Under One Person: Starting from the Inheritance of Gods

Chapter 437 The Heavenly Dao of the Thief's Pen: I Castrated Myself!
"That's exactly what they're after!" Zhang Chulan said righteously. "No matter what world we're in, these foreigners have caused trouble on Chinese soil all the time. Consider this a bit of interest!"

He then lowered his head to continue counting the money, humming a little tune: "I'm playing in the mud in Northeast China~ Although Northeast China isn't very big~"

Feng Baobao suddenly reached out and pressed down on a wad of cash: "I want to buy hot pot."

"Buy it!" Zhang Chulan waved his hand. "Buy ten pots for Bao'er!"

Chen Duo whispered, "I want to buy dog ​​food for Chen Junyan..."

"Buy it!" Zhang Chulan declared with boundless enthusiasm. "Buy a ton of it, the 18-in-1 variety!"

Wang Ye raised an eyebrow: "Oh, suddenly so generous?"

Zhang Chulan immediately protected the money box: "President Ye, you shouldn't join in the fun. I heard that your family's businesses are still leasing land in the Tang Dynasty. Do you really need a little pocket money?"

Just as they were making a fuss, there was another knock on the door. Zhang Chulan shoved the box under the bed with lightning speed, wiping his drool as he asked, "Who is it?"

Wu Xie's voice came from outside the door: "Um...we cooked some late-night snacks, want to eat some together?"

Zhang Chulan's expression changed instantly, and he opened the door with a serious expression: "Oh, Brother Wu, you're too kind!"

He turned to Wang Ye and winked, "Old Wang, we need to maintain our image as experts. This money..."

Wang Ye nodded, suppressing a laugh: "Understood, Master Zhang, please rest assured."

After Wu Xie left, Zhang Chulan immediately lay down on the floor and rummaged under the bed for the money box, muttering, "I need to find a safe place to hide it."

Feng Baobao suddenly said, "Hide here with me, and I guarantee no one will find you."

Zhang Chulan looked at her suspiciously: "Sister Bao'er, what did you help me hide last time?"

“I can’t find it.” Feng Baobao looked innocent. “But I remember which hilltop it was buried on.”

Zhang Chulan: "..."

"I'll do it myself!"

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Meanwhile, in the Heavenly Dao Space of the Juntian Realm.

Ma Xianhong was reluctantly summoned by Meng Fan again.

"Your Majesty, I've been busy refining the Mountain and River Map lately, and I really can't go on missions. Please, please find someone else!" Ma Xianhong pleaded, sporting darker circles under his eyes than ever before.

Meng Fan coughed awkwardly: "I didn't call you here to ask you to go on a mission."

"What's that for?" Ma Xianhong asked, puzzled.

"Look at this!"

A spatial bubble appeared in Meng Fan's palm, within which a bronze divine tree floated uncertainly, and was carved with fine cloud and thunder patterns, appearing extremely ancient and mysterious.

Meng Fan handed the spatial bubble to Ma Xianhong, whose eyes lit up with golden light as he examined the bronze divine tree, occasionally taking off a sample to study its properties.

"This is also a form of illusion?!"

"No, it's more like an exchange of equal value, exchanging spiritual values ​​for material ones."

Meng Fan nodded: "Not bad!"

Then, Meng Fanjiang took the bronze divine tree and held it in his hand. Golden chains of heavenly rules appeared in his palm, wrapping around the bronze divine tree and pulling it deeper into it.

The bronze divine tree suddenly shattered, finally revealing its true nature: a cluster of energy particles radiating an eerie bluish-green light.

"The bronze divine tree is merely its outward appearance, and it is more like a kind of seal. Its essence is actually a distorted origin of the Heavenly Dao."

Then, a glint flashed in Meng Fan's eyes as he tossed the cyan-green particle cluster into the air. Silver-purple spacetime energy then wrapped around it, sending it flowing upstream against the current of the river of time.

A painting slowly unfolds in mid-air.

In the scene, the vast starry sky was suddenly torn apart by a bluish-green light. A meteorite with a diameter of about 100 feet, trailing a long tail of flame, passed through the atmosphere and broke into one large piece and several smaller pieces.

The largest piece fell into the snowfield of Changbai Mountain, creating a deep crater.

After the meteorite landed, it began to emit a strange bluish-green energy. Wherever it passed, both animals and plants began to mutate, becoming ferocious and terrifying, and possessing a certain immortality.

"A bizarre rule for immortality!"

Meng Fan's expression turned serious as he watched this scene.

The development of the world is bound to have various mistakes and oversights, and the development of world rules is particularly important. Once the wrong path is taken, extremely terrible disasters will be born.

Although the greenish-blue energy appeared to be full of vitality and gave people a sense of immortality, it was actually more like alienation and depravity.

