Chapter 4: If you know, you know; if you don't, I won't explain much

"Covering the Sky, how could it be Covering the Sky?"

Zhang Xuan's mind was a tangled mess; he never imagined that what he thought was a non-magical or low-magic world would suddenly turn into a high-magic world.

In normal life, he should be eating hot pot and singing songs, using his Internal Energy to play the hero saving the beauty, becoming the bodyguard of the school beauty—this script is all wrong now.

How did Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin suddenly appear?

And why didn't Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin abduct him? He wanted to get on board too!

Zhang Xuan also wanted to be eating hot pot and singing songs, then get abducted by Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin and taken straight to the Cultivation World.

If he didn't know this was the Zhetian World, that would be one thing, but now that he knew, some opportunities had to be seized.

Otherwise, as time passed and the Dark Turmoil arrived in the future, everything would come to nothing.

Besides, the current Chat Group only tricks people into learning some internal martial arts, at most strengthening the body, and at best, living to be a hundred or so.

Even if trained to the peak of power, it's just waving one's arms and exerting a few thousand jin of force.

How could that compare to the speed of Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin heading to the Cultivation World?

Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin certainly carries some risks, but as long as one doesn't act recklessly in the early stages and normally goes to Da Leiyin Si to pick up a Buddha treasure, one can basically complete the most dangerous period of weakness.

When in the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Land, don't act recklessly; just follow Ye Fan the whole way.

Although Ye Fan has always had the nickname Ye Hei, as long as you haven't schemed against him, Ye Hei will never scheme against you.

For those who are helpful to Ye Hei, Ye Hei will also do his best to repay them; he never gives you anything fake.

Zhang Xuan felt his heart and liver twitching; he had a feeling of having missed a heaven-sent opportunity—no, it wasn't just a feeling, he had truly missed a heaven-sent opportunity.

"My cultivation method, my Dao Scripture Wheel Sea volume!"

Zhang Xuan sighed and lamented; the little joy he had just felt from practicing Internal Energy was swept away.

No wonder he could so easily step into the threshold of cultivation in this seemingly non-magical world.

This is Zhetian, a Universe where the highest level can achieve the Red Dust Immortal; practicing the most basic fundamental internal energy of a martial arts world is a piece of cake.

Even though the entire Universe is in a low tide period, belonging to the Post-Desolate Ancient Era, where the Heaven and Earth Essence is unimaginably thin, making it hard for a Saint to appear, and Earth is the thinnest of the thin.

But no matter how poor it is, it is still very easy to provide for a Martial Arts Practitioner to practice Internal Energy.

As a literary plagiarist, he wouldn't dare say he had read every famous web novel from his past life, but he still had a deep impression of the main popular ones.

As a monument that cannot be bypassed in classic fantasy, Zhetian was something Zhang Xuan still had deep memories of.

"If I remember correctly, there are quite a few cultivators on the current Earth, and the powerful ones among them, even reaching the Immortal Three Zhandao Realm, can survive in the starry sky for a short time."

"Sigh, it's understandable that it's easy to get started with internal energy in such a world."

Zhang Xuan deeply understood the rules of this world and realized where he stood.

Having ruled out the risk of it being a low-magic world, Zhang Xuan couldn't help but feel a bit unhappy about arriving in such a high-magic world.

"Sigh, I can't think too much about the bad; I have to think normally. At least Earth is quite safe for a long time because the Heaven and Earth Essence here is unimaginably thin."

"True cultivators are all hiding in relevant secret realms and won't easily come out. Generally speaking, the entire social environment is non-magical; I am actually relatively safe..."

After analyzing it, Zhang Xuan's heart gradually settled; he had always lacked a sense of security.

But he was still a bit unwilling. After searching and discovering that the nearest flight to Mount Tai would only be available in the evening, he completely extinguished the thought of going to Mount Tai.

He didn't remember how long Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin stayed on Mount Tai, but judging from the description in the book at the time, the duration wasn't very long.

After all, Ye Fan and his group were loaded into Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin before they even descended the mountain.

Then, not long after, supported by the Five-Colored Altar, Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin set sail once again and flew directly to Yinghuo Guxing.

"Sigh! Fate is always drifting, fate is always..."

Zhang Xuan sighed, humming a little tune to relieve the melancholy and anxiety in his heart; the opportunity to ascend to the heavens in one step had just slipped away right before his eyes.

He scrolled through the news while conceiving his next thoughts.

The comments below the news were very characteristic of the era, making Zhang Xuan smile knowingly as he read them.

"Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin landed on Mount Tai? I think the editor's head was hit by a coffin and needs to go into one. For the sake of traffic, they really can make up anything!"

"Exactly, exactly. They dare to make up such messy rumors. These self-media outlets really have no bottom line for the sake of traffic."

"It might not be fake, though. Look, they even provided on-site pictures. That true dragon, that coffin—I can't see any problems at all. Just looking at the picture, I feel a huge sense of oppression."

"What a joke. Which of these self-media editors doesn't start with a picture and make up the content?"

"This picture is at best a good piece of Photoshop work. I think they took a still from some blockbuster movie and used it as news."

"Speaking of which, whose domestic blockbuster is this? This cover is truly imposing. Can anyone provide a link? I'd like to go see it; the style looks grand, a bit like the style of Old Master Zhang."

