Chapter 1: 【The Slacker Host】

The bustling city, like a flickering starry sky.

In this city, skyscrapers stand in rows, traffic flows like a river, and it is filled with a modern atmosphere.

Doves fly across the horizon, the clock chimes, and the rush hour of people getting off work begins. Lin Xian politely declines invitations from several female colleagues to join them, standing in place flipping through the medical book *Spiritual Pivot*, watching as the exquisitely dressed female colleagues and other male colleagues get into cars.

The group chats and laughs, driving off for a joyride, making no effort to hide the ambiguity between them.

This is also one of the styles of a big city: seize the day, indulge in the wind, and do not waste a good time.

Under the bright lights, civilization and desire walk hand in hand.

Lin Xian, who only wants to live a peaceful life, is completely out of place in this fast-paced city.

"Talking about pure love in this day and age is like Master Ye going to participate in World War II with his bare hands, using Wing Chun to fight planes and cannons."

"Unless Master Ye has the Desolate Ancient Sacred Body, otherwise, there isn't a shred of a chance of winning."

"So, I'm slacking off!"

Lin Xian lazily stretches, his whole body radiating a Buddhist-like aura, like a salted fish swimming into the darkness.

In the big city at night, vehicles flow endlessly on the road, and the sound of cars whistling past rings in his ears, exceptionally prosperous.

Walking to a crosswalk, Lin Xian puts down his phone, slides it into his pocket, and stares seriously at the traffic light.

It is a virtue for a person to have self-knowledge; he, Lin Xian, a medical student, is not a sports student with muscles of steel and bones of iron. If he gets hit by a car, let alone recovering from injuries in two days, he wouldn't be able to get up even in two hundred years.

Obeying traffic rules is the first principle for surviving in this steel jungle!

He, Lin Xian, has a house and a car, both loans are complete, has five insurances and one fund, and a stable job.

His life's wish is to retire early, and his only ambition is to fleece the company.

He just wants to live an ordinary life and pass the days safely and steadily.

Slacking off and lying flat, fishing in troubled waters—the eight-character mantra leads him forward.

You struggle, I work hard, and the boss will be driving a Ferrari tomorrow.

Striving hard? Super impossible, alright.

"BOOM!!!"

A huge dump truck comes roaring and crashing over, erupting with a massive sound like thunder exploding, deafening.

On the cold face of System 10086, a trace of a brilliant smile appears, and its eyes are full of relief.

The host dies, the system lives.

Respecting the laws of transmigration is the first law for the system clan to survive in the Myriad Heavens and Worlds.

Host, cast off your mediocre and boring life!

Rising in ruin, reviving in silence, the shackles of life have been opened, and a brand-new world is thus revealing a mysterious corner...

System, activate!

On the ruins of burning gasoline, a cold mechanical voice sounds:

【Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?】

Lin Xian, wrapped in a ball of light, is unconscious and knows nothing of the outside world.

"Cough, cough... took the wrong one, took the wrong one, this is the novice Main God manual from next door."

"Good thing the host didn't hear it."

A flurry of chaotic noise sounds in the void, and the system finally finds its own novice system manual, operates according to the process on it, and restores that cold mechanical voice:

【Timeline resetting... Void barrier repairing... Causality points cutting... System binding to host, Transmigration Law activating!】

【Coordinate: Under One Person】

Nature gathers divine beauty, yin and yang divide dusk and dawn.

Mount Taishan, towering and deep, majestic in momentum, honored as the head of the Five Sacred Mountains, known as the number one mountain under heaven.

Since ancient times, Mount Taishan has been a symbol of holiness, located in the easternmost part of the ancient Central Plains, surrounded by the Yellow River and the Wen River, and in ancient times was regarded as the place where the sun first rises and all things grow.

No mountain is greater than it, no history is older than it!

Emperors and sages throughout history have all gone to Mount Taishan to perform the Fengshan sacrifices, hoping to get closer to the gods.

Lin Xian, having experienced two worlds, has never been to Mount Taishan and only understood a little from articles and poems.

