Chapter 174 Transmigrating to a New World (Second Update) Team Leader Sheng An…

Team leader Sheng An handed the documents to Zhang Su in frustration: "This book is not written by Tao Tao alone, but by two people."

"What?!" Zhang Su was stunned for a moment, unconsciously clenched her fist, and after feeling the sweat on her hand, she took the documents with trembling hands.

The tablet displayed a photograph containing handwritten text—a dialogue written in two completely different fonts.

"Peach, why don't you just make Azure Dragon the main character?"

"I'm a story about a beloved character, but 'Azure Dragon's Beloved Character' is such a cliché!"

"It's okay, you can just change the settings."

"What is the Azure Dragon's name?"

"How about using my name?"

"Ruoying...? That's a bit strange."

"I also have another name, Qingyan, so let's call me Qingyan."

"Alright, then let's cultivate in a world where the mind is the primary focus! Let's achieve enlightenment through practice!"

“Sure, let’s do a story relay, you write a chapter, I’ll write a chapter.”

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The conversation then turned to some everyday trivialities, so Zhang Su didn't pay much attention to it.

Team Leader Sheng An pinched the bridge of his nose: "The possibility of Tao Tao becoming the main character is lower than we thought. I haven't found a role that matches her age, status, and gender. I don't know if she can take her place. We've never encountered anything like this before."

Zhang Su took a few deep breaths, suppressing her worries: "It's okay, we have to believe in Tao Tao, believe in the world's consciousness's favor towards her."

“…Hmm.” Team Leader Sheng An sighed softly. “I’ve already reported it. After that…we’ll just have to wait and see.”

As he spoke, he looked at Sang Zhitao's bed to the side.

Zhang Su, standing next to him, looked down at the communicator on her wrist and hesitated for a long time before deciding not to tell Sang Leping about it.

Long after Team Leader Sheng An left, she sat by Sang Zhitao's bedside for a long time before opening her communicator and describing the situation in detail before sending it to the other party.

Sang Leping hadn't replied to her yet; she didn't know if he hadn't seen her message or if he didn't know what to say.

Zhang Su spent a sleepless night filled with worry, and only received a message from Sang Leping the following afternoon: "Base Chief Li Mingguo has already told me that everything is fine, and we should trust Tao Tao."

Zhang Su knew that Sang Leping was saying this because she was worried about her, and she felt a warmth in her heart, but she still couldn't help but worry when she thought of Sang Zhitao.

Sang Zhitao, who arrived in the other world, had no idea what was happening at the base.

She was now in the mountains, surrounded by dense trees that blocked out much sunlight.

Feeling the damp ground beneath her feet, Sang Zhitao subconsciously became more alert.

This looks like a primeval forest; it wouldn't be surprising to find snakes, insects, rats, or even tigers, bears, and cheetahs here.

She's not afraid of humans, nor is she afraid of the real thing. After all, she has the skills and experience to deal with humans, and she has the jade pendant to deal with the real thing. But when it comes to wild beasts, she can only lie down and let them eat her.

"Swish, swish." A strange movement came from the weeds behind her, which startled Sang Zhitao so much that she darted like a rabbit to the base of a large tree and clung tightly to it.

If she hadn't been afraid of snakes in the tree, she would have climbed up immediately. Even so, she was prepared to climb the tree right away.

The commotion in the weeds grew louder and louder, and soon, just as Sang Zhitao was becoming more and more frightened, a tall figure stood up from the weeds.

"Ah!" Sang Zhitao exclaimed instinctively, and nimbly climbed up.

In just a short while, she had climbed to a position about three meters off the ground.

Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she noticed that the tall figure covered in weeds was walking towards her tree.

Sang Zhitao quickly jumped up again, and before she could even catch her breath, she felt her fingers were slightly cool.

She stiffened involuntarily, struggling to turn her head upwards.

She saw a snake, its body covered in colorful markings and as thick as a wrist, coiled up in the tree. Its belly brushed against her fingertips, leaving a cool, slippery sensation.

"Ah!!!" Sang Zhitao was so frightened that she let go of her hand and fell headfirst down.

To be honest, she wasn't that afraid of snakes, after all, she had seen Miao Yi's snake gu up close in the game world.

