Chapter 41 Lü Zhengyang

"Lv Zhengyang? This kid ascended? But it doesn't look too good! Haha, consider yourself lucky, kid!" Tang Yi saw Lv Zhengyang, dressed in orange-yellow attire, looking panicked and flustered in the void, with a streak of white light only inches away from his back. Under Tang Yi's time-stasis, it was extremely clear that the white light was actually a pocket-sized flying sword. If that hit him, Lv Zhengyang would either be dead or severely crippled. Further away, a few immortals were in hot pursuit of Lv Zhengyang.

Tang Yi used a beam of light to transport Lv Zhengyang, who was currently frozen like a wooden sculpture, into the Immortal Ship. He also teleported the pursuers behind him, along with the flying pocket-sized sword, into Warehouse Zero. Then, he piloted the Immortal Ship to a safe location and released the time-stasis state.

With a loud "bang," Lv Zhengyang collided intimately with the steel wall of the control room.

"Ouch, what is going on?" Lv Zhengyang muttered groaningly as he slid down the wall. With stars still spinning in his eyes, he looked around and saw Tang Yi gazing at him with a half-smile.

"Brother Tang! Oh my god. This is amazing, it's so great that you saved me!" Lv Zhengyang exclaimed excitedly.

"It's been so long, and the moment I see you, you're being hunted down. What happened?" Tang Yi motioned for him to sit down and asked.

"It all started like this..."

Lv Zhengyang had ascended five years after Hua Ruoxue and the others. This time, Lv Zhengyang ascended alone, landing on the planet Muhuang, which happened to be located in the true east quadrant, right on the edge of the Chilian Star Domain belt. Much like the Changshun Star Domain belt, one side connected to the vast expanse of the void—the void between the outer realms and the prosperous star domains. Right upon his arrival, he was recruited by the True Fire Sect.

Over the past decade or so, relying on his unique fire-attribute supernatural ability, his status within the True Fire Sect had risen steadily. From the mid-stage mortal immortal realm upon ascension to his current mid-stage celestial immortal realm, he had also learned several quite remarkable immortal spells and arts. The True Fire Sect was a sect primarily focused on refining immortal medicines and pills, possessing its own unique fire-attribute immortal techniques, and barely ranked within the top five hundred sects in the Immortal Realm. Therefore, Lv Zhengyang was now also a pharmacist—a tier-three pharmacist at the mid-stage celestial immortal realm, which could be considered a genius.

This time, Lv Zhengyang had come to a planet in a nearby star system to gather medicinal herbs, but unexpectedly ran into members of a rival sect, the Medicine Dan Sect. In the Immortal Realm, just as there are immortal pills and medicines, there are also poisonous pills and venoms. The Medicine Dan Sect was famous for the poisonous pills and venoms they refined. Although medicine and poison share the same origin, substances capable of poisoning immortals to death were naturally looked down upon.

The True Fire Sect and the Medicine Dan Sect established their sects in two adjacent star domains within the same star domain belt—the True Fire Sect in the Wujin Star Domain and the Medicine Dan Sect in the Yaohuan Star Domain. Originally, the two star domains did not interfere with each other. However, the reason they chose to establish themselves in this particular star domain was primarily because its environment was suitable for cultivating a vast variety of medicinal herbs. Nevertheless, the environments of the two star domains were ultimately different, and the herbs that grew in each were not identical; neither sect could fully cultivate every single type of herb. Consequently, members of the True Fire Sect would venture into the Medicine Dan Sect's star domain to gather herbs, and members of the Medicine Dan Sect would likewise come to the True Fire Sect's star domain. As a result, friction became inevitable, and over years and months, the enmity between the two sects deepened into what it was today.

Lv Zhengyang was gathering herbs on a herb-rich planet in a star system within the Wujin Star Domain. Because this was the territory of the True Fire Sect, Lv Zhengyang had gone out alone, never expecting to run into four disciples of the Medicine Dan Sect who were also out gathering herbs. Having set their sights on the same herb of the same species in the same spot, without a second word, both sides began to fight for it. After grabbing the herbs, those four disciples, relying on their numbers, intended to kill him and seize the harvest. Sensing that the situation was turning bad, Lv Zhengyang issued a distress talisman, only to be intercepted by one of their members who was at the mid-stage Great Luo Golden Immortal realm. Enraged, Lv Zhengyang unleashed his fire-attribute supernatural ability combined with the True Fire Sect's unique immortal arts, amplifying their power through the combinatorial spatial ring that Tang Yi had left behind in the mortal realm back then. With a single strike, he instantly obliterated one of the fellows at the late-stage celestial immortal realm.

