Immortal Realm’s Smuggling Kingpin - Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Residents in Shanty Town (Part 1)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

Fushan was a small, inconspicuous mountain in the Immortal Realm. The form of the mountain was scattered, and its aura was dull; On the mountain, there was no water, forests, nor caves, resulting in the lack of spirit, beauty, and tranquility. In the Immortal Realm, where there were plenty of spiritual mountains and limpid water, this place would be considered a shanty town. The immortal beings who lived here must be the most desolate and despondent Immortals in the Immortal Realm.

Right on Fushan, this shanty town in the Immortal Realm, someone used their immortal force to sculpt a tall, gated cave. The cave occupied one third the height of Fushan Mountain’s main peak. There was a cheap-looking mirror stone at the cave entrance with the words: Roche Trade Development Co., Ltd.

This mirror stone was the cheapest stele in the Immortal Realm. It was so cheap that one could easily get a mirror stone weighing 10,000 tons just by chiseling any part of the mountain. Although this mirror stone was huge, it didn’t make the owner appear more noble. Besides, the line of characters on the mirror stone was crooked. It was as ugly as it could be. It didn’t seem to be written using the hair of a Long-bearded Wolf, as commonly used by Immortals in the Immortal Realm. It was written with a pen used in the Human Realm in the recent century!

Although the mirror stone stele was half a mountain tall, this Fushan shanty town was unfrequented. The high-end and big Roche Trade Development Co., Ltd. did not have many visitors. It seemed like business was not very good.

Luo Qian, the company’s General Manager, was a male Immortal of medium build and ordinary appearance. At this moment, he sat in front of his fashionable crescent-shaped desk, carved out of mirror stone, and stared meticulously at the laptop in front of him as he carefully looked at the state of his business.

Suddenly, an alarm sounded from the laptop, and the power light flashed twice. The battery was depleted, and the laptop automatically went into sleep mode!

“*, Sh*t! This damn parallel import lasted less than four hours; that damn shopkeeper even told me that it had adopted the most advanced energy-saving technology and could be left on standby for at least 20 hours! I must demand him to give me a full refund the next time I visit him.”

There was no power plant in the Immortal Realm, and the battery was flat. He could only charge the laptop when he left the Immortal Realm the next time. He would not be able to use it for the time being.

Luo Qian shut the laptop furiously and stood up, ready to take a tour of his company.

Although it was small, everything he needed was here. It could be considered an impressive Roche Trade Development Co., Ltd. After entering the cave, one could see a spacious hall excavated in the middle of the mountain. The table, made of mirror stone, in the hall was the reception desk—although there was no beautiful and sexy receptionist… Luo Qian touched his chin and comforted himself. “Well, there will be bread, I’ll get a sexy girl sooner or later.”

On the hall’s left was a door. A wooden sign was on it with a word: Warehouse. The stone door on the hall’s right also had a wooden sign: Meeting Room.

Inside the warehouse were an ultra-slim DVD player, two laptop batteries, a large-capacity CD box, and an electric rice cooker. This was the entire inventory of Roche Trade Development Co., Ltd.

In the meeting room, the oval-shaped meeting table, made of a huge mirror stone, did give off the feeling of a big company.

Why was everything made of mirror stone? Because there was a lot of it. Just by digging this cave, thousands of tons of mirror stones were mined. Mirror stone was indeed the cheapest material in the Immortal Realm.

Suddenly a gust of wind blew outside Roche Trade Development Co., Ltd.’s desolated front door. A shy face then appeared from the cave’s entrance. He saw that Luo Qian was alone and heaved a sigh of relief. “Old Luo, I’m here to pick up the goods. Those video discs that I ordered the last time…”

Seeing that he had a customer, Luo Qian became enthusiastic and hurriedly greeted. “Brother Ling, please come in quickly. The goods are already here. Have some tea first; I’ll go get them for you.”

Luo Qian swept his sleeves, and a cup of hot tea appeared on the table. “Take a seat first.” As he spoke, he walked into the warehouse next to him and took out a video disc from the large-capacity CD case. On the disc, there was a naked woman with a full chest and a slender waist lying down. Her captivating eyes made people feel the urge to commit a crime.

… Uncensored.

