499: Chapter 499 The Transmigrator

"AppleU, give me some air, okay!"

"It's alright, take a deep breath. Dizziness is normal."

Inside the Saint's main hall, Zhou Yan was attempting to choke out Lv Yang with a rear-naked choke.

Lv Yang's face was beet red, though he looked like he was having fun, already starting to roll his eyes.

After a while, Zhou Yan finally let go of Lv Yang.

Having regained access to air, Lv Yang lay on the ground, gasping for breath, his eyes somewhat unfocused.

"I... did I just... did I just see the gates of the underworld?"

"Am I about to die?"

Looking at the Lv Yang before him, Zhou Yan was filled with unprecedented killing intent.

Yet, no matter how he looked at him, even though he was on the verge of breathing his last, there was still no release of any special power.

He clearly looked like an ordinary person in every way, so how could those words have come out of his mouth?

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhou Yan finally let him go.

Of course, Lv Yang seeing the gates of the underworld was not a hallucination; it was the real gates of the underworld.

If Lv Yang had made any strange moves just now, Zhou Yan would have eliminated the opponent immediately and sent him into the main city as an NPC.

Although this was somewhat cruel, and holding such great malice toward a stranger he wasn't very familiar with didn't quite align with his principles, the killing power of that sentence was just too great.

"You'd better explain yourself clearly now, or you might really be entering the gates of the underworld in a moment."

Zhou Yan looked at Lv Yang coldly, his hands already forming the Feng Xu template, ready to activate the Great Unity Wind at any moment to blow this kid up directly.

"Almost died there. I really didn't expect you to be so decisive, Fellow Daoist, leaving no room for anything." Lv Yang recovered a bit after a while, rubbing his neck and complaining.

"Hey, hey, don't move yet! I haven't finished speaking!"

Seeing that Zhou Yan was about to make a move again, Lv Yang was so scared he hurriedly stood up, too late to complain any further.

"Why are you so hot-headed? You aren't the only Transmigrator in this world."

"Besides, isn't 'Transmigrator' a self-proclaimed title you guys came up with yourselves? We actually call you guys 'Visitors from Beyond the Heavens' or 'Demons from Beyond the Heavens' or something."

"I thought calling you that would make you feel a bit closer."

Zhou Yan froze instantly, his outstretched hand stiff in mid-air, neither reaching out nor pulling back.

"You mean... there are other Transmigrators in this world?"

Zhou Yan's Dao Heart was trembling violently.

Lv Yang didn't intend to return to his seat either, sitting cross-legged directly on the ground, looking helpless as he spoke.

"Not really, there aren't any here now anyway."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to find you, would I?"

Zhou Yan pulled his hand back and drank some tea to calm his nerves, but his tone still trembled somewhat, as if he had secreted too much adrenaline, his whole body feeling a bit off.

"Who exactly are you? What is your relationship with Chen Wei? And what did you mean by your words just now? How did you know I am a Transmigrator?"

"Hey, stop, stop, stop, too many questions. I know this kind of thing happening suddenly might be hard for you to accept, but I'm just a mortal with a flesh body, I can't process so much information. Can you let me take it one by one?" Lv Yang hurriedly interrupted Zhou Yan's increasingly agitated tone.

At the same time, he couldn't help but think that it was better to face Zhou Yan on his own turf; coming in person always led to these uncontrollable accidents, which were not only troublesome but could also hurt him.

Long Tianxing, oh Long Tianxing, your sins are truly hard to wash away!

"Ahem, let me answer your first question first."

"I am Lv Yang, as I told you before."

"If there's any other identity... hmm, does Immortal Reincarnation count?"

"Immortal... Reincarnation?" Zhou Yan repeated it, analyzing the information within.

Lv Yang nodded.

"Yes, Immortal Reincarnation."

"There are plenty of such people in this world, but I should be purer than any one you've ever met, I think."

Lv Yang rubbed his chin, as if thinking.

"As for Chen Wei, whom you mentioned, that is also me."

"It is me from the end of the Human Dynasty."

"It is precisely because I had already calculated that you might return to that era that I gave you that book, treating it as an anchor point, so you could come to 'my' side at the first opportunity."

"After all, if you had traveled back normally, you would have had to face a powerful Nascent Soul Cultivator. You shouldn't have had the ability to escape at that time, and the follow-up would have been troublesome."

