Before the journey

  After calming down a bit, Lin Xu thought of another new problem - where exactly was this dark and gloomy place in front of him?

  In the dead of night, as far as the eye could see, the surroundings seemed to be a vast and desolate landscape. Even from Lin Xu's vantage point at the treetop level, with his extraordinary vision that could penetrate the darkness, all he saw was the distant outline of the forest stretching endlessly into the blackness, without any roads, railways or power lines, not a single sign of human activity anywhere in sight.

  Is there still such a virgin land that has never been ravaged by industrial civilization on the earth in the 21st century?

  I'm afraid that except for the black Africa and Amazon rainforest, nowhere else can find such a large forest maintaining its original appearance. If it's in China, unless time goes back a hundred years, it would be even more impossible, this feeling is really frustrating!

  At the same time as he fell into confusion, Lin Xu subconsciously raised his head to gaze up at the night sky. However, after a brief pause of only a few seconds, the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.

  Perhaps for outsiders who are not familiar with astronomy, the twinkling stars in the dark night sky are just a clichéd backdrop. Moreover, apart from the Big Dipper, which is easy to recognize due to its unique shape, there are only a handful of constellations that can be identified by the naked eye in the night sky, especially under the severe light pollution of modern cities. However, for Lin Xu, who pretended to be an astronomy enthusiast in college in order to pursue a beautiful and intelligent woman who claimed to want to become an astronomer, identifying the positions and names of constellations in the night sky was undoubtedly a trivial challenge.

  Gazing dejectedly at the stars that looked either unfamiliar or vaguely familiar, Lin Xu had a thousand words to pour out to someone at this moment, but in the end, they could only be transformed into a silent sigh. Based on his knowledge of astronomy, he could say with absolute certainty that he was definitely not on Earth.

  The constellations in the sky are quite similar, just with slightly different positions.

  To know that these distances of tens, hundreds of light-years away from the stars in the celestial zone have a positional deviation of one degree, it also means that the position of the observer is deviated by a distance that can be measured in astronomical units.

  Not only that, but the major planets in the solar system have also disappeared one by one. Especially the red planet next to Earth, which is associated with war and flames by humans, can be said to be one of the most recognizable celestial bodies in the entire sky map. Now, including Mars, the five major planets are not even visible as a ghostly shadow. If Lin Xu still insists that he is on Earth, it would be too self-deceptive.

  Silently sensing the desolation of being independent from the world, with no one to turn to. In this brief night, Lin Xu had experienced too many joys and sorrows, and he could only feel a mix of emotions in his heart, unable to put into words what it was at that moment.

  Kings, princes and generals, can they be inherited?

  It is believed that this sentence, printed in middle school textbooks and spoken by Chen Sheng's mouth, is one of the classic famous sentences that many people will never forget throughout their lives.

  Are kings, nobles and generals really born aristocrats? This statement is actually not wrong, at least in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the kings, nobles and generals of the Huaxia dynasty were all of a kind, they were all descendants of gods.

  All the superiors living in that era, from the Son of Heaven to the vassals and nobles, without exception, were descendants of a certain great god. If carefully examined, the ancestors of these people can almost all be traced back to the great powers of the mythological era.

  The number of great gods at the beginning of Huaxia is not small. In the distant ancient times, it is difficult for later generations to know in detail, except for the widely known Emperors Yan and Huang, there are also Shao Hao, Tai Hao, Chi You, Yi, Nuwa and many other figures of the same level. They all possess unimaginable power, as for other ancestral great gods that have been lost in historical records, their numbers are even more numerous.

  After thousands of years, with intermarriage and hybridization among people living on this land of Huaxia for thousands of years, as well as migration activities from all over the world.

  No matter where a modern person is pulled from, some remnants of divine blood can always be found on him, more or less. Only this kind of overly mixed and diluted divine bloodline can't make any weather.

  Despite this, Lin Xu's encounter with this strange event was still largely due to the extremely pitiful point on his body, which belonged to the bloodline inheritance of the ancient great gods.

  Indeed, the previous Mount Hua God left behind a ready-made divine position inheritance tool, which can be considered as saving a lot of trouble and trials for future generations. However, without the help of the divine bloodline, relying solely on Lin Xuan, an ordinary person with no foundation or cultivation, it would be impossible to activate this program even if he died several more times. Excluding the factor of the divine bloodline, one has to say that he was quite lucky, and the position where he fell from the sky happened to be above the giant stone. If the landing point had deviated a few meters to the side, I believe that the thin divine bloodline on his body would not have played any role either.

