chsdbacks Chapter 77 Creating God!
Chapter 77 Creating God!
The azure beam of light from the teleportation array, like a colossal sword reaching to the heavens and the earth, slowly dissipated on the large playground of the First Military High School in Jiangnan Base City.
When the spatial power that tore at the soul completely receded, the surrounding air was no longer the refreshing innate air of Jin'ao Island, but rather a mixture of mecha engine exhaust, cheap tobacco, and noisy human voices—a kind of turbid, mundane atmosphere.
Thirty-five went, and seven returned!
The blinding flashes of the magnesium lights, like the dense lightning bolts before a tribulation, flickered wildly around the teleportation platform.
"They're out! The living heroes are out!"
"Quick, zoom in and get a close-up! This is the spark of human civilization, the hope against higher-dimensional invasion!"
A tremendous roar, like a tsunami, swept over us.
According to the precedent set since the Great Cataclysm, when survivors return from such high-risk secret realms, the military and aristocratic families should immediately take them away for rigorous cultivation tests and quarantine screening.
But things are different today.
The military high command had already issued a death order.
Media outlets in major base cities must immediately swarm in and conduct live interviews across all online channels!
Why?
Because this fragile blue planet desperately needs a shot in the arm!
With the frequent appearance of "mythical projections" around the world, the panic among the lower classes has reached a critical point.
The authorities need to create a god!
We need to use these prodigies who have crawled out of the SSS+ level hell to make a declaration to the billions of trembling commoners.
Humanity has already established itself in the mythical realm, and we now possess the strength to confront the gods!
At this moment, the warning line at the edge of the teleportation array was on the verge of collapse due to the media frenzy.
Countless reporters bearing the names of major television stations and top conglomerates' self-media outlets surged forward like sharks smelling blood, their microphones almost shoved into the faces of the returning individuals.
At this moment, 80% of the cameras and spotlights were not focused on Chu Tianhe, the person with the highest status.
Instead, they first focused on a young man wearing a high school uniform, with messy hair, who looked like a wild man!
Liu Hao!
At this moment, Liu Hao had his eyes tightly closed and was trembling all over.
He had just crossed the boundary, and his soul merged with this mortal body. The terrifying medicinal power of the "fire dates" from the back mountain of Jade Spring Mountain produced a violent rejection and shock in this spiritually sparse world of Blue Star.
He simply couldn't control his actions as freely as Lin Yuan!
"roar--"
Liu Hao let out a painful growl.
Under the watchful eyes of countless cameras, the flesh on the left side of his neck writhed wildly like boiling lava.
With a "pfft".
A head with closed eyes, a face exactly like Liu Hao's, but exuding a bluish-black murderous aura, was forcibly squeezed out from his shoulder!
Immediately afterwards, a series of cracking sounds, like bones popping, rang out.
The flesh on both sides of Liu Hao's ribs was torn apart.
Two arms, covered in slime, bulging muscles, and with veins popping out, suddenly reached into the air and grabbed at nothingness, producing a sonic boom that tore through the sound barrier.
Two heads and four arms!
At that moment, the entire venue fell silent.
Even the most seasoned journalists gasped in surprise and forgot to ask their questions.
"Holy crap...this thing has two heads and four arms!"
"A miracle...this is a true miracle!"
After a brief period of deathly silence, an even more frenzied uproar ensued.
"Liu Hao, may I ask what kind of astonishing fortune you obtained in the secret realm? Is this the legendary physical ascension to sainthood?!"
"Mr. Liu, I am a special correspondent for the largest conglomerate in Jiangnan. Our chairman is willing to offer five million for just one sentence of your cultivation technique."
"My God, this terrifying fluctuation of blood energy definitely surpasses that of an ordinary martial arts grandmaster. He must be at least a fifth-tier... no, a sixth-tier grandmaster!"
The flashbulbs were flashing wildly, making Liu Hao look like a demon god descended to earth.
The limelight was unparalleled!
Even the heads of those martial arts families who were usually aloof and arrogant looked at Liu Hao with fervor and greed in their eyes.
At this time.
Standing in the very center of the teleportation array, Chu Tianhe, who had originally struck a proud pose and was ready to be greeted by cheers from the crowd, now looked like a forgotten clown.
Chu Tianhe's face was pale, and his legs were even trembling slightly.
No one knew that just a second before he was enveloped by the teleportation beam, he was kneeling on the execution ground at the Meridian Gate of Chaoge City.
The executioner's cold, gleaming blade was already pressed against his neck, slicing through his skin. The chill and despair of death are still deeply etched into his soul.
Chu Tianhe was not some hero who returned with a full harvest; he was a death row inmate stripped of his armor by the Shang Dynasty and made a scapegoat to be sent to the guillotine!
However, when he saw the few cameras that had gathered around him...
When he saw his father, Chu Qingtian, on the viewing platform, his face was filled with tears of emotion.
Chu Tianhe's brain, which had been frozen by fear, suddenly started working at lightning speed.
"No... I can't tell the truth."
