Chapter 1: Transmigration, at the Foot of Mount Zhongnan

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, it was all my fault, I’m sorry…”

In Star City, inside an old building, in a dim room, a figure lay on a bed, shivering all over.

The expression on his face was one of immense pain, and he kept murmuring, clearly having some kind of nightmare.

Suddenly, the figure sat up from the bed.

When he saw his surroundings clearly, Wei Ziqing let out a heavy sigh.

“So, it was just a dream again!”

Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Wei Ziqing did not turn on the light. Instead, he rolled out of bed and walked to the window.

Outside, a light rain had already begun to fall, and the sound of the pitter-patter was exceptionally clear.

Recalling the scenes from his dream, Wei Ziqing clenched his fists tightly. His pale face was filled with self-blame and regret.

“If… if it weren’t for me, my father and mother would not have…” Thinking of the scene where his parents died before his eyes while he stood there helpless, Wei Ziqing felt a pain in his heart as if sharp swords were cutting through him.

More importantly, all of this was his own fault!

Gurgle…

An ill-timed sound suddenly broke the silence of the night. Wei Ziqing was stunned for a moment, then gave a bitter smile.

He had forgotten that because he was so tired after coming home from work today, he had gone straight to sleep. He hadn’t eaten yet!

He checked the time; it was exactly midnight.

“Forget it, I’ll just call it a midnight snack!”

Because it was raining outside, Wei Ziqing had to turn on the room light to look for an umbrella to go out. But as soon as the light came on, he froze in place.

In this empty and narrow room, in the corner, there actually stood an old wooden door.

A door?

Why was there a broken door here?

“Who put this door in my room? Also, when did it get here? Was it while I was asleep?”

He remembered clearly that there was no such door in his room. The only possibility was that someone had taken advantage of his sleep to place the door in his room!

Thinking of this, Wei Ziqing’s expression immediately became gloomy.

To enter someone’s room silently was enough to make him angry!

If the intruder had wanted to harm him, wouldn’t he have died without even knowing how?

However, Wei Ziqing soon became curious.

No matter who it was, they entered the room but didn’t steal anything or kill him; instead, they left a door here? What could this possibly mean?

Unable to suppress his curiosity, Wei Ziqing walked toward the old door and began to examine it.

The door was very ordinary, as if it had been scavenged from a trash heap. The only difference was that, for some reason, it seemed to be filled with a sense of ancient wear and mystery!

For some reason, when he saw the door, a voice suddenly appeared in Wei Ziqing’s mind.

This voice kept calling to him in his heart, forcing him to reach out and pull the door open.

When the door opened, what appeared before his eyes was a pitch-black tunnel with no visible end. It looked eerie and terrifying.

However, the calling in Wei Ziqing’s heart became even clearer. Wei Ziqing understood exactly what this thought meant.

It wanted him to pass through the tunnel!

Gritting his teeth, Wei Ziqing began to tremble slightly. He realized that things were not as simple as he had thought.

This door could not possibly have been intentionally placed here by someone!

Previously, the position of this door had been a wall, and outside the wall was the open air of the eighteenth floor!

How could there be a tunnel outside this door?

Wei Ziqing wanted to close the door, but the calling voice in his heart grew stronger, making it impossible for him to make up his mind!

“I want to see what on earth is on the other side of this tunnel!”

Gritting his teeth, Wei Ziqing rummaged through a drawer in the room and found a flashlight. He took a deep breath in front of the door and stepped straight inside!

Setting aside the eeriness of the door’s appearance, the mysterious voice coming from within his heart made Wei Ziqing’s curiosity grow even deeper.

The tunnel was very long. The light from the flashlight seemed to be swallowed by the tunnel and was not very effective.

Wei Ziqing did not know how long he had walked until a light suddenly appeared ahead. When he saw the light, Wei Ziqing felt a surge of joy; he knew the end of the tunnel had arrived!

Turning off the flashlight, Wei Ziqing ran quickly toward the end of the light. As he stepped out of the exit, the door mysteriously vanished!

Wei Ziqing did not pay attention to the disappearance of the door. At this moment, he was completely shocked by the scene before him.

Warm sunlight spilled over his body, a gentle breeze blew past, and the air even carried a hint of the fragrance of green grass. In front of him was a towering mountain gate, and beneath his feet was a narrow path. Looking far away, Wei Ziqing discovered that the mountainside was filled with pavilions and towers!

“What… what is going on?”

Wei Ziqing was confused. By passing through the tunnel, he had actually appeared on a mountainside, and in an instant, he had gone from midnight back to noon?

No matter how calm Wei Ziqing usually was, he could not help but be shocked.

While Wei Ziqing was in shock, he saw two figures riding two donkeys, talking as they approached the end of the narrow path on the mountainside.

One was a middle-aged man in grey clothes who looked very rugged. The other was a youth no older than fourteen or fifteen. Compared to the middle-aged man, the youth had a delicate and handsome face.

“People?” When he saw the two people, Wei Ziqing’s face lit up with joy. He had no idea where this place was, so now that there were people, he could ask for information.

“Guo’er, you have caused enough trouble on the way. You cannot be like this when we reach Chongyang Palace. Chongyang Palace is the orthodox center of martial arts in the world. There, you can learn many valuable skills. You must study seriously, do you understand?”

“I don’t care. If it weren’t for you and Aunt Guo taking me back to Peach Blossom Island, I don’t know how happy I would be right now. Now you want to send me to Chongyang Palace. If you don’t like me, just let me go back. Why send me to Chongyang Palace to suffer!”

Just as he was about to move, he heard the conversation between the two. Wei Ziqing froze in place again, his face full of disbelief.

“Guo’er? Aunt Guo? Chongyang Palace? Peach Blossom Island? The Return of the Condor Heroes?” Wei Ziqing suddenly turned around and looked up at the mountain gate behind him. There, three powerful characters were clearly engraved: Chongyang Palace!

“This is Chongyang Palace! This is Mount Zhongnan! Then are these two people in front of me Guo Jing and Yang Guo? Does that mean by passing through that door, I have come directly into the world of The Return of the Condor Heroes!”

Wei Ziqing never imagined that the door led to the world of The Return of the Condor Heroes. Judging from the scene before him, the story had clearly just begun, right when Yang Guo was going up Mount Zhongnan!