I reign supreme in the Western fantasy world for eternity.

Several days passed quickly, and Ji Tian's discussions with the old dean continued uninterrupted. The dean called him by the name "Li Feiyu" twice, and he responded both times.

The two discussed the curvature of folded space or the essential differences between spiritual power and magic power. The old dean would clapp his hands in amazement every time, wishing he could copy down the entire cultivation system in Ji Tian's mind.

Ji Tian also casually mentioned that he would be bringing someone along, and the old dean simply stroked his beard and said, "No problem."

The appointed day arrived quickly.

Before setting off, Ji Tian raised his hand and gently waved it in front of Elena. Pale golden spiritual energy enveloped her face like a thin mist, and her features shifted slightly in the light and shadow.

Her originally deep gray-blue eyes became even deeper, closer to the dark brown of East Asians; the corners of her eyes were slightly upturned, her cheekbones were softened, and her jawline was narrowed.

Her long, light golden hair gradually turned jet black under the influence of spiritual energy, cascading down her shoulders like a piece of satin.

Elena looked at herself in the mirror, then touched her face. "Is this... still me?"

Ji Tian explained, "It's just a temporary change of appearance, so that the old dean won't recognize my identity, and I won't attract attention in the other world."

The two walked out of Building 61, the morning light was just right.

The dean was already waiting in the garden outside the magic tower.

He was wearing a clean gray robe today, and his hair was unusually neat. When he saw Ji Tian bringing Elena over, the dean simply raised an eyebrow and didn't ask any questions.

"Let's go." The dean turned around and flew ahead towards the northern suburbs of the capital.

Thirty miles north of the city, an abandoned magic observation station.

The stone building was already dilapidated, with vines climbing the walls and only empty window frames remaining of the windows.

The dean pushed open the rusted iron door and led the two through a dimly lit corridor to a circular stone chamber deep underground.

On the floor in the center of the stone chamber, there is a dazzlingly complex magic circle.

The array patterns were nested in layers, each circle inscribed with dense runes. A faint smell of ozone permeated the air, the lingering scent of space after it had been repeatedly torn apart.

The dean crouched down, embedded several magic crystals into the core of the magic array, glanced up at Ji Tian, ​​and said, "The passage is unstable. I'll go in first, you guys follow closely."

After saying that, he channeled his legendary mage-level magic power into the array patterns like a tidal wave.

The magic circle lit up with a dazzling blue-white light, and space began to twist and rotate at the center of the circle, like a vortex stirred up by an invisible hand.

A thin crack tore open at the center of the vortex, revealing a bottomless darkness on the other side.

The dean stepped inside, his figure swallowed by darkness.

Ji Tian grasped Elena's hand, and the two followed closely behind.

dark.

The boundless darkness.

It was an absolute nothingness, as if even light itself could not exist.

Elena instinctively tightened her grip on Ji Tian's fingers.

She felt her body sliding forward under some irresistible force, with only a faint, tangible pull from the depths of her consciousness.

Ji Tian's divine sense remained locked on the aura of the dean in front of him.

The interior of the spatial passage was more chaotic than he had anticipated. The theoretical concepts of "folding" and "anchoring" had become abstract concepts at this moment. He could sense that the surrounding barriers were trembling slightly, like a thin eggshell, with a chaotic void outside the shell.

After an unknown amount of time, a point of light suddenly appeared ahead.

The light spot rapidly enlarged, and a blinding white light surged forth, engulfing the three of them together.

……

Intersection of Zhongshan Road and Jianshe Road, Z City.

The midsummer afternoon sun, which should have been intense and generous, was now obscured by a sudden dark cloud.

The clouds arrived without warning, as if an invisible hand had reached in from outside the sky and covered the world.

"What the hell is this weather? It was supposed to be sunny when I left this morning..." A middle-aged man carrying a briefcase looked up and cursed, then quickened his pace and jogged toward the subway station.

The older woman next to her chimed in, "That's right, my freshly washed sheets are still drying on the balcony."

Several young people stopped and looked up at the clouds that were pressing down lower and lower.

The color of the clouds was off; they had a faint bluish-white halo, as if electricity was flowing inside them.

"Holy crap, something's wrong with these clouds!" A bespectacled boy pulled out his phone, turned on video recording, and pointed the lens at the sky. "Could this be a UFO?"

His girlfriend tugged at his sleeve, "Let's go, it's going to rain."

"You don't understand, this kind of strange phenomenon might even trend on social media."

More and more people began to notice the abnormality on the top of their heads.

Some people stopped to take pictures, some quickened their pace to move away, and a few bolder ones simply stood in the middle of the road, looking up and waiting for something.

In just a few breaths, a crack suddenly appeared in the center of the strange cloud, and the edges of the crack shone with a dazzling white light. Three blurry black shadows could be vaguely seen in the white light.

"Holy shit!"

The first boy to discover it nearly dropped his phone because his hand trembled.

His girlfriend looked up, but saw nothing. Puzzled and slightly exasperated, she asked, "What is it now?!"

"Someone just appeared out of thin air in the sky! I took a picture!"

After saying that, he showed his girlfriend the contents of the video on his phone, dragging the progress bar and saying, "If this were posted online, wouldn't it... Hey!? I clearly recorded it! How come there's nothing here?"

His girlfriend was genuinely angry and pinched his arm hard. "It's not April Fool's Day! It's about to rain, let's go!"

Unbeknownst to the boy, Ji Tian had scanned the surrounding area for miles with his divine sense the moment he landed, detecting the electronic devices that were filming. He then used his spiritual power to slightly distort the light, making all the recorded images blurry.

The three people in the air had now landed in a secluded alley.

Ji Tian's divine sense spread out, looking around. The air was filled with a familiar smell, a mixture of car exhaust and fried snack stalls.

In the distance, tall buildings stand tall, while nearby are low-rise urban villages, with power lines crisscrossing overhead like a spider web.

Sure enough, this was his original world!

Ji Tian turned his head to look at the dean, "You weren't discovered when you were here last time?"

The dean stroked his beard and smiled calmly: "I noticed. I almost got hit by a car as soon as I landed, but luckily I was quick enough to dodge it."

"..."

The old dean then took out several hundred-yuan bills from his pocket and handed them to Ji Tiandao. "There's a hotel nearby. I stayed here last time. The conditions are so-so, but you don't need identification. Let's go."

"OK."

Elena held Ji Tian's hand and looked around curiously: the mannequins in the glass windows, the colorful screens of the vending machines, the deliverymen speeding by on their electric bikes... Every detail seemed new and exciting to her.

"Ji... Li Feiyu, how did that metal shell move by itself?"

"That's a car."

"What about that? The little thing that everyone has, the one that keeps glowing?"

"That's a cell phone."

She kept asking questions, and Ji Tian patiently answered them one by one.

The old dean followed slowly behind, occasionally taking out his old cell phone, which he had bought from this world, to look at maps.