Rebirth of a Quasi-Immortal Spirit

“It is not the act of a gentleman to stand by and watch someone die. However, we cannot mobilize our spiritual power or take out the magic treasures nurtured in our dantian. Facing these villains with our bare hands will inevitably carry the risk of injury, so we must be careful. You go and stop the one with the knife in front, and I will flank from the side and hold off the other one.”

In no time, Gao Zhun quietly devised a battle plan with Ah Zhong. Although they had lost their cultivation, their physical abilities remained. Upon receiving the mission, Ah Zhong immediately sprang into action, tackling the man holding the knife to the ground. The other man, seeing this, was about to help, but Gao Zhun, who approached from the side, also pinned him to the ground. Thus, both villains were subdued.

Gao Zhun handed the man on his side to Ah Zhong, instructing him to keep an eye on him, before proceeding to free the kidnapped, nearly murdered man from the ropes and blindfold.

"You... saved me?"

Gao Zhun looked away, somewhat unable to bear to look at the face that once belonged to her now displaying such a foolish expression. Seeing that she had saved the person and was not affected, he had some guesses in his mind. He simply said coldly, "Why don't you call the police and ask the police uncle to come over?"

Upon hearing this, she realized what was happening, but her phone had already been thrown away by the two men. So she ran over to them and fumbled around until she finally managed to find a phone.

Gao Zhun, upon seeing his past life, did not immediately call 110. Instead, he first used the internet to locate his current coordinates and then called his lawyer before dialing 110. Only then did he patiently wait with Gao Zhun and Ah Zhong for the police to arrive.

"Thank you so much, you saved my life." Although she was puzzled by Gao Zhun and Ah Zhong's attire, she was still very grateful to them after recovering from her shock. At that time, she could feel the cold blade against her neck. With the slightest force, blood would splatter everywhere. To be saved in such a desolate place, she must have accumulated good karma in her past life.

At this moment, Gao Zhun had already instructed Ah Zhong to tie the two men together with hemp rope. Although Ah Zhong was very skeptical about whether the hemp rope would be effective, he thought that these were just ordinary people, and such a rope would be enough.

"Well, my brother and I have been away from the film crew for too long, so we won't keep you waiting for the police." Gao Zhun silently calculated the time. The police would probably arrive soon. She and Ah Zhong were currently unregistered, and even if they did something heroic, they felt they wouldn't get away with it under police questioning. So, they could only look for an opportunity to slip away.

As for Ah Zhong, from the moment he keenly realized that the world had deviated from his understanding, he stopped speaking. However, his gaze toward Gao Zhun was somewhat strange. Compared to him, Gao Zhun seemed too at ease, which made people suspicious.

"Hmm? You're leaving already? I haven't thanked you yet..." Seeing Gao Zhun's determined look, Qian Shi bit her lip and could only compromise: "Could you leave your contact information? And your names, my saviors, I have to know your names."

Gao Zhun's excuse about the film crew dispelled the chaotic thoughts in her mind from her previous life. However, she was also a person who always repaid kindness. Seeing that the other party was determined to do good deeds anonymously, she immediately became anxious. Knowing that she couldn't keep the other party, she stopped forcing it. But she still wanted to know the other party's name and contact information so that she could formally thank him in person in the future.

"No need." Hearing the police sirens in the distance, Gao Zhun's face grew even more anxious. Regardless of whether she could keep two grown men in her past life, she dragged Ah Zhong away. Anyway, the police would arrive in three to five minutes, and she wasn't afraid of any accidents.

Gao Zhun quickly pulled Ah Zhong away from the scene and breathed a sigh of relief. However, Ah Zhong did not feel relieved. She looked around warily and subconsciously asked, "Master, do you know where we are?"

When Ah Zhong asked him this, Gao Zhun's mind raced, and he replied, "I had seen a description of this place in a travelogue in my mother's room before. I found it very interesting and took a few more glances at it. I never expected that this secret realm would use this background."

As he spoke, Gao Zhun fabricated a nonexistent travelogue, using the name of a powerful cultivator at the Tribulation Transcending stage. He claimed that during a battle with an enemy after his tribulation, he was accidentally blasted into a spatial tunnel and arrived in a non-immortal civilization. In that world, humanity had only recently appeared, and although there were almost no cultivators due to a lack of spiritual energy, a different mechanical civilization had emerged, capable of achieving flight and teleportation with the help of external objects. Moreover, the laws of that world followed a law called physics, and because of that law, humans could never become cultivators like them.

He briefly explained to Ah Zhong why he was so familiar with this world, regardless of whether Ah Zhong believed him or not. He then explained some precautions and common sense about this world, and finally explained why he had just taken Ah Zhong away. This temporarily silenced Ah Zhong's many questions.