When he arrived here in person, he was instantly conquered by the vastness and magnificence of Mount Taishan, and only then did he understand what it meant to be a blind man touching an elephant, or peeping at a leopard through a tube.

Hearing about it is not as good as seeing it, and seeing it is not as good as walking it with one's feet.

The mountain body has a three-tiered geological structure, like steps to heaven, facing south with its back to the north, the mountain body is completely open, a ten-kilometer-long road to heaven leads to the vast mountain body, extending to the peak.

Whether looking from afar or viewing up close, one can feel that majestic atmosphere, making one's heart surge.

In front of the vast Mount Taishan, one has a strange illusion that oneself is as small as an ant, and even the sun, moon, and stars in the sky seem insignificant.

This is a shocking feeling that makes one's soul tremble.

So much so that even the mechanical voice of the system issuing the mission is a bit blurry.

【Trial Mission: Tamper with any major plot of the "Under One Person" world to show the host's potential】

【Success: One of the Eight Miraculous Skills】

【Failure: After the host dies, the system automatically unbinds】

【Side Mission: Win first place in the Luotian Dajiao】

【Main Mission: Defeat the Old Celestial Master on Mount Longhu】

"System, wait a moment."

Lin Xian looks up at the sky, watching several black dots appear in the horizon, and cannot help but twitch his mouth, his voice trembling: "Are you damn sure this is the 'Under One Person' world?!"

System 10086 feels a thud in its heart; could it be that its operation was wrong, the coordinate positioning was wrong, and it transmigrated to another world?!

It is also its first time being a system, first time bringing a host, and it has no experience.

In a flash of lightning, the system stabilizes its mentality, pretends to be mature, and replies in a cold, mechanical voice: "The Myriad Heavens and Worlds have everything; the 'Under One Person' world has countless timeline branches, and minor deviations are a normal phenomenon."

"System 10086 guarantees..."

"Guarantee my ass!"

Lin Xian is usually steady, but at this moment, he breaks down, pointing at the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin in the sky and cursing: "You call it a normal phenomenon for Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin to appear on your Mount Taishan? You call it a minor deviation for your 'Under One Person' to change into 'Shrouding the Heavens'!"

The scale of "Under One Person" and "Shrouding the Heavens" is not just a little bit different.

The background of the "Under One Person" world is inside Earth, belonging to urban superpowers plus a little immortal cultivation element, plus some alien races, which can be called rich and colorful.

The strongest, the Old Celestial Master of Mount Longhu, the Heavenly Channel Daoist, is known as the pinnacle, invincible in the human world, standing at the peak of extraordinary beings, but in the end, he cannot resist a nuclear bomb with his physical body.

The extraordinary beings and cultivators of "Under One Person" also cannot compete with modern organized armies possessing thermal weapons.

Overall, the "Under One Person" plane is a low-magic area suitable for ordinary people to survive, where mortals and the extraordinary check and balance each other, forming a delicate balance.

The "Shrouding the Heavens" universe is different; its background is the starry universe, with ten thousand races rising together, immortal cultivation and longevity, fighting for the Emperor's path, survival of the fittest, and strict hierarchy.

The cultivation system has five great secret realms: Wheel and Sea, Palace, Four Extremities, Dragon Transformation, and Immortal Platform, rising step by step.

They correspond to: dantian, five internal organs, four limbs, spine, and head, the five major human organs.

Therefore, the Shrouding the Heavens method is also called: Secret Realm Method, the method of using the body as a seed.

Not seeking from the universe, but seeking from oneself, it emphasizes pushing open the immortal gates of the human body, stimulating infinite potential, and reaching the state where the human body is a small universe and the heaven and earth is a great universe.

Finally, sitting on equal footing with the great universe, being in it while the Dao is outside it, tearing through the void, and transcending the universe.

This cultivation system originates from the Huang Tiandi, powerful to the point of being perverted. Cultivating to the second secret realm, the Palace, is enough to dodge nuclear bombs. Cultivating to the fifth secret realm, the Immortal Platform, shattering mountains and rivers with a roar, and plucking stars with a wave of the hand, annihilating the sun, is just a trivial matter.

When the five great secret realms are perfected and unified, condensing the laws of the Emperor's path, one is the supreme of humanity—the Great Emperor.

