[It's your turn.]
[The star harbor guard officer sitting behind the desk, the one doing the checks, turned out to be a Dragon-Man.]
[For some reason, seeing a Dragon-Man gave you a strange sense of kinship, like spotting someone from your hometown.]
[He first asked you to pay a toll, one hundred standard Source Stones.]
[A standard Source Stone is a Source Stone used as currency, mined Source Stone polished into a uniform shape and size.]
[Fortunately, when you boarded the ship you used your enlarged body to stuff a bunch of Source Stones on yourself, then put the rest into the star ship.]
[Otherwise, if you couldn't pay the toll you would be hauled off to work to pay your debt like that lizard-looking guy ahead of you.]
[After taking the money, the Dragon-Man officer didn't even look up, he just dipped a feather pen and wrote on the paper.]
["Name."]
["Hu Chacha."]
["Gender."]
["Male."]
["Race."]
["Uh..."]
[You were actually stumped.]
[You hadn't had a chance to look in a mirror, so you didn't know exactly what you looked like, only that you had a pair of big horns on your head.]
[Luckily, the careless Dragon-Man officer glanced up.]
["A bull-headed tribe, huh? You bull-headed folk really get dumber and dumber, all of you, stupid and dazed."]
["Are you a cultivator? If so, what's your cultivation level?"]
["Qi Transformation, Nine Rotations."]
["Where are you from?"]
["Lingwei Star."]
["What brings you to Blazing Star?"]
["My star ship broke down. From the star map, Blazing Star was closest to where I was, so I thought I'd come over to repair it."]
[You had already shrunk the star ship down to palm size.]
[The Dragon-Man officer looked up and nodded slightly.]
["That's a pretty bad breakdown. You didn't happen to run into space pirates, did you?"]
["Exactly. I'm unbelievably unlucky. They robbed me of everything I had, stripped the ship of supplies. Luckily I hid some Source Stones in the lower hold, otherwise I couldn't even pay this toll..."]
[You followed along with his words.]
[Your excellent acting made the simple-minded bull-headed persona convincing, and it aroused no suspicion.]
[He asked a few more questions, then handed you a green metal card.]
["You dumb, dazed bull-headed one, listen carefully. You are not a resident of our Blazing Star, and without a Blazing Star resident permit you cannot live here permanently.]
This green card only allows you to stay on Blazing Star for three months.
After three months, you must leave voluntarily.
[Otherwise, if you are found to be lingering here, you will face imprisonment. Understand?"]
[You accepted the green card and nodded.]
[Blazing Star is a second-tier star, its Immortal Qi is thin.]
[You guessed that the rulers here control the number of cultivators on Blazing Star through this kind of "household registration" system.]
[With channels and star ships, cultivators traveling between stars is far too easy.]
[If they didn't control it, external cultivators could flood in and definitely affect local people's cultivation.]
[After leaving the star harbor, you went straight into the deep mountains and dense forests.]
[Three months only, huh.]
[Since you've already slipped in, you think they want you to leave? No way!]
[But you also know that without formal status, living on Blazing Star would bring a lot of inconveniences, and being discovered would probably cause new trouble.]
[It's the same idea as illegal immigration in your previous life.]
[But for now you don't want to worry about that, you just want to start cultivating quickly in this place that has Immortal Qi.]
[City life is troublesome, so you'll sleep out in the wild!]
[You spent some time prowling around the surrounding area.]
[You felt the Immortal Qi concentration was about the same everywhere.]
[You didn't go to big cities, because entering those places required checking residence permits.]
[Some small towns and villages had fewer rules, but inspection teams still showed up, verifying residence permits for outsiders, so you couldn't stay long.]
[From chatting casually with local cultivators, you inferred that this place lacked a "Spiritual Vein" where Immortal Qi converged; the Immortal Qi concentration across the planet was uniform.]
[That was good news for you, because it meant you didn't have to infiltrate a major sect to get better cultivation conditions—everywhere was the same.]
[As for resources like pills, artifacts, and formations.]
[You produced them yourself.]
[Although obtaining materials was somewhat difficult, you could still get some from sparsely populated areas.]
[You refined pills and forged artifacts yourself—just glance at someone else's artifact, use Reverse Engineering to get the blueprints and formulas, then find a place with ground fire to make them.]
[You inquired a little about Myriad Treasures Child Goddess.]
[Many cultivators had heard of her famous name, but when asked where exactly she was on Blazing Star, few could say.]
[After all, cultivators in these small places were not high in realm and naturally had no contact with someone like Myriad Treasures Child Goddess, so they didn't know.]
[You weren't in a hurry either, because even if you found her now you couldn't beat her; you'll wait until your cultivation improves before settling the score.]
[Afterward, you casually found a scenic spot to hide and started meditative cultivation.]
[Your real current realm is Qi Transformation, Sixth Rotation. In the Real Realm, cultivation in the Qi Transformation stage is about raising True Qi, not like the Void Realm which requires opening a foundation, and at Martial Saint stage also opening the Sea of Consciousness.]
[The cultivation systems of the two worlds differ somewhat, but luckily it doesn't affect you much.]
[The Heaven-Grade Qi Refining Art "Heart-Burning Immortality Art" from the Void Realm ranks as a Grade Five technique in the Real Realm's system (the ranking has nine grades from nine to one; nine to five correspond to Low-Grade, Mid-Grade, High-Grade, Earth-Grade, Heaven-Grade).]
[Grade Five is actually not bad, because during your recent wandering in some villages and towns, chatting with cultivators, they mentioned most of their Qi Refining Arts were Grade Seven or Eight.]
[Nine-grade Qi Refining Arts were extremely common; you could even see them at roadside stalls.]
[Grade Seven was already something small local families might keep as a heirloom.]
[In short, the technique you cultivate is of decent quality.]
[Coupled with your cultivation aptitude, which got a significant boost thanks to the special Fire Affinity, your cultivation speed noticeably increased.]
[You also had trait tag effects assisting you, such as the Demon Tribe talent "Natural Respiration" from the Calamity of Ten Thousand Races.]
[In the Void Realm, Natural Respiration was described as: physical body strength doubled, your body automatically inhales the Essence of Heaven and Earth, and cultivation rises automatically.]
[In the Real Realm, "Essence of Heaven and Earth" became "Immortal Qi".]
[Days and months passed as clouds rose and drifted.]
[By day you released clones and together with them foraged herbs, hunted meat, and refined pills to speed up your cultivation improvement.]
[At night you sat alone on a cliff, absorbing sunlight and moon essence, contemplating the path of cultivation, and circulating your technique to raise your level.]
[Days passed as your progress proceeded in an orderly way.]

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