Chapter 3

Damn, I got trolled.

If Lu Chuan had a keyboard, he would have awakened his Zuan soul and immediately trolled back, and he could have trolled the pretentious guy in front of him for half an hour without repeating himself. But the arrow was still stuck in his chest, so he chose to shut up from the heart.

The man who suddenly appeared wore a flashy white robe in the rainy night. The torrential rain stopped within a meter of his body for some reason. The black-clothed man, seeing the situation was not good, was about to turn and escape into the mountains, but the white-robed man casually threw the arrow behind him, and it pierced through the black-clothed man's heart.

"Your companion left you behind and ran away, aren't you sad?" The white-robed man, who had been upgraded from a pretentious guy to a pretentious king in Lu Chuan's mind, asked after casually dealing with the pursuer.

"Staying to die together would be foolish. If I must say I'm sad, I'd rather say I feel unlucky." Lu Chuan, unsure of the temperament of the big shot in front of him, answered cautiously.

"You feel unlucky?" The pretentious king looked at Lu Chuan with disbelief. "The rain is too heavy, this isn't a place to talk, follow me."

"Sir... Senior, not far behind me is my clan uncle. He stayed behind to cover us so we could leave first. Please..."

The white-robed man turned his head and looked back, then said, "The hunter is fine. Without you two slowing him down, he has already taken care of his pursuers. Let's go."

Before Lu Chuan could speak, his body floated uncontrollably, grabbed by the white-robed man and flown toward Beining City. They flew very fast, but the rain couldn't reach them. In a moment, Beining City was already in sight.

Beining City was already under martial law. There was a long queue at the city gate, mostly civilians who had fled from nearby towns. The white-robed man brought Lu Chuan to a side gate, which was also guarded, but no one was queuing.

"Beining Academy, Hao Qi Sect, Hu Changge." The white-robed man nodded slightly to the guard and handed over a waist plate. "This is my junior brother."

Lu Chuan didn't know how he became a junior brother, but he kept quiet and followed Hu Changge into Beining City.

Inside Beining City was a completely different world from outside. It was already late at night, and a few shops still had their lights on, appearing serene in the dark night. The sound of rain and crying seemed to be blocked out by the tall city walls.

Wait, why is there no rain in the city? Lu Chuan looked up at the sky, and the night sky in the city was full of stars, but there was not a drop of rain.

"Divine skill, Night Curtain. Simply put, it changes the sky over an area to a fake one, blocking the rain outside. It's a flashy skill to maintain a peaceful facade." Hu Changge explained to Lu Chuan, which made him a bit uncomfortable.

Lu Chuan nodded to show he understood. The city looked peaceful and harmonious, no wonder Lu Yan always said that Beining City was safe. He wondered how Lu Hu and the others were doing, whether they had met up with Lu Yan.

He had heard the term "divine skill" for the second time tonight. The martial extreme of Zhenbei Pass was at the divine skill level. If the concept of divine skill and the divine skill realm were the same, and if cultivators at the divine skill realm could guard passes, it could be inferred that this realm belonged to the upper-middle level of combat power.

"Let's go, I'll take you back to the sect first. Old Jiang and Aunt Li are at Zhenbei Pass, only my junior sister is at home." Hu Changge's expression became more lively after returning to Beining City, especially when he mentioned the sect. "By the way, what's your name?"

"Lu Chuan."

Lu Chuan felt a bit uneasy. This pretentious king big shot kept staring at him, and his flashy white robe made him seem abnormal. Finding him in the rain and taking him home...

Damn, is he... that kind of person?

...

If only he had more time to think. If the divination coin wasn't on cooldown, Lu Chuan would definitely have divined Hu Changge's sexual orientation. If he was really a pervert, he would rather die on Tiger Roar Mountain.

He even regretted leaving his hunting knife on the mountain. Now, even if he wanted to end his own life, he had no proper tool.

"Hu Senior, I'm a bit hungry." Lu Chuan felt more and more uneasy and didn't want to go directly to Hu Changge's place.

