I secluded myself for three hundred years, broke through to the Nascent Soul stage, and emerged from meditation.
The first thing I ran into was a buzzing “iron dragonfly.”
I knocked the rude magical artifact out of the sky with a wave of my sleeve, only to be surrounded by mortals wielding “thunderlight tubes.”
I fled in disarray into the city, where the neon lights stung my eyes.
A giant screen in the plaza was showing a cultivation drama, and the lead actor in the special effects was my junior sister.
“Jade Sky Fairy, the new top-tier star!” A glaring billboard flashed.
I smiled bitterly. “In three hundred years, has the Dao really become a stage trick for actors?”
Before I could finish speaking, shrill sirens split the night sky, and swarms of drones descended like dark clouds.
“Wild man capture operation, commence!”