233: Li Wudi, who was captured and forced to mine, and Chu Tianba, who successfully ascended to heaven!

Invincible Li took a deep breath of the air in the Immortal Realm.

He had prepared far too much for this day.

Originally, he had wanted to be better prepared.

However, due to some reasons, he was forced to arrive in the Immortal Realm ahead of schedule.

Now, he was going to be in a much more passive position.

Thinking of the culprit behind all this, Invincible Li wiped the smile from his face, his expression turning incomparably gloomy.

"Chu! Chang! Ge!" he gritted out, word by word.

If it weren't for this person, he could have arrived in the Immortal Realm with much better preparations.

But now, he had to appear in the Immortal Realm completely unprepared, and many things would be passive because of this.

"Damn Chu Changge, once I, Invincible Li, Cultivate to success and return to the Lower Realm, I will definitely wipe out your Chu family!"

Just as Invincible Li was swearing fiercely, he didn't notice a tall figure approaching from behind him.

"Smack!!!"

"Kid, what are you shouting about? Hurry up and come over here to report!"

Invincible Li was slapped heavily, and suddenly he saw stars, feeling dizzy.

He stood up angrily and looked behind him.

He was about to reprimand the person who had attacked him.

He saw that the person's body was over three meters tall, and the person looked fierce and vicious.

He was staring coldly at him.

Invincible Li looked at his surroundings again; the people around were disheveled, carrying baskets on their backs, holding iron picks in their hands—these people... were mining!

And most importantly, these people were watching him with schadenfreude.

Invincible Li suddenly recalled a bad rumor.

A long time ago, when people from the Lower Realm achieved Ascension to the Immortal Realm, they would be captured by the people here to mine.

Could the Cross-Realm Teleportation Array he discovered have been such a coincidence that it transported him right to the mining area of the Immortal Realm!

"Kid! Don't space out. Although I don't know how you suddenly appeared in this place, since you've come to our Black Heart Mine, just stay here! Saint Realm cultivation, barely acceptable!"

The sturdy man grabbed Invincible Li by the collar, as if picking up a chick, and threw him into the depths of the mine.

As soon as Invincible Li landed, he wanted to resist, but at that moment, his cultivation was suddenly sealed.

"Kid, since you've come to our Black Heart Mine, work honestly and don't think about anything else! Otherwise, we'll make you regret it!"

Invincible Li's face was gloomy; the situation was not right, and he had no choice but to accept his fate.

"Damn it! My luck is too bad. I have to accept my fate for now and look for a chance to leave later!"

Invincible Li said to himself, and he wisely chose not to resist.

After all, this was not the Tianxuan Realm, and many of his backup plans could not be used.

Fortunately, he had considered this worst-case scenario, and he still had ways to leave.

Invincible Li then obediently followed the arrangements of the Black Heart Mine's owner and started working.

...

On the other side, also within the Immortal Realm.

In a desolate desert, Chu Tianba slowly woke up.

He held the immortal slaying sword his son had given him and slowly stood up.

Chu Tianba looked around, frowning.

"Is this... the Immortal Realm?"

Chu Tianba felt that the True Qi in his body had completely transformed into Immortal Qi, but this area seemed to have some kind of Restriction placed on it, and the Immortal Qi was extremely thin.

If he used this little bit of Immortal Qi in his body, once it was exhausted, he wouldn't be able to recover.

Chu Tianba recalled the events before.

Back in the Lower Realm, he and the Willow Immortal had fought, and the energy they released far exceeded what the Tianxuan Realm could withstand, and subsequently, they were both transported to the Immortal Realm.

Chu Tianba immediately looked around vigilantly.

"If I have been transported to the Immortal Realm, doesn't that mean that guy has also come to the Immortal Realm?"

Chu Tianba looked around cautiously, but he did not find the figure of the Willow Immortal.

Instead, the immortal slaying sword in his hand was guiding him toward a certain place.

"Is this sword... telling me the way?"

Chu Tianba felt the pulling sensation coming from his hand; the immortal slaying sword was guiding him toward a certain place.

Chu Tianba didn't think too much and, following the guidance of the immortal slaying sword in his hand, walked in one direction.

...

After a long time, Chu Tianba arrived at the edge of the desert.

He discovered that he seemed to be trapped within a Formation.

Inside the Formation, it was desolate, with deserts everywhere.

Outside the Formation, there were countless flowers and plants, full of vitality!

Chu Tianba's expression was cold, because he saw a few large characters carved on a tall stone tablet not far away.

"Ascension Reception Ground!"

In the legends of the Immortal Realm, whenever someone achieves a Breakthrough to the Great Emperor Realm and receives the reception of the Immortal Realm, they will ascend to a place in the Immortal Realm called the Ascension Reception Ground.

In other words, the place where he was located was the place where beings from the Tianxuan Realm ascended to the Immortal Realm long ago, before the Immortal-Mortal passage was closed.

This place should have been a bustling area.

However, it was desolate and uninhabited.

Chu Tianba looked at the traces of the characters on the ancient stone tablet; he estimated it had been hundreds of thousands of years.

The characters were almost illegible.

If it weren't for his good eyesight, he really might not have been able to spot them.

"This place has been sealed by a Formation. Should I break it?"

Chu Tianba hesitated; he was now in the True Immortal Realm and had extraordinary vision.

He could see the power of the Formation that sealed the Ascension Reception Ground.

If he had the strength to destroy this Formation, that would be fine; after all, once the Formation was broken, he could slip away immediately.

But if he couldn't destroy this Formation and instead attracted some people's attention, that would be troublesome.

After all, his son might also appear here when he achieves Ascension to the Immortal Realm in the future.

As Chu Tianba hesitated, the immortal slaying sword in his hand transmitted a voice.

"Master, let's break this Formation. I can do it!"

This was the message the immortal slaying sword conveyed to Chu Tianba.

"Oh? Interesting!"

Chu Tianba had long known the extraordinary nature of the immortal slaying sword, and after hearing the message from the immortal slaying sword, Chu Tianba was no longer timid. He slashed with his sword.

"Boom!!!"

A terrifying sword radiance instantly made the sky for ten thousand miles lose its color, and then a sharp Sword Qi split the Formation that was blocking Chu Tianba's path.

A large hole appeared in front of Chu Tianba.

"Now is the time!"

Chu Tianba seized the opportunity; he didn't wait for the cracks in the Formation to recover and rushed out directly.

As he walked out of the Formation, the rich Immortal Qi in the Immortal Realm almost made him 'addicted' to it.

"Is this the Immortal Realm? Such rich Spiritual Qi, ah no, it should be called Immortal Qi!"

"But now is not the time to absorb Immortal Qi, hurry up and leave!"

Chu Tianba knew that he had destroyed the Formation, and the sword strike that made the sky for ten thousand miles lose its color just now would definitely attract the attention of many people. He had to leave before those people arrived.

Chu Tianba immediately flew on his sword and left quickly.

And not long after he left, several figures appeared near the 'Ascension Reception Ground' Formation in the distance.

They looked at everything with cold expressions.

They stared coldly at the Formation for a long time.

After a long while, one of them said in a cold, ghostly voice: "Someone has ascended from the Lower Realm!"