"What blockbuster? I'm at Mount Tai right now. It's a mess here. That thing really crashed into Mount Tai, it crashed right into Jade Emperor Peak. There are cracks on the mountain, and there's a Five-Colored Altar..."

There were also people who had personally experienced the event posting online.

But they were quickly mocked; after all, the idea of Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin crashing into Mount Tai sounded absurd no matter how you looked at it.

If Zhang Xuan hadn't known beforehand and been aware of the inside story, he wouldn't have dared to believe such a thing could happen.

Many people were arguing under the news; Zhang Xuan could only watch the spectacle. Some said it was real and they had seen it with their own eyes.

Zhang Xuan figured they must all be residents near Mount Tai, or tourists who were descending the mountain and happened to see the event.

But there were more people on the internet saying it was fake, with a bunch of people attacking them.

Zhang Xuan browsed for a while, and not long after, he discovered that all the news and post links had been deleted, cleaned up completely.

Well, the Relevant Departments had acted quickly after confirming the situation.

Zhang Xuan watched helplessly as one news link after another was canceled and deleted, leaving not a single trace.

Subsequent screenshots posted by others were also immediately deleted; one could say not a single trace was left behind.

Only the occasional lucky, attentive person who noticed the event would pay special attention to it.

After all, using such great energy to directly delete and silence people didn't look like the normal style; there must be some secrets involved internally.

But this small group of attentive people was destined not to stir up much of a storm; after all, all the evidence had disappeared.

Not long after, Zhang Xuan even saw authoritative media outlets inviting experts to debunk the rumors.

"The Mount Tai incident is a sad affair; it is not as the internet rumors claim, with the Nine Dragons Pulling Coffin crashing into Mount Tai."

"It was also not an alien visitation, but rather a spacecraft from outer space that crashed due to a malfunction."

"We must be scientific and not be incited by certain people with ulterior motives..."

Zhang Xuan looked at the many experts and authoritative media outlets on the internet debunking the rumors, and for a moment, he almost believed... my foot.

Seeing this scene, he only sighed deeply at the media's ability to shape public opinion.

The storm surrounding this matter would likely end here; apart from those involved in the incident and their families, it is feared that not many people will care in the future, and one will only occasionally see people making memes about it on some forums.

"I've seen this kind of thing many times. I just want to say that those who understand, understand; for those who don't, I won't explain much. After all, it's enough to know it yourself. Savor it carefully."

"Don't come asking me what happened either. The interests involved are too great; saying anything won't do either of us any good. Just pretend you don't know. As for the rest, I can only say the water here is very deep and involves many things."

"It is very difficult for you to find the detailed situation yourselves; most of it has already been wiped clean from the internet, so I can only say that those who understand, understand."

In the past, whenever Zhang Xuan saw such riddle-mongers, he would have loved to drag them out from the other side of the internet and beat them up, but now, seeing this, he only gave a knowing smile, because he truly knew the inside story.

"Sigh, if I can't catch a free ride to Beidou, then so be it. Beidou is no pure land either; with my meager skills, it would be hard to get ahead. After all, I don't have a big shot looking out for me."

If he remembered correctly, there were thirty, or perhaps thirty-one people in Ye Fan's group.

But apart from Ye Fan and Pang Bo, the other classmates were basically unknown.

And there were many casualties.

Zhang Xuan thought about it carefully and realized that apart from Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Ye Fan's ex-girlfriend, the foreign friend brought by the ex-girlfriend, Zhang Ziling, one who accidentally fell onto Tianbing Xing, and one who was cultivating at Zhuo Feng of the Taixuan Sect...

The others seemed to have vanished without a trace, and those who went against Ye Fan were basically all dead.

However, their cultivation levels before they died seemed quite decent. Looking at it this way, the success rate of those going to Beidou was still quite high, it was just that the mortality rate was also relatively high.

"Sigh, forget it. Someone like me who seeks stability is not really suited for Beidou. Thinking about it carefully, Earth is also quite good, and there are quite a few top-tier cultivation legacies here. The Hengyu Great Emperor and the Void Great Emperor both left traces here."

"The Heavenly Emperor also left behind a contingency here, and even the majority of the Immortal Cauldron is here. It's not impossible to obtain cultivation methods on Earth; there is still a great opportunity..."

Thinking it over carefully, Zhang Xuan's mindset gradually leveled out.

"In the early stages, this place is also an extremely stable rear area, with basically nothing happening."

If one wants to gain benefits, one only needs to take a little care of the parents and relatives of Ye Fan's group of classmates, especially Ye Fan's relatives. Once Ye Tiandi returns to Earth after slaughtering his way through Beidou, the benefits will definitely be immense..."

Zhang Xuan felt that there was much to be done. Although there was a bit too much calculation of interests involved, it was enough that he had truly done a good deed.

As for the Wanjie Chat Group, Zhang Xuan had just consulted it again. The Wanjie Chat Group could pull people in, but it was still subject to certain level restrictions; currently, it could only pull in people up to Tier 3.

"Too weak, useless as a fart. Earth is still my treasure land. What is the Wanjie Chat Group? I'm not familiar with it!"

(End of this chapter)