"Oh, I forgot, you haven't entered the Dao yet." Hu Changge was surprised, remembering that Lu Chuan was still a mortal. Cultivators rarely felt hungry after entering the Dao, and eating was mostly for pleasure. "At this hour, probably only Donglaiju is still open. Let's go there and eat something."

The two entered a restaurant called Donglaiju. There were already few guests in the restaurant, but Hu Changge still asked the manager for a private room.

"Waiter, prepare a set of clothes for my junior brother." Hu Changge pointed at Lu Chuan and said to the waiter.

Lu Chuan's face became more and more grim. There was definitely something wrong with Hu Changge. A private room, a set of clothes...

He was already prepared to lean against the door or the window and break out if anything went wrong, ready to die with a clear conscience.

Donglaiju was quick, and the food, drinks, and the clothes Hu Changge requested were soon delivered to the private room. Hu Changge closed the door and turned to make a gesture.

"Done, the soundproofing spell is set. We can talk freely now."

!!??

Lu Chuan had just put a piece of food in his mouth and was shocked by the words, choking and coughing.

"Why are you reacting so strongly? We're all in this together." Hu Changge looked at Lu Chuan strangely and poured him a cup of tea.

"In this together? What do you mean?" Lu Chuan didn't dare to drink the tea Hu Changge poured, coughing and asking.

"Uh... prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law..." Hu Changge poured himself a cup of tea and raised it mysteriously to Lu Chuan.

!!!!!

Shit, are there other穿越者 (穿越者 means "people who have crossed over" or "transmigrants") in this world? Not Zhetian or Doupocangqiong, but Gw密之主 (Gw密之主 means "The Gw密 Master," which is a reference to "The Gw密 Master" or "The Occult Master")?

"Sky King covers the earth tiger?" Lu Chuan threw out a classic signal from Earth.

"Pagoda suppresses the river demon, chicken stewed with mushrooms, black fungus stir-fried with sweet potatoes, choose the one you like. Other signals include odd changes, even remains the same, signs depend on the quadrant."

After Hu Changge answered, the private room fell silent. Hu Changge seemed to be thinking about something, while Lu Chuan was considering the possibility that Hu Changge was also a transmigrant.

"Before we return to the sect, there are some things you need to know. Including you, there are five of us in the sect. Old Jiang and Aunt Li are our people, but the junior sister is not."

"Wu State is a country that openly opposes and exterminates the chosen ones in this world. Our identity must be kept absolutely secret in Wu State. Exposure means game over, understand?"

Hu Changge's words contained a lot of information. Lu Chuan敏锐地 (敏锐地 means "sharply" or "keenly") grasped the key terms he didn't understand. "You mentioned 'chosen ones'?"

"That's what this world calls people like us. There was a fool who, after entering the extraordinary, thought he was invincible, went around pretending to be the chosen one, and was caught and killed by Wu State, dragging down a lot of people." Hu Changge looked angry.

"Are there many people like us?" Lu Chuan felt that this cultivation world was definitely not normal. If there were four transmigrants in a small sect in Wu State, how many were there in the entire world?

"Not many, a few hundred, but it might increase." Hu Changge answered casually, then said seriously, "Not all transmigrants are our people. People's hearts are hard to fathom."

Lu Chuan blinked, not understanding. How did you determine that I am "our people"?

Hu Changge seemed to understand Lu Chuan's thoughts. "Someone who can put themselves in a life-threatening situation on the mountain to let their companions go first, and who worries about their clan as soon as they are saved, can't be that bad."

Lu Chuan didn't feel flattered by the praise; he even felt that Hu Changge was hinting that he was a saint.

"I'm curious, what is your 'hang' (past life), and why did you offend Zhao Wuyi?"

"Zhao Wuyi?" Lu Chuan didn't understand what Hu Changge was saying. Since he came to this world, he had always stayed in Lu Family Village and had never met anyone surnamed Zhao.

"Jing State's top expert, and possibly the strongest extraordinary expert in the world right now, Zhao Wuyi."