From then on, he was hunted relentlessly by the remaining three fellows. Initially, because the power of the combinatorial spatial ring was still active, and Lv Zhengyang had some spare restorative immortal pills on him, things weren't too miserable. However, due to the gap in cultivation realms and the disparity in numbers, after nearly a month of relentless pursuit, his immortal pills were exhausted, and Lv Zhengyang had no way to recover his immortal essence energy. Just when Tang Yi found him earlier, Lv Zhengyang no longer had any immortal essence energy left to activate even a single function of the spatial ring. In other words, if Tang Yi hadn't rescued him at that exact moment, Lv Zhengyang would undoubtedly have died in the next instant.

"Brother Tang, is this the Jete? It doesn't seem right, it's not responding to me," Lv Zhengyang asked.

"This isn't the Jete; this is the Immortal Ship. We can talk about this slowly. Come, I'll take you to Warehouse Zero to check out those three guys who were hunting you down."

"Wahahaha, Brother Tang, you took care of them too? That's awesome! ...Why are we walking? Doesn't the Jete have light transportation that gets you anywhere in a second? Does the Immortal Ship not have that?" Lv Zhengyang asked curiously.

"Some areas here prohibit teleportation. For example, this control room, and various warehouses. Alright, once we reach the entrance of the corridor, we can teleport to the warehouse corridor." A flash of light passed, and the two of them arrived in the warehouse corridor.

Entering Warehouse Zero, they saw three disheveled figures trapped inside interlaced blue and red beams of light. They looked just as miserable as Lv Zhengyang had been!

"Where is this? Let us out quickly, or the Medicine Dan Sect won't let you off!" the leader among them said in a panic, speaking in a stern voice. Although he was a Great Luo Golden Immortal, everyone's cultivation realm was equalized here, restricted to the mid-stage Earth Immortal realm. Experiencing a Great Luo Golden Immortal being suppressed to the mid-stage Earth Immortal realm was quite a humiliating taste.

"Hahaha, who does the Medicine Dan Sect think they are? You were having so much fun hunting me down earlier, weren't you? So arrogant, go ahead and be arrogant for me now!" Lv Zhengyang cursed.

"It's you?" The leader was extremely perplexed. Just moments ago, he was about to execute this person with his own hands. How could the next second find all three of them trapped in such a bizarre place? In all his hundreds of thousands of years, he had never encountered anything so bizarre, leaving him completely at a loss.

"This is a personal matter between you all, resolve it yourselves!" Tang Yi said to Lv Zhengyang, tossing him a square crystal block, which was the controller for Warehouse Zero. He then walked out of the warehouse.

"I won't waste words with you either. We are already at an irreconcilable impasse, so just peacefully accept your fate!" Lv Zhengyang said as he began manipulating the controller.

"No, don't, I don't want to—let me warn you first, the moment I die, my sect will know immediately, and they will definitely avenge us! Just wait, aaah..." Amidst a chorus of miserable shrieks, the pillar of light gradually shrank, and the smaller the pillar, the higher the temperature within it. Before long, the screams faded away. Finally, the pillar of light shrank to a thread and vanished completely, leaving the three of them obliterated in both body and soul, with only three spatial rings and three weapons left behind.

Lv Zhengyang collected the spoils of war, returned to the control room, and said to Tang Yi, "Brother Tang, thank you so much this time! Haha, now I can hang out with Brother Tang again. By the way, Brother Tang, where is Sister Ruoxue? Isn't she with you?"

"Not yet. The place where I ascended was rather special, and I only just arrived in this region not long ago. But soon, very soon our group will be reunited," Tang Yi said. "Don't you need to return to your sect if you're going to hang out with me?"

"I still have to go back to the sect, but it can wait a bit longer. It won't be too late when the time comes to set off for the Divine Weapon Star! For now, sticking with Brother Tang is the absolute right choice. If it weren't for the fact that the True Fire Sect has indeed shown me some kindness, I wouldn't bother going back at all; otherwise, following Brother Tang is the ultimate truth." Back in the mortal realm, Lv Zhengyang had a very clear understanding of Tang Yi. Given Tang Yi's talent and abilities, the future was unimaginable. If nothing else, creating an Immortal Ship right upon arriving in the Immortal Realm proved just how formidable he was.

Trusting Brother Tang can never go wrong!

"Alright, then follow me to an auction first. And do you even want trash like these?" Tang Yi glanced at Lv Zhengyang, who was looking at his spoils of war as if he couldn't bear to part with them, and said disdainfully, "Throw them away already! If you're going to be so embarrassing, don't tell people you hang out with me!"

Lv Zhengyang's eyes gleamed with excitement!