The ancient return was exposed by his sister's live stream.

Yang Wanqing let out a short gasp behind her.

"Wow--"

Chen Siyao straightened up and looked around.

In the distance was a forest. But those were not any kind of trees she recognized.

The trunk is grayish-white with twisted grain, as if it had been twisted by some force.

The tree has a huge canopy, and its leaves display alternating patterns of deep purple and dark gold.

Some trees had some kind of glowing fruit hanging from their branches—orange-red, about the size of a thumb—swaying gently in the breeze.

There was an indescribable smell in the air. It wasn't the scent of flowers or grass, but something deeper—clean, ethereal, and with each breath, you could feel your lungs expelling stale air.

"There's spiritual energy in it!" Yang Wanqing was the first to react. "There's spiritual energy in the air!"

Chen Siyao tried circulating her internal energy, and sure enough... there was an extremely thin layer of spiritual energy flowing in the air. It wasn't dense, but it was very pure.

Chen Hao stood a few steps ahead, looking around.

His expression wasn't one of surprise, but rather one of scrutiny.

Xiaoyue excitedly rolled around twice on the blue grass, then chased after an insect that flew out of the grass.

The insect had four pairs of wings, its body was agate-colored, and its flight path was erratic, like it was drunk.

The wolf king was not so relaxed. It crouched at Chen Hao's feet, its ears perked up, its nose twitching constantly, sniffing warily at everything around it.

"Oh my god. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god." Yang Wanqing spun around on the spot, not knowing where to put her hands. "Is this another world? Is this... am I dreaming? Yao Yao, pinch me."

Chen Siyao pinched her.

"Ouch! This really isn't a dream!" Yang Wanqing rubbed her arm, her voice trembling with excitement. "This is incredible! I've never seen any of these trees or grasses before! These are completely new species! A completely new ecosystem!"

She immediately pulled her phone out of her backpack, ready to take a picture and share it on her WeChat Moments.

I swiped my finger across the screen twice...

its stuck.

She looked at the top left corner of the screen, and half of the excitement on her face faded.

No signal.

"Oh dear, no internet, I'll just have to take pictures first."

Chen Siyao also took out her phone and glanced at it. Sure enough, the signal bar was empty, and even the search for networks wasn't spinning.

"There's definitely no internet, Qingqing. This is another world. There are no cell towers." Chen Siyao sighed and put away her phone. "What a pity. I was planning to livestream... to show the viewers what the real other world looks like."

He said it casually, but Chen Hao heard it.

He turned his head and glanced at his sister.

Then he did something Chen Siyao hadn't expected.

He closed his eyes, then opened them two seconds later. He reached out and grabbed at the air—and there was something in his hand.

A crystal.

Completely transparent, about the size of a fist, with faint, flowing patterns of light inside. It resembles a meticulously cut giant diamond, but cleaner than any other diamond.

"Brother, what's this?"

"A photo crystal." Chen Hao tossed the crystal aside. "Want to do a live stream? That's not out of the question."

Chen Siyao took the photographic crystal and examined it from all angles.

It feels warm to the touch, is not heavy, and has a slightly warm, vibrating sensation when held in the palm of your hand—like holding a slowly beating heart.

"This can connect to the internet?" Yang Wanqing leaned closer, her nose almost touching the crystal. "Is this a WiFi transmitter?"

"Of course not," Chen Hao said. "Crystals alone aren't enough. We also need magic."

He extended two fingers and drew an extremely complex rune in the air.

Runes are not drawn on paper or in the air... more accurately, they are drawn in a dimension invisible to the naked eye.

Chen Siyao only saw her brother's fingertips trace a very faint line of light, which lingered in the air for two seconds before disappearing.

But the crystal reacted.

It gently floated up from Chen Siyao's palm, hovering half a meter in front of her, and began to slowly rotate.

"I just cast a soul-linking spell," Chen Hao explained. "This crystal will convert your phone's video signal into psionic waves. Psionic waves can penetrate spatial barriers and be transmitted to the network on Earth."

Chen Siyao: "..."

Yang Wanqing: "..."

"Are you even speaking human language, bro?"

Simply put—your phone has internet access.

Chen Siyao understood now and looked down at her phone.

In the upper left corner of the screen, the signal bar changed from blank to full.

5G, and the speed is frighteningly fast. She tried opening Douyin (TikTok) and browsing, and the videos on the homepage loaded instantly, without even a buffering spin.

"We have internet now!!!"

Yang Wanqing lunged at him from behind to snatch the phone, and the two bumped heads together.

"There's internet! And the signal is full!"

"And it doesn't use data!"

"Isn't this crystal even more amazing than Starlink?"

"It's more powerful than a hundred Starlink crystals." Chen Siyao looked up at the floating, rotating image crystal. "Brother, what else can this thing do?"

"The crystal itself has a video recording function," Chen Hao said. "It can replace your phone's camera... and the image quality is ten thousand times better than your phone's. Moreover, it moves according to your thoughts; you can make it record wherever you want, without having to hold it."

Chen Siyao gave it a try.

She thought for a moment, "drift to the left"—

The crystal really did drift one meter to the left.

"Upwards."

The crystal rose half a meter.

"To me."

Crystal turned to face her.

"..."

"..."

Yang Wanqing's mouth was wide open, big enough to fit an orange.

"Master, are you cheating?"

Chen Hao didn't respond to that. He walked to a gray-white tree nearby and sat down at its base. Xiao Yue immediately snuggled up to him and lay down against his legs.

"You guys have fun."

Chen Siyao and Yang Wanqing exchanged a glance.

The same thing burned in their eyes—the fervor that only content creators have when faced with exclusive material.

Another world.

Exclusive live stream.

The first one on the entire internet.

"Qingqing," Chen Siyao said in a low voice, "Do you know what this means?"

"I know. The first isekai (another world) live stream on the entire internet. If this goes live, your fan count will be..."

“It’s not about the number of followers,” Chen Siyao interrupted her. “I mean, everyone can only learn about this new world through online news and government announcements. Nobody has seen it with their own eyes. And we are standing in another world right now.”

She looked up and around.

Blue meadows stretch into the distance, gray-white tree trunks support huge purple-gold canopies, and orange-red, glowing fruits sway on the branches.

An unidentified flying creature swept across the sky, shaped like a jellyfish, its translucent body shimmering with iridescent light in the sunlight.

Every inch of this land is something that no humankind has ever seen before.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Yang Wanqing clapped his hands. "Let's get started!"

Chen Siyao straightened her hair and cleared her throat.