Chapter 1: Playing Football with the Desolate Ancient Holy Body

"In ancient times, people lived for over a hundred years, yet their movements remained undiminished."

Looking at this passage recorded in the *Huangdi Neijing*, Qin Sheng smiled slightly.

It is known that Ye Tiandi reads the *Huangdi Neijing*, and I also read it, therefore it can be concluded

I = Ye Tiandi.

"No, I am stronger than Ye Fan now; after all, I have almost finished cultivating the Sea of Bitterness realm."

I have surpassed Ye Tiandi!

Looking inward at his own body, beneath his navel—the golden ratio point of the human body—his Sea of Bitterness had already been opened.

However, his Sea of Bitterness was pitch black, lifeless and stagnant.

A golden Sea of Bitterness, with towering waves and immense power, is exclusive to the Sacred Body. For an ordinary body like Qin Sheng’s, the Sea of Bitterness is almost always pitch black.

Special effects?

That is not something an ordinary body can hope for.

In the center of the Sea of Bitterness, a divine spring of life bubbled and surged, with divine power like a tide and clouds of radiance filling the sky.

This is the Spring of Life.

Looking upward, a brilliant rainbow hung high, starting from "this shore" and extending forward, crossing the dark and silent Sea of Bitterness, aiming to reach the "other shore."

This is the Divine Bridge.

Qin Sheng had already cultivated the four realms of the Sea of Bitterness, Spring of Life, Divine Bridge, and Other Shore to the peak of the Divine Bridge, just one step away from the final realm of the Sea of Bitterness.

To be able to cultivate to this point on Earth, a land of the end-times where essence is exhausted, is already no small feat.

"It hasn't been easy. It took five years to get this far; it’s a bit embarrassing for a transmigrator," Qin Sheng muttered to himself.

Qin Sheng is a transmigrator. To be precise, he was reincarnated from another Earth into this one.

At first, Qin Sheng didn't know this was the *Shrouding the Heavens* world, because his parents and family environment hadn't changed at all. He thought he had just been reborn in his original world.

So, Qin Sheng used the foresight he had in his mind step by step to help his parents become first-generation wealthy; after growing up, he became a "cultural porter" and achieved fame in his youth.

He couldn't call himself filthy rich, but he had no worries about food or clothing in this life, and could be considered successful.

He felt his life had reached its peak.

It wasn't until shortly after the start of his sophomore year that the university football team organized a match against a neighboring school.

At that time, his classmate told Qin Sheng that there was a "barbarian" on the neighboring team with a powerful physique and astonishing strength.

Qin Sheng didn't care at first. Everyone was a normal college student; how strong could someone be?

If he were really that awesome, why wouldn't he be kicking Messi and Ronaldo or punching Tyson to make a name for himself instead of rotting here as a college student?

A barbarian? I’m a Super Saiyan, then!

Just wait, I’ll show him who’s boss on the field.

Will I win?

I will win!

It wasn't until just before the match started that Qin Sheng learned the "barbarian" was named Ye Fan, and that his class also included good brothers Pang Bo, girlfriend Li Xiaoman, classmate Zhou Yi, and others.

Qin Sheng’s vision went black.

Wasn't this supposed to be an urban rebirth novel?

And you’re making me play football against the Ancient Sacred Body?

***, give me a refund!

In the end, Qin Sheng still played. After all, even though Ye Fan had astonishing strength, it was just a friendly match, not "murder football."

It was precisely after that match that Qin Sheng, having realized the truth of the world, changed his mindset. He began to devote most of his time and energy to seeking immortality and the Dao.

Now, three years after graduating from college, in these five years, with all his insights! With his lifelong martial arts! With his heaven-reaching wisdom! With his invincible aptitude!

Qin Sheng had finally cultivated to the peak of the Divine Bridge on Earth!

Of course, this achievement also had a little help from the "golden finger" that suddenly appeared when he met Ye Fan.

Leaning back in his chair, Qin Sheng drifted into thought

"Now I’m just waiting for Ye Fan to go to Mount Tai. It should be soon."

He was the same age as Ye Fan and had been secretly keeping an eye on Ye Tiandi; he estimated the class reunion was coming up soon.

