Chapter 1 - Welcome to Blue Star, Your Majesty the Empress~
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In a half-dreaming, half-awake state, Lin Fan faintly heard the sound of car horns in his ears.
But this should have been impossible, because he had already transmigrated to the Immortal Demon Continent hundreds of years ago. It should be impossible for him to hear the sound of car horns.
That was what Lin Fan thought in his heart, yet the sound of car horns in his ears was incessant, accompanied by the occasional sound of cars whistling past.
Filled with doubt, he slowly opened his eyes, pushed himself up from the dark and pitch-black alley, and walked step by step toward the light at the end.
The moment he stepped out of the alley, the scene that greeted his eyes immediately startled him, his eyes widening in disbelief.
Before him was no longer the familiar, towering devil palace, nor the ethereal immortal palace, but row upon row of towering skyscrapers.
Beneath the night sky, the lights were brilliant. The crowds of people coming and going on the streets and the speeding cars presented a magnificent scene of a prosperous modern metropolis.
After several hundred years, he had returned to his familiar homeland—Blue Star!
In his memory, he had engaged in a final battle with the Empress of the Immortal Realm. In the midst of their fight, the two of them had accidentally shattered the void and fallen together into a void fissure, after which he lost consciousness.
From the looks of it now, it seemed that through the void fissure, he had returned to Blue Star by a strange twist of fate.
Since he had returned to Blue Star, does that mean she is also…?!
Thinking of this, Lin Fan turned his head back to look at the pitch-black alley behind him.
Just at that moment, the moon stealthily pushed aside the dark clouds, and the bright, silvery moonlight illuminated the pitch-black alley.
In the narrow alley, a woman dressed in immortal robes of silk and damask, with a devastatingly beautiful appearance, lay quietly on the ground.
The woman's skin was whiter than snow, her facial features exquisite. A head of ink-black silk cascaded down her back like a waterfall. Between her brows, she carried an ethereal and heroic aura, as if she were untouched by the mortal world.
Under the illumination of the silver moon, her tranquil, immortal bearing was like that of an exiled immortal from an ink wash painting.
And this woman was none other than his mortal enemy, the Empress of the Immortal Realm—Empress Longyue!
In her sleep, Longyue's beautiful brows furrowed slightly. Her eyelids trembled, and she slowly opened her eyes. The moment she looked up, she saw Lin Fan standing before her.
Lin Fan gave an awkward smile and raised his hand in greeting.
Longyue's expression faltered for a moment. After realizing the situation, she immediately flew into a rage, her hands quickly forming hand seals.
"Demon Sovereign!!! Accept your death!"
"Wait! I advise you not to act rashly. First, take a look at where we are."
Lin Fan hurriedly raised his hand to stop her, turning to point at the prosperous city behind him.
Longyue followed the direction Lin Fan was pointing, and her beautiful face immediately showed shock.
Buildings she had never seen before were arranged in dense, neat rows, each one soaring into the clouds. Some were even taller than her immortal palace in the Immortal Realm. Vehicles made of some unknown metal sped along the roads, and the crowds of people coming and going on the streets were all dressed in strange and peculiar clothing.
"Where… where is this…?"
"Empress, this is no longer the Immortal Demon Continent you're familiar with, but another new world—Blue Star!"
Lin Fan stood at the end of the alley, his back to the bustling city behind him. The corners of his mouth hooked into a slightly mocking smile as he spread his arms in a welcoming gesture.
"Another new world? Blue Star…?"
Longyue had a face full of disbelief. Then, her beautiful brows knitted together as she assumed a murderous expression.
“So what if we’ve come to another world! The mission of this Empress will not change!”
“Demon Sovereign! Even here, I will risk my life to slay you!”
With that said, Longyue formed hand seals and roared angrily in a delicate voice:
“Immortal Art: Bright Moon Silver Dragon!”
Following her angry roar, the alley remained silent; nothing happened. Longyue’s hands, awkwardly holding the seal gesture, froze in mid-air. The air itself seemed to stagnate.
Lin Fan stood motionless in front of Longyue, his expression completely unruffled, even finding it a bit hard to hold back a laugh.
Passersby on the street heard the noise, craned their necks to look, and couldn't help but cover their mouths and snicker.
“Hey, look. What do you think those two are doing, hiding in an alley?”
“The clothes they’re wearing are so weird.”
“I know what that is, it's Cosplay! The young people nowadays love to play .”
“Oh! So they’re just role-playing then!”
“Tsk, a lone man and woman hiding in a small alley late at night, and dressed like that… public morals are truly degenerating, what an offense to public decency!”
Longyue had no mind to pay attention to the crowd gathering around them, but instead stared at her own hands in shock.
“How is this possible? Why can’t I cast immortal arts?!”
As her voice fell, before she could react, the spiritual energy in her body was instantly drained, and her whole person collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion.
Only after she carefully inspected her body did she suddenly discover that the spiritual energy within her was almost completely depleted!
One must know that spiritual energy is the foundation of a cultivator. All the immortal arts a cultivator practices, the magic treasures they activate, and even the maintenance of their physical strength all rely on the spiritual energy that flows through the meridians in their body.
Without spiritual energy, let alone casting immortal arts, she couldn't even perform the most basic flight. She was no different from a mortal!
“You, what did you do to me! Demon Sovereign!”
Longyue gritted her teeth tightly, looking up at Lin Fan with hatred.
In her view, it must have been the Demon Sovereign who did something to her while she was unconscious, causing her to lose all her spiritual energy.
“Empress, you’re slandering this sovereign a little.”
“I haven't done anything to you yet.”
Lin Fan spread his hands, a look of innocence on his face.
Longyue’s beautiful brows turned cold.
“Then why has this Empress lost all her spiritual energy, and why can’t I sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!”
“You’ve lost all your spiritual energy because you had little left to begin with. Just now, you tried to forcefully activate an immortal art, which naturally drained what little spiritual energy remained.”
“As for why you can’t sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the reason is also very simple.”
“Because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this world is extremely thin, so thin that it’s almost nonexistent. I can’t sense it either.”
Lin Fan stretched out his hand to try and gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but he couldn't feel any spiritual energy fluctuations between heaven and earth; it was as deathly still as a pool of stagnant water.
The first thing he did after confirming his return to Blue Star was to try and absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but the result was that he couldn't sense anything at all.
He immediately understood that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on Blue Star was minuscule!
He had actually anticipated this point long ago. If the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on Blue Star were abundant, it's impossible that not a single cultivator would have appeared for tens of thousands of years…
“A world without the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, th-this, how is this possible…!”
Longyue’s beautiful face turned pale with fright, and a trace of fear appeared deep within her eyes.
She would rather believe that the Demon Sovereign was deliberately deceiving her than believe this was a world without the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
But the truth was, she felt no restrictions within her body. No matter how many times she repeatedly tried to sense the space between heaven and earth, she truly could not feel a single trace of spiritual energy!
And the little spiritual energy she had remaining in her body had just been exhausted due to her moment of impulse…
Without spiritual energy, she was now no different from a mortal. Doesn't that make her a lamb waiting to be slaughtered…?
Even more unfortunately, she had now fallen into the hands of the Demon Sovereign!
Thinking of this, Longyue raised her eyes and looked tremblingly at Lin Fan before her. The corners of Lin Fan’s mouth rose slightly, and he returned a brilliant smile laden with meaning.
“Welcome to Blue Star, Your Majesty the Empress~”