Other Shore

"Is this... the Calamity of Lostness?"

Lu Zhou was certain—this was the Calamity of Lostness!

He was not panicked in the slightest!

This was merely a journey of Heart Questioning.

Lu Zhou had always known what he wanted.

He knew how he should walk the road ahead.

He was an ordinary man with a competitive spirit.

He wanted all the beauty in the world, immortality, Words Manifest as Law, and to fight for first place!

People said that being transported to Covering the Heavens meant starting in hell.

But Lu Zhou had never thought of it that way.

Looking at it from another angle, before being transported here, he had merely been a Corporate Slave enjoying the blessings of 996 workdays and, occasionally, even 997. He probably would not have lived to be a hundred.

But in Covering the Heavens, he possessed every possibility.

Even if he did nothing now and simply hid away in some remote mountain forest, he could still live past a hundred in peace.

He had already come out ahead.

Since that was the case, why not set his sights farther? Why not aim higher?

Why not put into practice every YY fantasy he had ever entertained while reading Covering the Heavens from beginning to end?

Even if he ultimately fell.

Lu Zhou thought that he would at least have once shone brilliantly, and would not have wasted this journey through the mortal world.

It was better than being a Corporate Slave before his transmigration!

"My heart is eternal. My ambitions are lofty. Wherever my gaze reaches is my Other Shore; wherever my feet tread is my pure land."

Within Qiankun Heaven and Earth, flames danced in Lu Zhou's eyes.

Those flames were like two blazing suns, capable of illuminating the delusions of mountains and rivers and dispersing all mist!

Rumble!

It was as though thunder split the sky within Qiankun Heaven and Earth, accompanied by the trembling sounds of immortals.

The clouds and mist churned and scattered. Heaven and earth became clear, and everything lay before his eyes.

This so-called Calamity of Lostness had descended for no more than the time it took to burn an incense stick, yet Lu Zhou's five senses and spiritual perception, which had been growing increasingly blurred, had all revived.

They were even sharper than before.

A mysterious radiance enveloped his body, cleansing and refining him inside and out.

Lu Zhou discovered that his Divine Sense had begun to mistify.

It transformed into a streak of light and shot forth, expanding the range of Lu Zhou's perception!

His consciousness sank into his Sea of Suffering, where he saw that the section of Divine Bridge suspended above it had become thicker and more brilliant.

Lu Zhou stepped onto it. With every step he took forward, the Divine Bridge extended in that direction.

In the end, the Divine Bridge spanned his entire dark-green Sea of Suffering. Like an immortal bridge reaching the heavens, it connected to a pure land.

That pure land was the Other Shore!

Misty clouds drifted over the Other Shore, and amid the clouds and rosy haze high in the sky stood a colossal Dao Palace.

Lu Zhou looked up, his eyes shining brightly.

He did not aim beyond his reach. He knew full well that only by steadily traversing every realm could he go farther.

He remained at the Other Shore, carefully comprehending the mysteries of this realm!

He felt every change within himself.

From time to time, he drank a mouthful of Empress Sacred Spring to refine it, stabilizing the instability of having just entered the Other Shore!

Three days later, he left the Qiankun Pearl. With the Xingzi Secret beneath his feet, he prepared to leave this primordial ruin.

He had already calculated the timing and knew that Demon Emperor Yang's Tomb would soon emerge. Ye Fan and the various major factions would all come here.

Lu Zhou did not wish to meet the major factions just yet.

At the same time, while the attention of the major factions of the Eastern Wasteland was fixed on the Demon Emperor's Tomb, he planned to visit a few places and see whether he could slip in and sign in!

His first stop would be the other five blessed grotto-heavens of Yan Kingdom, aside from Lingxu Grotto-Heaven.

These places were not far from Lingxu Grotto-Heaven. Back when he was still at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, he had already learned the locations of these five blessed grotto-heavens.

With the Xingzi Secret at his disposal, Lu Zhou was naturally extremely fast. In just one day, he arrived at Yanxia Grotto-Heaven, over two thousand li from Lingxu Grotto-Heaven.

Without alerting anyone, Lu Zhou relied on the speed of the Xingzi Secret and the method for concealing one's aura recorded in the Dao Sutra. When cultivators entered and exited Yanxia Grotto-Heaven's mountain gate, he slipped in among them!

Once inside Yanxia Grotto-Heaven, he saw that the system panel indeed indicated that he could sign in.

Without hesitation, he immediately began the sign-in.

Ding! Host has successfully signed in at Yanxia Grotto-Heaven. Host has obtained one five-hundred-year Crimson Blood Ganoderma, which has been stored in the host's Qiankun Pearl!

This sign-in reward made Lu Zhou frown slightly.

Compared with the complete Dao Sutra he had obtained by signing in at Lingxu Grotto-Heaven, the difference between the two was like heaven and earth.

If they were truly compared, it was not even as good as the Ten Thousand Jin of Immense Strength he had signed in for at Mount Tai.

It was undoubtedly the worst thing he had signed in for so far.

He had a feeling that he probably would not get anything good from the next four grotto-heavens either.

Though he thought so, he still intended to visit the other four blessed grotto-heavens.

Before that, however, he secretly inquired about the small town where Jiang Tingting lived.

This was easy enough to investigate. Yanxia Grotto-Heaven had three cultivators from the Li Family. As long as he learned where their homes were, he could find Jiang Tingting.

Lu Zhou directly seized a Sea of Suffering cultivator from Yanxia Grotto-Heaven and quickly learned everything he wanted to know from him.

He made that Sea of Suffering cultivator sleep. When the cultivator woke up, he heard that something major had happened at Yanxia Grotto-Heaven.

The three cultivators from the Li Family had actually been killed inside Yanxia Grotto-Heaven. Their deaths had been utterly miserable.

Yet throughout the whole process, no one in Yanxia Grotto-Heaven had noticed anything.

Clearly, the culprit had to be a cultivator who had at least reached the Other Shore, perhaps even surpassed it.

Upon learning of this, the Sea of Suffering cultivator immediately thought of Lu Zhou.

But he did not dare speak of it. It became a secret he would carry into his coffin.

By the time the people of Yanxia Grotto-Heaven discovered that the three Li Family cultivators had been killed, Lu Zhou had already arrived at the small town where Jiang Tingting lived.

He stopped a passerby and asked where the restaurant run by the old man surnamed Jiang was.

Before long, he entered the small restaurant. It had only seven or eight tables and looked quite old. Some spots had developed a worn sheen from age, yet everything had been wiped spotless.

At that moment, Lu Zhou sank his consciousness into the system and discovered that this ordinary little restaurant could indeed be used as a sign-in location!

Lu Zhou silently recited a sign-in command.

The system informed him that he had obtained ten jin of source!

This sign-in reward undoubtedly crushed the Crimson Blood Ganoderma he had obtained earlier at Yanxia Grotto-Heaven!

It seems my sign-in rewards are related to Ye Fan's path of activity!

Lu Zhou thought that he had likely grasped some of the rules of the Sign-in System.

He remembered that when Ye Fan left the primordial ruins, he had once stopped at this small restaurant to cultivate.

If not for that, why would the sign-in reward from this little restaurant surpass Yanxia Grotto-Heaven's?

Or perhaps it's because Jiang Tingting has the Taiyin Physique?

Forget it. I'll have to study this further!

Just as Lu Zhou was pondering these matters, an old man with graying hair, a weathered face, and clothes covered in patches approached him with a smile.

"Young man, are you here for a meal, or...?"