"When the time comes, I’ll hitch a ride and take the Nine Dragons space-ship to the Big Dipper to cultivate."

Cultivating on Earth is just too exhausting. From a cultivator's perspective, this is simply not a place for humans to stay.

The Ninety-Nine Dragon Mountains have drained Earth dry.

"With my golden finger, the Big Dipper is my promised land!"

With a thought, Qin Sheng’s consciousness appeared in a boundless dark space.

There was no concept of direction here, nor any perception of time, only four stars hanging high, emitting a faint light.

Looking closely, each of the four stars contained a phantom. Although they wore different clothes, their faces were exactly the same as Qin Sheng’s.

In fact, they were Qin Sheng—he, located in different worlds.

Initially, Qin Sheng didn't just transmigrate to the *Shrouding the Heavens* world; he had simultaneously transmigrated to an unknown number of other worlds.

The dark space, which Qin Sheng called the "Infinite Land," was the place that connected the countless versions of him.

When a Qin Sheng from another world died, he would appear here, and then the consciousness of the *Shrouding the Heavens* Qin Sheng would take over their bodies in their respective worlds, bringing them back to life.

Those Qin Sheng were truly dead; the ones who reappeared in their worlds were merely the *Shrouding the Heavens* Qin Sheng.

As long as the *Shrouding the Heavens* Qin Sheng could fulfill their last wishes, he could completely inherit their bodies and merge their talents, comprehension, and origins.

At the same time, the power of those Qin Sheng could be added to the *Shrouding the Heavens* Qin Sheng’s body through the Infinite Land, and vice versa.

There were two modes for this power augmentation.

The first is a fixed increase: regardless of whether the other versions of himself were stronger or weaker than the *Shrouding the Heavens* Qin Sheng, one Qin Sheng could fixedly double his combat power.

Four stars, four dead Qin Sheng—that meant four times the base combat power!

The second is a real increase: the extent to which the added power improves the *Shrouding the Heavens* Qin Sheng depends entirely on the strength of the corresponding Qin Sheng from the other world.

If the other Qin Sheng was a mortal, the increase was negligible; if he were a Great Emperor-level figure, the *Shrouding the Heavens* Qin Sheng’s strength would naturally skyrocket.

Both modes had their pros and cons, but they could be switched at any time, so there was no trouble in choosing.

The Qin Sheng represented by these four stars came from the worlds of *Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils*, *The Legend of the Condor Heroes*, *The Smiling, Proud Wanderer*, and *Mr. Vampire*, respectively.

Qin Sheng had already fulfilled the last wishes of all four versions of himself.

Compared to *Shrouding the Heavens*, these four worlds were undoubtedly very weak, but with the fixed combat power increase mode, no matter how weak the world was, the help they provided to Qin Sheng was immense.

And worlds with low power levels were not entirely without merit; Qin Sheng’s ability to cultivate to the peak of the Divine Bridge on Earth was largely due to them.

From the first version of himself who died, who came from the *Demi-Gods* world, Qin Sheng obtained the *North Dark Divine Art*.

Cultivating martial arts from a wuxia world in the *Shrouding the Heavens* universe was undoubtedly a dead end.

But being in the *Shrouding the Heavens* world, Qin Sheng naturally associated the *North Dark Divine Art* with the *Heaven-Swallowing Demon Art* immediately.

Then, Qin Sheng had an idea.

He began to cultivate the *North Dark Divine Art* in the *Shrouding the Heavens* world, and then used the real increase mode to borrow the power of his other selves and absorb it all...

Qin Sheng had achieved fame in his youth and had some social status. After cultivating the *North Dark Divine Art*, he gained extraordinary power, so through his efforts, he came into contact with cultivators in Earth’s cultivation world.

Although they were only very weak rogue cultivators, it allowed Qin Sheng to obtain the cultivation scriptures of the *Shrouding the Heavens* path.

Thus, he began to continuously absorb the internal energy of his other-worldly selves as "great medicine" to improve his own cultivation of the *Shrouding the Heavens* path.

His current cultivation at the peak of the Divine Bridge was filled with effort and sweat.

Qin Sheng couldn't wait to bring his talent to the Big Dipper.

As everyone knows, the Ruthless Empress is also known as Little Qin Sheng.

(End of chapter)