Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 575-585: The Origin of the Secular Prince

"Bang bang bang..."

Under a barrage of fire serpents, the skeletons charging at the front were completely powerless to resist, their bodies instantly riddled with holes.

These muskets are different from the rune cannons that were fired before. Although the muzzle still spews out red light, the ancient characters no longer spread out after the bullets enter the body. Instead, they scatter red flying swords.

The flying swords weaved through Jionghai's body, seemingly inflicting immense damage. Each sword strike tore through Jionghai's flesh, leaving it unable to heal.

The guns the soldiers were carrying did not seem as ordinary as one might imagine. Although they were decades old, their power far exceeded that of most short-range firearms in the world today.

The Old Immortal of the South Pole sighed, "Our modern firearms are still the most powerful. If these doors were opened in the mortal world and so many skeletons ran out, it would be quite difficult to stop them with cold weapons."

Lin Beixuan agreed with the old immortal of the South Pole's view that it was not something that could be achieved in a short time for cold weapons to rival firearms.

Especially modern firearms, which have now reached their peak, and after being improved by incense, they are essentially imbued with divine power. Who could withstand that?

"Those guys at the Academy of Sciences are the real national treasures."

Lin Beixuan thought to himself that he no longer intended to stay.

"The battle isn't over yet, Lord? Are you leaving already?" The Old Immortal of the South Pole asked in confusion as Lin Beixuan was about to leave.

"There's no need to watch any further."

"But what if another powerful one comes along?" the Antarctic Immortal said with some worry.

"No, at most the remains of mortal gods will appear inside the bronze gate; there won't be any more powerful ones."

"Moreover, even if it is a mundane god-level corpse, the official firepower should be able to withstand it."

As he spoke, Lin Beixuan looked at the dense barrage of fire, which Jionghai could not break through no matter what method he used.

Under the hail of bullets, the skeletons were forced to retreat step by step, and were even forced to retreat behind the door several times.

"So that you'll know that choosing us was the worst decision you've ever made!" the middle-aged officer roared.

The artillery fire continued for three hours until no more skeletons appeared behind the door. The attack of tens of thousands of skeletons was repelled by the authorities in three hours.

The outline of the door gradually blurred. After the skeleton was repelled, it seemed that the door at this spatial node would also disappear, indicating that a door had been closed.

"it is finally over!"

Antarctic Immortal breathed a sigh of relief. He had watched until the very end, but he hadn't expected that the situation would be exactly as Lin Beixuan had said. After that, no skeleton of a higher level than the giant skeleton appeared.

"Lord of the Palace is truly a prophet. Could it be that there really is a difference in rank between the gates, and that high-ranking remains cannot pass through low-ranking gates?"

News of the destruction of the remains inside the Los Angeles border gate quickly reached the Academy of Sciences. The researchers at the Academy showed no surprise at this result, as if they had expected it.

"The incense-burning Taoist soldiers have undergone countless experiments and cannot possibly make a mistake. It would be a problem if they couldn't repel the locked corpse!"

"The biggest difficulty at present is the depletion of incense and divine power."

"This attack on the remains within the borders of Luo City not only consumed the incense energy stored in Luo City, but also absorbed the incense energy reserves of two surrounding cities. The consumption was too great, and we need to find a way to reduce the consumption of incense energy."

"This is the drawback of firearms, which is unavoidable. Guns and cannons have a high rate of fire and great power, so they naturally consume far more incense than cold weapons. Don't you think about how many people we would have lost if we had relied mainly on cold weapons to repel the Jionghai?"

"Director Jiang is right. We can't confuse cold weapons with firearms. Although firearms consume a lot of resources, their effect on the body is real. We are no longer in the era of fighting with cold weapons."

The experts from the Academy of Sciences discussed the outcome of the battle at the Los Angeles border crossing.

After some time, someone finally decided to shift the focus of future research towards 'energy saving' and 'high efficiency'.

Meanwhile, Lin Beixuan returned to his rented room next to the school.

The interior furnishings are the same as before, but there are some differences.

Since his body entered the mortal world, he had not returned to this house to rest for a long time. Under normal circumstances, it should be covered in dust, but his house is often cleaned, and there is even a sachet placed on the windowsill in the living room.

A gentle breeze blew through the half-open window, lifting the gauze curtains and releasing a faint, delicate fragrance.

Upon seeing this scene, a figure instantly came to Lin Beixuan's mind.

A slight smile appeared on his lips as he walked to the windowsill and picked up the sachet.

