World version update

Chapter 5 Practice
“Today, a fire broke out in an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Firefighters arrived in time to control the spread of the fire.

There are currently no casualties and the details of the fire are still under further investigation.”

The host's clear voice was heard from the TV in the street shop.

Lu Yan glanced at the content on TV. The fire in the abandoned factory was still burning fiercely. It could not be put out by conventional means. Firefighters could only open up an isolation belt to prevent the fire from spreading.

Controlling the fire is just the beginning. Once the spiritual fire burning the factory is extinguished and the underground factory is exposed, the authorities will inevitably dig out more.

But all this has little to do with Lu Yan. At this moment, he has already left the suburbs of Luocheng and returned to the community where he lives.

Passing through the old gate of the community, the surrounding age-old buildings and the elderly people chatting and enjoying the cool air downstairs all prove the history of this community.

But for some reason, when Lu Yan passed by the community, the elderly people around him looked at him with surprise in their eyes, and whispers began to sound in the community.

"It's the kid from the Lu family."

"This kid is so lucky!"

"It's been three months. I thought he would never come back here."

"You don't understand. Not returning home when you are rich and powerful is like walking in the night in fine clothes. The richer you are, the more you should go home."

"From the way he's dressed, he doesn't look that wealthy."

The intermittent conversation made Lu Yan a little confused and he could only ignore it.

Walking all the way up to the fifth floor, taking out the spare key from the fire hydrant, Lu Yan turned the door lock and opened the door.

At this moment, the door next to him suddenly opened, and an old man with silver hair looked at Lu Yan in surprise.

"Xiao Lu, why are you back?"

Lu Yan was even more confused. Before he could respond, he heard the old man continue:

“I heard that you were spotted by a big company and went to Myanmar to do cross-border business.

Some people say you have become a big landlord in Myanmar, others say you have become a wealthy man and settled in a big city, anyway you will not return to this old neighborhood. "

When Lu Yan heard this, he immediately realized that in the fairy-tale version, he was taken away from the mortal city by Manager Chu.

In the eyes of outsiders, it is an immortal fate that ordinary people cannot even dream of. Even if one is just a servant of an immortal cultivator, it is still an unattainable existence for ordinary people.

But only Lu Yan knew that Manager Chu had no good intention in choosing him.

What happened in the fairy-tale version mirrored the urban version, where Lu Yan was spotted by a big company and went to Myanmar to make a fortune.

Thinking of Myanmar's well-known human trafficking and telecommunications fraud on the Internet, Lu Yan actually felt that this explanation was somewhat reasonable.

The people or things in different versions do not completely correspond, but some of them do match after all.

After figuring out the reason, Lu Yan couldn't help but twitch his lips, and quickly explained to the old lady in front of him:

"Grandma Xu, don't listen to other people's nonsense. There is no such thing as a big company in Myanmar. I was just on a business trip for a while."

Unexpectedly, the old lady immediately showed a look of understanding.

"It's better to keep a low profile than to show off your wealth. I understand!"

Lu Yan didn't know how to explain, so he just exchanged a few more pleasantries and then walked into his home after being away for three months.

Lu Yan's home is not big, it is an old-style house of more than 80 square meters, but it is definitely more than enough for Lu Yan to live alone.

Lu Yan's parents died early, leaving behind a large inheritance and this house, which enabled him to graduate from college.

Lying on the old-fashioned sofa, away from the cold and hard bed, the long-lost feeling of comfort made Lu Yan relax his whole body and mind. At this moment, he seemed to have just gotten rid of the nightmare of the past three months and returned to the civilized society.

For a moment, Lu Yan was a little dazed.

After a moment, Lu Yan sighed:
"Unfortunately, such a peaceful life in the urban version cannot last forever."

In front of Lu Yan, words popped up on the virtual screen.

【Current version: City
Version update progress: 0.02%】

Although Lu Yan can choose the direction of the world version update, he cannot prevent the arrival of the version update.

This means that as long as the version update progress reaches 100%, he must choose the next version update direction again.

There are many unknown versions of the apocalypse, cyber, fairy tales, etc., all of which contain huge crises.

Even from a cursory understanding, the Xianxia version seems to be the more peaceful one, second only to the urban version.

Faced with such endless version updates, Lu Yan had no chance to breathe.

What's more, the fact that Lu Yan successfully killed Manager Chu was not a secret at all. Lu Yan stayed in Lingfufang for three full months. The demon monk behind Manager Chu must have known Lu Yan's identity.

It's not so bad in the urban version. Under the stable social order, a magic monk with no cultivation may not be able to make any waves.

Once the fairy-xia version is returned, the powerful strength of the magic monks will definitely make it easy to find the door.

If Lu Yan wants to protect himself, he must pursue powerful strength, and rest is a complete luxury.

With this thought in mind, Lu Yan took out a storage bag from his arms, opened it with the help of the spirit stone, took out the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra" from it and began to read it carefully.

During the three months in Zhulin Market, Lu Yan had gained a certain basic understanding of the so-called practice through osmosis, but he was not very clear about some of the terms in the practice.

Turning on the computer that had not been used for three months, Lu Yan tried to look up the professional terms in the exercises on the Internet.

As a result, Lu Yan was surprised to find that many terms and information in the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra" corresponded to the urban versions of Buddhist and Taoist classics handed down from ancient times, and even many parts were the original texts of Buddhist and Taoist classics.

"Although they are different versions, they are still the same world after all, so it seems normal that there are some correspondences."

Lu Yan began to patiently translate the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra" and even searched out a map of the human body's meridians, comparing them one by one with the meridian routes above.

This research took a full three days.

During these three days, apart from sleeping, Lu Yan spent all his time studying the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra".

As a genuine top-grade practice method, the difficulty of practicing "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra" is far greater than that of Changchun Gong. It not only has a Zhoutian route map for drawing Qi into the body, but also has corresponding mental methods.

The Zhoutian route map is only an external appearance. Only by combining it with the comprehension of the mental method can one truly practice this top-grade technique and bring into play the magical power of the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra".

To a certain extent, the deeper your understanding of the mind method, the faster you will be able to practice the technique.

Without a senior practitioner to lead the way, it would be impossible to make any progress if one relied solely on one's own understanding.

However, this was not a problem for Lu Yan. Although he did not have the experience to pass on from senior practitioners, a simple search on the Internet would yield a large number of interpretations of Buddhist and Taoist classics, which greatly assisted Lu Yan's practice.

In the process of interpreting and studying the mind method, Lu Yan compared it with Buddhist and Taoist classics and even found several errors in the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Sutra".

It would be difficult to discover these errors without the reference of Buddhist and Taoist scriptures. However, once you have a certain understanding of the scriptures, you will find that the seemingly insignificant errors above are actually a thousand miles away from the truth.

Since this martial arts technique was originally of illegitimate origin and might contain traps set by evil monks, Lu Yan decisively chose to believe in the Buddhist and Taoist classics that had been passed down in this world for thousands of years and correct the errors in them.

On the morning of the third day after returning to the urban version, Lu Yan began his first practice.

(End of this chapter)