Flame Emperor Battles Sadako, Yun Yun’s Fear

"Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly live? Just choose yes or no!"

Xiao Yan rubbed his eyes and carefully examined the mysterious light screen before him. It had abruptly appeared, looked technologically advanced yet eerie, and completely clashed with the setting. Once he confirmed it was not an illusion, his heart began pounding.

A cheat, a golden finger—weren’t those essential traits for a transmigrator? Otherwise, how could an ordinary person possibly turn the tables against the odds and reach the pinnacle of life after transmigrating? After all, life in the real world had already been less than satisfactory. It was always thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—never bully a poor young man.

In the end, wouldn’t it become never bully a poor middle-aged man, never bully a poor old man? And eventually, the dead deserved respect, buried in a box beneath a cupful of dirt.

Without some special ability or golden finger, unless one was born into a good family in another world, one could only enjoy wealth and prosperity for a lifetime.

But on the Dou Qi Continent, strength reigned supreme. There were no laws or rules here. If someone disliked you, they could kill you in the street.

If your background was deep enough and your strength great enough, there would even be people praising the killing!

Xiao Yan’s luck had not been too bad. He had been born the young master of a small clan. Unfortunately, his luck had also been terrible. His cultivation talent had vanished just like that. According to the Xiao Family’s rules, once he came of age, he could only be sent to an even smaller place to manage the family business and live out an ordinary life.

Xiao Yan could never accept such a fate.

Now, after reaching the end of his rope, his golden finger had finally arrived.

Without much hesitation, Xiao Yan chose yes!

"Welcome to the world of Infinite Terror! Here, you can change your destiny and even become an existence like a transcendent!"

A mechanical, genderless voice rang out, and Xiao Yan vanished in an instant.

Inside a small, technologically advanced room in the Main God Space, a white sphere flickering with an eerie glow appeared before Xiao Yan.

"Where is this?" Xiao Yan asked.

The white sphere flashed and replied, "This is the Main God Space. From this moment onward, you are a Reincarnator, Xiao Yan from Doupo Cangqiong World No. 10086."

"Doupo Cangqiong? Is that the name of my world? Why does it sound like some novel? And an especially cringey one at that. Why would anyone go around breaking the sky for no reason?" Xiao Yan grumbled.

The white sphere did not speak.

Seeing this, Xiao Yan asked again, "I’m a Reincarnator. Then what are you?"

"The sphere you see is an avatar projection of the Main God Space’s consciousness. You may understand it as an intelligent brain, specifically responsible for answering questions during your novice period and explaining the details of basic missions," the white sphere said.

"Is that so? Then how do I defy fate and change my destiny here?" Xiao Yan took a deep breath and forcibly calmed himself down.

"The Main God Space is connected to reality. All worlds from films, animation, and books that exist in reality can be manifested here.

"As a Reincarnator, you can enter film worlds to complete missions and earn points, then exchange them here for cultivation techniques, bloodlines, divine weapons, pills… everything," the white sphere said.

Xiao Yan’s expression shifted slightly. This Main God Space could actually manifest films from the real world. He seemed to realize something and asked, "If that’s the case, why is this called the world of Infinite Terror? What is so terrifying about it?"

The white sphere replied, "As someone from the real world, you cannot truly empathize with the characters in film worlds. Scenes you find hilarious are inescapable misfortunes for the NPCs within them.

"Once you enter such a world and experience it firsthand, you will understand its terror.

"If you directly enter a horror world, then congratulations. Your luck is truly excellent."

"…"

Xiao Yan fell silent and could not help but smile bitterly. He finally understood why it was called terror.

"Can I still return?" Xiao Yan asked.

"After completing each mission, you may return to the real world for three days. After three days, regardless of what happens, you will be forcibly brought back into the Main God Space and enter another mission cycle," the white sphere said.

"That’s not too bad. What if I die in a mission world?" Xiao Yan asked the most important question.

"Then you die. Good luck. The mission is about to begin. Randomly selecting an Infinite World. Ten, nine, eight…" the white sphere announced.

Xiao Yan held his breath, hoping his first mission would at least be an easy one. At the very least, it should let him survive the novice period.

As the countdown ended, a light screen appeared before Xiao Yan again, and lines of small text instantly emerged.

"Reincarnation World: The Ring. Sole mission: As a novice Reincarnator, survive in this world for one hundred and sixty-eight hours."

"Film introduction: It’s the story of a videotape gaining sentience and killing people. Relaxing and pleasant."

"Fuck, are you kidding me? Is that even a serious introduction? I transmigrated from the modern world too. How could I not know this horror movie? This is ridiculous!" Xiao Yan cursed furiously, feeling that he had been set up.

Starting out with such a twisted world, and such an absurd horror at that—wouldn’t an ordinary person simply die the moment they arrived?

"Main God, can I switch to another world?" Xiao Yan asked.

"No. Once a mission world has been assigned, it cannot be changed," the white sphere said.

"What about a novice protection period? You pull something like this on me right away? How am I supposed to play this? I want to go home!" Xiao Yan shouted.

