You Don't Belong to This World

Lightning was already flickering within the enormous vortex in the sky. Lin Yu knew he couldn't afford to delay.

It felt as though lightning could strike from it at any moment, so he decisively opened the chat group.

[Lin Yu: Is anyone free? I want to take shelter at your place. Hurry, it's an emergency!]

Lin Yu quickly sent the message in the chat group and anxiously waited for a reply.

"Strange, why does it feel so stifling? Why is it so hard to breathe? Could it be that I haven't rested well lately?"

Jia Le took a deep breath, wondering why the air around him felt so oppressive.

"Master, do you feel how oppressive it is?"

Qingqing was in the house with the master, patting her chest in discomfort.

"Mm, a little."

He also sensed that something was strange. For no apparent reason, his heart trembled; something terrible was about to happen.

Frowning, the master went outside. There wasn't a sound in the entire valley now. The silence was terrifying.

Unfortunately, their cultivation was insufficient. To their eyes, the sky above the valley was clear for ten thousand miles; it was merely a little quiet and oppressive.

[Omniscient and Omnipotent: I'm doing a quest in a dungeon right now. I don't have time. Xiao Yu, what kind of danger are you in?]

[Lin Yu: See for yourselves. Picture.]

Lin Yu used the chat group's photo function to take a picture and upload it.

[Omniscient and Omnipotent: I'll @everyone for you.]

After seeing it, Su Xiaoxiao also realized the situation was urgent and hurriedly tagged the group members.

[Omniscient and Omnipotent: @everyone, come out, quickly! Xiao Yu is in danger! Which of you is free?]

Lin Yu watched the sky while keeping an eye on the chat group, waiting anxiously.

[Huang Rong: You can come here. I'm bored on Peach Blossom Island anyway. Xiao Yu, you can come play with me.]

[Shi Hao: Xiao Yu, you can come here too. The little red bird didn't come today. Will you come play with me?]

[Ding~ You spent one thousand points to purchase a Teleportation Talisman.]

Seeing that most of the group members were fine, Lin Yu decisively bought a Teleportation Talisman and requested to go to Shi Hao's world.

[Shi Hao: Huh? Lin Yu is coming here?]

The chat group's prompt sounded in Shi Hao's ears, and he silently agreed in his heart.

Once Shi Hao agreed, Lin Yu's body gradually began to turn illusory.

When the dark clouds in the sky sensed the presence of the person on the ground gradually disappearing, they instantly sent their gathered lightning crashing toward Lin Yu's room.

It was as if they were enraged that he dared pull such a trick right under their noses.

Lin Yu stared in terror at the lightning about to strike him, cursing the chat group in his heart. Why are you so slow? An eighty-year-old granny with bound feet is faster than you!

At that moment, the memorial tablet enshrined in Lin Yu's room shot out a beam of transparent light, blocking the lightning for him.

That block also bought Lin Yu time to travel across worlds.

"Shit, I forgot about the True Lord!"

After seeing who had intervened, Lin Yu realized that he still had outside help he hadn't used.

What a waste of his one thousand points.

Just as Lin Yu's body was about to vanish, another beam of light shot from the tablet and entered his head.

In the sky, after losing all trace of Lin Yu's presence, it raged impotently for a while before gradually dispersing.

Meanwhile, when Lin Yu opened his eyes again, an unfamiliar setting met his gaze. The familiar wooden house was no longer around him.

Instead, there were stone houses built from piled stones, every one of them giving an ancient, weathered impression.

Lin Yu walked slowly through this savage world. Ancient tools and weapons lay all around him, and everything looked crude and rough.

"Are you... Lin Yu?"

Just then, a young voice came from behind him.

Lin Yu turned around and saw a little boy dressed in beast hide standing behind him, only as tall as his shoulder.

The boy had glossy black hair and rosy cheeks. His black gemstone eyes shone with curiosity as he looked at Lin Yu.

