Su Lin: "Coach, I'm reporting this! Someone's cheating!"
Su Lin: "Where's the referee? Where is the referee?"
Su Lin: "I'm going to smash up the bookstore first. They sold me a fake Dragon Raja."
Xiao Yan: "Please calm down, fellow netizen."
Su Lin's barrage of messages successfully caught everyone's attention in the Chat Group.
Meanwhile, the scene reflected by the Dayan Pearl in reality had gradually reached its climax.
It was a strange, chaotic monster, its tentacles swaying as its bloody maw roared.
Simply looking directly at its form made one feel mentally unwell. If this had not been a projected image, an ordinary person would likely have fallen into chaotic madness the instant they saw its face.
Klein understood that this was similar to the contamination caused by Mythological Creatures and high-ranking Sequences in his world.
Clad in vintage leather, Lu Mingfei seized an opening amid repeated evasions. Like an experienced Hunter, every strike he made left a mark on the Monster's body, with dim, sacred radiance clinging to its wounds.
The final battle ended in the Hunter's victory.
"What do you think you're doing with those slimy tentacles?" Hunter Lu Mingfei's cool voice rang out as one foot pinned down a tentacle.
Lu Mingfei looked disdainfully at the defeated foe on the ground, his greatsword piercing through the prey's body.
Wearily putting away his greatsword, Lu Mingfei dragged his heavy feet back toward his wheelchair, step by step.
"Alright..." Slumped in the wheelchair, Lu Mingfei adjusted his posture and gestured around his body. After seemingly finding a satisfactory angle, he pulled a short dagger from his backpack and aimed it at himself.
"I've had enough of this nightmare."
Seeing this, Lu Mingfei on Water Mirror Peak hurriedly changed the channel. No matter what was going on in that world, if they watched that ending, he probably would not be able to sleep tonight.
"Everyone... how about we stop here?" Cold sweat beaded on Lu Mingfei's forehead. Why did the people in the Chat Group look so strange, as if they wanted to dissect him?
No, I'm curious too about how those two guys from parallel worlds got transported into a game world. But what does that have to do with a rookie Early Qi Refining cultivator like me?
No matter how hard Lu Mingfei thought, he could not figure it out, nor did he want to waste brainpower on it. He was merely a Qi Refining cultivator—weak, pitiful, and helpless.
At some point, Ye Fan, Zhongli, Xiao Yan, Han Li, and Su Lin had already surrounded him.
"To be honest, I'm very curious." Zhongli propped up his chin with one hand and studied Lu Mingfei curiously.
"Little Lu, keep going." Ye Fan placed a hand on Lu Mingfei's shoulder.
"Try to find another version where you ascend to immortality and become a patriarch."
"..."
The scene changed.
Towering buildings, steel and concrete, brilliant lights, motorcycles and cars speeding past.
Wearing a down jacket and a black-and-white scarf, Lu Mingfei waited for the traffic light to change. He seemed to be watching the signal, yet also seemed to be looking up at the gloomy gray sky.
Finally, something normal, Lu Mingfei thought.
"It looks like Chicago." Lu Mingfei found the street somewhat familiar. There was a hot dog stand nearby, and it tasted great. He and Fingel occasionally took the campus train into the city to wander around.
Vehicles came and went, with the occasional horn urging people along. Lu Mingfei in the image breathed out a puff of warm air and rubbed his frozen fingers.
Crystalline snowflakes began falling from the sky, and pedestrians hurried their pace upon seeing them.
"The weather forecast said today would be sunny."
"You'd be better off rolling dice than trusting that thing."
The two white men spoke in English as they passed by Lu Mingfei.
"The light's about to change, buddy." Lu Mingfei saw his other self standing motionlessly in the same spot, merely staring up at the sky with sorrow-filled eyes.
Did this version of me just get dumped?
My god, which girl did I confess to and get rejected by? Don't tell me this version of me was actually brave enough to confess to Nono?
Or did this version of me just get broken up with by his girlfriend? After thinking for two seconds, Lu Mingfei decided that his parallel-world self could not possibly have found a girlfriend and dismissed the possibility.
Su Lin felt that if this version of Lu Mingfei acted in an idol drama, he could probably land the male lead role.
That melancholy temperament and those sorrowful eyes...
Who knew what he had gone through? Poor Lu Mingfei.
"Have I really returned?"
Lu Mingfei in the image spoke softly.
"Returned from where?" Xiao Yan asked in confusion.
"Two thousand years. After two thousand years, I, Lu Mingfei, have finally returned to Earth."
Closing his eyes, Lu Mingfei spread his arms as though he wanted to embrace the world.
His voice was not loud, but everyone present heard him clearly.
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"??"
"???"
Lu Mingfei felt that the version of himself in the image needed to visit the Cassel Infirmary. The doctors there had at least graduated from Harvard Medical School, and they had all kinds of equipment. Any mental problems could be diagnosed quickly.
But when he thought of the previous two parallel worlds, he did not dare judge the version of himself in the image. Besides, if he told those old bastards about everything he had experienced over the past month, would they think he had lost control and lock him up?
"Heavenly Martial Sect, I, Lieyang, have repaid what I owed you."
"From this day onward, there will be no more Lieyang the Martial Immortal, only..."
"Martial Immortal Lu Mingfei!"
The instant his eyes opened, his golden pupils revealed supreme majesty.
In an instant, the snowflakes filling the sky seemed to have been paused. Vehicles and pedestrians froze in place, and the entire world fell silent, without a sound.
With his hands clasped behind his back, Lu Mingfei gave a cold snort and took a step as he turned around.
The next moment, he had actually shifted to the rooftop of a skyscraper.
"Lu Mingze, there are still many things between us that have yet to be settled."
"This body from the past has not been tempered. Next, I need to find a place to bring my physical condition up to par."
Dharma Power surged. Nearly tangible Dharma Power whipped at the hem of his clothes as Lu Mingfei looked down over the city below, a smile curling at his lips.
Han Li fell silent for a moment before saying, "Perhaps I wouldn't even last one move against him."
Xiao Yan sensed that power and refuted him. "I don't think there's any need to wonder."
Ye Fan glanced at the Dayan Pearl in Lu Mingfei's hand and asked Su Lin, "Is there any way to communicate with the Lu Mingfei over there? I feel like we could get some good cultivation techniques from him."
"...Su Lin? Are you listening to me?" Ye Fan noticed that Su Lin's eyes had gone blank and he was still staring at the reflected image.
"Is it really that serious? Though I also think Lu Mingfei's parallel worlds are a little ridiculous..."
What do you mean, is it that serious?
I, Su Lin—a transmigrator reborn into another world, a Chat Group member, a system host—what kind of scene haven't I seen before?
I've never seen anything like this!
Ever since graduating from university, I'd been busy with work and rarely read novels. I barely read any even after transmigrating, but I remembered correctly, didn't I? Dragon Raja was urban fantasy, not urban immortal cultivation!
This made no sense. It was impossible. Could it be that the original Lu Mingfei was actually the weakest version?!
And those first two who got transported into other worlds...
Su Lin clawed at his hair, then abruptly turned to look at Lu Mingfei. Why had he taken out the Dayan Pearl in the first place? It was to let Lu Mingfei see what a happy parallel-world version of himself was like.
How had it turned into Lu Mingfei going unmatched instead?
He seems even more badass than my system build.
"Switch again!"
"He's worked up now," Xiao Yan said from the side.
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