Luo Qian was elated. This Ling Xiaose was a disciple of the Ling Family, a well-known family in the Immortal Realm. The Ling Family had control over ‘Jizhen Cave,’ one of the famous ‘Upper Three Lower Ten’ 13 immortal jade mines. Even though Jizhen Cave was a ‘Lower Ten’ cave, the Ling Family was wealthy because of it! However, this young Ling Xiaose was an otaku in the Immortal Realm. He had a dull nature and was not good at communicating with people. He would blush and be incoherent when he spoke to an unfamiliar female. He ascended for hundreds of years and could be regarded as a normal ‘adult man’ in the Immortal Realm, but he had never been in a relationship.

Heaven and Earth, Yin and Yang, copulation and dual cultivation was the way. There were countless dual cultivation methods in the Immortal Realm; any one of them would definitely be faster than cultivating alone.

It was a pity that Ling Xiaose was so rich and had such a prominent family background. He was bad with words and was still single, but an otaku had his needs. Luo Qian made a lot of effort for this big customer. However, the return of high investment was high output. Since Ling Xiaose watched the first video disc that Luo Qian gave him… he had become even more reclusive!

With the discs produced in the Kingdom of Pornography and the DVD player, apart from going to Roche Trade Development Co., Ltd. to buy new discs and batteries, he never left his home in ‘Qingping Springs,’ a prime location in the Immortal Realm.

‘Three Heavens and Six Springs, Twelve Offshore Continents, and Thirty-six Mountains in the Realm’ were lands with excellent aura in the Immortal Realm. The higher the ranking, the more advantageous it was for cultivation. After the Three Heavens—Yuqing Heaven, Shangqing Heaven, and Taiqing Heaven—came the Six Springs. Qingping Springs was one of the ‘Six Springs.’ To be able to own an abode in such a place meant one had entered the Immortal Realm’s ‘upper echelons.’ It was not something that could be achieved by owning a few Standard Immortal Jades.

The currency used in the Immortal Realm was Standard Immortal Jade. One grade higher would be Inferior Immortal Jade, which had an exchange rate of 1:100. The next grade up was Supreme Immortal Jade; it had an exchange rate of 1:10,000 against Standard Immortal Jades. Three grades higher than Standard Immortal Jade was Superior Immortal Jade, which had an exchange rate of 1:1,000,000. Above these would be top-quality Jade, which were used to refine Immortal Artifacts; these were not easily available for exchange.

In total, Luo Qian had earned three million Standard Immortal Jades from this Young Immortal Ling! He was his biggest customer. It was natural for General Manager Luo Qian to serve him personally—Luo Qian didn’t have anyone else to serve Ling Xiaose since he didn’t have any employees anyway. He currently didn’t even have a sexy receptionist to serve tea. In his grand development plans, these things were unachievable in the near future…

“Haha, Young Master Ling, this is the latest video. It’s not easy to get!” Luo Qian revealed a DVD, and Ling Xiaose anxiously snatched it from him. It was as if he was afraid of others seeing him even though there was nobody else here. He was an otaku, after all.

After examining the DVD and seeing that the lead actress was his favorite AV idol, Ling Xiaose couldn’t help but get excited. Who said that deities and immortals had no desires? Ling Xiaose’s gaze fell on the two rosy red spots on the female actress’s chest on the disc; he suddenly sensed that the part of him that made him a man had not remained noble and unmoved.

“Okay, alright. Go back home and enjoy it!” Luo Qian chuckled, and Ling Xiaose blushed.

Ling Xiaose quickly kept the disc and said with gratitude, “Thank you, Brother Luo!”

Luo Qian said, “Young Master Ling, you know what kind of serious crime this is in the Immortal Realm; I took a huge risk!”

With the technological advancements in the Human Realm, there were more means of detection. It was easier to detect the Immortals, whose main mode of transportation was flying. Therefore, in the past few hundred years, the Immortal, Deity, Demon, and Buddha Realms had all imposed stringent restrictions toward those that visited the Human Realm.

Take the Immortal Realm for example. Originally, there were only three immortal officials responsible for inspecting Immortals who descended to the Human Realm. However, with the increase of Immortals descending to the Human Realm, the Immortal Realm established a special department, ‘Imperial Guards,’ 300 years ago. They belonged to the security department, ‘Realm Security Department,’ which was responsible for detecting Immortals who left the Immortal Realm illegally.

In addition, in order to prevent Imperial Guards from committing the crime themselves, they would not be allowed to descend to the Human Realm either. In the entire Immortal Realm, nobody could visit the Human Realm unless they received an official order from the Immortal Emperor.