Dao Companion Panel?

As for his physique, Jiang Yun knew himself well. Though he worked out regularly and was a bit stronger than the average person,

the chances of him having a special physique were slim.

In the original owner's memories, when Ye Fan was little, Jiang Yun, as his cousin, could still give him some loving lessons. But after Ye Fan turned eight or nine, Jiang Yun could only educate him verbally.

Jiang Yun was four years older than Ye Fan! Yet Ye Fan had suppressed him instead. He had completely lost face as the older brother.

So you're the fucking Sacred Physique! A Sacred Physique? Then never mind.

When he had first transmigrated, he had thought about waiting for Ye Fan to carry him and investing heavily in this cousin of his. After all, they were close relatives. Surely Ye Fan would not forget his cousin.

Now that he had a golden finger, Jiang Yun felt that he could set his ambitions even higher—for example, by clinging to Ruthless's thigh!!

Having obtained his golden finger, Jiang Yun no longer paid attention to the developments surrounding the Five-Colored Altar and Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin.

What happened next would not be dangerous. The Nine Dragons' automatic driving function was about to activate, and getting into the coffin would be automatic too.

He should study his panel properly instead. Whether his future held only plain vegetables or treasured trees and Divine Medicine would depend on whether this panel was useful.

[Panel]

Realm: Mortal

Physique: Mortal Physique (Sacred Physique 1.22%)

Bloodline: None for now (obtained through dual cultivation with a dao companion)

Cultivation Technique: "Dao Scripture" (to be learned)

Reflection Points: None for now (can be obtained with a dao companion)

Source Space: 20m*20m*20m

Dao Companion: None (single)

Mark: None for now (obtained through dual cultivation with a dao companion)

Descendant Bonus: None

Looking at the crude panel, Jiang Yun fell into deep thought. Was this one of those wife-taking systems?

Jiang Yun was quite familiar with that kind of setup from hanging around all kinds of novel websites. Marrying wives and having children could make one stronger.

Even after arriving in a fantasy world, he still could not escape being urged to get married.

Holy maidens, Ancient Emperor's daughters, Emperor's Daughters, divine maidens, demonesses—I want them all. Jiang Yun clenched one hand in the air and silently thought to himself.

It was no surprise that his physique was a Mortal Physique. What surprised him was that he actually had a tiny bit of Sacred Physique potential.

After all, he was Ye Fan's cousin. It was just far too low—more than fifty Jiangs away from passing.

Starting with the Dao Scripture was wonderful. He just did not know how many volumes it had. If there was only one, it would be rather useless.

But now was not the time to study cultivation techniques. After all, he had no idea how long it would take to finish learning an Emperor Scripture.

If he still had not finished by the time they reached Mars, he might be done for.

He only hoped it was complete. Jiang Fan did not seek to be like Ye Fan, cultivating the strongest ancient scripture at every realm. Having an Emperor Scripture to cultivate was already excellent.

He just did not know what the other two were for. When in doubt, ask the system.

"System, what are 'Reflection Points'? And what is this Mark for?"

Jiang Yun asked the system in his heart.

What followed was a stretch of silence.

Jiang Yun tried every method he could think of, calling the panel by all sorts of names. He even offered it affectionate greetings.

Yet the panel did not react in the slightest. Neither soft nor hard tactics worked.

In the end, Jiang Yun gave up. At last, he understood why the panel's descriptions were so clear.

It was not considerate. This panel was an idiot. It did not deserve to be called a system and could not communicate at all. From now on, he would just call it the panel.

The only function he could use now was the Source Space. The others were temporarily unusable.

Jiang Yun focused all his attention on the Source Space and discovered that it was essentially a storage space.

It was a 20*20*20 cubic space. It was completely empty inside, with nothing in it.

Within the Source Space, Jiang Yun felt like a god.

The shapes inside could change according to Jiang Yun's thoughts. It could even be divided into several separate smaller spaces, as long as their total volume did not exceed the limit.

Inside the space, I am invincible. Outside the space, I...

After a period of experimentation, the space had completely taken Jiang Yun's shape.

Jiang Yun tried repeatedly storing and retrieving his phone and the bottled water on him in the Source Space, constantly testing it.

He discovered that as long as his body could touch an object, he could store the entire thing in the Source Space. If he was not touching it, there was nothing he could do for now.

After becoming familiar with the Source Space, Jiang Yun formed a preliminary plan for what came next. It merely needed further refinement.

Now, he needed to become even more proficient in using the space and prepare for what lay ahead.

He just did not know whether he could store living creatures. The conditions were too limited to test it. He could not exactly test it on Ye Fan's classmates.

Just as Jiang Yun was familiarizing himself with the Source Space's abilities, the Copper Coffin suddenly shook violently.

Several violent tremors in succession sent everyone inside the Copper Coffin tumbling to the ground.

"Light! There's light outside!"

A sudden cry rang out, and everyone looked in that direction.

The Bronze Coffin seemed to have overturned. Its lid was slanted, and dim light shone in from outside.

Hope appeared on everyone's faces. Like survivors of a disaster, they rushed outside.

But after rushing out, each of them stood frozen like clay statues, staring into the distance.

The earth seemed soaked in blood, reddish-brown, cold, hard, and desolate. As far as the eye could see was barren emptiness. Massive rocks stood scattered across the ground, resembling grave markers from a distance.