"Is this the identification you mentioned, Master?" As he spoke, Ah Zhong took out two ID cards from his wide sleeves. Gao Zhun took them and saw that they were exactly what she and Ah Zhong looked like at that moment. Moreover, they even had their home addresses on them. Sure enough, this secret realm wouldn't abandon its responsibilities. But why were these things with Ah Zhong?

Seeing Gao Zhun's puzzled look, Ah Zhong himself was also a little confused. He only said, "When Master dragged me away just now, I found that there were some things in my sleeves. These two plaques are just some of them. There are others. Let me take them out for you."

As he spoke, Ah Zhong began to rummage through his sleeves. When Gao Zhun saw a series of documents, including a property deed and several sets of keys, she finally felt relieved. However, when she saw Ah Zhong also pull out two sets of modern clothes, one for a man and one for a woman, from his sleeves, her lips twitched slightly. So much for the "hidden treasures in sleeves" trick? Although Ah Zhong's wide sleeves could indeed hold all these things.

Of course, the most useful thing in this pile was a piece of paper, which roughly described Gao Zhun and A Zhong's current identities. Gao Zhun's quick thinking was indeed correct; this secret realm did indeed set their identities as siblings, the kind who own a car and a house, and whose parents are deceased. Both of them are freelancers, so it wouldn't be a big deal for them to go to a film set to shoot a movie. Of course, to outsiders, their appearance is completely different from their original selves. Although they are still beautiful and handsome, their looks are far inferior to their real selves. There's no way around it; after all, they need to be kept within a normal range. As for the most useful information Gao Zhun has seen so far, it's naturally that there's still a car for her and A Zhong at the foot of the mountain. A Zhong has never done driving before, so naturally, she'll have to do it.

This setting is pretty ordinary. When Gao Zhun and Ah Zhong bypassed the group of people from their past lives and the police, and arrived at the vehicle prepared for them in the secret realm, Gao Zhun curled his lip and saw that it was just a common Toyota.

Unlike Gao Zhun's dissatisfaction, Ah Zhong was quite interested in the metal shell, perhaps because it was related to his metal-attribute immortal root, and he felt a sense of familiarity with the metal-made vehicle.

But now is not the time to complain. She ushered Ah Zhong, who was still full of curiosity, into the car, and then she got into the driver's seat herself. After starting the car skillfully, it sped off on the highway, which surprised Ah Zhong even more.

"What makes this thing called a car move? It's slow, but it's amazing."

Listening to Ah Zhong's words, Gao Zhun patiently pointed to the fuel gauge on the car and said, "It's fuel. There's a fuel tank inside. When we get home, I'll prepare a set of encyclopedias for you to read. Just bear with it for now."

Because he couldn't use his sword to travel thousands of miles in an instant, even though the distance was only a few dozen kilometers, it still took Gao Zhun two hours to get himself and Ah Zhong back to the address on their ID cards due to speed limits and traffic congestion. It was a very ordinary residential area. After taking the elevator to the designated floor and opening the door, Gao Zhun carefully looked around. The apartment was fully furnished with all the necessary appliances. Although it was only a three-bedroom apartment, it was acceptable, since they would only be staying for ten days anyway.

Gao Zhun and his family lived on the twentieth floor. Ah Zhong had never seen such a tall building before, so he naturally leaned on the balcony and looked down through the transparent window. Such a height was nothing to him; he had flown much higher when he first flew on his sword. However, in this world without cultivators, if he were to fall, he would be reduced to ashes.

Upon seeing this, Gao Zhun went straight into the study and, sure enough, found an encyclopedia on the bookshelf. She also picked out two more books, "Five Thousand Years of Chinese History" and "Complete History of the World," placing the three thick books in front of Ah Zhong, indicating that he should take a look when he had time.

“Master, something’s not right here.” Ah Zhong suddenly frowned, and then he flicked his right hand in the air, a movement that seemed strangely familiar to Gao Zhun.

How could I not be familiar with it? Back then, Wuya Qiubai did the same thing in that secret realm in Yongcheng, and that's how he discovered the power of the law of time.

"The flow of time here... I can feel it. One year in this space is equivalent to one day in our own time. A ten-day mission in this secret realm will take us ten years to complete!"

Hearing this, Gao Zhun was speechless. She had been tricked again, but this indirectly proved her earlier guess: this world wasn't real, not the actual Earth, but simply appeared in this form for some reason. She had even more reason to believe that they were in this story setting because of her. If that were true, then the secret to clearing this secret realm would be self-evident.