Chapter 1 Isekai Travel?

"Isekai travel?"

Both Dao Sheng and Shao Qiming exclaimed in surprise, but their reasons were completely different.

One was because Su Zhou's disappearance for nearly three months was due to this reason, and the other was shocked that Su Zhou had actually said it directly.

--I specifically reminded you before to not say it for the time being. The situation isn't that tense yet!

Noticing Shao Qiming's annoyed expression because his reminder had been ignored, Su Zhou apologized inwardly.

The reason for revealing that he could travel to other worlds wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision. He had already considered this issue when he returned from the Shenmu World.

His strength would always suddenly increase drastically, and he would occasionally bring out powerful and strange equipment and extraordinary materials. At lower levels, he could explain it away with reasons like, 'I was born with divine strength!' or attribute it to 'talent,' 'sudden enlightenment,' or 'I was lucky and picked it up on the road.' But at higher levels, when cultivation became stable for a long time, such sudden progress was undoubtedly a very obvious anomaly.

Therefore, Su Zhou had long planned that when he reached a high level in the Zheng Nation system, or when he was unafraid of modern armed forces in the general sense, he would disclose relevant information if the situation required it. Of course, if no one asked, he wouldn't actively say it, not because he was unwilling, but because it wasn't necessary.

And now, he was a professor in Zheng Nation, which counted as high-level, Dao Sheng had actively inquired about the situation, and his strength was at the commander level - all three conditions were met.

A commander-level strength might still be somewhat worrying when dealing with thermonuclear weapons, but if it really came down to it, Su Zhou could completely hide in the sea. The world was vast and he could roam freely. No force on Earth could force him to bow his head with force, and it was unlikely that any force would be so stupid as to antagonize him with such strength.

In any case, the fact that he had disappeared in the main world for nearly three months couldn't be easily concealed, so it was better to tell the truth.

Thinking that there was suddenly time for a dungeon, Su Zhou couldn't help but communicate with Yala in his heart: "Yala, Yala, what's going on?"

"Isn't that simple? You even encountered the avatar of the Lonely Master. With Him there, how could I let the main body use the River of Time to help you smooth out the temporal ripples between the two realms?"

In response, Yala rolled her eyes and shifted her position in Su Zhou's coat pocket: "Plus, you did such major things as recreating a new era and reshaping a new world at the end. The resulting void fluctuations are even greater. Even without the Lonely Master, there would still be abnormal time flow."

"Oh, right." Yala's words immediately reminded Su Zhou: "I forgot that Yala isn't the strongest among the Great Existences. If I travel to other worlds with high levels of erosion in the future, then I need to pay attention to time-related issues."

Su Zhou's thoughts weren't shielded from Yala, and the snake spirit immediately became exasperated after hearing it: "Hey, what are you saying! It's enough that everyone knows I'm not the strongest, what do you mean by saying it out loud!"

The exchange with Yala took place in the soul space, only for an instant, and at this time, Dao Sheng and Su Zhou's conversation was still continuing.

"Isekai travel... Su Zhou, you mean that your disappearance recently was actually because of some reason, you traveled to another world, right?"

After hearing Su Zhou's straightforward confirmation, the old man couldn't help but nod seriously: "I didn't expect that such a thing would happen to you as well. What a coincidence."

Su Zhou: "?"

What do you mean it happened to me too? Could it be that there are other people in this world who can travel?

Su Zhou blinked, looking at Shao Qiming with some bewilderment, while Shao Qiming shook his head slightly with a subtle expression, indicating that since things had reached this point, there was nothing more he could remind him of.

Soon, as Dao Sheng turned on the television, letting the news play, and Shao Qiming handed Su Zhou's phone, which he had been keeping with him, back to its owner, Su Zhou quickly understood the situation on Earth recently through the commentator's explanation and searching on the phone's keyboard.

In March 2016, around Valentine's Day, during the ten days or so that Su Zhou went to the Samsara World and disappeared, with the continuous opening of large Blessed Lands like the Kunlun Secret Realm due to the revival of spiritual energy, the resulting chain reaction caused even more high-level secret realms, or even 'Heavenly Realms,' that the various parties on Earth weren't prepared to open in the near future to open automatically.

The spatial chain reaction called the 'Valentine's Day Anomaly' was like dominoes. The large Blessed Lands like the Kunlun Secret Realm were the first dominoes to slowly fall. Their opening led to the emergence of a large number of small secret realms, which in turn triggered the activation of other large secret realms... For a time, the spiritual energy environment of the entire Earth was stirred up again by the large-scale opening of various secret realms and realms.

"For example, the realm once ruled by the Heavenly Lake Dragon King, the 'Heavenly Lake Realm,' opened three weeks ago. The entrance is above its corpse, in an area about two thousand meters deep in the sea."

At this time, Dao Sheng turned on a terminal on his arm that looked like a large watch. It was a personal terminal that had just been put into practical use recently. Layers of mechanical structures unfolded to form an electronic screen similar to a laptop.

He handed the unfolded electronic screen to Su Zhou, letting him read some confidential information on it: "Because we've been very busy recently, there are many things to do, so we haven't sent a real person exploration team to observe yet, but drone monitoring has found that it is an extremely vast 'ocean world' where nearly ninety-five percent of the area is water, with a large number of spiritual energy resources and spiritual marine life thriving."

"So it is..."

After learning about these quite shocking news one after another, Su Zhou couldn't help but scratch his head. He scanned the information on Dao Sheng's terminal and clicked his tongue: "The situation is so chaotic, how much big news have I missed during this time?"

