Chapter 1

"Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous! The head of one of the five great families of the Mingyu Imperial Dynasty actually fights over a woman in the academy and gets knocked out. We've been waiting for him for five hours, it's simply too absurd." In the grand hall of the Ren family, the third elder, Ren Hanlin, who was somewhat short and bald, could no longer sit still upon receiving the news. He stood up and paced back and forth in the hall.

His gaze frequently fell on the high seat of the family head in the center of the hall. It was almost evening, and the seat remained empty. The ridiculous family head had yet to arrive.

"Bang!" The fourth elder, Ren Wenxu, with a face as long as a horse, glared angrily: "It's getting more and more out of hand. What does he think the day of the elders' meeting is? He should have returned yesterday to prepare, but instead, he fought in the academy. This is a huge joke if it gets out."

The two elders spoke angrily, while a young man at the far end of the hall remained silent, as if he had long been accustomed to this. However, as the two elders ranted about the family head, a hint of helplessness and disdain occasionally appeared on his face. Could it be that prosperity always leads to decline? Under the leadership of the previous family head for twenty years, the Ren family reached a level of glory unseen in a thousand years. Now, would it really start to decline because of this frivolous family head?

Although he was not a member of the Ren family, every time he thought about it, he felt very uncomfortable. In the past year, he had represented the sixth elder at the elders' meetings, and he had seen such things too often, to the point where he had become somewhat numb.

After the two elders vented their anger, they all looked at the second elder, Ren Junyang, who was sitting in the second seat below the family head's seat, with a long beard, his face dark with anger. Ren Junyang had been sitting there for a whole day, but the result was that the current family head of the Ren family had fought over a woman and been knocked out.

"Send the Medicine Master immediately to see what's going on, and send the guards. If the family head is fine and awake, bring him back immediately. The elders' meeting must be held today, and we need to add a few more items to the agenda." Ren Junyang's face was as dark as water, and his long beard almost fluttered from the surging energy within him.

If not for his years of cultivation, Ren Junyang would have wished the family head dead. As long as he wasn't dead, he would bring him back.

What kind of family is the Ren family? One of the five founding families of the Mingyu Imperial Dynasty, with a thousand-year legacy and currently the strongest. How could such a thing happen? The family head of the Ren family actually...

"That's right, it seems we've been too lenient with him. From now on, he must return a day before the elders' meeting." Ren Hanlin nodded repeatedly.

Ren Wenxu, with his long horse-like face, added solemnly: "Not only that, but his daily expenses and the special funds allocated by the family head must be further reduced. I want to see how he can misbehave without money. He's disgracing our Ren family."

"Ah!" Wan Hong sighed inwardly, took a sip of tea, and thought to himself, "Is it true that one generation of heroes is followed by a generation of fools? Is the Ren family really going to decline from its peak? If this continues, conflicts will surely erupt."

Sixth Elder, you seek peace and don't attend the elders' meeting, but you make me suffer here. This is more painful than being injured in battle. It's like watching the Ren family decline, and the feeling is truly...

Following the second elder's order, someone from the Ren family immediately rode out, heading for the Jade Emperor Academy, one of the two top academies of the Mingyu Imperial Dynasty, also known as the academy for the frivolous.

...

"Traveled through time, damn! Is this a double穿越?" Ren Jie touched his aching forehead, where a bump the size of an egg had formed, making him feel like he had grown a unicorn horn.

But this was not a unicorn horn; it was a large bump caused by being hit with an ironwood stool made from the hard ironwood tree. At this moment, Ren Jie realized he had traveled through time, and information not his own was flooding into his mind.

Ren Jie felt as if his head was about to explode, as the information pouring in was chaotic and absurd, with nothing really useful.

Chasing women, spending money, fighting, gambling...

Damn, what is this stuff!

This guy is also named Ren Jie, what was he doing before?

Ren Jie was extremely unhappy, not just because of the bump on his head, but also because of the time travel. Reading novels and watching movies about people traveling through time and experiencing different worlds seemed exciting and enjoyable, but when it happened to him, it was very, very unpleasant.

Not only was his headache unbearable, but he also found that his body showed no abnormalities, and he had left the familiar technological civilization of Earth for a completely different world, as revealed by the chaotic and complex memories he was absorbing.

The bump on his head, the influx of information, and the frustration of time travel all made Ren Jie's head ache.

"Damn!" Ren Jie angrily pounded the wall, causing his hand to tremble. Although the wall shook, he winced in pain.

What the hell is this? He was just an ordinary student, reinstalling his laptop's system and borrowing a hard drive from some seniors and juniors at nearby colleges to copy some rich A-movies. The next thing he knew, he was in a strange world.

"Ah... it hurts!" The bump on his head was painful, and the chaotic, disordered information flooding his mind was even more painful. Ren Jie couldn't bear it, and he closed his eyes, wishing he could control the pain in his mind.

"Boom..." Suddenly, Ren Jie felt his consciousness leave his body, no, not leave his body, but enter his mind.

In an instant, his mind exploded, and the next moment, clusters of light began to coalesce and form.

What is this? Ren Jie was completely stunned by the changing light.

From the chaotic memories he had absorbed, Ren Jie discovered that in this world, people could develop spiritual awareness through cultivation. He was now using his spiritual awareness to enter his mind.

Gradually, the light began to converge and coalesce...

What is this? As the light coalesced into something, Ren Jie was completely dumbfounded.

