Standing at the very edge of the plain, Ye Shen was unfazed in front of hundreds if not thousands of Cultivators who were after his family heirloom; the Void Worm.
An Immortal Rank Gu that was sought after by both Heavenly Martial Court and Demonic Faction for its ability to transmigrate its Master to a completely different universe.
They thought, by using Void Worm, they could bypass the Heavens Boundaries that separate each universes according to their rank and travel to the higher realms without needing any breakthrough.
Little did they know, Void Worm would wring its Master's Qi Energy once activated and there would be no way back. And Ye Shen knew the Void Worm's true nature all along.
Ye Shen was at his wit's end. If he ought to surrender the Void Worm, he had a hunch that he would be murdered afterward. On the other hand, if he used the Void Worm at his current cultivation stage as a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, his chance to survive the penalty was very low. Inexistent, almost.
Running was also impossible, the whole continent had been turned upside down by both righteous cultivators and demonic cultivators just to hunt his Void Worm.
Before long, an old-looking man wearing a white robe flaunting his immense Pure Yang Qi descended from the sky, he stood just a few jumps away from Ye Shen. An Immortal!
"Ye Shen." The man opened his mouth. "Hand over the Void Worm to me, and no one would get hurt."
Suddenly, a man with a monstrous amount of Demonic Qi stood in the sky, looking down. "Don't trust him, kid. His tongue says so, yet he holds a dagger behind his back. Give me the Void Worm, and I shall annihilate Heavenly Martial Court in one fell swoop."
"Shut your vile mouth!" The old man in white snapped.
Trapped amidst the eons long conflict between righteous sects and demonic path cultivators, Ye Shen had enough of their bulllshits. The sole reason why he would walk on the path of cultivation was to pursue the truth of the universe, and saved his mother from the Emperor's hands.
"You know what…" Ye Shen took out the Void Worm from his pocket, looking at the curling insect on his palm. "My mother gave this ugly bug to me when I was kid before she was taken away to be Emperor's concubine. She said, the Void Worm would help me escape from this cursed plain. I guess it's time to put this thing to the test!"
Everybody was panicking once Ye Shen crushed the Immortal Rank Gu in his hand, they didn't expect that Ye Shen was crazy enough to actually use the Void Worm.
"You, moron!" Shouted the old man in white.
"Stop him!" The leader of Demonic Sect shouted.
Chaos ensued, the Demonic Cultivators launched a volley of martial skills towards Ye Shen to stop him before the Void Worm was fully activated.
Alas, the Void Worm sensed the imminent danger. It forced the transmigration procedure, it had no other choice but to choose the most remote universe in its repertoire to ensure Ye Shen's safety albeit the required amount of energy would drain Ye Shen's Qi in the process.
In just a split second, a huge wormhole swallowed Ye Shen's body and closed as soon as the pursuers were about to reach the rift.
Ye Shen had to endure the excruciating pain while he traveled inside the space tunnel. For every universe barrier that he broke through, Ye Shen had to sacrifice his Pure Yang Qi energy to feed the Void Worm. Otherwise, the Void Worm would wring out his life-force instead.
Ye Shen couldn't help but to enter hibernation and let the Void Worm consume his Pure Yang Qi for hundreds if not thousands of years relative to human time.
Eons had passed, Ye Shen was awakened by the Void Worm. At last, the long and lonely journey was over. A bright smile colored Ye Shen's face upon seeing the small blue planet before him.
"Where are we?" Ye Shen inquired.
The Void Worm was silent. Ye Shen then realized that there's no power left in the Immortal Rank Gu. It already in a hibernation state.
"It must have taken me into the most remote universe. Both of our Pure Yang Qi energy and its Primeval Qi Energy are almost depleted. The Void Worm has entered its hibernation stage and only Gods know how long it'll take to recharge it."
While probing the exact location of this small star system, Ye Shen suddenly felt the backlash in his whole body.
"Tsk! I didn't expect that the Void Worm would use this much of Qi. Right now, the Yang Qi inside my Dantian is almost comparable to a First Stage Body Strengthening cultivator. I can only use my Qi for one last time to enter the planet's atmosphere undetected. I must conceal my true nature until I'm strong enough, and get the hell out from this planet!"
Ye Shen held the Void Worm close to him. "Alright. Let's recuperate, and cultivate on this small planet before we continue our journey."
Ye Shen picked the most populous place possible in order to blend in with the people of this small blue planet. Once he did, Ye Shen enveloped his body with the last strands of Yang Qi Energy in his Dantian.
Thus, Ye Shen entered the atmosphere very cautiously, layer by layer. He didn't want to create any ripple which might alert the planet's inhabitants.
It went smoothly on the first half of his descent until it wasn't. By the time he entered the last layer of the troposphere, or 5.0000 meters above the sea level, his Yang Qi energy had depleted sooner than he anticipated.
"No, no, no!" Ye Shen was in panic. "I'd die if I ought to fall from this height! Not with my current body constitution!"
Alas, there's nothing he can do to fight Earth's gravitational pull. Looking to the right, he saw a towering skyscraper building, almost as tall as a mountain. Ye Shen planned to crash his body diagonally against the wall to slow the momentum.
He truly believed that his plan would work given by his quick calculation. But again, fate seems like it wants to play with him a bit longer.
Just when he reached the terminal velocity, a huge, bird-like flying ship struck him at subsonic speed! Luckily, he still had the time to react and pushed his body outward by kicking the air.
"Mother— Look where you are heading!" Ye Shen raised his fist while still free falling. "Wait, was that a Spiritual Beast? But, the sound is so weird, mechanical almost."
If he still had the strength of a Nascent Soul Cultivator, that plane would have turned into a fancy firework by him.
Ye Shen was so frustrated and also anxious when he saw nothing that could slow him down. After a quick recalculation, he opted to change his vector toward the nearby slum district on the city's outskirts. He thought, the low-quality material that was used for the housing would slow his momentum, increasing his chance to survive.
Crash!
The stray cats scurried away when Ye Shen crashed so hard onto somebody's trash bin. Before long, the locals who saw the fall began to flock to the landing site, wondering if it was a fool who attempted suicide or something.
"Uurrghh!" Ye Shen groaned in pain.
"Did he fall from the Sky City?"
"Is he alive?"