"If others knew that I, a dignified B-level lieutenant general, was ultimately pushed to the guillotine like a dead dog, my life would be over, and our family's stock would plummet."
"Anyway, besides myself, no one knows the truth about what happened in that secret realm!"
A strong sense of vanity and the will to survive instantly overcame fear.
Chu Tianhe took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the trembling in his legs.
He suddenly straightened his back, and his face once again displayed that arrogant and boundless smile.
"Dear friends in the media!"
Chu Tianhe snatched a microphone from the person in front of him, his voice carrying a deliberately feigned hoarseness and world-weariness.
"For the past six months or so, I have been living in the Yin Shang Dynasty, where every step I took was fraught with danger, but I also rose to the top step by step."
"I command three thousand heavily armored cavalry and am highly valued by King Zhou, the supreme ruler of the Shang Dynasty."
"I even... I even protected a supreme immortal of the Jie Sect on the shores of the East Sea!"
Chu Tianhe spoke more and more fluently, as if he himself had come to believe his own nonsense.
"That immortal, grateful for my protection, not only praised my unwavering Dao heart but also bestowed upon me an immense fortune. Although I did not display any extraordinary phenomena like Liu Hao, what I brought back is an unparalleled secret that points directly to the origin of immortality!"
These outrageous remarks immediately attracted the attention of a large number of reporters.
"A true immortal of the Jie Sect?!"
"My God! Young Master Chu actually came into contact with such a legendary being, and even protected him?"
The reporters below gasped in surprise and quickly pointed their cameras at Chu Tianhe.
On the other side of the teleportation array.
Several survivors who had also barely made it out of poverty twitched wildly at the corners of their eyes as they listened to Chu Tianhe's shameless boasting.
Protector?
You call that protecting the Way?
You're a piece of trash who got knocked to his knees by a little kid, then was thrown into a death row cell by the big business, and is now crying and begging for 10 million to break him out of prison in the whole server channel!
But the survivors exchanged glances and, surprisingly, chose to remain silent.
We are all adults.
What kind of behemoth is the Chu family in the Jiangnan base city?
Everyone has just returned and their cultivation levels haven't been tested yet. Who knows if they're capable enough to establish themselves in the real world?
To offend a powerful and influential family over a few words of argument—what kind of fool would that be?
Let him brag; bragging doesn't cost anything.
……
Amidst the clamor.
In a corner at the very edge of the teleportation array.
Lin Yuan stood with his hands behind his back, wearing a faded blue and white school uniform.
He was tall and slender with handsome features, but his body did not emanate even the slightest bit of true energy.
He was just like any other ordinary student.
Under the absolute suppression of the [Shangqing Ninefold Seal], the terrifying magical power of the late-stage Dao Integration Realm, and the Great Sun Golden Crow Dharma Image that was capable of burning the sky and boiling the sea, were all locked deep within the demon core, without leaking out even a trace.
A true dragon never flaunts its scales and claws to fish and shrimp in shallow waters.
Lin Yuan watched Liu Hao, who was surrounded by reporters, and Chu Tianhe, who was boasting wildly, with a calm and unwavering gaze.
"It's been a long time since I've felt the warmth and vibrancy of this mortal world."
A faint smile appeared on Lin Yuan's lips.
at this time.
Liu Hao, standing in the crowd, had his head buzzing from the noise of the frenzied reporters.
He waved his four hands frantically, trying to move the microphone away.
"Stop asking, stop asking! What kind of good fortune is this? I'm just a fire-tending boy!"
Liu Hao was sweating profusely with anxiety, his eyes piercing through the crowd as he frantically searched for that familiar figure.
Finally, he saw Lin Yuan smiling at him from the corner.
Liu Hao's heart skipped a beat. He was about to shout "Brother Yuan!" and even wanted to rush over and kowtow to Lin Yuan to thank him for the life-saving gift of fruit.
But as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw Lin Yuan's gaze fixed on him from afar.
Lin Yuan simply shook his head slightly, then pointed to the old watch on his wrist that had long since run out of battery, making a gesture that said "contact me tonight."
Liu Hao is a smart man.
He knew all too well the extreme "survival" mentality of this big shot.
How could a peerless monster who could go toe-to-toe with the Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect possibly be willing to be watched like a monkey by a group of mortals in such a public setting?
Liu Hao understood immediately, shut his mouth, and haphazardly pushed the reporters in front of him aside with his four hands.
"Make way, make way! I just got back, my energy is still a bit unstable. If you don't move aside, and I lose control and kill someone with my two extra hands, I won't be responsible!"
Using the monster's intimidating presence, Liu Hao finally managed to squeeze out of the encirclement and head towards the rest area arranged by the school.
……
Chu Tianhe and Liu Hao attracted the vast majority of the firepower.
However, the quietness on Lin Yuan's side did not last long.
A middle-aged man dressed in a smart business suit, with short hair and sharp eyes like an eagle, led a cameraman carrying a video camera, bypassing the noise in the central area and walking straight up to Lin Yuan.
