A Comprehensive Network: An Endless Adventure Begins as a Wanderer

Towering mountain peaks.

As usual, Yun passed by the Ancestral Hall. Recently, several fruit trees on the mountainside had borne fruit, and he planned to pick a few to try.

This fruit tree is quite strange; it only bears fruit in the summer...

"Yunyi".

The sudden call startled him.

Then he saw his master standing solemnly in the ancestral hall.

In that instant, Yun Yi quickly went through all the things she had done recently in her mind.

I don't think I've done anything wrong lately...

As he thought this, he respectfully responded.

"Master, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Go down the mountain and find your senior brother."

Yun Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

At least it wasn't me who committed the crime.

As for my senior brother?

wish you luck...

Yunyi quickly went down the mountain and, after asking around in the village, learned that his senior brother had taken a fellow villager's tricycle to the town.

Yun Yi was completely unsurprised; his senior brother spent less time in the village and more time in the town.

The reason is that there are internet cafes in the town...

When Yunyi finally found his senior brother, he was engrossed in a game in a smoke-filled internet cafe.

"Go to point A, I'll flank from behind..."

"Hey! Don't panic, he's seriously injured, he's seriously injured!"

Yun Yi waited quietly for his senior brother to lose the game, then patted him on the shoulder.

The senior student turned his head and laughed.

"Xiao Yizi, you've finally decided to come down the mountain? I knew it, it would be strange if young people didn't like playing video games..."

Yun Yi sighed.

"Senior brother, it was Master who sent me to call you back to the mountain."

"Good luck to you."

……

……

Yunyi and her senior brother sat upright, while their master across from them sipped his tea without saying a word.

Neither of them dared to breathe.

After a long while, the master finally sighed.

"At dawn this morning, one character of the Taoist scripture passed down by the patriarch lit up."

"Those are scrolls recording the manifestations and obscurities of the world's moral traditions..."

"Yun Min, Yun Yi, the Dharma-ending Age has been long, so long that even I am not sure if it is truly real..."

"But this world seems to be different..."

"I am withered and dying, but you two are different. You possess some natural talent, and perhaps you will be able to see the day when the world turns white..."

Yun Min hesitated for a moment, but finally asked.

"Master, I wonder which word is lit up."

The old Taoist priest, with his white hair, suddenly had a glimmer of light and darkness in his originally cloudy eyes.

"...Darkness..."

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Deep in the ocean, on a tranquil island.

In the island's church, a serene pastor is bowing his head in prayer.

Behind him were a few believers, all seemingly praying.

This isn't to say that faith is weak here, but rather that the population is also sparse on this island deep in the ocean...

Suddenly, the pastor, who had been praying with his eyes closed, abruptly opened them.

"The Lord says, a deep shadow is beginning to rise again..."

The devout believer was somewhat surprised and quickly asked.

"Has another evil force invaded the human world?"

The pastor tilted his head, as if listening to something.

Then he slowly shook his head, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"No, this shadow is not evil..."

"But it is by no means lawful or virtuous..."

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Bai Qiu stared at the dark ceiling.

She suffered from insomnia again.

This is nothing new.

Since her decision to retire at the age of fourteen, she has gotten used to staying up late at night, listening to the chirping of insects outside the window and the occasional sound of a car passing by in the distance.

She knew very well why she couldn't sleep: it stemmed from her extraordinary charm.

She felt at ease in her father's theater troupe.

But even those with extraordinary abilities ultimately harbor a heart that is unwilling to accept defeat.

Her charm brought her opportunities, but also dangers.

There's also a sense of mystery and enigma.

That indescribable, intangible yet real feeling always trembles slightly in the quiet of the night, as if responding to something, or calling out to something.

It's especially strong tonight.

That feeling never stopped after I returned from the theater troupe.

Bai Qiu turned over, buried her face in the pillow, and let out a muffled groan.

"What is it...?"

No one answered her.

The moonlight outside the window was faint, seeping in through the gaps in the curtains and drawing a thin silver line on the floor.

Extraordinary, unwilling to accept defeat.

She had never longed for power so much.

One's own charm must be a kind of supernatural ability; in a fantasy world, it might be a special physique or extraordinary talent.

Unfortunately, he disappeared without a trace over the past decade.

It has charm but no method.

unwilling.

Bai Qiu stared at the silver line for a long time, then suddenly sat up.

I'm not going to sleep.

She simply got up and sat down at the table.

Her clean-cut face was reflected in the makeup mirror on the table.

She took out her phone, opened Baidu, typed a few words in the search bar, and then deleted them.

Bai Qiu didn't know what to search for.

"Supernatural phenomenon"?

That's so cringeworthy.

"The method to awaken superpowers?"

So stupid.

"How to become a magical girl?"

So embarrassing.

Taoist scriptures or texts?

Putting aside the authenticity of these online materials, even if they were true, Bai Qiu felt she wouldn't understand them...

She turned off her phone, lay back down on the bed, and stared blankly at the shifting shadows and dim light on the ceiling.

Whoever it is, at least give me a way to go...

And before she knew it, she gradually felt sleepy again.

But just before she fell completely asleep, Bai Qiu suddenly woke up.

Just now, the shadow on the ceiling seemed to have received her thoughts...

That seemed to be a deep and secluded place...

Bai Qiu sat up, nervously awaiting the unknown response.

But time slowly passed, and everything continued as usual.

Nothing happened.

Bai Qiu looked at the faintly whitening light of dawn and sighed.

It seems I was just daydreaming again...

Fortunately, high school students' summer vacation started a few days ago, and Bai Qiu went back to bed.

Her mindset shifted quickly; she was already thinking about whether she could sleep until noon while her father was away…

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Seven cycles of the sun and moon, and the alternation of day and night.

Everything seemed normal, yet something had changed.

The invisible cocoon within the Cheng family's old residence slowly began to open.

Cheng Yi felt as if he had just had a nightmare.

In his dream, he felt as if he had fallen out of this world.

It's similar to the Minecraft experience, except instead of empty space, you're surrounded by deep shadows...

The world receded further and further above him until it disappeared completely.

In that deep shadow, he was embraced and accepted.

The shadow tried to assimilate him, but golden light burst forth from his ethereal body.

The Myriad Formations Forging Furnace, which had originally been integrated into his limbs and bones, once again coalesced into a cauldron, absorbing the endless dark shadows, and then rushed back into Cheng Yi's body.

In that instant, Cheng Yi felt himself being stretched to infinity, and then utterly collapsed.

Then came a long period of slumber.

In that long slumber, assimilation began once again...

This time, however, it was Cheng Yi who was assimilating the shadows.

But the shadow was simply too vast. He tried his best, but before the golden light of the Myriad Manifestations Forging Furnace dissipated, he only managed to assimilate a small portion of it.

However, after assimilating some of the shadows, the remaining shadows no longer rejected him.

Perhaps they mistook him for one of their own kind?

As the golden light dissipated, Cheng Yi slowly opened his eyes.

Then he looked at his body, which resembled a humanoid shadow, and fell into deep thought.

I've become the Master of Shadows?