[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio":3,"chapter-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-659":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I, the System Protagonist, Joined a Cross-Dimensional Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2293319,4485,"Chapter 659: Song Shuhang","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-659",659,"\u003Cp>My name is Song Shuhang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I am the man who possesses seven Dao titles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though I hate to admit it, I am a man with the trait: “When trouble comes, I bear it; when fortune arrives, everyone shares it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially when adventuring with Elder Bai, his “Fortune Lies in Danger” trait activates, creating a combined skill effect…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of the above are known information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, I am a man who has foreseen his transcendence within a year, but is deliberately suppressing his cultivation progress to fit in better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, to keep pace with the prevailing environment, I have decided from this day forward to train rigorously, using the purest possible cultivation energy to break through the Fifth Rank and become the strongest Spirit Emperor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Zhutian City incident, upon Elder Su Lin’s advice, he changed his lifelong rival’s ID from “Young Master Hai” to “Zheng Zha,” and joined Zhang Heng’s team using his true appearance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I originally planned to return to my own world and advance the plot after this Fuben  ends, but fate is unpredictable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, actually, it was a sunny and calm day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bus packed with foreigners was slowly ascending along a winding mountain road, when a truck loaded with timber passed by, its engine rumbling deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Shuhang stared blankly out the window; sunlight filtered through gaps in the treetops, casting dappled shadows across the winding mountain path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The vehicle was about to reach a large bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Death Note 5.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it, why is this the opening badge for this Fuben …?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Heng’s forehead dripped with sweat. “This rule-based Fuben  is known as the King of Car Crashes—even A-rank and S-rank teams have records of failing here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Song Shuhang’s bewildered, innocent eyes, his teammate Chu Lingyun solemnly explained to the group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this Fuben , the “Grim Reaper” is merely a natural part of the world’s operation. Normally, any Lunhuizhe  with even modest power can avoid or ignore this lethal mechanism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, you can’t expect a fuel tanker or a fall from height to kill a Lunhuizhe  with transcendent power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they could, that Lunhuizhe  is either a rookie or a favor-broker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since this Fuben  world was confirmed dragged into the Abyss, things have changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through accounts from surviving teams that returned, and investigations by powerful Lunhuizhe  using badges to open the Fuben , it was confirmed: the “Grim Reaper” has undergone some degree of mutation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one excessively uses transcendent power to interfere with the Grim Reaper’s harvesting of lives, the world’s will suppresses or even strips away their power, while the Grim Reaper gradually goes berserk, creating supernatural events to achieve its goal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hence, despite being a world where even technological civilization hasn’t left its planet, it is classified as a B-rank team battle Fuben  world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This information is recorded in the personal publication “Guide to Avoiding Pitfalls in the Lunhui  Space,” priced at one Lunhui  point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“.” Zhang Chulan swallowed hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted to flee right now, but bearing the name Wu Gen Sheng, to preserve his character’s image, he still maintained a facade of calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We’re counting on you, Shuhang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ziiiir!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bus slammed to a sudden stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man with brown hair, his finger pierced and bleeding from a chair, leapt to his feet, screaming that the bridge was collapsing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The driver, helpless, opened the bus door and let the man and his girlfriend disembark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hurry!” Xie Daoyun immediately used Heart-to-Heart Communication to call the others: “Watch your surroundings—there may be other Lunhuizhe !”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The priority now is to escape the first wave of danger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What about these people?” Song Shuhang frowned, staring at the traffic jam on the sea-crossing bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We can’t help them!” Zhang Heng cried anxiously. “These are all people already on the death list—if we save them, we’ll be in mortal danger ourselves!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a Lunhuizhe  who survived the apocalypse and represents the most promising type,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Heng could handle a comet hitting Earth—but he’s no saint. In a Fuben  world, he won’t risk his life for a group of plot characters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Lunhui  Space is a place…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fwoosh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A stronger wind, rising from nowhere, gave Zhang Heng a sense of dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saintly Mother… Speaking of Saintly Mother, Zheng Zha from “Infinite Horror” had that personality too. This guy who claims he’s just sharing a name should…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bridge began collapsing; people panicked and fled. But Song Shuhang formed the Taiji Seal and suddenly slashed his long blade into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sword Storm Ascension Technique!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Shuhang channeled all his spiritual energy and roared: “Rise!