Ling Yu transmigrates into a Xuanhuan world and is reborn as the son of Ling Xiaofeng, the village chief of Clear Wind Village, and Su Wanqing. After fourteen and a half years including two and a half years in the womb, during which he endured prenatal treatments to improve his physique, he is now a refined twelve-year-old boy carrying the mature consciousness of his past life. He adapts to his new reality, deciding to enjoy this wondrous world where cultivation allows flight, teleportation, and moving mountains. He diligently practices both Qi Refinement and Body Refinement, achieving the late stage of Spiritual Awareness Realm in Qi Refinement and perfection of Opening Aperture Realm in Body Refinement. His Origin Cave Heaven, awakened upon entering the Spiritual Awareness Realm, spans nine zhang in diameter, indicating top-tier spiritual root aptitude, and it is already eight zhang solidified. Ling Yu understands that a solid foundation is crucial and plans to reach perfection in both paths within the First Realm before entering the secret realm connected to the Return to Void Land to obtain an unclaimed Origin Cave Heaven. Possessing such a cave heaven accelerates cultivation significantly in lower realms, and he has been cautious, believing that entering too early, as his friend Zhang Hao did, leads to failure. He intends to go after his upcoming trip to Green Stone Town. His parents, eager for him to obtain a cave heaven, support his decision. At home, the family discusses the rules of the Tai Xu Sect, which prohibits private fighting on official roads but leaves unregistered areas to the cultivators’ own responsibility. The sect enforces its laws brutally, as shown by the Tai Xu Mirror incident that exterminated tens of thousands for robbing a tribute. Cultivators must be wary not only of demonic beasts but also of heretical cultivators who may use souls for refinement. Ling Yu’s family cultivates spirit rice and gathers mountain resources to trade for spirit stones. Ling Xiaofeng leads a group of forty to fifty villagers on a journey to Green Stone Town, a thousand miles away, with Rhinoceros Horn Horse carriages. Despite several demon beast attacks, they arrive safely under the protection of the experienced cultivators. In the bustling market town, they sell their goods, including spirit herbs, spirit fruits, demon beast meat, and spirit rice. Ling Xiaofeng sells to a regular buyer named Old Wang at ten jin of spirit rice for one low-grade spirit stone, and the total earnings satisfy him. Ling Xiaofeng gives Ling Yu a large amount of spirit stones, instructing him to purchase pills and magical artifacts necessary for the secret realm. Ling Yu and his friend Zhang Hao wander the lively streets, observing vendors selling spirit fruits, magical artifacts, and pills, performers staging acrobatics and spells, and street food stalls. Ling Yu reflects on the similarity between the mortal world and the cultivation world in the pursuit of a better life. He is determined to use the resources wisely and enter the secret realm in his best condition to secure an auxiliary cave heaven, a goal that has been the focus of his parents’ expectations.