However, she didn't know if the snake was poisonous, and it was a wild snake. Being so close to her made it impossible for her to calm down immediately.

The expected pain did not come, but Sang Zhitao's body was still stiff.

After all, a pair of hot arms were holding her beneath him.

Sang Zhitao immediately thought of the tall figure from earlier. She breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that the other person was not a bear but a person, but she couldn't help but worry whether the other person was a good person or a bad person.

But thinking that she was quite capable of dealing with humans, Sang Zhitao suppressed her pounding heart and broke free from the other person's embrace.

"Are you alright?" A clear and gentle voice came from the tall figure hidden by weeds and mud.

"You...you're a woman?" Sang Zhitao looked her over curiously before asking hesitantly.

The person opposite him chuckled twice before wiping his face with his hand.

Of course, no matter how much those dirty hands wiped, the filth on the other person's face remained, but their facial features were now clearly visible.

She could vaguely make out the other person's delicate features, and Sang Zhitao breathed a sigh of relief: "Why don't you get ready?"

The man looked down at himself, then patted his head and said, "So that's why I scared you."

As she spoke, she snapped her fingers, and the mud and filth on her body instantly disappeared. Her messy hair was neatly combed, and her tattered clothes were replaced with a gorgeous dress in alternating shades of blue.

Sang Zhitao raised an eyebrow, her expression showing some amazement. Although she knew she had entered a world of cultivation, this was the first time she had ever felt it was real.

"My name is Qingyan, and people call me Lord Qingyan," the woman introduced herself with a smile.

Looking at her round, approachable face and plump but not greasy figure, Sang Zhitao felt a sense of closeness, like seeing a cafeteria aunt: "My name is Taotao."

Sang Zhitao didn't know whose identity she was impersonating, so she didn't dare to say her full name. Even if her identity was later discovered to be incorrect, she could explain that it was just a nickname.

Qingyan yawned, squinted, and took a gourd from his waist.

"Pop!" The rich aroma of wine wafted around with the crisp sound of a gourd being opened.

Suddenly, the dense forest, filled with the fragrance of grass and trees, was filled with the aroma of wine, just like a wine cellar.

Even Sang Zhitao, who never drinks, felt slightly tipsy.

"Where did you come from?" Qingyan took a few gulps of wine, snapped his fingers, summoned a cloud, lay down on it calmly, propped his head up with his right hand, and looked at Sang Zhitao with curiosity.

Looking at her posture of lying down rather than standing, Sang Zhitao couldn't help but twitch her lips: "Why are you asking this?"

Qingyan took a few more sips of wine, let out a burp, and squinted at Sang Zhitao: "There has never been a phoenix in the Qingyuan world either."

"So... Little Phoenix, how did you come to be?"

Sang Zhitao was taken aback; she hadn't expected that her current identity was still that of a phoenix. But in an instant, she realized that her identity in this world was probably not something she had acquired through impersonation.

She recalled the things she had talked about with the world consciousness of the giant world.

The so-called protagonists are mostly anchor points she left behind when she cut off the last chance for survival in the small world she wanted to destroy.

It was her power that forcibly invaded the river of fate, leaving behind a shadow. But such a shadow can also manifest itself, just like the jade grass of that world was never replaced by her.

She didn't replace the protagonist of the previous world; instead, she directly took the position of the phoenix because of her beast form.

But in any case, in the worlds she had visited, she was always replacing a character that existed in that world itself.

But in this world, she became an unexpected person...

Thinking of this, Sang Zhitao looked at Qingyan and saw that she was still looking lazy. After thinking for a moment, she said, "I don't know."

Qingyan paused in her drinking, frowned slightly, and looked at Sang Zhitao, uttering a soft question: "Hmm?"

Sang Zhitao thought of the female protagonist in the original book, who also suddenly appeared in the forest and was picked up by a villager as a snake egg, and felt that her excuse was flawless.

"I was asleep, and when I woke up I was here."

Hearing her say that, Qingyan seemed to think of something, and her expression became somewhat sad. She swallowed the wine in her mouth, sat up and looked at Sang Zhitao: "Since you have nowhere to come from, it seems you have nowhere to go either. Then come with me."