This kind of rule is called an error rule.

This is something that every world must try its best to avoid.

After sensing the anomalies brought about by the meteorite's descent, the Heavenly Dao of the Tomb Raider world acted decisively; he's a ruthless person indeed!

They directly cut off the polluted part of themselves, then guided the ancient people to cast a bronze sacred tree to seal the polluted part of themselves and bury it deep underground.

However, He did eventually succumb to greed.

An item containing advanced rules is like a dessert tainted with dirt.

It also holds appeal for an immature "child".

Therefore, the Heavenly Dao of the Tomb Raider world ultimately chose to purify it. The Heavenly Dao's consciousness projected into the largest meteorite, continuously eroding and altering the strange pollution within it.

Later on, He felt increasingly powerless, but after many years of effort, He finally mastered a part of the rules of immortality.

Having tasted the sweetness, how could He possibly give it up?
Therefore, He set His sights on humankind, the most intelligent of all beings.

After careful selection, He used the existing rules of immortality to create the first Zhang family members, who could also be said to be the ones who carried the mandate of heaven.

Guided by the Heavenly Dao, the Zhang family built a bronze gate containing the power of the Heavenly Dao to isolate the pollution within it. Every so often, the Zhang family would send someone into the bronze gate to act as a vessel for the Heavenly Dao and help it cleanse the pollution.

The will of Heaven is so vast that it is beyond the capacity of ordinary people to bear.

Only the most outstanding members of the Zhang family, who possess more fragments of the rules of immortality, can bear this so-called "destiny".

The price of bearing this destiny is the loss of memory.

This is also why Zhang Qiling often suffers from amnesia.

The so-called ultimate goal is the natural order of this world.

But at the same time, the polluted part gradually developed its own intelligence over the long years. It used immortality as bait to guide those who pursued immortality to explore and experiment continuously.

They are delusional and want to expand the pollution.

And the fact is, it did succeed.

The Queen Mother of the West, King Mu of Zhou, emperors throughout history who pursued immortality, and even Jude Kao in the present day, were all blinded by the so-called immortality. And the wrong pursuit of immortality is destined to turn one into something neither human nor ghost.

The Wang family, in turn, was a weapon it subtly developed to deal with the Zhang family.

The bronze gate is part of the Dao of Heaven, so the Wang family's calculation department can use it to glimpse the future.

At this point, the state of the Heavenly Dao in the Tomb Raider world is unknown, but it may have deteriorated significantly, otherwise the Zhang family would not have gradually declined.

Perhaps He is only one step away from completely purifying the rules of immortality.

It's like an unopened box, Schrödinger's cat, where everything inside is unknown.

At this moment, Ma Xianhong stared at the cluster of greenish-blue energy particles, his brows furrowed. "Your Majesty, you don't mean you want me to study this thing, do you?" Ma Xianhong swallowed hard and took a half step back.

Meng Fan smiled slightly: "Exactly."

Ma Xianhong almost jumped up: "This thing can even corrupt the Heavenly Dao! How could I, a mere weapon refiner, dare to touch it!"

Meng Fan patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, with me here, it can't hurt you. Besides, haven't you been refining the Mountain and River Map all this time?"

"This energy contains both the power of the Heavenly Dao and a fragment of the rules of immortality. It might give you some inspiration, and you might even be able to forge a Heavenly Dao artifact."

Ma Xianhong's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again: "But these rules are wrong!"

"Right or wrong is just a matter of perspective."

Meng Fan said meaningfully, "If we can extract the essence and discard the dross, we may be able to make it our own."

After a moment of contemplation, Ma Xianhong finally gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay! I'll give it a try!"

Meng Fan smiled with satisfaction. With a wave of his hand, the ball of green energy was enveloped in a layer of golden light and slowly floated towards Ma Xianhong.

"Remember, if anything unusual happens, stop immediately."

Ma Xianhong solemnly accepted the light membrane, his eyes sparkling with excitement and trepidation.

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Meanwhile, in the world of Tomb Raider Chronicles.

Zhang Chulan and the others were sitting around Wu Xie's room, enjoying a hearty meal. As for what they were eating, it was naturally hot pot.

After all, with the wind and snow outside, nothing is more suitable than a warm and cozy hot pot, especially one with venison.

"good to eat!"

Zhang Chulan shouted.

Feng Baobao also gave a thumbs up: "It's awesome!"

Wang Pangzi and Wu Xie exchanged a glance, their eyes revealing their ulterior motives. Wu Xie then took out several more bottles of baijiu (Chinese liquor).

Wu Xie smiled and poured Zhang Chulan a full glass of baijiu: "Come on, Brother Zhang, it's our first time meeting, let's have a drink!"