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Waves of sword qi shot out—inspired by Elder Bai’s disposable flying sword—spinning upward in a fixed pattern, lifting and supporting every person falling or running, forming a shield that carried them all off the collapsing bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The broken steel cables, asphalt, and steel frames—ordinary materials—could not pierce it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Heng was also lifted by a solid blade of qi. He gaped, stunned, staring at the man who clearly looked like a good guy—“Zheng Zha.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If not me, then who will descend into hell?” Song Shuhang clasped his hands together, a satisfied smile on his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt an icy, chilling power enveloping him at geometric speed; his spiritual energy dried up like water evaporating under summer sun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Doesn’t matter—I’m already here. Dying once to save so many…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Worth it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his thumb. The instant his body reverted to mortal form, he plummeted violently from hundreds of meters above into the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Agony surged through every part of him—but only for an instant. Song Shuhang slipped into darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So jumping into the sea feels like hitting concrete,” Song Shuhang coughed, swimming out and crawling onto shore:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good thing I just bought a pile of resurrection artifacts.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Resurrection Artifact x100] → [Resurrection Artifact x99]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since connecting with Zhutian City and the Simulation Universe, acquiring materials and substitutes has become easier; ordinary resurrection artifacts have grown cheaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long ago, an Eighth Rank Holy Monarch named “Crazy Daoist” had, in his youth, gone mad and annihilated a minor sect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the sect’s sole surviving disciple, after enduring countless hardships and gaining various encounters, came for revenge, the Crazy Daoist had just stepped out of the Zhutian Trading Company’s factory—he’d saved up enough from his labor to afford five high-grade resurrection artifacts, and resurrected the disciple’s master, senior brothers, and junior sisters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, right before the disciple’s eyes, he slashed his own throat and used a resurrection artifact to revive himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The outcome was good—but the surviving disciple’s faith shattered, he went mad, and is now undergoing treatment at Dr. Adam’s clinic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even with many resurrection artifacts, you must still cherish life,” Song Shuhang sighed, asking his arriving teammates: “Is everyone else safe for now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Heng’s temple veins bulged. He stared at Song Shuhang and forced a smile:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you know you shouldn’t use resurrection items in this Fuben ?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why?” Song Shuhang asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Those who die and return are specially targeted by the Grim Reaper!” Zhang Heng took a deep breath. “You’re marked by the Grim Reaper!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had he spoken than a piercing whistle pierced the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhang Heng’s perception, the steel rebar that had been blasted skyward by the fuel tanker’s explosion was now falling straight toward Song Shuhang’s forehead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Move out of the way!” The warning had barely left his lips when his perception was sealed off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this Fuben  this bizarre?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, without warning, Huiye appeared beside Song Shuhang, as if she’d always been there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Move aside.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Shuhang stepped aside. Huiye stepped into his place, then looked up as if sensing something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pachi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her neck was pierced. She died.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Shuhang: “.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was already somewhat used to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed the steel rebar and yanked hard; blood sprayed everywhere, but Huiye’s neck wound healed visibly before their eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this is how death works,” Huiye shook her head, curious. “What happens when the Grim Reaper targets you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Heng was stunned: “The Fuben  difficulty increases. The more times you resurrect, the more bizarre and illogical events become…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huiye’s arm dropped limply; her smoking pistol fell to the ground. Blood and brain matter splattered across Song Shuhang’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Again, she resurrected almost instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Resurrected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Zhang Heng and the others’ numb stares, the gunshots continued—until the seventh time, when Huiye raised her pistol again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive octopus tentacle erupted from the sea, piercing Song Shuhang’s chest and wrapping around Huiye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huiye’s eyes widened in disbelief. “Why is the hatred still focused on you?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Song Shuhang glanced at his chest. His eyelids twitched violently twice. He spat blood, then slumped over—dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Resurrection Artifact x99] → [Resurrection Artifact x98]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you daydreaming about?” Lu Mingfei asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I was thinking about Huiye’s Fuben  access pass…” Su Lin fell into memory. “It was from our last journey to the Western Heavens—we traded with Lunhuizhe  playing Qingfeng and Mingyue.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As payment for successfully clearing the Wuguan Village Fuben , “Qingfeng and Mingyue” gave us an access pass, saying it was worth roughly 7,000 points and a B-rank badge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As payment for leading them through Wuguan Village, Qingfeng and Mingyue gave them a pass, worth roughly 7,000 credits and a B-rank medal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The price is indeed correct, but no one bought it after it was listed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did the Grim Reaper show up?” Lu Mingfei’s expression turned strange.