Before Sang Zhitao could agree, she waved her hand and forcibly pulled Sang Zhitao onto her cloud: "Come on, I'll show you this mortal paradise of Qingyuan Realm!"

Sang Zhitao wasn't afraid of heights, but she was startled by Yun's sudden movement and instinctively grabbed her hand.

But the clouds dispersed as soon as she touched them with her fingers.

Sang Zhitao curiously reached out and touched the clouds. She thought that the clouds used by immortals in mythology as mounts were solid and like cotton candy, but it turned out to be just a bunch of gas.

Qingyan took in her actions, and an uncontrollable smile flashed across his face.

As the clouds rise higher, the dense forest becomes a green carpet beneath them.

Sang Zhitao leaned forward slightly, looking down at the vast green forest below. She was amazed by the beautiful picture composed of different shades of green and couldn't help but marvel at the wonders of nature.

As the clouds rose higher, their gazes unconsciously drifted towards the edge of the forest, where they could vaguely see a tall city some distance away.

"Where is that?" Sang Zhitao asked curiously, pointing towards the city.

Qingyan yawned: "That's Mingyuan City, the outermost city of the Ming Kingdom."

"The Ming Dynasty?" Sang Zhitao subconsciously recalled the plot of the original book.

The original book begins with a story about a schoolteacher in a village in the Ming Dynasty who went up the mountain to find medicinal herbs in order to save his father, but instead brought back a snake egg.

A small snake hatched from the egg. The snake grew rapidly and within a day it had grown to the thickness of a bowl. People thought it was a demon.

The teacher, seeing its bewildered expression, realized it seemed to understand human intentions and was immediately inspired to teach it.

So he took the little snake and his father and moved up the mountain to live.

The villagers were both afraid that the snake was a demon and felt guilty for letting the teacher down, so they secretly brought him some food.

The little snake accompanied the schoolteacher in searching for herbs in the mountains, barely managing to prolong his father's life for three more years.

Three years later, after burying his father, he looked at the giant snake, which was so thick that it would take three people to encircle it. He felt that he was now a burden to the giant snake, and he knew that even if the snake was not a demon, it must be an immortal being. Since he could not stay with it for long, he thought of driving the snake away.

Unexpectedly, the snake left, but disaster struck.

While the Ming Dynasty was embroiled in internal strife, it was also invaded by the neighboring Yue Kingdom. The village where the teacher lived was outside the border town, and the villagers had nowhere to escape.

First came the young and middle-aged men, then the older men, and finally the young women…

The kind-hearted villagers kept the fact that people lived on the mountain a secret, and even wanted to send their child up the mountain. Unfortunately, the enemy came too quickly, and the child could not go up the mountain, thus saving him from the calamity of war.

As the massacre continued, the village chief's young son ran up the mountain, waking the grieving schoolteacher and bringing with him the enemy.

Just as the schoolteacher was tragically killed by the enemy, the giant serpent returned.

It not only drove away the government officials, but also directly protected the village with its body. Even when it was attacked with knives and axes and covered in wounds, it never let up for a second.

Seeing its kindness, the villagers were deeply grateful and offered incense, calling it the Snake Immortal.

Day by day, the enemy grew more and more fearful and eventually left the place. Many people came upon hearing the sound and took refuge in the giant snake's protection.

After that, it began to transform into a dragon. The schoolteacher watched it change day by day, watched the village change, and sat at the village entrance day after day. On the day it transformed into a dragon, he had an epiphany with it and ascended the ladder of immortality in one fell swoop.

This was the 100,000 words she had written. Sang Zhitao didn't read it all; she only skimmed through it.

She didn't remember the snake's name, nor the schoolteacher's name. All she remembered was that after the protagonist Jackie Chan left, the Ming Dynasty, which was in turmoil, had a powerful leader who suppressed the internal strife and drove away the foreign enemies.

“Yes, Ming Kingdom…” Qingyan’s emotions were somewhat inexplicable. Before Sang Zhitao could notice, she lightly flicked her sleeve, and the clouds quickly headed towards Mingyuan City.

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Author's Note: A new world begins~