Two supreme beings fighting to the edge of the universe, with chaotic energy permeating between their gestures, as if heaven and earth were first opened, galaxies shattered, and the Great Dao erased.

This is the Shrouding the Heavens style!

This is a high-risk universe where stars explode at every turn, and a galaxy will explode with a single glance.

Jumping from the urban superpower channel to the Eastern fantasy channel, not only is Lin Xian excited, but even the system trembles, and its root program emits a fearful alarm.

For the host Lin Xian, the current danger comes from the Shrouding the Heavens universe; for the system, the Shrouding the Heavens universe is not just the Shrouding the Heavens universe.

Shrouding the Heavens has a trilogy: the present "Shrouding the Heavens"; the past "Perfect World"; the future "Sacred Ruins".

Before "Perfect World" came out, the systems of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds thought this was just a single universe where one could become an Emperor plainly and become an immortal ordinarily.

The protagonist Ye Fan turned into a Red Dust Immortal and broke into the Immortal Domain, and the ending was very perfect.

So, all kinds of reborn people and transmigrators flew everywhere, and countless systems poured into the Shrouding the Heavens universe, regarding it as a blessed land and a treasure land.

When "Perfect World" came out, the systems were instantly Spartan, the transmigrators and reborn people were dumbfounded; where is the Shrouding the Heavens universe a blessed land? It is clearly a giant pit.

In "Perfect World", powerhouses at the Immortal King realm can manipulate the river of time on a small scale and change history by a small amount.

The protagonist Ye Fan attained the Quasi-Immortal Emperor realm, went upstream against the river of time, and went to the past to help the Huang Tiandi fight against darkness and correct ancient history.

The worldview instantly sublimated from a single universe to the level of the Myriad Heavens and Worlds, entering and exiting the river of time as if returning to his mother's home.

If it were just this, some high-level systems could barely handle it.

But, the truly pit-father thing is when "Sacred Ruins" ran out, the giant pit instantly turned into a sky-high pit.

Red Dust Immortal is just the beginning, Immortal Emperor is not invincible, and above the Immortal Emperor, there is still the realm of transcendence.

In the final part "Sacred Ruins", Ye Fan successfully reached above the Sacrificial Dao, transcended everything, and was called the Three Heavenly Emperors together with the Huang Tiandi and Chu the Ultimate.

For existences above the Sacrificial Dao, the Great Dao is like flowing water, which can be evaporated with a single thought.

Fate, creation, causality, Heavenly Dao, etc., are nothing but the weakest bubbles, which collapse before they can even be touched.

Beyond the so-called eternity, Dao, Great Thousand Worlds, all time and space, outside the universe, outside chaos, omnipresent, from ancient times to the future, all can be dissipated in a single thought by creatures standing in this field, and wherever the eyes reach, everything withers and everything reappears.

Past, present, and future have lost their meaning for those above the Sacrificial Dao; there is no concept of time, stepping in from ancient times, stepping in from the present, stepping in from the future, all seem to be visible, all seem to be at this moment, and ancient and modern can be defined at will.

A wisp of gloomy mist born from negative emotions can reshape the entire worldview, possessing infinite possibilities and changes, rewriting countless fates, and subverting the worldview of infinite divergence.

A single glance back can derive endless time and space, causality lines, and there is no need to care about whether it disturbs the future, because at this level, what is seen is inherently endless time and space, endless possibilities, and the Great Dao and time and space have lost their meaning to it.

Since then, the Shrouding the Heavens trilogy universe has become one of the rare forbidden zones in the Chaos Sea.

Very few systems dare to run in, and even if they run in, they bind to indigenous creatures and dare not bring people to transmigrate at will.

System 10086 feels that as a small system responsible for the "Under One Person" plane, it should not be able to play against those above the Sacrificial Dao.

"Host, do you have any opinions?" System 10086's voice sounds, still cold, but without the previous dull, stiff, mechanical feeling.

Lin Xian's thoughts move, he spreads his hands, shrugs his shoulders and says: "Doesn't matter, I'll slack off."

System:???

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 2 =====