Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens.

Chapter 665 A Terrifying Background World! The Real World is a Chessboard!

Although Xia Dongqing is still kind, he has a growing awareness of himself and realizes that there are some things that are simply beyond his control.

Having realized his own limitations, and given the obvious unusual behavior of the Fifth Prince at this moment...

Xia Dongqing isn't stupid; why would he willingly get involved?

Being stared at by the Fifth Young Master felt to Luo Fu like being watched by a ferocious, hungry beast.

That seemingly smiling face, in Luo Fu's eyes, was clearly a ferocious beast.

“I would also like to try your cooking.” Luo Fu’s eyes narrowed, and he responded with a smile.

"I certainly won't let you down. The fifth floor will officially open tomorrow. I'll be waiting for good news then." The Fifth Young Master smiled with satisfaction, then turned to Xia Dongqing and said, "By the way, these buns should be eaten while they're hot. I won't disturb you two any longer."

With a slight bow, the Fifth Young Master turned and left the convenience store in a gentlemanly manner.

They watched as the convenience store door closed after the Fifth Young Master left.

Xia Dongqing finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Luofu, this... this boss on the fifth floor is acting strange?"

Nodding, Luo Fu glanced at Xia Dongqing, realizing he had shielded Xia Dongqing from the disaster.

However, this time, the act of averting disaster can be considered a consensus between the underworld and the heavenly realm.

Even Hades (Acha) probably won't get involved.

The Fifth Prince's identity is indeed special.

Without Luo Fu, the Fifth Young Master might have just intimidated Xia Dongqing to show off his presence, but with Luo Fu, he might actually have harbored the intention of devouring Luo Fu.

"Then...then don't go to the fifth floor." Xia Dongqing became a little nervous, grabbed a plastic bag from under the counter, and planned to throw away all the steamed buns that the Fifth Young Master had brought.

Before noticing anything unusual about the Fifth Young Master, the steamed buns were indeed very tempting to him. But now, having not fallen for it from the beginning, the more Xia Dongqing found the steamed buns delicious and the more he wanted to eat them, the more uneasy he felt.

Luo Fu did not stop Xia Dongqing from doing so.

Undeniably, the steamed buns sent by the Fifth Young Master were indeed incredibly tempting.

But Luo Fu immediately realized that the ingredients of this bun were truly a bit of a challenge to one's worldview.

After packing the buns, Xia Dongqing took a deep breath, still savoring the taste. But the next moment, his expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly threw the tightly tied plastic bag into the trash can.

Letting out a long breath, Xia Dongqing said, "Just who is this Fifth Young Master? His steamed buns... I feel like they're tempted by the devil."

"Just stay away from him from now on." Luo Fu did not mention the Fifth Young Master's identity.

Now that the Fifth Young Master has come knocking, Luo Fu can't avoid it unless he leaves this bottle world now. But if he does that, he will be targeted by the Heavenly Realm.

Since that's the case, we might as well deal with it as it comes.

But before dealing with the Fifth Young Master, Luo Fu wanted to get to know Xie Xin, who seemed ordinary but was actually mysterious.

"Do you have Xie Xin's contact information?" Luo Fu suddenly asked.

Xia Dongqing was taken aback and asked in surprise, "Yes, do you want to get in touch with her?"

As he spoke, Xia Dongqing took out his phone and sent Xie Xin's contact information to Luo Fu.

After confirming that he had received Xie Xin's contact information, Luo Fu looked at Xia Dongqing with a hesitant expression. He had a feeling that this might be the last time he would have contact with Xia Dongqing in this bottle world, and the next time they met would probably be in the outside world.

Xia Dongqing was puzzled and thought something was wrong with her. After looking down at herself, she asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, see you next time."

"As long as your consulting firm doesn't close down, I'll definitely come to you if I run into any trouble," Xia Dongqing said with a smile.

Nodding, Luo Fu turned and left the convenience store.

As soon as Luo Fu stepped out of the convenience store, he felt a gaze upon him.

A greedy gaze was fixed intently on him.

Following this feeling, Luo Fu immediately saw the Fifth Young Master standing at the window on the second floor of the fifth floor.

Their eyes met, and the Fifth Prince smiled slightly, raised a wine glass, and nodded to Luo Fu.

Although one was at the entrance of the convenience store and the other was at the window on the second floor of the fifth floor, Luo Fu could still clearly hear the Fifth Young Master's voice echoing in his ears.

