Su Lin: "You can think of it as a parallel world."
Su Lin: "Your world has quite a lot of settings: parallel worlds, time travel to the past and future, all kinds of Heroic Spirits and Gods, and worlds getting destroyed at the drop of a hat. That's roughly how it is."
Shirou Emiya: "...It feels like making it this far alive wasn't easy."
The way he trained his magecraft was basically like walking a tightrope every day.
Su Lin took a sip of tea as he thought.
Most of the people in the group had their own matters to attend to most of the time. It was only because the novelty of the Chat Group had not yet worn off over the past two days, and everyone was reading novels, that they had been especially active.
Situations like Ye Fan and Han Li, where years passed unnoticed during cultivation, were fairly common.
Perfect. While everyone was here, he wanted to announce something.
Two hours later
Seeing that the group was still chatting enthusiastically, everyone except Luffy, who was busy stuffing his face in real life, had gone to read Shirou Emiya's story.
Xiao Yan: "Brother, let me go to your world and give that old worm from the Matou family a Buddha's Fury Lotus. I guarantee he'll have the time of his life."
Ye Fan: "What an interesting world. Magecraft, Noble Phantasms, the Holy Grail, timelines, the Throne of Heroes..."
Han Li: "The hidden supernatural powers in that world are not weak. I think it would be better to proceed cautiously and let Emiya change the future himself."
Han Li was also deeply interested in that world, but he understood that even though he had already reached the Core Formation stage, he could not casually set foot in a world with such profound supernatural powers. Even if he went, it would be best not to involve himself in Shirou Emiya's affairs.
The worldviews and settings Su Lin had added made them understand that the gap between the strong and weak in that world was severe.
Whether the world's will would notice outsiders like them was still uncertain.
Reality Marbles, his future self, Noble Phantasms... Just as Ye Fan had said, it was a very interesting world. The worlds beyond their own truly contained every strange thing imaginable.
Xiao Yan: "I know. That's why I'm planning to throw a Fire Lotus and run straight back to my own world."
All Su Lin could say about Xiao Yan's plan was that it was absolutely sick.
Su Lin: "@All Members, are you free lately? Would you like to come over to my side? There's something I'd like to ask everyone to help with."
Han Li: "I was just preparing to head to Sky Star City to see how it has changed. Whatever it is, Brother Su, feel free to say it."
Ye Fan was preparing to break through to the Four Extremes realm. Since he already knew the future in advance, some detours could be avoided. It was just that... An Miaoyi... Ye Fan fell into a daze.
A message came through in the group.
Ye Fan: "It's nothing. I was just thinking of going back to Earth for a look."
Xiao Yan: "Same here."
Luffy: "I won't be coming this time."
Shirou Emiya: "Earth from another world... I really do want to see it."
Fortunately, time in one's original world was paused when traveling to another world. Otherwise, he had no idea how he would explain it.
[Image]
Standing atop Wangshu Pavilion, he took a panoramic photo.
Ye Fan: "Little Su, it looks pretty good. Is this some scenic spot on Earth?"
Ye Fan: "Come over to my place someday. I'll take you around those sacred lands."
Han Li: "The scenery is beautiful."
Su Lin: "I happened to obtain an immortal mountain containing inheritances from Qi Refining all the way to immortality."
Ye Fan: "???"
Ye Fan tilted his head.
Han Li: "..."
Han Li: "Brother Su is blessed with great fortune. Congratulations."
Su Lin: "This sect's immortal mountain belongs to me now, but with no one to guide me, my cultivation progress has been a little slow. Could you come over and help me if you have time? Oh, and you can freely consult the cultivation techniques and spells inside."
[Ye Fan used a World-Breaking Talisman. Do you agree?] [Ye Fan used a World-Breaking Talisman. Do you agree?] [Ye Fan used a World-Breaking Talisman. Do you agree?]
Ye Fan: "Bro! Open the door, Ye is here."
Ye Fan: "Open the door!"
Han Li: "..."
If there were a novel about Su Lin's story, Han Li really wanted to read it. How could it be this absurd?
Han Li: "Thank you, Brother Su."
[Han Li used a World-Breaking Talisman. Do you agree?]
Xiao Yan: "Although I don't cultivate immortality, I'd really like to come over and take a look."
[Xiao Yan used a World-Breaking Talisman. Do you agree?] [Shirou Emiya used a World-Breaking Talisman. Do you agree?]
Before long, portals lit up one after another near the lake of Water Mirror Peak.
Figures appeared in succession.
This was the Heavens Chat Group's first offline meetup.
Su Lin placed some food, pastries, and tea on a stone table. The food and pastries had just been ordered on his phone, while the tea had been dug out of some elder's or disciple's room.
The first was a young man with delicate, spirited features. He looked like an immortal banished from the heavens, dressed in white robes and wearing a smile.
To his left stood a young man carrying a heavy ruler on his back. His appearance was ordinary but remarkably pleasing to the eye, and he curiously surveyed the surroundings.
To his right was an unremarkable man with plain features and slightly dark skin.
On the far left stood a red-haired high school student in a school uniform, the group's master of getting back up after every beating.
They introduced themselves one after another.
"Ye Fan."
"Xiao Yan."
"Han Li."
"Shirou Emiya. Um, hello, everyone."
"I am Su Lin. Come, everyone, have a seat."
When Xiao Yan and Ye Fan saw several plastic bags tossed onto the ground in such an ethereal place, then looked at the plastic-boxed pastries and snacks on the stone table...
When it came to being down-to-earth, Brother Su truly took the prize.
The group did not stand on ceremony. After exchanging a few greetings, they sat down, and Ye Fan and Xiao Yan grabbed several bags of snacks and started eating.
Snacks from their hometown, which they had not had in a long time, were filled with the flavor of modern technology.
This was exactly the taste they wanted.
Even the brands were the same as the ones in their worlds.
"Up there is Wangshu Pavilion." Su Lin pointed at the building atop the peak. "Inside are the cultivation techniques of the Qian Ning Sect."
"I left a portal nearby. Below is the city, Ledu. If any of you want to experience city life again, teleport to my room first, then change into modern clothes."
"Shirou Emiya, you should change too. Otherwise, people will think your cosplay is way too realistic."
None of them asked how Su Lin had obtained this sect. Not prying into other people's secrets was the foremost rule of harmonious coexistence.
"Let's take a look around your immortal mountain first. Does it have a name?"
"Water Mirror Peak. All right, I'll show everyone around."
And so, ninety days passed in the blink of an eye. Under the guidance of the two actual immortal cultivators, Su Lin quickly learned the basics of the cultivation techniques.
Although the inherited cultivation techniques left behind on Water Mirror Peak differed from the cultivation systems of Ye Fan and Han Li, at their core, they were all about developing and Ascending the human body.
Both Ye Fan and Han Li were able to draw inferences from them, gaining quite a few benefits. This was especially true of the spells. Though many were rather superficial, there were also quite a few powerful techniques.
Xiao Yan and Shirou Emiya tried cultivating along with them. The purification and accumulation of spiritual energy differed from the cultivation method of Dou Qi, and after giving it a brief try, Xiao Yan decided to continue down his own path.
I still managed to update a chapter. My head keeps hurting from time to time, and it's so uncomfortable that I can't sleep or rest at all. This is awful, ahhh...
(End of Chapter)