skeptical whether to believe Chao Li's story or not, but because Chao Li was a kid, he slightly let his guard down.
"Oh! That's what happened, ah! You are truly lucky, kid, as all those bandits died cruelly, but you are alive somehow." That person fearfully replied.
"What, they died!" Chao Li first acted astonished and then delightedly harrumphed and said, "It's good they are dead. They really are baddies to kidnap a kid like me,"
Chao Li acted in such a way like he had no idea that those bandits were killed, then he acted like a kid.
After that, he smoothly asked, "Uncle, Who are you? And where am I?"
"Well, I am Ma Rong, Chairmen of the Nova Merchants," That person replied,
"Whoa! Merchants, Ah! I heard from my grandpa that merchants are one of the richest people out there," Chao Li exclaimed,
"What rich! We are just a small businessman," Ma Rong defended,
'A typical businessman! Never agrees that he is rich,' Chao Li sneered inside.
"Uncle Ma Rong, is he your son?" Chao Li asked while looking at the chubby youth.
"Yeah! He is Ma Ling, my son, the next heir of Nova Merchants," Ma Rong proudly said.
"Oh! He is almost like you," Chao Li slightly chuckled, and Ma Rong thought Chao Li was a cheerful kid.
"Uncle Ma Rong, where are we going now?" Chao Li gently asked as he doubtfully looked at Ma Rong.
"We are going to Dawn City!" Ma Rong replied.
Chao Li was also delighted to hear that, as his destination was also the same.
Then, Chao Li hesitantly asked, "Uncle Ma Rong, do you know any ways to contact the immortals?"
When Ma Rong heard those words, his fat body quivered with sudden spasm, and then severely asked, "Kid, don't you know we can't casually talk about immortals?"
Chao Li put up a guilty face and replied, "I know that, but I felt maybe I can become an Immortal,"
"You can feel the energy!" Ma Rong loudly bellowed,
"That, I don't know, But I can see some glowing dots in the air, so I thought I could become an immortal," Chao Li calmly replied.
For a few moments, Ma Rong and his son looked at Chao Li as if he was a ghost, and then Ma Rong sighed before saying,
"Kid! I don't know how lucky you are,"
"Uncle, In what way I am lucky?"
"Kid, I know few things about the immortals, and they usually select some mortals who are eligible to become an immortal, and this process happens at every fifteen years, and it was just five years since that last selection process,"
"So, usually, You would have to wait for another ten years till the descend of immortals, but an incident had happened on our planet, so the immortals have descended to our planet now," Ma Rong seriously said.
Chao Li had lost when he heard those words, and he knew what that incident was, as he was the instigator for that incident.
"The immortals has announced that, after a month, they will hold a selection process, and whoever feels the energy can participate in that selection." Ma Rong said with envy and added,
"And you also lucky in another way. Usually, this process would take place at the central capital of our Xiao planet, the Xiao city, but this time, it is going to be held in our Dawn City, so now the Dawn City is filled with many people like you." Ma Rong said fervently.
Chao Li was also astonished by that news, and never thought he was that lucky,
After that, Chao Li asked some casual questions while they were moving to Dawn City, and after traveling for two days, Chao Li felt Dawn City air,
"Dawn City! Immortals! Here I come."