  "What's all this nonsense?"

  Deep down, Lin Xu knew he had become a long-term visitor to an unknown foreign land. After the initial heart palpitations, his expression was tinged with a hint of melancholy as he withdrew his gaze from the distant horizon. Immediately afterwards, he discovered some new changes that had appeared on himself.

  This new body, which seemed to have changed little on the surface, felt almost the same as the flesh and blood one his parents had given him when he touched it with his hands, but the pulse and heartbeat that symbolized life were all gone. Even holding his breath wouldn't feel uncomfortable. With a complicated mood, Lin Xu experimented for half a day before restoring his normal breathing rhythm. This wasn't for anything else; at least this way, he could still feel like he was alive, rather than an inhuman zombie.

  It's clear that Lin Xu needs to adapt to a lot of things in this new identity and brand new world.

  Even before the plane disintegrated at high altitude, winds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour stripped all clothing from the passengers. In other words, if they didn't die from the crash, they would definitely end up running naked. Lin Xu was no exception, but he wasn't naked now either - the clothes on his body had appeared out of nowhere just like this unfamiliar corpse.

  This attire is similar to the ancient classic Mingguang armor, but more luxurious and complex, clearly a ancient warrior general style, also in line with people's common perception of the mountain god.

  This suit, which seemed to be made of hard and heavy materials such as metal and leather, felt light as a feather and soft as silk when Lin Xu wore it on his body, not affecting his agility at all, and was incredibly comfortable to wear.

  Faced with such a phenomenon that violates the natural properties of materials, Lin Xu, no matter how inexperienced he is, knows that this suit is not ordinary.

  Suddenly, the idea of wanting to know the origin of his armor arose, and following Lin Xu's thoughts, a semi-transparent region similar to a computer LCD display appeared in front of him. A full-color graphic introduction, as well as a 3D image of the armor slowly rotating at the center of the screen, along with explanatory text annotated beside it.

  This situation stunned Lin Xu, leaving him motionless for half a day. When he came to his senses, he began to ponder the origin of this inexplicable phenomenon.

  "Hmm, black lacquer armor with a bright finish, python robe with silver belt. Standard equipment for mountain gods, defense is qualified, and has some degree of amplification against divine power."

  He muttered to himself in a low voice the entire contents of the screen, and Lin Xu stroked his chin, pondering what was going on.

  The reason for the appearance of this scene, which is greatly different from the surrounding barbaric landscape, is not that Lin Xu has traveled to a virtual game in the future world, nor is he wandering in some kind of infinite script. It's just a kind of instinctual change from the gods. The divine image projected onto the void based on Lin Xu's cognitive habits in his consciousness. In fact, it can also be said that if Lin Xu were an ancient man from the pre-Qin era, what appeared before his eyes at this moment would definitely be old antiques like silk books and bamboo slips.

  If someone born in the future world were in Lin Xu's position, I believe that the information medium he could see would be either a touch-sensitive light screen or some other more advanced and flashy information carrier.

  It doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you're comfortable with it. What others think is of no importance.

  Curiosity about the unknown temporarily suppressed Lin Xu's confusion and perplexity about the future, and he began to excitedly take stock of the legacy left behind by his predecessor, Huo Shan.

  After checking the items he had, Lin Xu suddenly realized that he wasn't as poor and destitute as he thought. He had all the standard equipment a mountain god should have. Now, what puzzled him most was the previous mountain god, Huo, who seemed kind-hearted. Since you're dead, just die already! Why bother arranging things before your death? Was it just a moment of kindness?

  Name: Lin Xu. Occupation: Mountain God. Jurisdiction: Huo Mountain. Divine Rank: First Class. Divine Power: One Hundred.

  The comfortable light blue background, the thick black font, all present a rich gamification style data statistics method, Lin Xu can't help but feel a sense of overlap between reality and illusion.

  It's really true that life is like a play, and the play is like life. Unfortunately, this game can't auto-save after starting, nor can it open the golden finger cheat, I'm afraid making a mistake once will only lead to a tragic end of the game.

  When he thought of this, Lin Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head. It's useless to think about things that can't be controlled, might as well face reality properly!

  Why don't we use a popular phrase from the past? This time, Lin Xu played not for fun, but for his life that he had just managed to retrieve!

  Having pretended to be a thinker for half a day, Lin Xu made up his mind and set out to the Mountain God Temple. What he was looking forward to now was that the map left in his consciousness by the former Mountain God Huo Shan, who seemed to have a lot of love, had not expired yet.