Simultaneous Transmigration: We Level Up Alone Across Multiple Worlds

The sensation of Flying Thunder God tearing through space felt like being turned inside out.

When Hyuga Chen landed, his knees were slightly bent, and the mud beneath his feet was wet.

The rain had just stopped, and water was still dripping from the leaves of the broad-leaved forest.

Southern part of the Land of Fire.

He straightened up and looked around.

Tree trunks, shrubs, and a compacted dirt road in the distance.

There was no ambush.

Waited for a while.

Hinata Chen straightened the hem of his robe, sat up cross-legged in mid-air, and began to drift northwestward using repulsive force.

Ryuchi Cave is located at the border between the Land of Earth and the Land of Grass.

The direction is right... I've seen the ninja world from the moon hundreds of times, but back then it was from above.

Now that we're standing on the ground, the ridgelines, valleys, and cliffs—things that were just lines in the overhead view—suddenly gain height.

As we approached the border, a pungent wind suddenly blew in from the northwest.

The kind of stench you get when a live snake is brought right up to your nose.

The fishy smell grew stronger and stronger, permeating the entire air.

Hyuga Dust lowered its altitude, its feet brushing against the tips of a clump of withered bushes.

In the Tenseigan's field of vision, the chakra of all living beings is like pale red ink splashed on dark paper.

At the base of the mountain ahead, a crack in the rock face was seeping out... the chakra of a snake.

I landed about ten steps before the crack.

The moment the repulsive force subsided, the hem of his robe fell back to his ankles, picking up a few bits of grass.

As for the surrounding poisonous fog and illusions, Hyuga Chen completely ignored them.

The crevice was less than three steps in front of me.

There is a narrow opening at the top and bottom of the rock face, and at its widest point, it is only wide enough for one person to pass sideways.

A fishy smell wafted out from inside in waves, like some huge creature breathing slowly in the depths of darkness.

Hyuga Dust squeezed in sideways.

My shoulder blades scraped against the rock face, the cold stone seeping into my robe.

After walking about ten steps inside, the outline of the cave's interior appeared in the vision of the Reincarnation Eye.

The passageway is sinking.

The slope is not steep, but it keeps descending.

The stones underfoot became increasingly slippery, covered with a thin, sticky substance, seemingly the traces of a snake crawling across the surface, mixed with shed skin flakes.

Snakes emerged halfway from the stalagmites, their scales rubbing against the stones, the rustling sound of which gathered from all directions.

Hinata Dust walked slowly, making sure the dragon horn on his forehead didn't hit the rock wall.

Before long, the passageway suddenly opened up at the end.

An underground cave.

So vast that the field of vision of the Reincarnation Eye cannot be seen at a glance.

The stalactites hang upside down from the dome, and the thickest ones require several people to encircle them.

Snake skins were scattered on the ground... not just a few, but layers upon layers of debris that had been piled up for who knows how many years. Stepping on them felt like stepping on dried reeds, crunching and cracking.

There are cracks in the top of the cave, and a few strands of dark green phosphorescence seep in from above, shrouding the entire space in a gloomy hue reminiscent of stagnant water.

Suddenly, Hyuga Chen's nostrils twitched slightly as he smelled a different scent.

It was cloyingly sweet, the kind of sweet that's overripe and almost rotten, mixed with some indescribable spice, so strong it was pungent.

The cave changed in an instant before his eyes.

The stalagmite was transformed into a carved wooden pillar.

The snake molts turned into a plush carpet.

The stalactites overhead transformed into hanging silk curtains, behind which lay rows of long tables laden with food... roasted poultry, stewed meat, piles of tropical fruit, and glistening candied pastries.

A green-haired girl sat at the end of the long table.

She was dressed in elaborate clothes that didn't suit the cave, her legs crossed, one hand supporting her chin, and her lips curved into an exaggerated smile.

"Another one."

She reached out and picked up a piece of fruit from the table, twirling it between her fingers.

"Come and get something to eat. You must be hungry after walking such a long way."

