Chapter 2: The Immortal Hero World

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  Actually, the Zhang Cheng of today is no longer the Zhang Cheng of before. Or rather, the previous Zhang Cheng had already passed away five years ago due to an incident and his soul has returned to the Western Heaven.

  The current Zhang Cheng, however, is actually a top student from Tsinghua University on Earth. Coincidentally, this university student also has the surname Zhang and is named Zhang Cheng, but he is not the same person.

  What's even more ironic is that both Zhang Cheng and Zhang Cheng did not die from natural disasters, but were killed by human actions.

  Zhang Cheng was run over and killed by a large truck on the highway, while Zhang Cheng was beaten to death.

  In this sense, these two guys are also considered to be birds of a feather.

  So it was who moved to kill Little Zhang Cheng, these years Zhang Cheng also investigated some clues, but with his current small arms and legs, as well as his pathetic body, even if Zhang Cheng wanted to avenge Little Zhang Cheng, he was powerless.

  As for Zhang Cheng, he was a tragic man. On the night before his death, he suddenly felt hungry and went out to buy instant noodles. However, just as he had bought the noodles and returned, he saw a woman walking in the middle of the road, with a large truck approaching from the front.

  Subconsciously, he was about to go to her, but after bumping into her, he himself was hit by an oncoming large truck, and at that moment, he felt as if his whole body was going to be knocked flying.

  After being hit by the truck, Zhang Cheng felt as if he was floating in mid-air, weightless and without a care, his consciousness hazy and unclear, to the point where he didn't even know what had happened.

  But when he landed, he found that everything in front of him had changed. He transformed from a 24-year-old adult handsome man to a five-year-old child.

  At first, he thought he had been sent back to his childhood, but then she discovered that the world here had also changed and was no longer Earth.

  Everything became so strange, almost in an instant, a thought appeared in his mind, I crossed over...

  With the idea of "since I've come, I'll make the best of it", Zhang Cheng spent five years in a daze.

  In these five years, he kept thinking about why he ended up here, and whether the original Little Zhang would travel back in time to Earth and enter his body.

  But thinking of a five-year-old kid inside his mature body...

  However, after all these years, he also knew that the previous world was gone and could not be returned to, so he began to adapt to life here.

  After coming here, what made him feel fortunate was that the original owner of this body was not a child from a poor family. Although his family background was not very good, it was still manageable at least he didn't have to starve or suffer.

  At the same time, there is also a father who loves her, as well as an older brother and an older sister, and they seem to be good to each other.

  This is also a kind of compensation for Zhang Cheng, who used to be an orphan.

  However, after coming here, not everything that happened was good, and there were also bad things.

  Just like this, after Little Zhang Cheng took over his body, it became worse and worse, which made him very depressed. Now, he can't even run a few steps without fainting.

  From this, it can be imagined just how bad this body has become.

  It wasn't until later that he found out, this Zhang Cheng had been a sickly child since young, and his physical condition was getting worse by the day. It's just that with his arrival, the deterioration of this body accelerated even more.

  When he first arrived here, Zhang Cheng felt very depressed and helpless because of this body.

  After all, he originally didn't need to worry about his body at all, but now he has to worry about it every day, and in his heart, he keeps reminding himself not to do this, not to do that.

  For someone with a mature soul, this is simply the most painful torture in the world.

  Later on, after about a year had passed, he gradually came around and also began to enjoy his life.

  The reason he was able to make such a big change is very simple, that's because he felt that when he was on Earth before, he was already dead, otherwise his soul wouldn't have been able to cross over here.

  And he can still live like this, it should be that God pitied him and knew that he would not die with his eyes closed, so he gave him some more time, which is equivalent to earning it himself, then what else does he have to be dissatisfied with?

  Since then, he has been living with the attitude of living one more day is one more day, and spent several years in this strange world with Zhang Cheng's body.

  In this lifetime, he also roughly understood this world. Anyway, since he came, he couldn't just leave without knowing anything.

  This continent is called the Silent Spirit Continent, and it's enormous, so big that it can be said to have almost no borders. Even some elderly people can't clearly say just how large this continent is.

  On the mainland, there are five countries with the strongest forces, namely Dong Tianlong, Xi Donglai, Nan Qingluan, Bei Huangming, and Zhonghua Xia.

  Among these five great powers, the Hua Xia Empire is the strongest, followed by the Tian Long Empire, then the Dong Lai Empire, Qing Luan Empire and Huang Ming Empire.

  However, these five major powers only occupy a small part of the mainland of Jiling, and there are still large territories occupied by some weaker countries.

  Another point is that the civilized development of the Avenue of Eternal Silence is extremely long, according to Zhang Cheng's understanding, it is more than twice as long as China's 5,000-year civilization, with a complete history of 10,000 years.

  After accumulating for thousands of years, the various rules of this world have become quite perfect.

  It's just that this world is different from Earth and can be said to be a world similar to the xianxia worlds he had seen before.

  Because here martial arts are prevalent, it's no exaggeration to say that everyone is a martial artist.

  And here, children over six years old need to start practicing martial arts, just like on Earth, when they reach a certain age, they have to go to school.

  Of course, not everyone can learn martial arts here. First, you need to have talent, and secondly, you also need money. After all, others won't teach you martial arts for free.

  However, Zhang Cheng is already ten years old now, but due to his physical condition, he has not started practicing martial arts like other children of the same age.

  However, in his spare time he also understood some of the level divisions of martial artists here.

  Firstly, martial artists in this world have a special name, called Martial Artists. And among the Martial Artists, there are two levels: Postnatal and Prenatal.

  Martial artists are divided into nine levels based on the density of their inner true energy.

  The Innate Martial Artists are divided into three stages: Early Stage, Mid Stage and Late Stage, also known as the 10th Rank, 11th Rank and 12th Rank Masters.

  However, above the warriors, there exists a group of even more powerful beings that surpass imperial power. These beings are known to ordinary people as immortals or immortal masters.

  Congenital boundary masters are indeed powerful, but congenital late-stage masters are only equivalent to the lowest-level immortal in terms of strength. Truly powerful immortals can move mountains and fill seas, ascend to heaven and descend into the earth, swallow the sun and spit out the moon, and are simply all-powerful.

  Of course, Zhang Cheng also knew that there was an exaggeration factor in this, but the strength of the immortal had exceeded the limits of human beings, and this could be said to be beyond doubt.

  They occupy famous mountains and rivers, establish sects and factions, and many people know about it.

  However, their standard for recruiting disciples is not based on their strength, but rather on their potential. Many innate masters who went to pay homage were directly rejected.

  Therefore, there are often some immortal masters who go to various places on the mainland to find disciples with excellent qualifications and bring them into the sect to cultivate profound martial arts and immortal techniques.

  But all of this seems a bit distant for Zhang Cheng, after all he can't even cultivate ordinary martial arts, let alone more advanced immortal techniques.

  As for Zhang Cheng's family, they were from a place called Shao Yang City in the southern border of the Huaxia Kingdom.

  Here, the Zhang family is also one of the few large families in the whole city. There are two other families that can be compared to the Zhang family: the Li family in the west of the city and the Wang family in the east of the city.

  On the surface, the three families have a very good relationship, but secretly they are often at odds with each other. So, deep down in their hearts, they all want to squeeze out the others from Shaoyang City and become the sole dominant family.

  It's just a pity that after all these years of open and secret struggles among the three big families, none of them have been able to squeeze any of the others out of Shao Yang City.

  Of course, since Zhang Cheng appeared, the situation in the Zhang family has undergone some changes, which can be heard from the words of those few young masters of the Zhang family.