Humans are shrouded in mist, projecting their image across countless worlds.

Chapter 1 Starting in the World of Shrouding the Heavens? System, Help Me!
Beidou Starfield, Central Continent, Qinling Mountains.

The long night stretched on, the moonlight filling the sky, bathing the earth in a frosty white glow. Deep within the Qinling Mountains, stretching for millions of miles, on a few low hills, in a secluded sect called Qin Clan, an old man over fifty years old, with thinning hair, bony frame, and a snow-white beard, was drinking under the moon with a young man in his twenties, tall, with a natural air and an extraordinary, heroic appearance. They drank one cup of fine wine after another, occasionally pausing to exchange a few words.

"I see that Senior Gai is no ordinary person. Could it be that you, like my brother and I, have come for the Nine Secrets?"

"No, what I am looking for is the Immortal Transformation Pool, one of the two great places of creation in the Qinling Mountains."

"The Immortal Transformation Pool? Legend has it that the Demon Emperor Qingdi was born in the Immortal Transformation Pool ten thousand years ago. I think I understand what you are looking for, senior. However, the supreme fortune in the Immortal Transformation Pool may not be of much use to you. If you trust me, I do know of a place of great fortune where traces of the immortal medicine have appeared. Perhaps it can help you."

If someone overheard the conversation between the old man and the young man, they would probably think it was the ramblings of two whimsical people, but the people involved acted as if nothing had happened.

"Oh? What did you see?"

The old man, whom the young man called Senior Gai, heard the young man's words and made no other move, but simply looked at the young man calmly and said something.

"I have cultivated the lineage of the Divine Calculator. When I met you, senior, I sensed in the darkness that you were an unparalleled and unimaginable powerhouse, but it seems that your lifespan is coming to an end. My acquaintance with you is only to form a good relationship, and I have no other intentions."

As the young man spoke, he kept his eyes on the old man. After sensing the old man's terrifying aura dissipate, he breathed a sigh of relief.

After listening to the young man's words, the old man didn't say anything. However, his eyes, which were as bright as a starry universe, dimmed and became cloudy again.

Neither of them spoke for a moment.

"It seems that some fates are truly hard to escape. I thought that with me, a transmigrator, intervening, Ye Fan would not have encountered Gai Jiuyou since he arrived in the Qinling Mountains ahead of time. I didn't expect to run into him here anyway!"

The young man picked up his wine glass and downed a glass of fine wine. He was filled with mixed emotions. He was not a person from this world, but a transmigrator. The world he was in was just a world described in a fantasy novel called "Covering the Sky" that he had read on Qidian before he transmigrated. He never expected that just by rereading "Covering the Sky", he would be bound to a system called "Practicing the Fake into the Real" and directly brought to the world of "Covering the Sky", becoming a member of the story.

His identity in the world of "Covering the Sky" was also from Earth, no different from his previous life. If he hadn't met Ye Fan, Pang Bo, Lin Jia, Zhou Yi and other classmates in a tour group when he went to Mount Tai, he wouldn't have known when he had changed worlds.

Knowing that this was the world of Shrouding the Heavens, He Lang immediately decided to ride the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin to reach this cultivation land located on the other side of the starry sky, known in the universe as the Burial Emperor Star in the Big Dipper Star Region.

Immortality is the eternal pursuit of life, and he yearns for it as well. Even knowing that there are all kinds of difficulties and obstacles involved, He Lang still chooses to do so, just for the sake of cultivation, to master extraordinary power, to live forever and exist in the world.

"I wonder if Ye Fan has found Hua Yunfei's trail yet. Last time we failed to catch him and he got away. We missed our chance to use the Devouring Heaven Demon Art. We can't let him get away this time."

As He Lang thought of this, a divine light appeared in his eyes. He looked into the depths of the Qinling Mountains, where the millions of miles of mountains and peaks were reflected in his gaze. Finally, a blurry scene appeared in his eyes: a young man dressed in blue with an ethereal air appeared before him. But the next moment, the figure in the picture in his eyes moved, the reflected figure blurred, and then disappeared from his sight.

"His divine sense is becoming increasingly sharp; it seems he's had quite a feast in the Qinling Mountains." He Lang thought to himself as the image disappeared from his eyes.

As a transmigrator familiar with the plot, He Lang would not waste his information advantage. During the time when the Nine Dragons Pulled the Coffin to the Big Dipper Star Region, he had already established a good relationship with Ye Fan. After arriving in the Big Dipper, because of his own useless body, he and Ye Fan, who had a difficult ancient holy body to cultivate, shared the same plight and often hung out together. Their relationship became like that of old friends. The two of them ventured into the Big Dipper together, and he also gained a lot of opportunities.

Of course, all of that is in the past. Now he is a cultivator who has undergone nine transformations of the dragon, and he is only one step away from ascending to the Immortal Platform and becoming an Immortal Platform expert!
What brought him from his useless state to where he is today is the culprit that caused him to transmigrate, an existence called the "Practice Makes the Real" system.

This system has no intelligence; it only has one function: to turn the fake into the real. To turn the fake into the real, the system needs something called "real points." According to He Lang's calculations, real points are related to the thoughts of sentient beings. Whenever someone's behavior aligns with what others say and gains their approval, they will gain real points.

For example, if someone says he's incredibly handsome, and if someone agrees with that, He Lang can gain some credibility, and then use that credibility to make himself incredibly handsome!
It was through the system's repeated practice of turning the fake into the real that He Lang broke free from the constraints of his useless body and embarked on the orthodox cultivation path of the five secret realms in the world of Shrouding the Heavens.

Regarding the "abandoned body," it's not actually that mysterious. An abandoned body isn't truly useless. In the world of Shrouding the Heavens, ever since the Desolate Heavenly Emperor created the five secret realm cultivation methods during the Chaotic Ancient Era, the seeds of these methods have been planted in all living beings. In theory, everyone can cultivate. However, the seeds are not all the same; some are shriveled, some are normal, and some are perfect. To mortals, an abandoned body is like a malnourished, shriveled seed, ordinary cultivators are like normal seeds, and those with special constitutions are like perfect seeds.

It is countless times more difficult for someone with a weak constitution to navigate the sea of ​​suffering than for an ordinary person.

The reason they cannot cultivate is simply because it's not worth the effort to nurture them; it's unnecessary!

"Everything in this world has its cause and effect. Be careful of the backlash from karma if you casually pry into fate."

Noticing He Lang's unbridled act of prying into the secrets of heaven, Gai Jiuyou, sitting opposite him, couldn't help but give this junior human a word of advice.

"Thank you for your concern, senior. However, I study the art of celestial secrets in order to peek into the secrets of heaven and see the destiny of heaven. If I don't peek into it, then I've cultivated in vain! Besides, I don't think the backlash of cause and effect is a big problem. For us cultivators, defying the heavens and seizing life is just a little bit of tempering! It is an aid to cultivation."

He Lang responded calmly to Gai Jiuyou's words.

Seeing his fearless expression, Gai Jiuyou was speechless. He could tell that this junior human was truly not worried!

"as long as you are happy!"

He felt a pang of sadness at how old he had become. In He Lang, he saw a reflection of his former self, full of youthful vigor and arrogance.

“I agree to what you asked for. You can contact me after you’ve finished your business. This is my Dao Imprint.”

Gai Jiuyou shook his head, raised his hand and drew lines in the air. The trajectory of the Dao manifested here, condensing into a Dao imprint that emitted immortal light, and landed in He Lang's body.

(End of this chapter)