Chapter 1: The Man in Shrouding the Sky, Location: Mount Tai Station!

Jade Emperor Peak of Mount Tai.

At this moment, atop the Jade Emperor Peak at the summit of Mount Tai, a group of young men and women were chatting and laughing in groups of threes and fives.

Lu Chen stood at the edge of the cliff, facing the wind, gazing far into the distance, overlooking the buildings and vegetation on the earth below that looked as small as ants, and a magnificent feeling suddenly arose in his heart.

At this moment, Lu Chen finally understood what kind of feeling it was that the Supreme Sage and Teacher Confucius once spoke of, "He who climbs Mount Tai feels the world is small," as well as what the Sage of Poetry Du Feng wrote in his poem, "To ascend to the very summit and gaze down upon all other mountains as small."

"Such a magnificent scenery, this trip has not been made in vain."

Ye Fan, standing shoulder to shoulder with Lu Chen, looked at the Elder Yunxia dyed red by the setting sun on the horizon, uttered a sigh, and then suddenly smiled, turned his head to look at Lu Chen, and said:

"Legend has it that Mount Tai can connect the Three Realms, linking the Heavenly Court above and the Underworld below."

"This Jade Emperor Peak is known as the place closest to the heavens, which is why emperors in ancient times liked to come to Mount Tai to perform the Fengchan ceremony and sacrifice to heaven."

"Brother Chen, do you think there really are Immortals in this world?"

Hearing Ye Fan's voice, Lu Chen also came back to his senses.

However, before Lu Chen could speak, Liu Yunzhi not far away sneered loudly and said:

"Ye Fan, could it be that you have gone mad?"

"This is already the twenty-first century, and there are still people dreaming of cultivating to become an Immortal?"

Li Changqing and Wang Yan, who were gathered with Liu Yunzhi, also chimed in and sneered.

Facing the mockery of Liu Yunzhi and the others, Ye Fan couldn't be bothered to pay attention to them, and continued smiling as he said to Lu Chen:

"Brother Chen, I suddenly feel that the scenery here is a bit an eye-sore, let's go stroll around somewhere else."

"You…"

Hearing Ye Fan's covertly scolding words, Liu Yunzhi's expression immediately darkened, and just as he wanted to say something, Lu Chen and Ye Fan had already walked far away by this time.

"Right, Brother Chen, after the gathering just now, what did you say to Liu Yiyi and Zhang Wenchang and the others? Why did they all go straight home?"

Ye Fan suddenly remembered and asked somewhat curiously.

"Nothing much."

Lu Chen didn't explain too much either, smiled slightly, turned his head to look at Ye Fan, and said:

"Leafy, if you trust me, send a message to your parents right now saying that you have found a chance at immortality this time and have to leave for a period of time. Tell them not to worry and just wait peacefully at home for your return."

"Ah?"

Ye Fan was slightly stunned, and then asked with confusion:

"Brother Chen, given our relationship, of course I believe you."

"But the chance at immortality you mentioned…"

"Leafy, these past few years since graduation, haven't you always been collecting and exploring legends related to ancient myths?"

"If I tell you now that those Immortals in myths truly exist, would you believe it?"

Lu Chen said to Ye Fan with a serious expression.

Looking at Lu Chen's serious expression, after hesitating slightly, Ye Fan still took out his phone and edited a message to his parents.

"Brother Chen…"

After finishing editing the message, just as Ye Fan wanted to ask something more, he saw Lu Chen raise his head to look at the sky, his expression becoming excited.

"It's coming!"

Hearing this, Ye Fan also raised his head to look, only to see several tiny black dots suddenly appear in the previously clear sky.

Then these black dots were rapidly growing larger at a speed visible to the naked eye. Clearly, something was plummeting down from the sky at high speed. Due to the excessive speed, bursts of wind-and-thunder sounds even resounded in the air.

"What is this thing?"

At this time, the other classmates present also noticed the situation in the sky.

And after everyone saw the appearance of this thing, everyone was stunned and froze in place in astonishment.

"A Dragon!"

"It's a Dragon!"

Seeing this incredible scene, after the initial astonishment, everyone immediately became as chaotic as a boiling pot of porridge.

"There seems to be something behind the Dragon!"

Ye Fan, who was also shocked by the scene before him, noticed more details.

"That… that seems to be a coffin?"

As time passed, everyone also saw the full picture of that thing clearly.

They saw nine gigantic black dragons, a hundred meters long, pulling a quaintly styled bronze ancient coffin, plummeting rapidly from the sky toward the Jade Emperor Peak.

Then, before everyone could react, this nine dragons pulling the coffin heavily smashed into a location not far from them.

Boom!

The nine behemoths descended like nine mountain ridges, shattering the Jade Emperor Peak and causing huge cracks to split open, with soil and rocks flying everywhere and dust and sand filling the air.

With a loud clang, that bronze ancient coffin also smashed onto the summit of Mount Tai, shaking the mountain body and making the entire Mount Tai tremble as if an earthquake had occurred.

At this time, Lu Chen and the others were also shaken quite heavily by the shockwave produced by this violent collision.

Fortunately, the flying stones scattered all over the sky did not land where they were, so although everyone was covered in dust, no one was injured.

Soon, the shaking stopped, and the smoke and dust dispersed.

Right in front of everyone, the nine gigantic black dragons, a hundred meters long, had most of their bodies lying quietly across the mountain peak, while a small portion hung below the cliff, resembling a black steel great wall, filled with a shocking sense of power and a huge visual impact.

Although these nine black dragons looked majestic in Aura, their entire bodies were filled with an Aura of death and stillness, clearly being nine dragon corpses that had been dead for I don't know how long.

Behind the dragon corpses, the twenty-meter-long bronze coffin was plain and unadorned, with some blurry ancient patterns on it, filled with a sense of the vicissitudes of time, and it seemed as if a mysterious Qi was flowing around it.

The Jade Emperor Peak of Mount Tai was shattered, and the ground centered around the bronze ancient coffin split open into terrifying large cracks, spreading in all directions like a spiderweb.

"I… let's hurry down the mountain!"

Facing such a terrifying scene, the group of classmates present were all gathered together at this moment, their faces filled with expressions of fear and panic.

"What is that thing?"

Just at this moment, Ye Fan's ex-girlfriend Li Xiaoman suddenly noticed something, and raised her hand to point at the location of the crack ahead.

Following the direction of Li Xiaoman's finger, everyone also noticed the anomaly beneath the crack.

They saw that beneath this crack, there was unexpectedly a circular altar piled up from five-colored soil.

Above this circular altar, a broken piece of jade was also placed, shaped like a jade book.

Seeing this thing, Ye Fan, who had read quite a few ancient texts, immediately thought that this might be the altar used by ancient emperors to perform Fengchan and sacrifice to heaven on Mount Tai.

Looking along the crack, there was more than one altar below, and directly beneath the location where the bronze ancient coffin landed, there was actually a huge super altar.

This super-large five-colored stone altar was obviously different from the other earthen altars. Located in the central position of the Jade Emperor Peak, it was grand and magnificent, far larger than those earthen altars.

How immense was the impact force of that bronze coffin falling from the sky, yet it unexpectedly did not smash open even the slightest crack on it, without a single spot of damage. It was hard to imagine what kind of strange stone it was piled up from.