In fact, it wasn't just Zheng Nation.

Similar situations had occurred in other regions and countries around the world.

Moreover, the chain opening of a large number of spatial secret realms had also caused spatiotemporal chaos within the entire world.

When the various Blessed Lands or Heavenly Realms opened, it was common for passers-by who were hundreds of thousands of miles away from that secret realm or realm, or even located on the other side of the Earth, to be swept into it by spatiotemporal fluctuations and travel into that world.

For example, according to Dao Sheng, there was a person in Zheng Nation who didn't know if he was lucky or unlucky, who was swept into the Heavenly Lake Realm by the spatiotemporal fluctuations when it opened and traveled into that world.

That person was a streamer whose usual live broadcast content happened to be outdoor live broadcasts and cooking and eating broadcasts with wild ingredients. He traveled during the live broadcast. His entire person disappeared directly with a burst of static, so the country quickly discovered the anomaly. He was also extremely lucky to have traveled to an island near the Heavenly Lake Realm. After struggling to land on the island, he survived in the wild there for two months.

It must be said that due to the benefits brought by the citizen points system and the popularization of cultivation, the current citizens of Zheng Nation, as long as they are adults, definitely possess extremely strong wild survival skills. After all, everyone knows a thing or two about civilian magic, and their physical fitness is comparable to that of second-level athletes before the revival of spiritual energy. Even if they travel to another world, their survival skills are extremely strong and they won't die easily.

Due to manpower reasons, the Zheng Nation's officialdom was temporarily unable to rescue them. That streamer is still surviving in the wild on the island in the Heavenly Lake Realm, but the officialdom has also provided him with a lot of survival equipment and facilities through drones, and even gave him a spiritual energy camera, preparing to let him film his own wild survival footage.

At that time, this could not only be used as research material for other worlds, but also as popular science material for the whole population - and that streamer also saw the future of becoming a big hit through this opportunity, so he naturally agreed with a face full of joy, wishing he could stay in another world for a while longer.

And this is the prelude to what is now known on the internet as the 'Great Isekai Era.'

After explaining this wealth of information to Su Zhou, Dao Sheng couldn't help but sigh: "So, luck is really hard to explain... I didn't expect Professor Su to be caught in the spatiotemporal fluctuations as well. I don't know which world you traveled to."

Su Zhou: "Ah, um... well, I'm not very clear either."

Noticing the almost sighing expression on Shao Qiming's face, the self-detonating monster Su Zhou immediately understood why his good friend had made that kind of hint before - so the current situation on Earth was like this, there was no need to self-detonate so quickly!

He felt that directly revealing the matter of the Celestial God's Scale would only make the situation more complicated!

"We'll talk about it later, there's no rush."

After thinking about it, Su Zhou felt that there was no need to add any more fuel to the fire for the Zheng Nation's officials, who were already overwhelmed by the opening of numerous secret realms and realms, so he said: "I just traveled to a strange ruins world full of undead and ruins, with monsters everywhere. I had a great fight with a group of magical beasts and gained a lot of things."

"Coincidentally, I just found a temporary portal that vaguely leads to Earth and traveled back directly like this."

As he said this, Su Zhou showed Dao Sheng the rather ancient-style Blade of Extinction in his hand, stimulating the aura of the divine blade to create the phenomena of flames and lightning, which could be considered as whitewashing this divine weapon.

"So that's it, um, this weapon... is very strong!"

The Blade of Extinction was, after all, a divine weapon. Dao Sheng noticed its extraordinary nature at a glance. The black-haired old man's eyes lit up, and he praised, "This long blade may seem brand new, but in reality, it has killed many powerful creatures. It is not only surrounded by an unspeakable power of human sacrifice, but the materials used are also extraordinary - Su Zhou, it seems that you should have found a relic of the immortal god era."

As he said this, Dao Sheng shifted his gaze away from the Blade of Extinction. He looked at Su Zhou and said with interest, "I have a general understanding of the situation, but we will talk about the specifics in detail at the Security Bureau office later... What other gains do you have? Also, is that other world dangerous?"

As he spoke, he signaled Su Zhou and Shao Qiming to follow him. The three of them walked out of the Shao family's old house, and at the door, a simple and unadorned black luxury car was waiting.

There was no driver in the car. It was a self-driving system guided by semi-artificial intelligence and semi-magical arts. As Dao Sheng voice inputted the address, the car started itself and slowly set off.

"That world is quite dangerous, there are many powerful magical beasts. I was seriously injured by them once."

Sitting in the car, starting to brag, law-abiding citizen Su Zhou comfortably lay on the back seat and fastened his seat belt: "The situation at that time was really quite dangerous. If I hadn't broken through at the last moment, I might not have been able to come back!"

Speaking of this, Su Zhou also nodded with emotion, but because he didn't look injured at all, both Dao Sheng and Shao Qiming just 'mm-hmm'ed to express their understanding, without much emotional fluctuation.

After that, the young man continued to reminisce: "Thanks to that serious injury, I can now be considered to have crossed the threshold of the commander level."

*Crack-*

Immediately, there was a sound of a neck twisting rapidly, with joints cracking.

Dao Sheng, with a shocked expression, and Shao Qiming, with an equally shocked face, turned to look at Su Zhou.

"What did you say?"

The old man, thinking he had misheard, shook his head vigorously. If this car hadn't been self-driving, even the driver would have been affected by his huge movements: "It might have been a hallucination... Professor Su, can you say that again?"

"Oh, I might have already broken through to the commander level."