"I will prepare a grand banquet on the fifth floor to welcome you. I hope you won't keep me waiting too long, otherwise I will take the initiative to find you if I can't wait."

Luo Fu's lips curled up slightly as he murmured softly in the direction of the Fifth Young Master, "I won't keep the Fifth Young Master waiting too long."

"Interesting, I'm getting more and more excited for your arrival."

Luo Fu didn't spend too long communicating with the Fifth Young Master in this way. After leaving the convenience store, he went straight to contact Xie Xin.

Xie Xin seemed to have anticipated everything. After receiving Luo Fu's call, she wasn't surprised at all and even arranged to meet him at a bar.

Inside the brightly lit bar.

When Luo Fu arrived, the bar, which should have been bustling with activity at this time, was completely empty except for a female DJ with a non-mainstream, even somewhat emo-style hairstyle, who was wearing headphones and spinning records.

Upon seeing Luo Fu arrive, DJ stopped his actions and said, "Welcome. I never imagined that such a miracle would still happen after so long."

"Xie Xin?" Luo Fu raised an eyebrow.

"The name doesn't matter." Xie Xin took off her headphones, casually tossed them onto the turntable, and headed straight for Luofu.

Approaching Luofu, Xie Xin looked it up and down with an astonished gaze and said, "It is truly a miraculous creation."

"The three tarot cards you left for Xia Dongqing were to lure me here?" Luo Fu asked bluntly.

Shaking her head, Xie Xin said, "No, didn't I say that you are a miracle? No one could have predicted the occurrence of a miracle. Those three tarot cards were just a friendly reminder I gave Xia Dongqing."

"So you lured me here to give me a warning?"

"Good idea." Xie Xin smiled, then gestured and sat down at a table with Luo Fu.

Xie Xin took out a stack of tarot cards. With a wave of her hand, she placed the tarot cards in front of Luo Fu and said, "Come on. Draw three cards. I gave Xia Dongqing three tarot cards to remind him, and now I'm giving you three tarot cards as well."

Luo Fu immediately recognized that the tarot cards in front of him were the same set as the ones in Xia Dongqing's hand.

Xia Dongqing has the cards of the Victim, the Devil, and the Tower in his hand, which means that these three cards are not in the Tarot deck in front of him.

Following his intuition, he drew three cards and turned them over. Xie Xin, who saw the three cards at the same time as Luo Fu, froze in place.

The three tarot cards that Luo Fu revealed were none other than the Wheel of Fortune, the World, the Power, and the Wheel of Destiny.

Xie Xin glanced in surprise at the three tarot cards in front of her, which possessed special power fluctuations and were made of materials that were far from ordinary.

A moment later, Xie Xin suddenly laughed. She said, "You really are a delightful surprise!"

Frowning, Luo Fu said, "Aren't you going to interpret the cards for me?"

“No need.” Xie Xin shook her head and said, “Even I don’t know how much change these three cards can bring, but whether it’s Kunlun in the Heavenly Realm or the Underworld, they have probably underestimated you. You are not someone who simply obtained the power of the human and demon, but someone who inherits and may even create a new world. I look forward to your future.”

At least Luofu has shared the power, wisdom, and abilities of more than ten different worlds.

He also had some knowledge of tarot cards.

In Luo Fu's understanding, every Tarot card has two interpretations: upright and reversed.

But clearly, the three cards that Luo Fu drew out, even just on the surface, were enough to make people think of many things.

The world symbolizes perpetual and continuous success, meaning achievement; the wheel of power and destiny undoubtedly proclaim the uniqueness of Luofu.

Xie Xin took a deep look at the tarot cards on the table, then stood up and said, "These three cards are for you. I hope that when we meet again, you will be able to jump out of the fish tank."

The moment the words fell, before Luo Fu could even speak, Xie Xin's figure seemed to explode suddenly, transforming into countless colorful starlight points flying everywhere.

Inside the bar, everything that had previously been related to Xie Xin seemed to have changed.

What's even more baffling is that when Luo Fu came in earlier, he clearly saw that the bar was completely empty except for Xie Xin.

But now, with Xie Xin gone, the once quiet bar is now bustling with noise.

A crowded scene, glittering neon lights, deafening DJ music, and countless people swaying their bodies in the dance floor.

Apart from the table Luo Fu had chosen and the area within a three-meter radius, the previous silence was nowhere to be found.

Luo Fu paused for a moment, then suddenly laughed and waved his hand to collect the three tarot cards from the table.

