manynovel Chapter 1, The Transmigrator, Su Ye [New book, please add to your collection!]
Chapter 1, The Transmigrator, Su Ye [New book, please add to your collection!]
"Ascending the Heavenly Path, Singing the Heavenly Song, Wielding a Finger to Cover the Sky..."
"Covering the Sky..."
In September, the sun hangs high in the sky above Mount Tai.
The top of Jade Emperor Peak was crowded with tourists. With their windproof jackets, hiking poles, and DSLR cameras, colorful figures moved between the stone steps and the cliff face.
Su Ye stood on a rock at the very edge of Jade Emperor Peak.
He was wearing a gray-blue Taoist robe with a faded belt around his waist.
His strange attire drew furtive glances from several tourists around him.
They were all muttering, "Is he filming a video?" and "These young Taoist priests these days are pretty good at picking camera angles!"
But no one dared to approach Su Ye and strike up a conversation.
The main problem is that Su Ye's face is too gentle and refined, too clean and pure...
Furthermore, he has a rather cold demeanor, which makes people instinctively reluctant to get close to him.
"Is this what they call the Nine Dragons Pulling a Coffin?"
Su Ye looked up at the sky.
Suddenly, something moved deep within the clouds.
That's not an airplane!
Instead, it was a colossal, dark blue-green creature slowly descending from the heavens.
The sea of clouds was pushed aside.
The surging white air currents resembled a slit cut by a knife, from which a chilling blue light shone.
"Holy crap! What is that thing?!"
The first to shout was a chubby little boy wearing a red windbreaker.
He nearly dropped the camera from his hand; the lens was pointed at the sky, and he froze on the spot.
Gradually, more and more people raised their heads.
The clouds in the sky parted.
Nine jet-black dragon corpses hung from the crack, their scales inlaid with dark red rust marks, their heads bowed.
The dragon's whiskers fluttered in the wind, its eyes closed, as if it had been asleep for countless years...
Each dragon was ridiculously large; even a single fingernail on one of its claws was thicker than the large stone tablet atop the Jade Emperor Peak.
Behind them dragged a bronze coffin, its body covered in layers of mottled patina and engraved with inscriptions that no one could understand.
silence……
The entire Jade Emperor Peak fell into a deathly silence in an instant.
Then things exploded.
"Dragons...it's dragons! There are nine dragons!"
"2012! The end of the world! The Mayans were right!"
"Aliens! It must be an alien invasion!"
"Run!"
Screams, cries, and the clatter of trekking poles hitting the stone slabs mingled together.
The crowd surged toward the mountain path like a swarm of startled ants, their rain jackets scraping against each other with a harsh rustling sound.
Some people tripped and fell, some lost their backpacks, and some held onto their children's wrists tightly as they rushed down the mountain.
"I knew I shouldn't have climbed Mount Tai!"
"Run!"
"Retreat that way!"
"Don't push! Damn it, who stepped on my shoe!"
Su Ye stood still, staring intently at the nine dragon corpses and the bronze coffin, his pupils slightly contracting.
The divine power within the Sea of Bitterness surged spontaneously, causing a slight tremor to emanate from it.
Nine dragons pulling a coffin...
coming!
Ye Fan grabbed Lin Jia's arm and swerved against the crowd to the right side of the mountain path.
They were a group of about twenty young people, all classmates who came to climb Mount Tai on the weekend.
We were just taking photos at the Jade Emperor Peak when the sky suddenly changed.
"This way! Don't get separated!"
Ye Fan sidestepped a middle-aged man who was running towards him.
Lin Jia stumbled a couple of steps as he pulled her, a thin layer of sweat appearing on her forehead, and half of her ponytail came undone.
She glanced back at the sky, her face as white as paper, and asked, "Ye Fan, what exactly is that?!"
"Stop looking, run!"
Ye Fan gritted his teeth.
He didn't know what it was, but his intuition told him he couldn't stay where he was.
His gaze swept across the Jade Emperor Peak, then paused.
On a large rock at the edge of the summit, stood a young man dressed in a Taoist robe.
He did not panic and run around like the other tourists.
The profile was clearly defined in the dark blue light of the sky, with high-set eyes gazing at the extraterrestrial object descending from the heavens.
Surrounded by a crowd of people crying and running away, he stood alone on the very edge, as quiet as an outsider.
Ye Fan slowed his pace.
Lin Jia immediately panicked and grabbed him, saying, "Ye Fan! What are you standing there for!"
Ye Fan glanced at Su Ye and said to Lin Jia, "That Taoist priest..."
"What Taoist priest? Get out of here!"
Ye Fan shook off Lin Jia's hand, took two steps towards Su Ye, and called out in a raised voice, "Young Taoist priest!"
"Something strange is falling from the sky! Get out of here!"
Su Ye turned her head.
The moment their eyes met, the hairs on the back of Ye Fan's neck stood on end.
The young Taoist priest's eyes didn't seem malicious, but they gave you a feeling of being seen through, like a thin layer of ice on your skin.
"Ye Fan, run! There's no time left!"
Lin Jia was so anxious that her voice started to crack, and she wished she could give Ye Fan a good beating.
Su Ye's eyebrows twitched slightly after hearing the name "Ye Fan".
Ye Fan...
No, it's Ye Hei.
The future Emperor Ye!
Su Ye's lips curled up almost imperceptibly, then her expression returned to normal.
Just then, a muffled thud came from above.
As the aura of the Nine Dragons Pulling the Coffin pressed down, the rock walls at the edge of Jade Emperor Peak began to crack.
A half-meter square piece of bluestone broke off from the top of the cliff and crashed straight down on Su Ye, carrying with it rubble and dust.
"careful--!"
Ye Fan's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively wanted to rush over, but before he could take a step, he was pushed back half a step by a wave of air.
"what!"
Upon seeing this, Lin Jia screamed and immediately covered her mouth.
The large rock came crashing down very fast.
But Su Ye turned around even faster.
He did not dodge, but instead raised his hand and threw a punch. The wide sleeves of his Taoist robe were billowed by the force of the energy, and golden divine power emanated from his fist.
boom!
A half-meter-long bluestone was pierced through in mid-air, and divine power turned the entire stone into dust.
The fine stone powder scattered in the wind into a grayish-white mist, slowly settling on Su Ye's shoulders and the top of her hair.
Su Ye lowered his fist and dusted off the dust from his sleeve.
Jade Emperor Peak suddenly fell silent.
The tourists who were running at the back, along with Ye Fan's classmates, were frozen in place, their mouths agape, unable to utter a single word.
Ye Fan stood five meters away, his eyes filled with shock.
He is not a naive or unsophisticated person.
He's naturally more composed than his peers, but that punch just now...
That's not human power!
It's not martial arts, it's not qigong...
This young Taoist priest has practiced!
That kind of power is something on another level.
While Ye Fan was filled with shock, a certain string in his heart was quietly plucked...
Lin Jia was the first to come to her senses.
She ran up and grabbed Ye Fan's sleeve, her eyes fixed on Su Ye, and exclaimed in shock, "Superpowers?!"
"Do you have superpowers?!"
Su Ye glanced at her.
Lin Jia, a supporting female character in the original novel, is Ye Fan's classmate, and later...
He couldn't quite remember.
I read "Covering the Sky" more than ten years ago in my previous life, and many details are blurry now, but I still remember the overall framework clearly.