169: Two world lines drifting further and further apart

After circling the school twice, he found the classroom.

But as Yang Dian reached for the doorknob and looked through the observation window at the students inside, a long-forgotten sense of incongruity struck him again.

It had been the same in elementary, middle, and high school.

He had Transmigrated and Reborn with the Soul of an adult, and his thoughts and ideas were simply not on the same dimension as his 'peers'.

This made it difficult for him to integrate into the crowd, making him seem somewhat aloof.

He had thought things would change after university, that he could find a few like-minded friends to play games and pull all-nighters with.

But the truth was, this world was more mysterious than he had perceived.

After the college entrance exam, he had an Awakening of his talent and was specially recruited by the Special Administration Bureau.

Then he Cultivated Martial Arts to become stronger, fighting Mutant creatures, foreign drug lords, and Alien Planet lifeforms, even taking a trip to the Alien Planet to experience its scenery.

Just over a month ago, his life plan for the future was to earn a little money, marry a sensible wife, have one or two children, and live a stable life with some free time to wash his feet and go fishing.

Now, a little over a month later, his life plan had changed to not eating beef and wanting to live as he pleased.

He could no longer integrate into the beautiful campus life he once yearned for.

“Life, oh life~”

With a sigh, Yang Dian shook his head and turned to leave.

There was no need to force himself into a circle he couldn't fit into.

To live as one pleased, to live as one pleased—if forcing himself into a circle made him feel incongruous, could it still be called living as one pleased?

As for looking at legs?

Where couldn't he look at legs?

At the beach, he could not only look at legs but also bikinis!

At a foot massage parlor, he could not only look but also touch!

With his thoughts swirling, Yang Dian took one last look at the classroom, then turned and left.

The world was like two arrows that had just crossed paths.

They touched for a moment, then went their separate ways.

One path was the peaceful modern university life.

The other was a bloody storm, Mutants and Alien Planets, endless battles, and extraordinary individual power.

Undoubtedly, compared to the former, Yang Dian looked forward to the latter more.

He had already lived a lifetime of ordinary days.

To live another lifetime like that, wouldn't it be as if he had lived a lifetime in vain?

...As the sun reached its zenith, the scorching sun baked the earth.

Standing on the rooftop of the Special Administration Bureau building, Yang Dian finally waited for Yue Shan.

Watching Yue Shan's Qi and Blood surge throughout his body, soaring from the horizon like a Dragon to appear before him, Yang Dian's eyes held envy, longing, but mostly confusion.

He envied Yue Shan's ability to fly.

He longed for his own ability to fly.

As for the confusion?

That was because Yue Shan's hands were empty; he hadn't brought anything.

‘He couldn't possibly make such a big oversight, could he?’

‘So, if it's not an oversight, then it's...’

Yue Shan's actions proved Yang Dian's guess.

He reached out and squeezed the black bracelet on his hand, and after it suddenly expanded by a circle, he took it off and threw it to Yang Dian.

“The Heaven's Gate 2.0 spatial bracelet, it contains a 30-cubic-meter independent space. The flow of time inside and outside the space is the same, so it can't preserve freshness like in novels.”

“This item can only be purchased after obtaining special-grade authority. It costs 300,000 merit points and is considered a benefit for those with special-grade authority.”

“You, kid, after getting special-grade authority, you only look at heaven and earth treasures, not other weapons, equipment, or special items.”

“You're something else.”

Yang Dian caught the bracelet and smiled:

“I only have 70,000 merit points left now. If I had bought this bracelet just now, I would have bought one less heaven and earth treasure.”

“What if I couldn't Breakthrough to Qi Blood Dragon Transformation and become a Martial Arts Grandmaster just because I lacked one heaven and earth treasure? Wouldn't that be a huge loss?”

“You certainly have confidence in yourself.” After praising Yang Dian, Uncle Yue casually mentioned:

“Can you really Breakthrough?”

Yang Dian reached out and squeezed the bracelet, inputting the relevant information, then nodded:

“Pretty much.”

“Perhaps it won't be long before I can fight alongside you, Uncle Yue.”

Yue Shan took two steps forward and patted Yang Dian's shoulder:

“Good kid.”

“Then I'll wait for the day you fight alongside me.”

Saying that, he took two steps back again and waved at Yang Dian:

“I'm leaving. Cultivate well.”

“Don't be disheartened if you fail to Breakthrough. Although there aren't many Martial Artists stuck in the Qi and Blood Wolf Smoke Realm, there aren't few either.”

“Some people have tried more than ten times and still haven't been able to Breakthrough.”

“You're still young, and your chances of Breakthrough are always greater than those old men.”

After speaking, he didn't give Yang Dian a chance to be sentimental. He lightly tapped the ground with his toes, leaped up, and finally, propelled by his Qi and Blood, soared into the clouds, disappearing from Yang Dian's sight in an instant.

“So cool~”

Watching Yue Shan leave, Yang Dian clicked his tongue:

“When I can fly, I must strike an even cooler flying pose.”

After expressing his anticipation, Yang Dian's gaze fell on the bracelet on his wrist.

With a thought, a spherical space with a diameter of less than four meters appeared in his mind.

Looking at the steel display shelves and the steel cans on them within the spherical space, Yang Dian took a deep breath.

“So, let's start with the earth core milk.”

His consciousness locked onto a can labeled earth core milk, and with a thought from Yang Dian, the can disappeared from the spherical space and landed in Yang Dian's palm.

Opening the can, as expected, it contained the familiar earth core milk.

Taking a step, Yang Dian first faced northwest and took a deep breath of the northwest wind.

After using a form of Gluttonous Eating Qi to slightly enhance his stomach's digestive ability, he poured the earth core milk into his mouth.

“Speaking of which, the treasure at the bottom of the Lizardmen Sacred Mountain's radiation Crystal Mine, it wouldn't happen to be earth core milk, would it?”

“If it is, that's too low-tier.”

“Or perhaps earth core milk also has vintages, like hundred-year, thousand-year, or even ten-thousand-year earth core milk?”

...He swallowed the rare treasure with single-minded focus.

Time flew by, from the sun at its zenith to sunset.

Yang Dian, who had just finished digesting a drop of earth core milk, was about to take out the next drop when his phone, which he had placed aside, suddenly rang.

He answered the call, and Yang Lele's somewhat angry voice entered his ears.

“Zhong Deng, did you forget something?”

“All my classmates have left!”

Looking up at the sky and then down at the time on his phone, Yang Dian couldn't help but show a sheepish smile:

“Nonsense, how could I forget?”

“I already set off to pick you up, but there was a bit of a traffic jam on the way.”

Standing at the school gate, Yang Lele, talking on her Genius children's smartwatch pressed against her ear, tilted her head:

“Hmm?”

“Can a donkey get stuck in traffic?”

“Zhong Deng, you really forgot your dearest younger sister, didn't you?”

“How could I?” Yang Dian, still arguing, had already jumped off the rooftop, hoisted the donkey onto his shoulder, and turned into an afterimage:

“The donkey has its own ideas, don't worry about it for now.”

“Anyway, I'll be at your school gate right away...”

Three minutes later, Yang Dian put down the donkey on his shoulder, rode it around the corner, and arrived in front of Yang Lele, tossing her the helmet in his hand:

“Get on!”

Yang Lele took the helmet adorned with dinosaur stickers and frowned:

“Although you came very quickly, I still feel like you forgot about me...”