"… Although it is a horror film, and although this dungeon has a mortality rate of ninety-nine point nine percent, there is still a zero point one percent survival rate. Why can’t you be that zero point one percent?" the white sphere said.

"Zero point one means one in a thousand! You’d have to be missing an arm or a leg to crawl back. Is there any other way? I’m just a novice. One hundred and sixty-eight hours is seven days. Forget seven days—I can’t stay here for even one minute," Xiao Yan said.

"There is a way. Reincarnators may purchase items from the Main God Mall to deal with the dungeon boss and increase their survival rate," the white sphere said.

"But I don’t have any points," Xiao Yan said.

"Points can be earned through missions, or exchanged for certain important items found in some worlds. According to the Main God Space’s appraisal, the ring on your hand is a special item in the Doupo Cangqiong world and can be exchanged for points," the white sphere said.

Hearing that, Xiao Yan looked at the black ring on his finger. It had been left behind by his mother and had been worn by him ever since he was born. He had not expected it to be exchangeable for points.

"How many points can it be exchanged for?" Xiao Yan asked.

"Eight thousand points," the white sphere said.

"Then sell it." After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yan decided to sell the ring.

Although it had been left by his mother, staying alive was the most important thing right now.

As soon as he spoke, the ring in Xiao Yan’s hand vanished, and eight thousand points appeared on his interface.

He immediately opened the Main God Space Mall, where all kinds of merchandise were displayed.

Super Serum, vampire bloodline, Desert Eagle, Devil Fruit, Sharingan, berserker bloodline, Sunflower Manual, talismans…

Seeing so many items, Xiao Yan quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps he really could survive.

Moreover, for some reason, the dou qi within his body seemed to be slowly increasing rather than continuing to disappear.

Strange!…

In the real world, behind the Xiao Family’s mountain.

In truth, Xiao Yan had not been alone when he vanished. There had been others nearby.

In the air, Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran stood suspended in midair, witnessing Xiao Yan’s cursing and his sudden disappearance.

"Teacher, did you see that? Xiao Yan suddenly disappeared?" Nalan Yanran said.

At this moment, Nalan Yanran had become even taller and more slender. She wore a long dress that exposed a stretch of fair calf below it.

A pair of pale green wings emerged behind her, like a bird soaring through the sky.

Under Yun Yun’s guidance, Nalan Yanran was already a three-star Dou Wang. Her strength had long surpassed that of her original trajectory.

Yun Yun’s strength had likewise surpassed that of a nine-star Dou Sheng and reached the Supreme realm. However, she had not shattered the Void and ascended to the Great Thousand World.

With the Chat Group around, resources were never lacking.

"I saw it." Yun Yun frowned, unable to make sense of it.

Upon reaching the Dou Zong realm, one’s perception of space became extremely keen, and no spatial fluctuation could escape their senses.

Much less her current self. Yet she had not detected where Xiao Yan had gone at all. He had simply vanished into thin air.

She had brought Nalan Yanran over to see whether Xiao Yan’s talent had recovered. Who would have thought they would happen to encounter something like this?

Yun Yun was considered one of the Chat Group’s veterans. Instinctively, she sensed that there was something unusual behind this incident.

Chat Group.

Sect Leader Yun Yun: "That’s the situation. What do you all think?"

Yun Yun explained what had happened and wanted to hear everyone’s opinions.

Qian Renxue: "I don’t really understand it."

Ye Hei: "I think Xiao Yan may have gone to another world. After all, he’s a fellow Earth native with a cheat built in."

Tushan Second Head: "But Xiao Yan is already a transmigrator. He transmigrated a second time?"

Bad Commander: "It’s not impossible. Sect Leader Yun Yun joined the Chat Group, so it would be reasonable for Xiao Yan, as the Son of the Plane, to transmigrate again."

Sword God Li Chungang: "Gang is right?"

Little Dragon Girl: "Other than transmigration, there shouldn’t be any other possibility."

Sun Wukong: "Hehe, we should ask the Group Owner about this."

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Right, right!"

Feng Baobao: "Watching the drama!"

Xu Yi: "Why ask me? I don’t know either."

Sun Wukong: "Group Owner, just calculate it and you’ll know."

Xu Yi: "Group Niang, come out and explain."

Xu Yi could not be bothered to explain. Although he had indeed learned what had happened, all it took was a brief thought for the anomaly around Yun Yun to automatically appear in his mind.

Chat Group: "Based on this group’s perception, Xiao Yan of this world has been chosen by the Main God Space and has become a Reincarnator."

Ye Hei: "A Reincarnator! Nice name. So what does the Main God Space do?"

Chat Group: "The Main God Space is actually a type of special Main God that searches the Myriad Realms, especially Earth Star, for suitable humans and pulls them into the Main God Space for training. Through the Main God Space’s channels, these humans can enter all kinds of derivative film and television worlds to perform missions, growing stronger through mission points. In that regard, its mechanisms are similar to the Chat Group.