A laptop, yes, the very laptop he had been using to copy A-movies before he traveled through time.

Is this a joke or a dream? To travel through time and not get any divine artifacts or powerful tools, but to bring a laptop, and for it to exist in his mind in the form of light, is just too absurd.

If it's not a joke, then what is it? And from the chaotic memories of the original owner, he knew this was not the Earth he remembered, and a bare computer in his mind was of no use.

Looking at the laptop, which existed like a super sci-fi computer, Ren Jie took a while to calm down from his excitement. There was no choice but to calm down, as it was already like this.

Ren Jie found that his spiritual awareness was more powerful than his eyes. With a thought, his spiritual awareness approached the laptop and observed it. He found that the original material had transformed into various lights, but everything else remained unchanged. As Ren Jie thought about how to control this thing in his mind, his spiritual awareness moved, and the next moment, he saw "My Computer" on the screen open.

"Damn, this is amazing." Ren Jie was surprised himself. Then, with his spiritual awareness, he opened a hidden folder, where the classic movies he had carefully selected and screened were stored.

But at this moment, Ren Jie suddenly felt like crying, with no interest in watching these classics.

He had traveled through time, and his computer had decomposed and integrated into his mind, existing like a light computer. However, his computer contained almost nothing but the movies he had just copied. Although he didn't yet understand what was happening outside, the fragments of memories that had just emerged in his mind made Ren Jie realize that the situation was not good. The last memory of the original owner was being hit on the head with a stool and dying.

"Hmm?" Suddenly, Ren Jie was shocked to see a wireless signal in the lower right corner of the laptop, which was completely formed by the special light in his mind. Although the signal was very weak, it was indeed there.

At this moment, Ren Jie felt as if he had been struck by lightning. What is this?

Could it be that heaven has let him travel through time and still be able to connect to the internet and contact Earth?

But this place is not a technological civilization, where can he connect?

Ren Jie's spiritual awareness opened a webpage, and he could input any URL with a thought, but the result was disappointing, with no response.

Then Ren Jie tried various communication tools, network calls, video chats, and messaging apps, but the results were the same.

"Ah!"

Ren Jie felt a bitter smile. It seemed this was the state before he traveled through time, showing a wireless signal from around his dormitory at the time. As more new memories were added to his mind, although slowly, he realized that this was not Earth and not a place of technological civilization, so there could be no such thing as a Wi-Fi signal.

This disappointment made Ren Jie feel lost and confused. Reading novels and watching movies about people entering new worlds seemed exciting and enjoyable, but when it happened to him, the unfamiliarity, confusion, and uncertainty made him feel very uncomfortable.

Just as Ren Jie was about to let his spiritual awareness leave his mind and return to his new body, his "spiritual awareness" suddenly stopped and "stared" at the screen. Although he had no body and only spiritual awareness, the feeling was the same.

Because Ren Jie suddenly noticed that there was something new on the screen, a video player. Ren Jie clearly remembered installing the most basic version, and he had used it for years, knowing the interface very well. He was also 100% sure he hadn't installed anything else.

"Open!" With a thought, Ren Jie controlled the computer to open the newly appeared video window.

"Boom..." In an instant, it was like watching a holographic projection. Ren Jie felt his spiritual awareness being pulled, and the next moment, he found himself in a strange space.

A vast, boundless space, and in the distance, he could see a few people.

People?

No, Ren Jie felt his blood rush to his head because the first person he saw in the distance was a being with eighteen arms and twenty-four heads, completely enveloped in golden light.

Heaven, this is not a person at all!

Another person stood on a lotus platform, with a yellow face and a halo behind his head like a rising sun.

Besides these two, there were three more people in front of them. One was the tallest, surrounded by a divine aura, and held a pearl in his hand.

The two beside him were also astonishing. The moment Ren Jie saw them, he felt his brain would explode, and even his new body, which he had just obtained through time travel, felt like it would burst from the blood rushing to his head.

Because he had a very familiar impression of the others, and when he saw the old man sitting on a green ox holding a pearl, Ren Jie felt his brain was about to stop working.

At first, he didn't react, but when he saw the old man on the green ox, his mind immediately cleared: Laozi...

The ancestor of primordial energy, the root of heaven and earth, the embodiment of the Great Dao (the embodiment of natural laws and principles). He resides above the thirty-third heaven, the true founder of Daoism, the third of the Three Pure Ones, also known as the "Moral Heaven Lord," "Mixed Yuan Lord," "Descended Heaven Lord," "Great Clear Emperor"...

The being with eighteen arms and twenty-four heads is none other than the Western Two Teachings' leader, Zhunti Daoist.

Although he was not as familiar with them as he was with Laozi, he had at least heard of them from novels and legends. The one with a yellow face should be the other leader of the Western Two Teachings, Jieyin Daoist.

So, the one holding the pearl in the center, who is even more powerful than Laozi, must be Yuanshi Tianzun, and the pearl he holds must be the Mixed Yuan Pearl...

The last one doesn't need to be guessed, it's Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun...

Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun, Taqing Daode Tianzun, plus the Western Two Teachings' leaders Jieyin Daoist and Zhunti Daoist, the Five Sages!

The reason Ren Jie was so shocked was that he had a unique feeling. This was not a movie, not a TV show, and not just a regular image. He could personally feel an indescribable presence. At this moment, Ren Jie understood what "overwhelming presence" meant. This was even more intense than a common soldier suddenly seeing his idol, the general, standing