As he spoke, Lv Yang took out a small booklet from his bosom.

Zhou Yan looked closely, his pupils shrinking involuntarily.

Because the handwriting on it was one he couldn't be more familiar with; it was the very one he had written with his own hands.

Lv Yang held this slightly yellowed Immovable Wisdom King Sutra, opened it, and motioned for Zhou Yan to take a look.

"This should be able to prove my identity, right? After all, it was handwritten by you."

Zhou Yan's mind was in chaos right now.

He had already anticipated many things, such as changing the past affecting the future, or encountering people from the past who had undergone Reincarnation.

But when these past fantasies all gathered together and appeared before him, it made his brain ache, preventing him from focusing his thoughts.

Lv Yang waited a little while, seemingly waiting for Zhou Yan to digest this information. Only after Zhou Yan regained his composure did he continue.

"I know the amount of information might be a bit large, and you can't adapt to it in a short time."

"But for the sake of my safety, and for your emotional stability, I still have to say what needs to be said."

"The existence of this book isn't as... 'sci-fi' as you think, is that how you describe it? The term 'sci-fi'?"

"In short, the history you imagine is not the real history. You can understand it as a parallel Universe that can affect the real world, or something else."

"So your traces won't affect too many things, which is also one of the reasons I could confirm your identity as a Visitor from Beyond the Heavens."

"As for your question about what I meant by that, I suppose you mean my saying there are no other Transmigrators."

"That sentence meant exactly what it said." Lv Yang spread his hands. "Transmigrator, Visitor from Beyond the Heavens, Demon from Beyond the Heavens, etc., these things only remained in the old era; the new era no longer has these things."

"You are the first, and presumably the last."

Zhou Yan's brain felt a bit dizzy, and he wanted to ask more, but looking at the Lv Yang in front of him, he couldn't open his mouth.

Lv Yang soon answered the last question as well.

"As for how I knew you were a Transmigrator, that's not difficult."

"Those who understood Transmigrators in the old era can naturally recognize them in the new era."

"It's just that in the new era, there are few people left who can know your identity."

"The only living people who can know your identity should be me and Him."

"And I was able to guess it was you based on my understanding of Transmigrators, plus my own decent calculation ability."

"Unfortunately, due to memory issues, I haven't retrieved many things."

"So the calculation ability isn't too strong, I could only roughly calculate your origin, and a string of strange... numbers?"

"It seemed to be an eighteen-digit number, from which I could only derive your age, gender, and some vague locations."

"But those locations don't seem to exist in this world, and they don't have any practical value."

"Hmm... let me think, those numbers were... uh ah! AppleU, give me some air, okay!"

Zhou Yan once again performed a rear-naked choke, pinning Lv Yang down fiercely.

"I really shouldn't keep you!"

Lv Yang's eyes were about to pop out; how could the educational quality of Qingxu Grotto-Heaven be so poor?

Everyone is either a thief or a violent extremist; is there no one who can reason normally?

He had come with such great goodwill, why did he have to suffer this unprovoked disaster?

Just when Lv Yang had resigned himself to his fate, Zhou Yan released him and cast a recovery spell on him, while slumping onto his chair with a look of exhaustion.

He didn't know what kind of emotion he was feeling now.

His Dao Heart was firmly set on wanting to go home, so facing these things that might be fellow countrymen or clues to going home, logically speaking, he should be very excited, as that would align with his Dao Heart.

But he had reached this level of cultivation, and understood that the dark side of this world was not simple. Facing this kind of exposure, it was hard not to feel angry, hard not to feel afraid.

Zhou Yan releasing Lv Yang was not because he had developed compassion, but because he was truly afraid that he might die just like that; if he could undergo Reincarnation again, it would bring him trouble.

After Lv Yang regained access to air, he was completely listless.

"Wait a little longer, people from your Sect will come to find you and have you go see your Old Ancestor."

"You can ask him about some things. Although he might not necessarily know, that Vault of Heaven Library of yours should know something."

"After you find out, come back to find me again. I will still be here waiting for you. If you still want to kill me then, do as you please."

Zhou Yan was just about to ask what he meant when he heard a voice transmission from outside.

"Saint, are you there? The Sect Master wants to see you."