"However, the Main God Space’s missions are extremely dangerous. Nine out of every ten transmigrators basically die in mission worlds."

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Does the Main God Space count as a system too?"

Chat Group: "The Main God Space is not a system, but like systems, it is an independent force outside the Myriad Realms."

Qian Renxue: "What is their purpose?"

Chat Group: "To make Reincarnators bring Honkai to every world in the Myriad Realms.

"For example, in a Parallel Universe of Shrouding the Heavens, Ye Fan is shot dead by a Reincarnator on the way to a gathering at Mount Tai due to the Reincarnator’s interference. Then that world collapses because it no longer has Ye Fan.

"Another example: in the Marvel Universe, a Reincarnator suddenly breaks into Stark Tower and shoots Tony dead before he becomes Iron Man.

"Or they could go to Bad Commander’s spacetime and kill Li Xingyun in advance, or simply kill Bad Commander directly.

"All of these situations are possible."

Ye Hei: "Chat Group, that’s not right. My future self is Above Sacrificial Dao. Even if I am killed in the past, the future will not change. The future will still exist. It might even come to the present and kill the Reincarnator."

Chat Group: "The past you would indeed be dead. Although your future self would not die, if you want to kill the Reincarnator, first break through the barrier of the Myriad Realms in your plane. Furthermore, due to the Main God Space’s characteristics, you cannot sense changes in the past ahead of time."

Ye Hei: "…"

Iron Man: "Wait, why kill me?"

Xu Yi: "Why kill you? Don’t you have any idea? Before becoming Iron Man, you were a playboy with no combat ability, yet you were a key figure in the Marvel Universe. Your head would definitely be worth a lot of points. There’s no way that deal loses money."

Iron Man: "The Group Owner makes a lot of sense."

Bad Commander: "… Why would Reincarnators bully a three-hundred-year-old lonely old man like me?"

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Hahaha!"

Ye Hei: "Exactly. Marvel’s writers killed you off because the real-life you was too expensive to hire. That shows just how valuable killing you would be to a Reincarnator."

Iron Man: "… Whatever. The current me is already invincible!"

With the Superman Bloodline backing him, Tony was not afraid at all now.

Yun Yun: "Then won’t Xiao Yan rise to prominence? What if he becomes a great expert and comes to trouble the Yunlan Sect?"

Xu Yi: "That won’t be the case. Xiao Yan repays kindness with kindness and vengeance with vengeance. You have not done anything deserving death, nor have you actively provoked him. He probably will not make trouble over things that never happened."

Sect Leader Yun Yun: "All right. If that day really comes, Group Owner, you have to help me."

Although her strength already made her invincible on the Dou Qi Continent, with Xiao Yan having gained the cheat that was the Main God Space, no one could say how far he might go in the future.

Ye Hei: "Rather than what happens later, I want to know what Xiao Yan is going through in the Main God Space. Group Owner, do you have a way to let us see what Xiao Yan is experiencing right now?"

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "Agreed, agreed!"

Qian Renxue: "Plus one!"

Bi Cang Wang: "Agreed!"

Supreme Treasure: "Agreed!"

Zhang Sanfeng: "Ahem."

Sun Wukong: "This old Sun wants some gossip!"

Xu Yi: "I can’t do anything with you people. I’ll give it a try."

Xu Yi let his consciousness wander through the Void. With a single thought, he located a parallel Small World among hundreds of billions of Myriad Realms and found Xiao Yan struggling to survive in a horror dungeon.

Xu Yi: "Found him. Want to watch on site? A livestream would be boring."

Ye Hei: "As expected of the Group Owner. Awesome!"

Number One Golden Core of Kyushu: "There’s drama to watch."

Xu Yi: "Chat Group, I’ll give you permission. Open a Space-Time Door."

"…" Group Niang fell silent. As the Chat Group, she was truly too humble.

She had not even located Xiao Yan before the Group Owner had already sent out his location.

The Myriad Realms were not a singular existence. Like Parallel Universes, there were countless of them.

The Ring dungeon.

Xiao Yan appeared inside a small wooden cabin of less than a hundred square meters. A sofa stood behind him, and an old television sat directly in front of him. He looked out the window at the boundless sea, without a single building in sight.

Clearly, he was on an isolated island. There was only one wooden cabin on the island and nothing else.

Seeing this, Xiao Yan immediately unplugged the power cord and removed the batteries from the remote control. That way, Sadako, the boss of this world, should not be able to come out, right?

Not long afterward, the lights in the room began flickering as though the voltage were unstable and the wiring had poor contact. Rows of static appeared on the black television screen, while eerie music sounded from time to time.

Xiao Yan’s heart leaped into his throat, and cold sweat broke out across his forehead.

Outside the window, one mysterious head after another appeared, their eyes fixed brightly on everything happening inside.

Ye Fan, Wang Wu, Bad Commander, Supreme Treasure, Yun Yun, Sun Wukong, and many other group members had arrived, watching the scene inside with curiosity.

Xiao Yan had no idea that people were already watching his first Infinite Terror reincarnation script.

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