Chapter 1 Where is the Dragon Vein?

Chen Xiao frowned. The lake was clear enough to see the bottom.

He could even see the fine silt and a few unknown fish swimming slowly.

Other than that, there was nothing else.

As for the dragon vein, there was no trace of it.

"Master, look behind you."

Shuichuan Jingzi's voice came from behind Chen Xiao, but it seemed to come from a very distant place.

Chen Xiao turned around, and then, everything went black.

...

He didn't know how long it had been before Chen Xiao regained consciousness.

However, everything was still dark.

A very pure black, he couldn't see anything.

Or rather, what he saw was this blackness.

"If you were given a chance to choose again, would you still choose to walk this path?"

A vague voice suddenly rang in Chen Xiao's mind.

It seemed to come from a very distant place, but also like a voice from the bottom of his heart.

"What chance to choose? Walk which path?"

Chen Xiao asked subconsciously, looking bewildered.

"Please, follow me."

The voice rang again.

Then, Chen Xiao felt a flash of light in front of him.

If it was pure black just now, then this time, it was the ultimate white.

Under the reversal of the two extremes, Chen Xiao unconsciously raised his arm to shield his eyes.

The sound of traffic came to his ears. Chen Xiao lowered his arm, and in front of him was a familiar street scene.

And across the street was a neon-lit bar—Yaoyang Bar!

The scene in front of him made Chen Xiao's eyes widen.

This is Long Yaoyang's bar?

Chen Xiao's heart sank suddenly, and he suddenly realized something.

He quickly felt his body, and sure enough, it was as he had guessed.

The spiritual energy in his body was gone, and he couldn't feel any divine sense at all.

Chen Xiao had confirmed that he had traveled back in time to the night he borrowed money for his mother.

Is this real? Or is it my illusion?

The feeling was so real, not like an illusion at all.

Chen Xiao's heart was filled with mixed feelings. What was going on?

He calmed down and thought carefully, but he couldn't figure out the reason. He couldn't understand which step had gone wrong.

He pulled open his clothes and looked down.

Fortunately, the Yin-Yang Jade was still there.

However, Chen Xiao had completely lost contact with it.

"If you were given a chance to choose again, would you still choose to walk this path?"

Suddenly, Chen Xiao remembered what the voice had just said.

Could it be that coming back here is just to let me make a choice again?

It seems that's the case.

However, this is not a multiple-choice question for Chen Xiao.

A multiple-choice question with only one option doesn't count as a multiple-choice question; it's a giveaway!

Even if Chen Xiao was given a hundred choices, he would not hesitate to choose to embark on this path!

He walked into the bar with ease and came to the door of the private room that Long Yaoyang had told him about.

Sure enough, he could hear the voices of Long Yaoyang and Sun Li inside.

With the passage of time, Chen Xiao could no longer feel any anger about this.

But the plot required it, so Chen Xiao kicked open the door of the private room.

There was a flurry of activity inside. Sun Li screamed and pulled her clothes over herself. Long Yaoyang pulled up his pants and said jokingly, "Old classmate, you've come at a bad time..."

Chen Xiao was no longer a newbie, so he wouldn't waste time talking to this NPC. He went up and punched Long Yaoyang, knocking the saliva out of his mouth.

"Damn, you dare to hit me?"

Long Yaoyang went crazy and swung his fist at Chen Xiao's face.

Unsurprisingly, Chen Xiao was knocked to the ground.

Chen Xiao didn't struggle and just lay flat, waiting for the plot to continue.

The thugs who came after hearing the news punched and kicked Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao quickly lost consciousness.

However, it was Chen Xiao's body that lost consciousness.

Chen Xiao's consciousness could still look down on everything that was happening from God's perspective.

He watched himself being thrown into the trash, with rats crawling all over him.

Thunder rumbled, and lightning struck him.

The Yin-Yang Jade shattered, and streams of jade-like liquid flowed out of it.

It penetrated Chen Xiao's skin and entered his body.

This was the first time Chen Xiao had seen this scene, and he didn't know what this jade-like liquid was.

Before long, the shattered Yin-Yang Jade seemed to have its own consciousness and reassembled itself.

However, a few irreversible cracks were left on the jade.

The following events were like a fast-forwarded movie, so fast that Chen Xiao didn't know what was happening at all.

Including the part where he fell into a coma in the Dragon Cave, he didn't see clearly what happened.

When the picture stopped again, Chen Xiao's consciousness had returned to his body.

And in front of him was a scene of ruins and devastation.

Collapsed buildings, broken streets, cars emitting thick smoke...

A child who had lost his parents stood in the middle of the road crying loudly, wiping away tears with his little hands.

A runaway car crashed into him.

Chen Xiao subconsciously wanted to save the child, but he was too slow, as weak as before.

Before he could run to the child, the runaway car had already knocked the child away.

The car, which had changed direction as a result, crashed into Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao had no time to dodge and could only watch as the car got closer and closer...

Bang!

The scene changed, and time came to night. The surroundings were still abandoned buildings, but it was unknown where the electricity came from. The neon lights were still flashing.

Rats a foot long swarmed together, gnawing on the corpses lying on the road.

That's right, Chen Xiao was surrounded by corpses, all kinds of corpses.

There were human corpses, animal corpses, and corpses of some unknown creatures.

The corpses were piled up like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers.

The rats had become red-eyed from eating flesh and blood, and they saw Chen Xiao, a living person, as if they had found a treasure.

Squeak squeak squeak—

The rats screeched and swarmed towards Chen Xiao, overwhelming and like a giant gray wave.

Chen Xiao didn't have time to think and ran away as fast as he could.

However, it was the kind of fast that humans have, not the kind that comes from practicing magic.

Chen Xiao couldn't understand why, even though he had made a choice, the spells on his body had not returned.

He ran desperately, not knowing how long he had been running. He was so tired that he was panting and couldn't run anymore before he stopped.

He bent over slightly, propped himself up with his legs, and gasped for breath.

Fortunately, there was no squeaking sound behind him. He had shaken off the rats.

At this time, he was in the middle of a wilderness.

Looking up, a huge cloud layer was piled up in the high sky.

Between the clouds stood a magnificent and solemn palace.

Above the palace, two majestic characters floated—Tiandao!