My classmates chose martial arts and fantasy, but I chose the prehistoric world.

Just as Meng Chuan left the ancestral land of the Witch Clan and headed towards the Netherworld Blood Sea—

Blue Star, January 5th, 3:22 AM.

The night was deep and all was quiet.

Daxia, the old town of Yuncheng, the attic of Lao Meng's convenience store.

Meng Xiaoyu curled up on the narrow single bed, her brows furrowed and her breathing rapid.

She dreamt again of that blindingly bright morning four months ago, of the golden light shooting into the sky, of her brother's last glance back within that light, of her mother fainting, of her father weeping bitterly…

"elder brother……"

She murmured unconsciously, tears sliding down her cheeks.

Sudden--

hum! !

A sharp tremor that acted directly on the soul instantly pulled her out of the nightmare!

The entire residential building shook violently, the windowpanes rattled, and dust fell in a flurry.

In the distance came the wailing of car sirens and faint cries of alarm.

"Another earthquake?"

Meng Xiaoyu sat up abruptly, her heart pounding.

Since the beginning of the era of countless worlds eight hundred years ago, earthquakes have become a common occurrence for the people of Earth.

But this time it felt completely different.

There was no muffled thud of the earth, no dizzying swaying, but rather a shockwave that made one's soul groan, as if a dozen invisible behemoths were clashing madly with stars as their weapons in a very distant place!

Meng Xiaoyu clutched her chest, her face pale, and subconsciously looked out the window towards the northeast.

There, the night sky was repeatedly bathed in an eerie, ever-changing light of dark red and pale white...

It was as if countless thunderbolts and flames were rolling and exploding deep in the clouds, illuminating half of the sky as if it were hell!

From the more distant horizon, a deep, muffled roar, like that of an ancient behemoth, could be faintly heard.

Then came the second, third, fourth... increasingly intense and violent energy surges!

As the breathtaking light shimmered across the sky, it washed over her senses from thousands of kilometers away.

It was as if a dozen gods and demons were engaged in a life-or-death battle above the land of cherry blossoms, a battle beyond the comprehension of mortals but powerful enough to shake the continental plates.

The battle seemed to last for a very long time, yet it also felt like it only lasted a dozen minutes.

When everything finally calmed down, the dark red and pale light in the northeastern sky slowly dissipated and was swallowed up by the night once again.

All that remained was a deathly silence, and the faint, chilling aftereffects of destruction that lingered in the air.

Meng Xiaoyu sat blankly on the edge of the bed, her hands and feet icy cold.

She didn't know what was happening, but a huge, ominous premonition overwhelmed her like a cold tide.

Three hours later, the sky began to lighten.

The same explosive news was all over the world:

A deadly battle has erupted among unidentified superhumans in the skies above Japan! Casualties are unknown!

The satellite images are shocking.

The main population center of the Cherry Blossom Country was protected by a giant light shield and remained safe and sound.

But in the sparsely populated areas not yet covered by the sea, the earth was torn apart, the seawater overflowed, and the ruins of villages and towns and broken mountains were faintly visible in the murky seawater, stretching for hundreds of miles...

There were no clear images of the attackers, only a few extremely blurry frames captured from high above.

A humanoid being shrouded in overwhelming demonic energy clashed and collided with more than a dozen other figures enveloped in various colored lights, causing the ground to continuously light up with blinding spots representing the eruption of terrifying energy!

The world is in uproar!

Such widespread destruction could not have been caused by someone returning from a fantasy world!

who is it? !

Just as the world was gripped by shock and suspicion—

A voice clearly reached the ears of every human being on Earth.

The voice was young, cold, and had a bewitching echo, along with an undisguised weariness and resentment.

"What a magnificent country of cherry blossoms! It possesses such a powerful protective array!"

"Since you won't give me a chance to avenge my ancestors' deaths a thousand years ago due to the invasion of the Sakura Kingdom, then don't blame me, Shi Hao, for flipping the table!!"

The voice paused for a moment, but the next sentence was like a thunderclap, completely shattering the entire Blue Star!

"Fellow citizens of Earth..."

"The 'Departure Day' for those who are sixteen years old but under seventeen, and the so-called choice between 'martial arts, fantasy, and prehistoric' genres, is nothing but a lie used by wealthy families and some ambitious individuals to deceive the world."

"If, during teleportation, one meditates on the 'Immortal and Demonic World'..."

"Then there will be a fourth option!"

"Randomly transported to the Celestial Realm, or—the Demon Realm!"

"An orange pillar of light descends, transporting us to the Celestial Realm!"

"A red beam of light descends, teleporting you to the Demon Realm!"

"I, Shi Hao, a student from the Second High School of the Great Xia Imperial Capital who returned from the myriad realms four months ago, am someone who...returned from the Demon Realm!"

"Of course, I only found out about this because a certain spoiled young master from Beijing No. 1 High School said something inappropriate while drunk... I should thank him, because without his reminder, I wouldn't be where I am today!"

The voice carried sarcasm and endless chill.

"I don't know what the immortal realm is like."

"But the Demon Realm... is a place where the strong prey on the weak, and slaughter is eternal! The weakest among those who can return alive from there are far stronger than the top beings in the High Immortal World—those at the Tribulation Transcending stage!"

"Like now, unless the powerful immortals from the Cherry Blossom Kingdom who have gone far away return, these Xuanxian they left behind... even if they were to tie them together and set up a killing formation, they still wouldn't be able to stop me!"

"However, the most formidable thing is the planetary array that covers the entire Blue Star... It must have been set up by countries around the world using resources obtained from the outer heavens and the realms of immortals and demons, right?"

"Otherwise, based on my battle with them just now, Earth would no longer exist!"

That's all I have to say. Take care of yourself!

The sound faded away.

It left behind a lifeless blue planet, as if it had been plunged into an ice age.

A good ten seconds or so passed.

boom---!!!

The world is in complete chaos!

"Immortals and demons...a world of immortals and demons?!"

"A fourth option?!"

"Orange beam of light! Red beam of light!"

"The Demon Realm! He's from the Demon Realm! No wonder he's so terrifying!"

"So that's the secret hidden behind the departure date! No wonder those top-tier wealthy families always produce some incredibly powerful returnees! They're not going to martial arts or fantasy worlds, they're going to the immortal realm and the demon realm!"

"According to those who have returned from the High Immortal World... the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm are higher-level worlds, the worlds that powerful cultivators in the Tribulation Transcending stage of the High Immortal World ascend to! Those who cultivate immortality go to the Immortal Realm, and those who cultivate demonic arts go to the Demon Realm!"

"So, we can directly reach those two transcendent worlds that surpass the world of high immortals?"

"A Xuanxian? A powerful being from the Immortal Realm? They actually have the ability to travel to beyond the heavens? Even a Nascent Soul stage expert returning from a high-level immortal world couldn't traverse the universe with their physical body, could they?"

The global internet exploded instantly, and public opinion was in an uproar!

Anger, shock, greed, fear, the fury of being fooled... a maddening mix of emotions!

Especially within the Great Xia Dynasty, public sentiment was surging, with doubts and anger directed at the upper echelons who knew the inside story.

"Why hide it?!"

"Why are they the only ones allowed to go to the Celestial Realm and the Demon Realm?!"

"Are ordinary people like us only fit to gamble our lives in martial arts and fantasy worlds?!"

"Give us an explanation!!"

……

Just as domestic public opinion was about to completely spiral out of control and public discontent was reaching its peak—

While other countries on Earth remained silent, the Great Xia government was the first to respond!