Zhang Chulan waved his hands repeatedly: "Oh, Brother Wu, I can't hold my liquor, I'm knocked out after just one drink..."

Fatty Wang's eyes lit up. One drink is perfect! He likes people who can't get drunk. How can he get information out of you if you're not drunk?
Immediately, he put his arm around Zhang Chulan's shoulder, poured two full glasses, handed one to Zhang Chulan, and kept the other for himself. They even clinked glasses, and he said, "What kind of man doesn't drink? Come on, bottoms up!"

Wang smiled silently and picked up a piece of venison. Chen Duo also ate her venison quietly, occasionally picking up a piece of cabbage leaf for Xiao Bo.

Feng Baobao stared at the wine glass for two seconds, then suddenly tilted her head back and drank it all in one gulp, smacking her lips: "It has no taste."

Wu Xie narrowed his eyes: "Sister Bao'er has a huge capacity! Again!"

He then refilled her cup.

After three cups, Feng Baobao remained expressionless, but Wu Xie's cheeks began to flush. Seeing this, Fatty Wang quickly stepped in, "I'll drink with Sister Bao'er!"

Half an hour later.

"belch!"

Fatty Wang slumped in his chair, holding up an empty wine glass and slurring, "Bao... Bao'er, why aren't you getting a headache?"

Feng Baobao tilted her head: "The wine is fake?"

Zhang Chulan's shoulders trembled as he tried to suppress his laughter. Competing with Bao'er in drinking was like trying to light a lantern in the toilet—it was practically suicide.

Wu Xie lay on the table, muttering to himself, "That ultimate... Little Brother..."

Suddenly, Wu Xie jumped up and shouted drunkenly, "I'm going to find Brother Xiao!"

As a result, his legs went weak and he fell straight into the hot pot.

"Fuck!"

Wang Ye quickly pulled Wu Xie out of the water. Wu Xie's face was completely red, and there was a piece of mushroom hanging on his forehead.

Zhang Chulan finally couldn't help but slam his fist on the table and burst into laughter: "Hahaha, competing with Bao'er in drinking, you really know how to pick your opponents!"

Before he could finish speaking, the door was kicked open with a bang.

Zhang Qiling, his face dark, stood at the door, his gaze sweeping over the messy room before finally settling on Wu Xie, who had been soaking in a hot pot.

The air was suddenly quiet.

Feng Baobao raised her glass: "Want a drink?"

Zhang Qiling: "..."

The guy must be heartbroken.

How did I, such a naive and innocent person, end up drinking so much?

Then, the young man looked at the four of them with a knife-like gaze, as if to say, "You guys must have corrupted him."

The next morning, Wu Xie, still hungover, sat up, clutching his head, and found himself covered with a blanket and a hangover soup on the bedside table.

Yes, the guy made it.

"Ugh, what's wrong with me? My head hurts so much last night, I can't remember anything?"

As soon as Wu Xie touched his head, he felt a sharp, stabbing pain, and his brain throbbed with pain, as if the pain was coming from the inside out.

Fatty Wang barged in as if nothing had happened, shouting, "Tianzhen, it's bad! Those four immortals are gone!"

"gone?!"

Wu Xie, ignoring his headache, immediately got up to check the situation. He found that Wang Ye and the others' room was already empty, and the blankets were no longer warm.

At this moment, Jude Kao arrived with his men and said, "Wu Xie, they have already set off ahead of us. In order to ensure a smoother progress, I think it would be better if we joined forces?"

Wu Xie frowned slightly.

Chen Pi Asi had already instructed his men to pack their things. After glancing at Wu Xie, he said, "Hurry up and pack. We'll be leaving in ten minutes."

Throughout the entire process, they completely disregarded Jude Kao.

"Mr. Chenpi, we are old acquaintances. I think we can cooperate!"

Chen Pi Asi glanced at Qiu Dekao with a sneer and said in an icy tone, "I will find you a feng shui treasure land in Changbai Mountain to bury you."

Jude Kao shrugged: "I think there's a misunderstanding between us."

"Misunderstanding? That's no misunderstanding! My master's wife's grudge is partly yours!"

Chen Pi Asi glanced at Jude Kao and his men, his iron pellets poised to strike, but he quickly calmed down; he was no longer the reckless young man he once was.

Once he's down in the tomb, he has plenty of ways to deal with Jude Kao's men, one by one.

Seeing this, Ah Ning said worriedly, "Boss, I don't think that Chen Pi A Si has good intentions. Why don't you leave first?"

Jude Kao shook his head and said, "No, no, no, what I've been waiting for is right in front of me. How could I not go there myself?"

"Just like the final battle between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, I want to witness it all myself and get what I want!" Jude Kao's eyes were filled with madness and obstinacy.

(End of this chapter)