Chapter 173: Song Shuhang: I Want to Become a Reliable Senior Too

"Shuhang, are you tired?"

"Shuhang, do you have enough pills?"

"Shuhang."

A Pekingese monster held a fruit platter in its paws, its eyes curved like crescent moons, wearing an ingratiating smile.

Song Shuhang's mouth twitched a few times, feeling goosebumps rise all over his body, and silently shrank back.

"Dou Dou, act normal."

"I still prefer how you were before — wild and untamed."

Ever since watching his 【story】, this dog monster had turned into a simp. At first it was still manageable, but two days ago Dou Dou thought it over for a whole night and said it had figured things out, then started fussing over him with concern.

"What are you saying? In the past it was little Dou being immature."

Look at the sky.

"One who curries favor without cause is either a thief or a rapist!" Song Shuhang stared warily at the dog monster.

Last night in the Cultivation Chat Group, Senior Huangshan asked how Dou Dou was doing.

King Dou Dou: "Huangshan! Huangshan! I'm not coming back!"

Huangshan Zhenjun replied after a moment: "Don't be ridiculous."

He had been quite busy lately, with no time at all to pick up Dou Dou — he'd be happy to let Dou Dou run around outside for a while longer.

King Dou Dou: "Don't contact me anymore from now on! I'm afraid Song Shuhang will get the wrong idea!"

King Dou Dou: "If you force me to come back, I'll chew your 'Jade Palace Heaven-Piercing Shuttle' into a sieve."

"..." Huangshan Zhenjun immediately broke out in a cold sweat. That Jade Palace Heaven-Piercing Shuttle was his precious immortal vessel — roughly the cultivator equivalent of a luxury sports car. Every time he took it out, it was the height of face.

But when Dou Dou said something, it meant it. If it said it would bite, it really would bite.

Little friend Song Shuhang has been feeding Dou Dou soul-confusing soup? Not bad, step it up!

But Song Shuhang didn't know what Huangshan Zhenjun was thinking. At the time it had given Song Shuhang a cold sweat — this was practically roasting him over a fire.

"What exactly do you want? If you won't say, I'm going to find Senior Bai." Song Shuhang watched the Pekingese walking toward him step by step, suddenly stood up from the sofa, and dodged backward.

"Woof! Don't!" Dou Dou quickly set down the fruit platter, then became a little coy: "Um, you see, I've been with you this long and still haven't taken human form, I still need your help with my online dating..."

"I just want you to take me along when you go to other worlds, let me take human form and come back."

"You get the benefits, I take the risks, right?" Song Shuhang's eyebrow twitched. Right now he didn't even know why his in-book self was so brave — way too reckless! Every resurrection item he had got used up one by one. Everyone who partied with him ended up shouldering the danger themselves.

"Shuhang, is the contact made yet?" Senior Bai's voice came from upstairs.

"Contacting right now!" Song Shuhang replied.

Ever since learning that he would become a prematurely ripened Heavenly Dao a year later, Song Shuhang had actually been quite happy. His only regret was that he still hadn't become a reliable senior — just like Senior Bai in the book said at the very end. His foundation was just too poor.

'Since you can travel to other worlds, why not go to another world to build up your foundation. I also have time to help tutor you.'

Song Shuhang could feel that when Senior Bai said this, his eyes seemed to sparkle with starlight. It was obvious Senior Bai was very interested in other worlds — he'd been reading a lot of manga and anime online these past few days.

Of course, Song Shuhang was also very tempted by Senior Bai's proposal. This way, even if he only advanced one rank per month in his own world, his foundation could keep up, and when the time came he would surely become a reliable senior.

'I can't end up like in the book — already transcended yet still owing you so many spirit stones, too lazy to even learn the resurrection array myself.'

When Senior Bai said this, Song Shuhang wanted to find a crack to crawl into. Although he really did want it that way — being a walking accessory was truly fragrant.

Song Shuhang: "That's the situation. Is there any senior who can take me in? Please, please!"

Ye Fan: "I fuc—."

Ye Fan: "Build foundation, is it? Come on, come on, come over here, I'll teach you how to build foundation! I'll teach you everything I know, I won't hold anything back."

Emiya Shirou watched Ye Fan take out the Mother Qi Cauldron of All Things, sneered as he stared at the void ahead, and prayed that this Song Shuhang wouldn't come over and become the 'foundation.'

Xiao Yan: "This is afraid of leveling up too fast, so he's adding difficulty for himself!"

Xiao Yan: "Is there still justice under heaven?! Is there still law?!"

Three hundred million years east of the river, three hundred million years west — never look down on a poor Yan Emperor!

Song Shuhang swallowed his saliva. If he really went to Ye Tian Di's world, he'd be taught a very harsh lesson. Heaven have mercy, he really just wanted to build his foundation a bit — not the 'get on the bus first, buy the ticket later' that even his in-book self had lamented.

Song Shuhang: "I'll pick an auspicious day and come back to trouble you two seniors."

Song Shuhang: "Senior Han Li?"

Han Li: "No problem, just come."

Song Shuhang was delighted and immediately applied to enter.

【Group member "Han Li" is in group member "Ye Fan"'s world. Your application has been automatically forwarded.】

Rip, rip.

Song Shuhang tore up this transmission talisman and treated it as void.

Song Shuhang fell silent. Zhongli, Su Lin, and Lu Mingfei were in Miss Kelaien's Lord of the Mysteries world; Han Li and Emiya Shirou were in Ye Fan's Shrouding Heavens world. The former was temporarily off-limits, and the latter was temporarily off-limits. The remaining worlds were only...

Luffy: "I don't really get it, but want to come aboard my ship?"

Luffy: "We're having a banquet today!"

Yi Leina: "I want to come too!"

