"Where is the dragon vein?"
Chen Xiao frowned, the lake was crystal clear.
He could even see the fine silt at the bottom and a few leisurely swimming, unknown fish.
Other than that, there was nothing else.
As for the dragon vein, there was no trace of it.
"Sir, look behind you."
Suichuan Jingzi's voice came from behind Chen Xiao, yet it seemed to come from a great distance.
Chen Xiao turned around, and immediately, his vision went black.
...
After an unknown amount of time, Chen Xiao regained consciousness.
However, his vision was still darkness.
A pure black, nothing could be seen.
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 ethereal voice suddenly sounded in Chen Xiao's mind.
It seemed to come from a distant place, yet it also felt like a voice from the depths of his heart.
"What chance to choose? Which path?"
Chen Xiao asked instinctively, completely bewildered.
"Please follow me."
The voice sounded again.
Then, Chen Xiao saw a flash of light before his eyes.
If it was pure black before, this time it was extreme white.
The drastic contrast made Chen Xiao involuntarily raise his arm to shield his eyes.
The sound of traffic reached his ears. Chen Xiao lowered his arm, and familiar street scenery greeted him.
Across the street, a neon-lit bar glowed – the Yaoyang Bar!
The scene before him made Chen Xiao's eyes widen.
This was Long Yaoyang's bar?
Chen Xiao's heart sank. He suddenly realized something.
He quickly felt his body, and as he had guessed.
All spiritual energy was gone, and he couldn't sense any divine consciousness.
Chen Xiao confirmed it. He had transmigrated, back to the night he borrowed money for his mother.
Was this real? Or was it my hallucination?
It felt so real, not like a hallucination at all.
Chen Xiao's heart was filled with mixed emotions. What was going on?
He calmed his mind and thought carefully, but couldn't figure anything out. He couldn't understand where things had gone wrong.
He pushed aside his clothes and looked down.
Fortunately, the Yin Yang Jade was still there.
However, Chen Xiao had completely lost his connection with it.
"If you were given a chance to choose again, would you still choose to walk this path?"
Suddenly, Chen Xiao remembered the words of the voice just now.
Could it be that returning here was just to let me make a choice again?
It seemed so.
However, for Chen Xiao, this was not a choice.
A question with only one option wasn't a choice, it was a gift!
Even if Chen Xiao were to choose a hundred times, he would still choose this path without hesitation!
He walked into the bar with practiced ease and arrived at the door of the private room Long Yaoyang had told him about.
As expected, Long Yaoyang and Sun Li's voices could be heard from inside.
Time had passed, and Chen Xiao no longer felt any anger about this.
But for the sake of the plot, Chen Xiao kicked open the door of the private room.
Chaos erupted inside. Sun Li screamed and grabbed her clothes, while Long Yaoyang, pulling up his pants, sneered, "Old classmate, you've come at a really bad time..."
Chen Xiao was no longer a novice. He wouldn't waste time talking to this NPC. He threw a punch, knocking Long Yaoyang's saliva out.
"Damn it, you dare to hit me?"
Long Yaoyang went mad and swung his fist towards Chen Xiao's face.
Without suspense, Chen Xiao was knocked to the ground.
Chen Xiao stopped struggling, lying flat on the ground, waiting for the plot to continue.
The henchmen who rushed over beat Chen Xiao with punches and kicks. Chen Xiao soon lost consciousness.
However, it was Chen Xiao's body that lost consciousness.
Chen Xiao's consciousness, however, could still look down on everything that was happening from a divine perspective.
He watched as he was thrown into a garbage heap, with rats crawling all over him.
Thunder roared, and a bolt of lightning struck him.
The Yin Yang Jade shattered, and jade-like liquid flowed out.
It seeped into his body through Chen Xiao's skin.
Chen Xiao saw this scene for the first time. He didn't know what this jade-like liquid was.
After a while, the shattered Yin Yang Jade seemed to have a will of its own and reassembled itself.
However, several irreversible cracks remained on its surface.
What followed was like a movie playing at high speed, so fast that Chen Xiao couldn't grasp what was happening.
Even the reason why he fell into a coma in the dragon cave was unclear to him.
When the scene stopped again, Chen Xiao's consciousness had returned to his body.
Before him lay ruins, a scene of devastation.
Toppled buildings, broken streets, smoking cars...
A child who had lost his parents stood in the middle of the road, crying loudly, wiping tears with his small hands.
A runaway car was speeding towards him.
Chen Xiao instinctively wanted to save the child, but he was too slow, still as weak as before.
Before he could reach the child, the runaway car had already hit the boy.
The car, changing direction because of this, swerved towards Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao had no time to dodge and could only watch as the car got closer and closer...
Bang!
The scene shifted to night. The surroundings were still abandoned buildings, but somehow electricity was supplied, and neon lights still flickered.
Rats, about a foot long, swarmed, gnawing on the corpses lying on the road.
That's right, Chen Xiao was surrounded by corpses of all kinds.
There were human bodies, animal bodies, and the bodies of some unknown creatures.
Corpses piled up like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers.
The rats, having fed on flesh and blood, had red eyes. They saw Chen Xiao, a living person, as a treasure.
Squeak squeak—
The rats screeched and surged towards Chen Xiao, like a gray tidal wave.
Chen Xiao didn't have time to think. He turned and ran, his speed astonishing.
However, it was human speed, not the speed of cultivating a spell.
Chen Xiao couldn't understand. He had already made his choice, so why hadn't his spells returned?
He ran desperately, not knowing how long he ran. He stopped only when he was exhausted and could no longer run.
He bent slightly, leaning on his legs, gasping for breath.
Fortunately, there were no more squeaking sounds from behind. He had shaken off the rats.
At this moment, he found himself in a wilderness.
Looking up, he saw a massive cloud layer accumulated in the high sky.
Within the clouds stood a magnificent and solemn palace.
Above the palace, two majestic characters floated – Heavenly Dao!