Chapter 51: Installment Payments

We still do not know how many strange and bizarre Lu Mingfeis the crowd saw on Water Mirror Peak that day.

"How did this guy end up in your world?"

In everyone's eyes, the secrets hidden on Lu Mingfei's body had already surpassed the secrets on Su Lin's body.

At least now, everyone's concern had shifted from Su Lin's underwear to Lu Mingfei's underwear.

The strange and bizarre props in Su Lin's hands could be ignored — after all, the world was so vast, a Doraemon who had cultivated into a spirit wasn't impossible.

Not to mention the family members and guests he had brought, most of the people in the chat group had read Dragon Raja.

Everyone knew perfectly well what sort of things existed in the world Lu Mingfei inhabited.

An Earth setting around 2010, hybrids, dragons, urban.

These were all that world's tags.

Looking at it now, compared to the plot descriptions of those few books Su Lin had uploaded, immortal cultivation, magic, fantasy, sci-fi, interstellar, transmigration, game otherworlds, cross-dressing… all of these could become that world's tags.

"What did I just see — I actually saw this guy climb Taishan with me, and escape from Yinghuo all the way to the Big Dipper?!" Ye Fan stared in shock and suspicion at the Lu Mingfei he had restrained, trying to read something out of the guy.

Time moved from the blazing noon sun to near sunset and dusk.

The straw-hat kid had already finished his meal and gone back.

Emiya Shirou had taken Illya and left to continue his self-disciplined cultivation.

The remaining few, while prying open Lu Mingfei's mouth and pouring in spiritual-power-restoring medicinal liquid, were tallying up just how many varieties had actually appeared.

"What do you count as anything — in my world he's actually a Dou Saint…." Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan was numb.

He had toiled and suffered through his own cultivation, yet this guy had started out on Dragon Island, enjoying every kind of resource.

Zhongli picked up a kettle of hot water from the stove and brewed himself a fresh cup of hot tea: "Speaking from ordinary reason, it is a bit exaggerated."

"A bit? You call this a bit?" Su Lin tugged at Lu Mingfei's cheek, stretching it long, then let go amid Lu Mingfei's cursing and swearing.

Han Li stayed silent, only thinking about what had actually happened on Lu Mingfei's body to produce these bizarre world-lines.

The chat group? Not very likely, but not ruled out…

The Dayan Orb? It was only used for observation…

Or was there some special quality on Lu Mingfei's body that had triggered these changes?

"Let me go, my lords, I really don't know anything at all." Lu Mingfei wailed — anyone who didn't know better would think someone was putting him through a torture interrogation.

"I really don't know, I really don't know why my parallel worlds turned into those shapes."

Apart from the first world-line, where he didn't go to Kassel College and ended up in an interstellar-professional world, which was relatively normal, what on earth were all the rest of them?!

Wait, no — come to think of it, Kassel College letting him off in the first place wasn't normal either.

How had the him of the first world-line refused Kassel College? Based on his later understanding of Kassel College, and from the audience's perspective and the book's portrayal of the Kassel College people, that old headmaster would absolutely never have let him go.

How had he successfully refused Kassel College?

Unless that world had no dragons.

Not normal — not a single parallel world was normal?!

"Didn't expect you to be the one hiding deepest in our group." Miss Kelaien picked up a tree branch and poked Lu Mingfei with it.

"If I were the one hiding deepest, I'd definitely have you guys strung up right now…."

"Hmm?"

"Sorry, little me was wrong, my lords here are magnanimous, a prime minister's belly could hold the universe." Lu Mingfei felt that the fastest thing he had learned since coming to this world wasn't immortal cultivation, but an intangible cultural heritage — face-changing.

The crowd paid no attention to Lu Mingfei's runaway nonsense. After "harmonious" and "friendly" negotiation, following the principle of "voluntariness," Lu Mingfei agreed to actively cooperate with the group friends in changing the channel.

"After all, keeping this up is pretty tiring." Ye Fan, withdrawing his fingers, stretched his limbs a bit — without the suppression, Lu Mingfei could naturally move again.

"Delete it." Lu Mingfei stared at Su Lin and said coldly.

"What?"

"The photos from the magical-girl one, delete them."

"I refuse."

He had been planning to print out last month's Lu Mingfei-who-became-a-balloon-during-a-Qi-refining-accident together with the feminized version and make them into a photo album for his collection.

You actually want to touch a fun-person's collection — good heavens, how cruel.

"Don't force me to beg you."

Su Lin felt he might have gone a bit too far — after all, being able to say the most cowardly words in the fiercest tone.

Don't you think that female version of yourself looks pretty good?

His fingers tapped twice on the phone screen, and behind Lu Mingfei's gaze he sent the photos to Miss Kelaien's account.

"There, deleted."

Su Lin showed the phone's gallery — it was almost completely empty.

"Then let's keep watching the next world."

Lu Mingfei was utterly helpless; he had figured it out — every one of these parallel-world selves of his was a master of some hidden skill.

So it turned out he was now the bottom of the barrel in combat power among all these versions.

Forget it, let's see if there are any even more outrageous ones.

One of those gross-interest worlds was already one too many — please, please don't let any more appear.

The kind with a higher B-grading could come a bit more — shock these guys a little.

Lu Mingfei thought silently in his heart.

"Too bad, it's missing a communication-transmission function." Ye Fan looked at the Dayan Orb with some regret: "Otherwise, given the special connection between this Lu Mingfei and those other Lu Mingfeis, couldn't he just ask them for some resources and techniques and take off directly?"

Lu Mingfei thought it over carefully — it really did make sense. If those awesome selves were willing to each chip in a little, in a few years could he, Lu Mingfei, possibly manage to stomp Su Lin, beat Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, and capture Ye Fan.

At the end of the immortal path, who stands at the peak — one glimpse of Mingfei…

"You get Lu Mingfei to sign the contract of sale, and I'll transfer the Dayan Orb to him — I won't object to you guys transmigrating over." Su Lin said lightly.

The function of 【Dayan Pearl: Yu Yingzhao】 is to observe Parallel Worlds. If crushed, it can generate a Spacetime Corridor. After being reinforced by Grand Sovereign Especially Especially Especially Xiao Yan, this special function can probably be used about five times.

This point Su Lin had informed everyone.

The items drawn at the cost of nearly a quarter of his fortune — at the current point refresh efficiency, without going to other worlds, just staying on Earth without causing any super huge commotion, he'd have to save up for at least two years.

"Can I pay it back in installments?" Lu Mingfei asked tentatively.

It would be a lie to say he wasn't tempted. Before, there was another version of himself from a Parallel World — Lu Mingfei, the one who cultivated immortality.

In a world called Star Soul Realm, forging stars! Forging stars, do you hear?!

A scene like a creation myth — stars shattered and coalesced, mountains, rivers, and seas took shape at will.

He didn't need much, just one use — find a powerful version of himself to pass some things along. That alone would count as a once-in-a-heaven-sent great opportunity.