Luffy: "Hee hee hee, welcome! There's lots of fine wine and meat!"

Yi Leina excitedly bounced out of bed. Sleep? No need for sleep!

Song Shuhang, tears streaming down his face, said emotionally in the group: "Coming!"

"Senior Bai, we're going on a voyage!" Song Shuhang's eyelid suddenly twitched. Seeing Dou Dou rubbing its two paws together with a human-like expression, he said, "Of course I'll bring you along."

"Woof! Awooo~!"

You're so excited your species changed!

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Backlund, King's Avenue, the square fountain.

The group chat contents left the three of them speechless; even Zhongli fell silent.

"Some people are born in Rome, some are born as wage slaves." Miss Kelaien thought of his own unbearable past IT career and said to Su Lin, "Right, Su the Wage Slave?"

Su Lin glanced at Miss Kelaien, then turned and walked outside.

"Where are you going?"

"To negotiate a good price with Amon."

"I was wrong, come back first."

Miss Kelaien envied that kind of life. Before his "transmigration" he worked IT with the blessing of 996; after "transmigrating," apart from the time in Tingen, it was basically 007. Only when occasionally disguised as Dwayne Dantes could he enjoy himself a little.

"Speaking of which, what did you do before transmigrating?" Miss Kelaien asked Su Lin.

"Finance. Mr. Zhou, would you like to learn about financial planning?" Su Lin said expressionlessly in a professional tone. "Purchase a fund now and enjoy an annualized interest rate—"

"So you must have earned a lot, right?" Miss Kelaien was somewhat curious.

"Heh, voluntary overtime after six." Su Lin took out a pocket watch and checked the time. "Mm, it's six o'clock, time for overtime."

Zhongli turned and walked toward the carriage on the left. The butler beside him had long been waiting; he was responsible for escorting this guest who had come from afar on a tour of Backlund's Empress Borough at night.

Zhongli would randomly deploy some spells to slightly reduce the losses when Backlund was bombed—not too much, only affecting some negligible parts, otherwise Adam would notice.

But even a slight influence could save hundreds or even thousands of lives.

Su Lin and Miss Kelaien walked in the opposite direction. When the two reached a corner, bathed in the red light before the setting sun, they flickered and vanished from the spot.

Full Moon Night

In a room illuminated by crimson light, the Witch Trissy stood within a ritual array, surrounded by ritual materials such as rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, pearls, and lapis lazuli.

She had just received a letter from Gehrman Sparrow. To destroy George III's ritual, she had to summon Mr. Door to obtain the method to enter the nine secret mausoleums that the "Blood Emperor" Tudor had built for his advancement to "Black Emperor."

Prince Edesack is a foolish good person. Even though he clearly knew she had once been a man, he still made that kind of choice—stupid enough to make one feel helpless. He probably never expected that the mastermind behind it all was his own lofty father. Hehehe, if he were alive to learn the truth, that expression of collapse would surely be especially interesting.

"What a pity, good people don't live long, while scoundrels like me and George III only climb higher in Sequence the longer we live."

After everything was prepared, Trissy took a deep breath and lit the strand of hair in her hand.

Trissy stepped back two paces and, with a solemn expression, chanted in the Giant language:

"Great Door of Ten Thousand Doors;

"Guide of the Endless Starry Sky;

"Key to all mysterious worlds…"

The various gems within the ritual shattered, transforming into light fragments that gathered into a shimmering river flowing toward the candle flame at the center of the altar. The firelight suddenly swelled, intertwining together, growing ever more dim and dark.

An illusory door appeared, as if it could lead to other worlds—dim and profound, with no view of what lay within.

The firelight swelled once more, and a vortex appeared within the door. At the same time, an ethereal voice drifted out from within.

"Chik?"

This voice drilled into Trissy's head, like countless steel needles piercing her brain. Her skin instantly became transparent, with veins and blood vessels rising up, dense and numerous like shattered glass.

"No, you are her retainer."

Trissy recalled Gehrman's reminder and did not let Mr. Door dwell on the past for too long. With an expression that could barely conceal its contortion, she spoke: "Honorable Mr. Door, I need the method to enter the Black Emperor's mausoleum. Please grant me the method."

"Heh, that's simple. You just need to take this symbol I give you—"

Mr. Door drew out a symbol and told Trissy that, combined with the blood of Beyonders of different pathways, using spirituality to stain and weave it into a special symbol would allow passage through the hidden passage within the Black Emperor's mausoleum.

This was related to George III using Tudor's remnants.

"Thank you. I also have one more item I wish to sacrifice to you." Trissy endured the tearing pain in her spirit body and took out a talisman from her hand—this was what Gehrman had entrusted her to deliver to Mr. Door.

"Oh? I'll take it." In that almost delirious state, the talisman engraved with a six-winged angel passed through the vortex and was delivered to Mr. Door.

'Now!'

Trissy forcibly cut off and closed the ritual. The talisman that had passed through the vortex into the starry sky suddenly erupted with endless, dazzling light.

Wu Haoran's power of Order bloomed on the far side of the moon. A storm of light swept through, startling the hidden existence on the moon. The scorching light transformed into countless tiny blades that pierced into the chaotic black ocean.

Streams of information echoed through the starry sky.

"Mother of Depravity! You are just a—. Once I break the seal, I'll shank you within three days and tear your Sefirah to shreds!"

"You don't want your hive on Earth given to the Lord of Mysteries, do you?"

"One day I'll make you feel what love is!"

"I'll be waiting for you on Backlund's King Avenue on Earth. If you dare, come through the barrier and come cut me!"

"As a fellow Pillar, you truly disgrace yourself. Leave the group."

At the same time.

For some unknown reason, the people on Earth noticed that tonight's full moon was unusually crimson.

Sorry for the delay.

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