Hyuga Chen stopped and identified the locations of the three chakra streams deep within the cave.

In the Tenseigan's field of vision, even the illusion of the Heavenly Princess didn't cause a ripple.

The long table, the velvet blankets, the roasted poultry, the candied pastries—in his eyes, everything was stalagmites, snake molts, stalactites, and phosphorescence.

Keep going.

My footsteps crunched on the snake slough fragments, the crisp sound echoing through the cave.

The green-haired girl at the end of the long table tilted her head, her expression turning sinister.

Aren't you hungry?

Hinata Dust's gaze swept past Tashin Shinhime and landed on a stalactite hanging upside down on the right side of the cave. Ichikishima Hime was hiding behind it, her long, dark blue hair hanging halfway down from the edge of the stalagmite, thinking she had become invisible.

Behind the stone pillar on the left, there was also Princess Tsurugi. Her brown hair was piled up behind her head, and her fingers were silently forming hand seals.

Three.

Tianxin Shenji slowly placed the fruit back on the table.

"You are the first human to enter this place and not stop."

She slid off the long table and stepped barefoot onto the snakeskin.

The moment the soles of the feet made contact with the ground, the scales below the calves reflected light, extending from the ankles all the way up to the knees before disappearing back into the skin.

"Those people who came before," she said, taking a step forward.

"Some cried, some knelt, some drew their knives and charged. You were different..."

"You're like a blind man."

Hinata Chen finally turned his gaze to her.

The pair of deep blue, bony dragon horns on the forehead were fully displayed on both sides of the hairline before the three snakes' eyes.

Suddenly, Tianxin Shenji froze, her vertical pupils fixed on Hyuga Chen's forehead.

That winding arc...

Tall and strong...

The cave suddenly became unusually quiet.

"you……"

Princess Tashin took a half step back, and Princess Ichikishima, who was hiding behind the stalactites, spoke first.

"Tianxin. Did you see that on his head...?"

Princess Tianxin did not answer; she was still looking at the opposite corner.

From the root to the tip of the horn, the texture of the bone surface, the curvature of the arc, and the deep blue scales that faintly emerge from the transition between the root and the skin... these details pieced together an answer she was unwilling to admit.

Princess Tsurugi emerged from behind the stone pillar on the left.

She wasn't invisible; her eyes were fixed on the area above Hinata Chen's forehead.

"horn."

Princess Ichikishima also appeared from behind the stalactites.

"Dragon horns".

Princess Tianxin finally shifted her gaze away from the dragon horns.

She looked into Hinata Chen's eyes and licked her lips with the tip of her forked tongue.

"What right do you, a human being, have to do this?!"

The temperature inside the cave seemed to drop after those three words were uttered.

Every snake in Ryūchi Cave dreams of becoming a dragon.

The White Snake Immortal has lived for over a thousand years, exhausting all his techniques of inorganic reincarnation and all immortal arts, yet he still cannot cross that threshold.

The three snake queens had been cultivating under the White Snake Immortal for so long that they themselves couldn't count how long. Day after day, they would kill time by taking advantage of the human trial participants who broke into the Dragon Cave... biting them to death, devouring them, and spitting their bones into the pile of snake molts... but the flesh and blood of the trial humans could not fill that void.

Transformation into a dragon.

No one can change it.

Now a human walks in, with a pair of complete dragon horns on his head.

Even though Hyuga Chen deliberately restrained himself, in the eyes of the three snakes, Hyuga Chen was radiating a faint dragon's might, which was an absolute suppression of snakes.

Princess Tianxin's shoulders were trembling.

Scales emerged in large swaths from her collarbone, the pressure from the dragon's blood causing her serpentine instincts to flee.

"I'm asking you..."

"Where did you steal these two horns from?"

Hinata Dust looked at her.

The height of the goddess Tianxin only reached his chin.

She looked up at the dragon horns on his forehead, her pupils shrinking into two vertical black lines, her nostrils flaring, her breathing short and rapid…

My body is trembling...!

It smells like... dragon!

Hinata Chen finally spoke.

"Get out of the way."