"It feels like it's been a long time since I've seen them."

Unbeknownst to him, Lin Beixuan had been spending more and more time in the mortal world, and had even stopped attending classes, staying there for months at a time.

The school seemed to have received official notification that he knew his identity in the secular world, so even though he hadn't attended classes for a long time, no one bothered him.

After leaving the hut with the sachet, Lin Beixuan went back to his dormitory and Fusheng Xiaoji to check on them. He found that Cheng Hao and Huang Shifu were not there, and no one answered when he called them. He knew that they must still be in the secular world and had not yet returned.

Lin Beixuan waited until nightfall, but the two still hadn't returned. So he activated the mortal realm passage in his palm and prepared to return to the mortal world.

As wisps of mist rose, the melodious bells that belonged only to those passing through the mortal world rang out, and Lin Beixuan's figure slowly disappeared into the alleyway.

Just then, a food delivery driver, who seemed to have just been delivering food, heard the sound of the passing world as he passed through the alley. Curious, he turned around and his gaze fell on Lin Beixuan's disappearing figure.

"Fuck!!"

Guo Wei couldn't even keep his electric scooter steady, and the soup he was delivering spilled all over the ground. This delivery was another wasted effort.

Just as he was hanging his head in despair and cleaning up the mess of takeout, he suddenly heard a voice in his ear.

"It's fate that you've seen me today. I only have one question for you: do you want to enter the secular world?"

A simple sentence stirred up a storm in Guo Wei's heart.

How could he not know what the mundane world is?
Nowadays, the Xuan Kingdom has popularized the existence of the secular world in all aspects, and has built giant incense shrines in the center of each city to gather the people's incense offerings. Basically, everyone from eighty-year-old elders to four-year-old children knows about the existence of the secular world.

It is known that Xuan Kingdom has a huge population base. Although there have been frequent passages from the secular world recently, only a small number of them have actually become secular princes.

With the government's vigorous promotion of the secular world, Secular Boy naturally received a lot of attention, and many well-known company executives or studios extended olive branches to him.

I've heard that the salary of a commoner can rival that of a senior executive at a listed company, and all he has to do every day is live a life of leisure.

Guo Wei was incredibly excited.

His family wasn't wealthy, and he never went to university, otherwise he wouldn't be out delivering food every day in wind and rain. And most importantly, he also has a daughter to support.

The burdens of life weighed heavily on his shoulders, causing his temples to turn gray and his skin to become rough and dark, making him look like a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties, even though he was only in his twenties.

At that moment, the voice suddenly appeared. Regardless of whether it was real or not, he didn't want to miss it. He had had enough of being an ordinary person. "Enter! I want to enter the mortal world and become a mortal prince!" Guo Wei responded loudly.

He kept turning his head to look around, trying to find the source of the sound.

People passing by ignored him, as if they didn't see him at all.

"it is good!"

Lin Beixuan looked at Guo Wei, who was sitting on the ground looking bewildered and lost, nodded, and reached out to grab him.

The reason he suddenly asked Guo Wei if he wanted to enter the mortal world was to test whether he could use the mortal world passage within his palm to bring ordinary people from the present world into the mortal world.

He has now gained a basic understanding of worldly affairs, and if his ideas succeed, he will have more options in the future.

There are two types of mortals nowadays: one is whose soul enters the mortal world and has a resurrection mechanism; the other is whose body and soul enter the mortal world together and lose the resurrection mechanism, but if they can find a chance to return, then there will be more extraordinary individuals in the world who can use extraordinary methods without entering the transit area.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages, but overall the first one is safer and is the preferred method by almost everyone.

After all, having more lives is more appealing than having only one.

What Lin Beixuan wanted to do was to bring Guo Wei into the secular world through the first method.

His palm brushed across Guo Wei's head, and he extracted the other man's soul.

The newly extracted soul of Guo Wei had a dazed look in its eyes, trapped in a state where it could neither hear, see, nor think; in short, it was like a computer had crashed.

Throughout this process, he seemed oblivious to everything Lin Beixuan did.

Lin Beixuan stared at Guo Wei's soul for a while, then took out a bell from his storage bag.

The Soul-Suppressing Bell.

It can stabilize a person's spirit and prevent it from easily dissipating, and it also has the effect of simply controlling the soul.

As the Soul-Suppressing Bell shook, Guo Wei, who was previously unable to hear anything, seemed to sense something and raised his head in the direction of the bell.