Luo Fu got up and walked out of the bar.

Before Xie Xin left, when she talked about jumping out of the fish tank, that fish tank must have been referring to this bottle world.

At first, the quiet bar was clearly a space that completely overlapped with reality. Only after Xie Xin left and this space disappeared did Luo Fu realize something was wrong and reappear in the real bar.

Luo Fu's biggest takeaway from this trip to see Xie Xin was that he confirmed that this world is not just about Xia Dongqing, Zhao Li, Wang Xiaoya, and others, but rather a world where countless powerful figures each occupy their own territory, using the real world as their chessboard.

The underworld, Kunlun, the dragon clans of the four seas, Penglai Wonderland, and even the so-called Heavenly Court and Xie Xin whose origins are unknown, are all part of this game.

As for the players and the pieces, probably no one can tell the difference. After all, in such a terrifying context, anyone could become a piece in an instant.

Even Hades, the King of the Underworld, is no exception. In fact, from the very beginning, Hades might have been a pawn of those powerful figures behind the scenes.

This can actually be easily deduced from the way the Three Realms refer to Chi You.

What was Chi You called?
Human-Demon.

And the original humans were the materials that created the underworld.

In this world, the Primordial Humans are somewhat similar to Pangu. After the Primordial Humans were defeated, their bodies and souls became the materials for creating the Underworld.

What appears to be a battle between the Heavenly Realm Kunlun and the Primordial People is actually a question of what about the other powerful beings. Did they really just stand by and watch without intervening?
Luo Fu is indeed not yet capable of competing with those great powers, but the transformation between pawn and player can happen to him so quickly that it makes people question the nature of life.

The Fifth Prince Taotie, this dignified dragon prince, is actually just a pawn, just like that Demon Mother Goddess.

It seems that this world consists only of the affairs of the underworld and the human world.

But the world itself is incredibly tolerant of power.

Faith can lead to divinity. Even if the object of faith is just a stubborn rock, as long as there is enough piety, it can still manifest its divine power. There are cultivators in the human world and aquatic creatures in the four seas.

What Xia Dongqing experienced was only the most insignificant part of it; even the underworld could not fully grasp the souls of sentient beings.

Compared to other worlds, the underworld in this world is practically a joke.

If anything goes wrong, the soul of the deceased will no longer be under the jurisdiction of the underworld, just like the soul of someone who dies at sea will go to the Sea of ​​Return to Nothingness.

To simply view such a vast and complex world as a supernatural world with ghosts is to underestimate its depth and terror.

After leaving the bar, Luo Fu glanced at the direction of the No. 444 convenience store in the distance.

At this moment, in his line of sight, above convenience store number 444, there was an aura of a ferocious beast hovering.

On the fifth floor.

The Fifth Young Master, who was entertaining his first guest with a beaming smile, suddenly paused, then looked in surprise at Luo Fu's direction. He clearly sensed Luo Fu's watchful gaze. A meaningful smile appeared on the Fifth Young Master's face, and he said softly, "What an interesting power. I'm increasingly eager to devour you now."

Having met Xie Xin, Luo Fu was becoming increasingly impatient with this world.

This place was ultimately just an experimental field for observing Xia Dongqing, much like a petri dish in a laboratory.

All living beings are merely the backdrop in this experiment.

Here, even if Kunlun and others from the Heavenly Realm don't directly attack Luofu, they still effectively limit the rate at which Luofu's strength grows.

Since Xiaoqian was unable to provide Luofu with the process of rapid localization of shared power, Luofu should have realized this.

This bottle-shaped world lacks that depth. Xiaoqian, on the other hand, comes from the real world. Even though she is just an insignificant little demon, she still plays a significant role in Luofu.

If Luo Fu wants to take another step forward quickly, he has no choice but to leave the bottle and go to the real world.

But before that, he still needs to deal with the troublesome Fifth Prince Taotie.

After returning to his residence, Luo Fu calmed down and adjusted himself to his best state.

Luo Fu had already sensed the Fifth Young Master's unfathomable depth from their brief encounter. In Luo Fu's view, this world was not enough for the Fifth Young Master to truly unleash his full potential.

Once he and the Fifth Prince clash and their fighting truly escalates, the world will inevitably be shaken.

At that time, it will probably be the time when the Heavenly Realm takes action against him, and perhaps even the Underworld will launch targeted measures against him.

(End of this chapter)