A journey through immortal realms begins with a phantom tale.

From a young age, Luo Cheng harbored a special longing for immortals. Ever since reading "Journey to the West," the immortals who could ride the clouds and possessed great supernatural powers shone like brilliant stars in the sky of his young heart.

He kept asking, "Are there immortals in this world?" However, each time, the adults would extinguish his little fantasy about immortals with a resolute tone: "There are no immortals in this world."

As he grew older, martial arts television dramas came into his view. On television, heroes and martial arts masters leaped across rooftops and soared through the air, rekindling his longing for martial arts.

Since immortals don't exist, then martial arts must be real, right? With this in mind, he enthusiastically purchased many so-called "martial arts manuals."

People practiced Shaolin Long Fist, Yi Jin Jing, Tai Chi, and other martial arts with high hopes, but ultimately gained nothing and were left with only the frustration of futile efforts.

Later, he gradually came to understand that there were no immortals in the world, nor were there legendary martial arts masters. Everyone was just an ordinary mortal.

But the lives of ordinary people are far too difficult. Under the heavy pressure of life, his longing for immortality grows ever stronger.

Immortals are carefree and unrestrained, "traveling to the North Sea in the morning and to Cangwu in the evening"—what a carefree and pleasant state that is!

However, fantasy must eventually return to reality. After all, people need food, clothing, shelter, and transportation to live in this world.

Just as Luo Cheng was lost in thought, his phone suddenly rang.

He picked up his phone casually and saw a message on the screen: "You're a good person, but we're not a good match."

"Why?" Luo Cheng typed out these three words instinctively. Immediately afterward, the interface coldly displayed: "You are not the other party's friend."

In an instant, Luo Cheng was completely stunned. In fact, he had a premonition that this relationship might end like this.

His girlfriend, Li Mengtian, often nags him: "Can't you be more realistic? Stop getting into those cultivation-related things all the time."

Look at the emperors of ancient times. They held supreme power, had money, people, and resources, yet they still died of old age in the end.

The facts are clear: there are no immortals in this world.

But Luo Cheng didn't believe it; he had his own reasons for firmly believing it. There were 100,000 volumes of Buddhist scriptures and a million volumes of Taoist canons in the world.

Although these scriptures and canons are obscure and difficult to understand, he firmly believes that they contain true methods of spiritual practice.

Over the years, he has also tried to cultivate himself by following the methods recorded in the Taoist canon, but there are many hidden secrets in it, and he has never been able to grasp the essentials and has always been unable to enter the gate.

Even so, Luo Cheng remained convinced that immortals existed in the world.

He turned his gaze to the vast and boundless outer space, where, with the current level of human technology, no trace of extraterrestrials has yet been discovered.

However, he firmly believes that extraterrestrial civilizations must exist in the universe, and it is even highly likely that there are civilizations more advanced than those on Earth.

Based on this understanding, Luo Cheng firmly believed in the existence of immortals.

Why was he so obsessed with immortality? It was actually out of helplessness. People like him, living at the bottom of society, struggled in the mire of life and found it difficult to lift their heads.

Even as a college graduate, one can barely make ends meet.

Every month after receiving his salary, he would give most of it to his girlfriend, keeping only a small portion for himself to barely make ends meet.

My girlfriend once said she would save the money as a wedding fund, but now it seems that it was just a pipe dream.

"Can't you be more realistic? Stop with the nonsense. There are no immortals in this world." My girlfriend's words still seemed to echo in my ears.

But Luo Cheng remained steadfast in his conviction: "Immortals exist in this world."

His certainty was not without reason, for he was a time traveler who had been in this world for twenty years.

However, the legendary cheat code has yet to appear.

In a daze, Luo Cheng couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that there really are no immortals in the world, and even time travel is nothing but an absurd dream?

"Using the false to cultivate the true, using illusion to connect with illusion"—is everything just an illusion?

In that instant, Luo Cheng entered a state of sudden enlightenment.

The Daoist Canon says, "Great doubt leads to great enlightenment, small doubt leads to small enlightenment." At this moment, Luo Cheng has entered a profound state of enlightenment.

In this state, he felt as if he had lost everything, and everything in the world seemed unreal and illusory to him.

As the layers of appearances were peeled away like an outer garment, he gained clarity of mind and true nature, as if he had touched upon some supreme realm.

A sudden enlightenment occurs in a fleeting moment, yet that moment is also eternity.

Luo Cheng saw it; he finally saw the eternal and indestructible Dao body that the Daoists spoke of.

"So that's how it is." Luo Cheng was suddenly shocked, and then he withdrew from that mysterious state.

"I really saw it." Only by truly witnessing it with one's own eyes can one truly believe it.

Of course, Luo Cheng believed it largely because of his identity as a time traveler.

The fact that he traveled through time was solid evidence that he firmly believed in the existence of immortals.

"Faith" is especially crucial at this moment. Back then, Emperor Ye also had doubts, until the ruthless person told him that there were immortals in the world, which strengthened Emperor Ye's faith and made him forge ahead.

Luo Cheng also firmly believed that there were immortals in the world.

The moment Luo Cheng attained enlightenment, a strange fluctuation occurred between heaven and earth. A golden light suddenly shone, and a middle-aged man in a suit appeared before him.

The man's eyes were extremely bright, shining like stars.

"You actually managed to attain enlightenment in a place like this?" the man said, his tone full of surprise.

"Are you an immortal?" Luo Cheng was equally astonished.

"I am not an immortal, but a cultivator." Just this one sentence filled Luo Cheng with joy.

The appearance of this person once again confirms the idea that immortals exist in the world.

"Would you like to come with me?" the man asked.

"I'm willing." Luo Cheng didn't hesitate at all; cultivating immortality had been his long-standing pursuit and dream.

The man smiled and introduced himself, "My name is Fu Shan. I'm waiting for someone. Once he's willing to come with me, I'll take you back to Fengyuan Star."

"Fengyuan Star." Upon hearing this, Luo Cheng was even more shocked. This was a place from a novel world; he never expected that he had transmigrated into a novel world.

Fu Shan then said, "You can call me Big Brother." Then, with a hint of regret, he added, "Unfortunately, you're not suited for Zi Yanxin."

Luo Cheng knew that the Purple Flame Heart was Li Qiang's Foundation Establishment magic weapon, which allowed Li Qiang to step into the Nascent Soul stage.

Luo Cheng never expected that after traveling twenty years, he would only now realize that he had actually traveled to the "Fairy World".

This realization filled him with immense joy.

However, he hadn't forgotten about cultivating immortality, and quickly said, "Brother, I want to cultivate immortality."

"This place is not suitable for cultivating immortality," Fu Shan said. However, seeing the longing look in Luo Cheng's eyes, he took out a jade slip.

"This is a cultivation technique. You can view it by placing it on your forehead."

"Thank you." Luo Cheng quickly took the jade slip and immediately placed it on his forehead.

In an instant, a flood of information rushed into his mind.

He finally understood that Buddhist scriptures and Taoist texts mostly only expounded on theories, but were vague about the actual methods of cultivation.

Even the few scattered cultivation methods are riddled with hidden traps, leaving people bewildered and unable to begin their practice.

Now, Luo Cheng has finally obtained the true method of cultivation, and his path to immortality seems to have truly begun at this moment.