The light between heaven and earth was dim and murky, like a lifeless dusk shrouded in faint black mist.

Everyone stood dumbfounded. This could not possibly be the summit of Mount Tai!

The boundless reddish-brown land stretched into the distance, remote and deathly silent, without the slightest trace of life. It was not any place they knew.

They had never seen it, never heard of it. It was completely unfamiliar and mysterious!

"Where... is this? Have we... left Mount Tai?" The speaker's voice trembled.

At that moment, Jiang Yun slowly walked out from behind, his calm voice drifting over.

"We are indeed no longer on Mount Tai. Perhaps the ancient texts I once read were not myths, but parts of history that truly existed."

Everyone looked toward Jiang Yun. Their expressions of despair after losing hope were influenced by his calm and confident demeanor, and they settled down slightly.

Although they had only stayed in the Copper Coffin briefly, everyone had learned of Jiang Yun because of their numbers. He was Ye Fan's cousin, not some ghost or monster.

Only after leaving the Copper Coffin did they realize that Ye Fan's cousin was truly handsome and elegant, with a dignified bearing. His facial features were sharply defined and deep, like a Greek sculpture. Especially his eyes—they were as deep as the sea, as though they could draw people in and make them sink unconsciously into their depths.

All the women present looked at Ye Fan, then at Jiang Yun, and had to admit that the cousin was more appealing than the younger cousin.

Ye Fan had clearly understood the thoughts of those female classmates, but he did not care much. He was already used to those looks whenever he walked with his cousin.

"Cousin, why do you say that? Have you seen records related to this before?"

Ye Fan walked out alongside Jiang Yun and played along with him.

Whenever Ye Fan and Jiang Yun discussed business or communicated with others, they liked doing this. One would support from below while the other discussed matters, making people unconsciously trust them.

He just did not know whether his cousin was making it up or whether there really was such a thing.

"I once saw a description of Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin in an ancient travel record belonging to an old collector. Before, I had only regarded it as a mythological story. Only after arriving here did I realize that the mythological record I saw might have been history."

"It is said that Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin has existed for endless ages, and its history can no longer be traced. It drifts through the vast universe along a specific route, descending upon one ancient star after another, whether barren or full of life. The road has no beginning and no destination."

"Those with Source can use it to keep moving onward, descending upon ancient stars one after another. This planet does not look suitable for human survival. Perhaps the next one will be a Life Ancient Star where we can remain."

"The Qi Refiners of the Pre-Qin Era left Earth through the Five-Colored Altar. We have the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of our predecessors. Perhaps we may meet figures from myth, and perhaps some among us may become immortals and patriarchs."

When he had seen the Starry Sky Ancient Road atop the Five-Colored Altar earlier, Ye Fan had already had a premonition. He simply had not expected it to come true.

He felt somewhat excited. This was exactly the sort of thing that interested him most, though he was worried about his parents still on Earth.

Everyone was stunned upon hearing this.

"Is he telling the truth?"

Someone murmured softly.

"Can we still return?"

"As long as we become powerful enough, crossing the Void with the physical body may become reality."

Jiang Yun gazed into the distance and spoke confidently.

The crowd began discussing it, while Jiang Yun pulled Ye Fan and Pang Bo away to explore nearby.

Jiang Yun did not want to discuss these matters with their classmates any longer. Otherwise, he was afraid he would not be able to keep making things up.

"Oh, praise... merciful God, do I... have a chance to meet God?"

Kade, the foreigner, cried out excitedly. His understanding of Chinese was average, and only now had he roughly grasped what was happening.

"Cousin, was what you said true? Are all those myths and legends real history? What else did that ancient text say?"

Ye Fan pulled Jiang Yun aside and asked in a low voice.

Pang Bo echoed quietly from the side, "I want to ask too. Cousin, is everything you said true?"

"Of course it's true. Once we explore this region, we should discover something soon enough."

Jiang Yun quietly explained to the two of them.

"Then who could have written that ancient text?" Ye Fan stared blankly into space and muttered under his breath.

"Shrouding the Heavens really is a book. I didn't lie to them. As for who wrote it..."

Jiang Yun silently complained to himself. The reason he had told Ye Fan's classmates these things was to give them hope for the future. On the other hand, it was also to establish trust among them, since he was an outsider.

Soon, everyone saw a massive stone inscribed with Yinghuo, as well as an enormous stretch of ruins resembling the Heavenly Palace Ruins.

Everyone became even more trusting of what Jiang Yun had said earlier.

Jiang Yun then pulled Ye Fan and Pang Bo toward the Great Leiyin Temple, where light shone at the end of the ruins. He planned to loot some treasures, and he was determined to obtain the Quasi-Emperor Forbidden Artifact.

After all, if he did not have some trump cards upon reaching the Big Dipper, he truly would not be able to withstand danger.

Jiang Yun had also considered the matter of the Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Fetus. The divine fetus definitely would not be inside the Great Leiyin Temple right now. It should have been suppressed beneath it together with the Crocodile Ancestor.

In the original story, the divine fetus should have slipped into the Copper Coffin with a group of Little Crocodiles when Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin was about to depart later on.

The Crocodile Ancestor's Divine Fetus might have discovered that Li Xiaoman had the best fortune, so it possessed her.