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it a bit disrespectful to the horror atmosphere for a Penglai person to run into a Fuben  like this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I hope Shuhang is okay.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yan, who had just arrived, said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Behind him walked Xiao Xiao’s mother and several aunts—the consorts of Emperor Flame.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiao Yan’s smile froze; Cai Lin cast him a cold glance; Xiao Xun’er’s expression remained calm, but Xiao Yixian and the others avoided his gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin blinked, then realized what he’d said, chewing his melon in surprise: “Did I just say that out loud? Sorry—I’m such a big mouth.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You! @#” Xiao Yan gave up on opening his microphone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since my daughter’s coming home soon, I need to mind my manners picking her up from school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the wait, Han Li—who might not have been the original—walked out from the herb fields behind Shuijing Peak, followed immediately by Li Changshou, who definitely wasn’t the original.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before long, Yan Sen stepped out first from the portal, followed by a yellow-haired witch, then two rows of young men and women in identical white ritual robes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They followed closely, their eyes darting everywhere around this unfamiliar environment, unable to hide their curiosity and instinct to explore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Holding Xiao Xiao, the little girl searched around, spotted Xiao Yan and Ye Fan in the wheelchair, broke into a bright smile, and ran excitedly toward them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin watched for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Feng and Congniang walked obediently behind, their gazes blank, lacking the liveliness they once had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if worn down by the passage of time, crushed under life’s weight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You two, gone dumb?” Su Lin couldn’t help speaking up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing him, Yu Feng and Congniang, who had been walking with heads down, snapped back to awareness, staring around as if waking from a dream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tears\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Streamed down in torrents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They moved like lightning, rushing to either side of Su Lin and gripping his wheelchair-bound legs tightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We never want to leave Tianyi Sect again! Waaah!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their heart-wrenching wails were so piercing they brought tears to listeners and stirred deep pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who didn’t know would think their teacher-student bond was incredibly profound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin ate a bite of melon expressionlessly, then looked at Yan Sen, asking with his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Sen stood there with his hands behind his back, utterly baffled; after thinking a moment, he shook his head, indicating he didn’t know either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Seal your cultivation, and transcribe thirty-six thousand sect rules using mortal memory and physique.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Feng sniffled, shivering all over: “After finishing, we have to recite them backward!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even the secret manual of all demons in the world uniting as one family doesn’t have this many.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Congniang clutched her head as if something were growing inside it: “Because I’m a plant demon, I have to memorize hundreds of thousands of herbs, tens of thousands of array formations, over a thousand puppet-making methods...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Su Lin: “...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stop. My brain already hurts from exam prep hallucinations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t this standard beginner training for every disciple?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Sen asked, puzzled: “And as a reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao, your talent is unquestionably the best—wasting it would be a shame.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing Yan Sen’s words, their fear deepened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life in Tianyi Sect was utterly unlike life in Tianshen Sect—how could a child of hundreds of thousands of years and a three-hundred-year-old onion demon be subjected to this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Tianshen Sect disciples watched this scene curiously, whispering among themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Class rep, why are so many of our new teachers and the new principal sitting in wheelchairs?” Sun Xiaolu asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Mengqi, the black-haired, blue-eyed class rep, shook her head blankly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That day, Teacher Yan Sen announced self-study during array class; when he returned, he told the Tianshen Sect and the other-world Tianyi Sect to prepare for a merged sect-school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A group of new teachers would be giving them lessons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he brought several people into the class, saying they were Tianyi Sect students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We were wondering how such young children could keep up—until we saw little Yu Feng, during Immortal King’s array instruction, being called up to use his full strength...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grabbed a cluster of galaxies and hurled it at the teacher’s array.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power brick throw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that the Tianyi Sect’s sect master?” Wu Mengqi looked at Yan Sen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. Your new teacher.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yan Sen pulled out a schedule, glanced at it, and said: “Let’s see... your next class is: Facing Mythical Beings in Their True Forms.”\u003C\u002Fp>",2309,"2026-06-20T04:17:33.470Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ca90affe2b2ee4ce4bde508ba4d8f37e6df60f68a2884c457bce77964ed196e3","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-660","i-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-chapter-658",720,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-the-system-protagonist-joined-a-cross-dimensio-cover.jpg"]