The name tag hanging around the man's neck clearly read, "Chen Fang, Chief Undercover Reporter of China Central Star Network."
Chen Fang sized Lin Yuan up and down, his eyes revealing a shrewd and ruthless glint.
"Hello, Lin Yuan."
Chen Fang handed over a gold-embossed business card, his tone neither humble nor arrogant.
"Everyone else is scrambling to interview Chu Tianhe, who's at level B, and Liu Hao, who's undergone a physical transformation. But I, Chen, am more interested in you."
Lin Yuan didn't reach out to take the business card, but simply looked at him calmly: "Oh? What's so special about a mere F-rank Raven that would pique the curiosity of a big-shot reporter like me?"
"That's the most interesting part."
Chen Fang smiled confidently and pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses.
"This is an SSS+ level battlefield with a mortality rate of over 80%. There, the law of the jungle prevails."
"An ordinary crow with no means of self-defense, unable to cultivate mortal martial arts, unable to fight with weapons. How exactly did you manage to evade the predation of those ferocious beasts and survive these long 365 days?"
Chen Fang leaned forward slightly, his eyes fixed on Lin Yuan's, trying to catch a hint of panic.
"This extreme contrast of 'the weakest surviving in dire straits' is exactly what the public loves to watch these days, and it's the kind of news that resonates most deeply with society!"
"Lin Yuan, if you're willing to give me an exclusive interview and tell me about your tragic experience of 'surviving in the cracks' in the secret realm."
Chen Fang held up one finger.
"I guarantee that I will package you into a 'commoner survival idol,' and we will pay you a generous reward of up to three million star coins."
"For a student like you from an ordinary family who can't even reach the advanced levels of martial arts, this is definitely a life-changing sum of money, isn't it?"
Coercion and bribery, manipulating human nature.
Having worked in the media industry for so many years, Chen Fang has a deep understanding of how to manipulate ordinary people's psychology.
But he miscalculated one thing.
He wasn't dealing with some terrified high school student.
Instead, he was a Dao Integration Realm Great Demon Immortal who had just received "investment" from the Sage of Zixiao Palace and held the Order to Build a Branch City of the Jie Sect!
Three million Star Coins?
Lin Yuan let out a sneer in his heart.
If he wanted, he could simply loosen one layer of the seal and take a scrap of spirit stone from the Sumeru Ring given to him by Daoist Duobao, which would be enough to buy half of the entire Jiangnan Base City!
But Lin Yuan did not get angry.
He cultivates the Great Dao of Shangqing, and his Daoist mind is clear and empty.
Such mundane, petty scheming couldn't stir the slightest ripple in his heart.
"I appreciate reporter Chen's kindness."
Lin Yuan spoke calmly.
"However, I've just gone through a realm-traveling experience, and my soul is exhausted. I really don't want to recall those 'tragic experiences' of hiding in tree holes and eating insects. Let's talk about the interview later."
Chen Fang frowned slightly.
He hadn't expected this ordinary guy, ranked F, to have such composure. He didn't even flinch when faced with three million.
"Fine."
Chen Fang is a smart man; he knows that pushing too hard is not a good thing.
He forcibly stuffed the gold-embossed business card into Lin Yuan's shirt pocket.
"Lin, this is my personal business card. If you change your mind anytime, just call me. I'll keep this payment for you."
After saying that, Chen Fang gave Lin Yuan a deep look, then turned and left with the cameraman to find the next valuable prey.
Lin Yuan glanced down at the business card in his pocket and casually held it between his fingers.
"Mortal wealth is useless to me now. But... in this body in the main world, I still have a younger sister who depends on me for survival."
"In this chaotic world of rebuilding order, it's convenient to use some ordinary money to improve the family's life."
Lin Yuan didn't throw the business card away; instead, he casually put it back in his pocket.
……
After seeing the reporters off, Lin Yuan walked to a quiet flower bed and sat down on a bench.
He reached into his coat and pulled out a square object from the inside pocket of his school uniform.
A smartphone that had long since run out of power and had a black screen.
During the year he was in the Sealed Mystic Realm, he couldn't take this thing with him. It was kept close to his body and had run out of power.
Back on Earth, Lin Yuan slightly moved his fingertips, and a wisp of true energy flowed into the phone's battery module.
"Ding-dong—"
The screen lights up, and the boot animation flashes.
Looking at these electronic products filled with the atmosphere of modern industry, Lin Yuan, a peerless demon immortal who had just held a fragment of the Eastern Emperor Bell and stood on a thunder frog, felt an absurd sense of disconnect.
"Cultivation and technology coexist... This is truly interesting."
Lin Yuan skillfully swiped the screen, connected to the school's public network, and clicked on the green social media icon.
As soon as it went online, countless messages popped up like bombers.
Lin Yuan ignored the messy information and directly searched for several social media accounts that he had already noted down in the secret realm group.
drip.
Add friend: Fatty Wang (Waitress at Chaoge Inn)
Add friend: Chen Ping (Changfeng Escort Agency)
Add friend: Zhao Ye (Down-on-his-luck businessman)