"Are you Little Shi Hao?"

Since he knew Lin Yu's name and called him big brother, he had to be Shi Hao.

"Mm."

Shi Hao nodded, his big eyes full of delight. He immediately rushed forward and hugged Lin Yu.

For as long as Little Dot could remember, Grandpa Village Chief and everyone else had treated him very well.

But every evening, he saw Da Zhuang and Pi Hou's parents calling them home. Shi Hao took it all in, though he never openly showed envy.

Still, deep down, he hoped to have parents of his own.

After he was bound to the chat group, Su Xiaoxiao kept saying that everyone in it was family.

Shi Hao had been wary at first, but as he gradually grew close to the group members, he came to feel that they truly treated him as family, and he opened his heart to them.

That was why Shi Hao was so excited to see Lin Yu.

Lin Yu was his own family, and everyone in Stone Village was his family too.

"Big Brother, I'll show you around Stone Village. Let me tell you..."

Shi Hao happily pulled Lin Yu along, showing him around Stone Village.

"Lin Yu, this is our village's guardian spirit, Willow God."

Shi Hao and Lin Yu stood before the altar, looking at the broken willow tree atop it. Its whole body was scorched black, with only one tender shoot.

Ever since learning about the plot, Shi Hao had pretended not to know and come to talk to Willow God every day, but he had almost never received a response.

Only once had Willow God grown annoyed and told Shi Hao that her name was Willow God, before falling silent again.

At that moment, Willow God's sole branch behind the altar moved, instantly stretching out to Lin Yu's forehead and stopping there.

Lin Yu looked at the willow branch right in front of him and swallowed. With his puny body, Willow God probably wouldn't even need to exert any strength to pierce straight through him.

He had no idea what Willow God thought of a visitor from another world like him.

After all, given the way he had appeared, he didn't think Willow God could have failed to notice him.

"Willow God, he's my friend. Please don't hurt him."

Seeing the frightened look on Lin Yu's face, Shi Hao hurriedly stepped in front of him.

"You don't belong here."

An ethereal voice sounded in their ears.

Though Willow God didn't know how Lin Yu had suddenly appeared in Stone Village, she had scanned him with her divine sense the moment he arrived.

She could sense that the Dao on Lin Yu was utterly incompatible with this world.

Lin Yu didn't know what Willow God meant, but he didn't dare act rashly.

"Willow God, I invited Lin Yu here."

After hearing Shi Hao's words, the tender green willow branch in front of Lin Yu's forehead withdrew.

Shi Hao had told Willow God about the chat group. After learning that other worlds existed, Willow God had said that this was Little Dot's fortuitous opportunity and told him to make good use of it and not tell anyone else.

"Hello, Willow God."

Lin Yu greeted her awkwardly. He didn't know what to say in front of such a powerful being.

At that moment, the willow branch that had withdrawn came back and swiftly tapped Lin Yu's forehead.

"This is your payment. I want to study your path."

As the one known as the Ancestral Guardian Spirit, Willow God was naturally very interested in an entirely new path.

Lin Yu felt a drop of liquid fall onto his forehead, and then he felt nothing.

"Your current realm is not high enough to refine it. I've sealed it within your body. As your realm rises, the seal will gradually come undone."

Apparently seeing Lin Yu's confusion, Willow God explained.

"Thank you, Willow God."

Lin Yu naturally didn't dare object to what Willow God had done. After all, with her realm, she could have taken it for free, but she had given him a benefit in return.

Seeing that Willow God had fallen silent again, Shi Hao led Lin Yu away. Now that things with Willow God were settled, there would be no problem with Lin Yu staying in Stone Village for the next few days.

"Little Dot, who is this...?"

After the two left Willow God, a group of children a little older than Lin Yu surrounded them and looked at Lin Yu as they asked.

"This is Lin Yu, the big brother I just gained."

Shi Hao smiled as he shared his joy.