Entering the Buddha Palm Rock Secret Realm
Little C... Host, you think you're right...
What a pity.
Lu Ping had already figured it out: this time, Little A was the answer.
Little B, I already told you not to play with Little C.
Lu Ping chose A.
[You chose A]
Ultimately, your strength is the key to breaking through this impasse.
[You extinguished the last vestige of warning deep within my Divine Sense.]
[Whether it was Jiang Mutian or Song Fuan, all the causes and effects have now faded into silence.]
You severed the last ties.
[Without hearing, without seeing, with all six senses shut off, all life force in the body is gathered into nothingness.]
[No self, no things, no past, no future.]
[You have entered a state of selflessness and ignorance.]
[On this very day, you suddenly opened your eyes.]
[A commotion arose beside you.]
"Freshly baked steamed buns—still hot—"
["Candied hawthorn berries, sweet and sour candied hawthorn berries!"]
[You frown slightly. This is Buddha Palm Cliff, Forbidden Ground of Great Forest Temple. Where did those hawking sounds come from?]
[You stand up and walk out of the cave abode.]
The scene before you left you frozen in place.
[There are no steep cliffs, no rolling sea of clouds, and no solitary peak shaped like a palm.]
[Buddha Palm Cliff is gone.]
[You are standing on a bustling long street.]
[Shops with blue bricks and gray tiles line both sides of the street, which is bustling with pedestrians. Peddlers carrying their wares squeeze past you, and several children with pigtails sticking up in the air playfully run off, holding sugar figurines.]
[In the distance, the faint, somber tolling of a temple bell could be heard.]
[You subconsciously release your Divine Sense, trying to probe the surrounding Formation Technique fluctuations.]
There's nothing there.
[Your Sea of Consciousness is utterly still; your Divine Sense, which could originally cover a hundred miles, can no longer even leave your body an inch.]
[You felt a chill run down your spine and immediately activated the Spiritual Power within your body.]
[Your Dantian is completely empty; you can't even visualize Dantian internally.]
[You touch the Storage Ring on your finger, but there's no reaction.]
You glanced down at yourself; you were dressed in ordinary short-sleeved clothing.
You clenched your fist, feeling only the weakness and heaviness of a mortal.
[Just then, a completely unfamiliar memory floods your mind like a tidal wave.]
[Your name is Lu Ping, and you are eighteen years old.]
[You grew up in this place called "Brahma Sound City." Your parents died early, leaving you with little wealth.]
[You attended a private school for a few years, know a few characters, and now work as a shop assistant in a rice shop on the street corner.]
[You're rushing to your early morning shift at the rice shop...]
[Options pop up.]
[A: First, play the role of the waiter based on your memory, and observe the situation.]
[B: A Little Secret Realm...]
[C: You, with a face full of madness, roar to the sky: "I transmigrated here and cultivated Nascent Soul Perfection, and now you want me to be a waiter here?! I've gone through all this trouble and now I have to work? Did I transmigrate for nothing?! Even if the Heavenly Dao comes today, I will never clock in! Let whoever wants to work this lousy job do it, let the whole secret realm be destroyed!"]
Lu Ping looked at the panel and was slightly taken aback.
Is this Wuming when he said, "When the time is right, the secret realm will open itself"?
However, this secret realm is too bizarre. It's like throwing people into an illusion and deleting their accounts to start over!
Without cultivation or Divine Sense, he couldn't even open his Storage Ring.
Little B, once again speaking from the bottom of her heart, could only utter four words: "A tiny secret realm..."
Little B, you're not good enough.
Last time, it was Little A who provided the solution. This time it's your turn to get your Performance Assessment, and you're chickening out again.
Lu Ping sighed and chose A.
[You chose A.]
[You sense that, the Unseen, a force tells you that you belong here, that you are Lu Ping, the rice shop assistant.]
[Salty Fish, in effect.]
[Your Dao Heart is impervious to all laws.]
[You know you are Lu Ping, a transmigrator, a cultivator, a Nascent Soul Perfection Grand Cultivator.]
[Your mind has calmed down, but you still possess no cultivation whatsoever, making you no different from an ordinary mortal.]
You stand on the street corner, calmly observing the everyday life and bustle of the city.
[Following the extra memories, you walk west along the long street.]
[In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, you stopped in front of a shop.]
The sign above the door reads "Chen's Rice Shop".
You step across the threshold and enter. The shop is filled with the musty smell of stale rice.
[A portly middle-aged man was standing behind the counter, fiddling with an abacus. Hearing the noise, he glanced at you.]
"Lu Ping, where have you been? What time is it? Hurry up and come over here to copy yesterday's water record!"
Shopkeeper Chen slammed a crumpled ledger on the counter, his spittle practically flying into your face.
You looked at the ledger, then at Shopkeeper Chen's greasy face.
[You, a dignified Nascent Soul Great Cultivator, have plotted against Heavenly Demons and killed Spirit Transformation.]
Don't you remember how long it's been since anyone dared to speak to you like that?
[The one who spoke rudely to you last time, I think, was the one you hung on a stone pillar at the Azure Cloud Sect's Mountain Gate. It took them ages to get him down.]
[Options pop up.]
[A: On an actor's professionalism. You're a veteran actor, so take this role of the waiter seriously.]
[B: Even tiny ants have been scattered...]
[C: You gasped sharply, a strange excitement spreading across your face. You grabbed Shopkeeper Chen's hand: "Whoa! This barrage of insults is amazing! Manager, if you're so good at cursing, then curse some more, louder! Once my cultivation is unsealed, no one will dare talk to me like that anymore. Come on, don't stop, curse a few more times so I can have some fun!"]