Most people who find themselves in a cultivation world start thinking about immortal techniques, legendary treasures, or becoming the strongest expert under the heavens.
Cui Heng has a different reaction.
The moment he learns where he has arrived, his first thought is that he might not survive very long.
According to the strange system accompanying him, this is no ordinary cultivation world. Ancient beings roam distant regions, powerful cultivators can influence the fate of entire lands, and many of the stories considered myths elsewhere are treated as common knowledge here. The more information Cui Heng receives, the less interested he becomes in exploring any of it personally.
Fortunately, the system provides something he values far more than adventure.
Safety.
Hidden away inside a secluded space completely separated from the outside world, Cui Heng suddenly finds himself with food, shelter, cultivation resources, and enough peace and quiet to avoid becoming somebody else’s unfortunate encounter. While others might see isolation as a problem, he sees it as the best news he has heard since arriving.
Years pass.
Then more years.
Cultivation slowly becomes part of daily life, mixed between ordinary routines that are far less exciting than the heroic stories usually told about immortals. At times the outside world feels impossibly distant, almost like something happening to other people rather than him.
Yet isolation has a strange way of attracting company.
From time to time, unexpected visitors appear under unusual circumstances. Some arrive seeking answers, some are escaping troubles of their own, and others stumble into Cui Heng’s peaceful refuge by pure chance. Their stories offer brief glimpses into a world he has spent years avoiding, a world that somehow seems to grow larger and stranger whenever someone new appears.
The problem is that curiosity can be surprisingly persistent.
Life inside the sanctuary is comfortable enough that Cui Heng gradually stops thinking about what lies outside. Cultivation, daily routines, and the occasional unexpected visitor are more than enough to fill the years. Still, every person who arrives seems to bring another strange story with them, fragments of a world he has never seen for himself.
At first, he is happy to listen and leave it at that.
After all, the outside world sounds like exactly the kind of place worth avoiding.
But years have a way of changing people. The longer Cui Heng stays hidden, the harder it becomes to ignore the feeling that there is more waiting beyond the sanctuary than he originally thought.