Lin Beixuan gently shook the bell and walked deeper into the darkness.

Outside, Guo Wei was surrounded by a crowd who pointed at him, whispered among themselves, and discussed the matter quietly.

"Why are you sleeping here in broad daylight?"

"He probably fainted from exhaustion. Delivery drivers these days are really working hard. With the price per order dropping, they have to make several more trips a day to earn some money."

"Why don't we call the police? Lying on the ground like this isn't a solution."

……

Lin Beixuan led Guo Wei along a narrow path through the mortal world. The path was extremely dark, with eerie winds constantly blowing, threatening to annihilate Guo Wei's soul.

Lin Beixuan stood in front of him, holding an old oil lamp in his hand, blocking out everything in front of him.

This oil lamp is no ordinary object; it is a treasure reward he received from the panel when he defeated the Goddess Zigu. It is a gold-quality item ranked thirty-fourth in the Weapon Legend Encyclopedia, and is called the Spirit Protection Lamp.

It can gather a person's life force that is about to dissipate and reassemble it. Even if the soul is torn into pieces, it can be repaired, although it may take longer.

At this moment, Lin Beixuan carried the Spirit Protection Lamp in one hand and the Soul-Suppressing Bell in the other, leading Guo Wei from the mortal world to the secular world, crossing the barrier between the two worlds.

"arrive!"

Lin Beixuan stood in the void, looking down at the scene below the clouds. There were lights of thousands of homes, as well as strange and evil places.

He was just about to throw Guo Wei's soul down to let it naturally blend into the mortal world, but as soon as he let go, he suddenly stopped.

"Although Guo Wei's soul successfully came to the mortal world, can he really be considered a mortal prince? He cannot be resurrected, nor can his soul automatically return to the present world after experiencing three deaths."

Thinking of this, Lin Beixuan frowned deeply.

He didn't want Guo Wei to die just because of one of his experiments, so after pondering for a while, he suddenly had a feeling.

Lin Beixuan held his sword finger and took a wisp of flame from the Spirit Protection Lamp, placing it deep within Guo Wei's soul.

To prevent the candle from going out, Lin Beixuan used more materials to roughly sculpt a shrine in the shape of Guo Wei. The candle was placed inside the shrine and carefully held by Guo Wei's blurry shrine.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Beixuan released a stream of Xuanhuang Qi and a fragment of the Xuan Mirror he had obtained from the Yin Yang Xuan Guan.

"The spirit candle can ensure that the soul does not dissipate, the Xuanhuang Qi can protect the foundation from destruction, and the Xuan Mirror can replicate the physical body for up to a quarter of an hour. Even if it is damaged, a new body can be reconstructed from within the mirror."

"There's still one thing missing..."

Lin Beixuan thought for a moment, then suddenly extracted a wisp of the aura from the mortal realm of Zhang'e and placed it on the spirit candle flame, thus completing the task.

All of this came to him by chance, as if he had done it before, with a practiced and intriguing quality.

Lin Beixuan then realized what was happening, and looked down at his hands, lost in thought for a long time.

"Why was I able to immediately figure out the steps involved in making a secular prince?"

He was puzzled, but dared not think about it too much, because the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he was not himself.

Lin Beixuan transferred Guo Wei's soul into the body of a beggar in Shunzhou who had recently died.

"I can observe Guo Wei's condition carefully for the next period of time. If he cannot be resurrected or return to the present world like a normal mortal prince, then I will personally bring him back to the present world and let him become an ordinary person again."

Lin Beixuan kept a close eye on Guo Wei's changes.

Guo Wei was initially very excited, just like a normal worldly young master, and loved to court death. After being killed by a suddenly appearing evil spirit, his body was eaten by the evil spirit.

Guo Wei's soul was unharmed thanks to the protection of the spirit candle.

Immediately afterwards, the Xuanhuang Qi and the Xuanjing worked together to create a new body that slowly condensed, and Guo Wei slowly awoke.

Afterwards, Lin Beixuan watched as Guo Wei died twice more. At this time, the spirit candle flame was almost gone, and the aura he had previously channeled suddenly carried Guo Wei's soul away from the shrine and merged into the void.

Lin Beixuan watched this scene and discovered that the wisp of transiting energy that had merged into the void did not go anywhere else, but returned to the mortal transit realm he controlled, and returned to the present world along the original path.

Lin Beixuan's pupils widened in shock after witnessing the entire process, as if he had thought of something unbelievable, and he gazed into the void.

(End of this chapter)