At this very moment, in a certain world, in a place called the Zi Xiao Continent, within a mansion, lay a man in a deep coma.
This man had extraordinary bone structure and a handsome appearance, bearing a striking resemblance to Zhou Hong from Earth.
This comatose man was none other than Zhou Hong of the Zi Xiao Continent. He had been unconscious for eight to nine months.
However, unknown to anyone, after falling into a coma, his soul had traveled to another world, inheriting a sub-world left by his grandfather from his past life.
Perhaps it was through this method of deception that Zhou Hong was able to successfully inherit the sub-world.
Otherwise, Zhou Hong's grandfather from his past life, the ancient immortal king Sheng Gu, who was annihilated by the Immortal Emperor, would not have been able to pass down the sub-world to Zhou Hong of this generation. Only by using this method of substituting the real with the fake could it be successful.
"Third Young Master, Third Young Master, when will you finally wake up? You've been unconscious for nine months. If you don't wake up soon, the family elders will give up on you. Moreover, your fiancée is about to break off your engagement. Please wake up quickly." At the bedside, a maid resembling a servant girl, while wiping Zhou Hong's face, muttered to herself.
It turned out that Zhou Hong had a very outstanding fiancée on the Zi Xiao Continent, but because Zhou Hong had been unconscious for so long without waking up, she had become impatient and had proposed breaking off the engagement several times, unwilling to marry a vegetative state.
Just then, the comatose Zhou Hong suddenly opened his eyes.
"Third Young Master...!" The maid beside him was stunned, wondering if she was seeing things. She quickly rubbed her eyes.
At this moment, Zhou Hong felt a surge of weakness in his nerves, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness, and his limbs felt weak. He felt as though he had experienced a long, long dream, a dream in which he had traveled to another world and inherited his grandfather's sub-world from his past life.
Zhou Hong felt that the dream was incredibly real. If he hadn't already known all of this, he would have truly doubted whether it was real or fake.
"Xiao Cui, how long have I been unconscious?" Zhou Hong asked, sitting up from the bed. Of course, he recognized the maid. Her name was Xiao Cui.
"Third Young Master, you really believe it? You've been unconscious for nine months."
"Nine months?" Zhou Hong calculated the time he had spent on Earth, which was also around eight to nine months.
Zhou Hong nodded and looked at his body. It was no longer the body from Earth. This current body was his true body, clearly incomparable to the one on Earth.
"Young Master, I'll go inform Master and Madam right away," the maid Xiao Cui said happily, wiping away tears.
"Wait, don't rush," Zhou Hong called out to the maid Xiao Cui.
"Young Master, if we go now, we might still make it in time," Xiao Cui said quickly.
"Make it in time for what?" Zhou Hong frowned in confusion.
"Young Master, you've been unconscious for nine months. Your fiancée has repeatedly tried to break off the engagement. Today, they've come again, and they are in the family hall right now."
"Heh, Nalan Yunzhu wants to break off my engagement? Let her then," Zhou Hong chuckled. He certainly knew Nalan Yunzhu. He hadn't expected that after only a few months of his coma, she would want to break the engagement. Zhou Hong remembered that it was her family who had insisted on this arranged marriage with him back then, and Nalan Yunzhu had also been quite pleased with Zhou Hong.
"Young Master, you probably don't know that Nalan Yunzhu is no longer the same as before. She passed the assessment for the Tai Gu Academy on the Tian Yang Continent and has already entered the Tai Gu Academy."
"What?" Zhou Hong was slightly surprised. The Tai Gu Academy seemed formidable even to him.
"Yes, she can now be said to have completely surpassed you. Before, you were the number one genius on our Zi Xiao Continent, but you've been unconscious for nine months, and everything has changed. Many people who were once inferior to you have now surpassed you."
"Heh." Zhou Hong smiled. He used to be a renowned number one genius on the Zi Xiao Continent, but the Zi Xiao Continent was just a small place. If it were placed on another continent, he would be considered ordinary. Otherwise, the Zhou Hong of the past would have entered the Tai Gu Academy long ago.
It was just that Zhou Hong hadn't expected his former fiancée, Nalan Yunzhu, to have been admitted. No wonder she wanted to break the engagement.
Zhou Hong recalled that when he was on Earth, after absorbing the energy his grandfather had given him from his past life, he had rapidly ascended to the Nascent Soul realm in a very short period. If he were still at the Nascent Soul realm now, then Nalan Yunzhu would not be on the same level at all.
Zhou Hong immediately checked his body.
However, Zhou Hong was dumbfounded.
"Where's my Nascent Soul realm? Did it get eaten?" Zhou Hong muttered to himself.
"Young Master? What are you talking about? You've been unconscious for so long, are you crazy? Where would you have a Nascent Soul realm?" The maid Xiao Cui beside him said speechlessly. If Zhou Hong had a Nascent Soul realm, he would be considered a powerful figure on the Zi Xiao Continent.
Zhou Hong was not in the mood to banter with Xiao Cui; he was completely stunned at this moment.
"Old Ma, Old Ma," Zhou Hong quickly contacted Old Ma in the sub-world, his grandfather's steward from his past life.
"Little Young Master...!" Old Ma seemed to know something.
"On Earth, I clearly cultivated to the Nascent Soul realm! What's going on? Why am I still at the original realm of this body, only in the early stage of Fusion?"
"Young Master, your old servant did not anticipate this either. If your old servant's guess is correct, it might be related to your recent 'bold move' on Earth."
"'Bold move'?"
"Yes, on Earth, you migrated forty billion people to your sub-world, then modified the rules, and even replicated the mountains, rivers, and buildings of Earth into the sub-world. All of this requires the consumption of your own energy. Your own strength is already limited, and it wasn't obtained through your own cultivation. Therefore, your actions have consumed the realms you had previously cultivated."
"Damn it." Zhou Hong felt a torrent of emotions. He never expected that migrating forty billion Earthlings to the sub-world would have such consequences. If he had known, Zhou Hong would have been too lazy to do such a thing.
"Little Young Master, perhaps this is not a bad thing after all," Old Ma consoled him.
"How is it not a bad thing?"
"Everything gained through one's own hard work, step by step, is truly stable. If it were cultivated by yourself, this kind of thing would never have happened."
"Forget it, forget it. Since it has already happened, it can only be this way. Anyway, I was only at the early stage of Fusion on the Zi Xiao Continent to begin with. I'll just continue to work hard in the future," Zhou Hong said helplessly.
"Little Young Master, keep up the good work. You can do it." Su Dan Novel Net
Zhou Hong couldn't help but smile wryly. Unfortunately, his maid Xiao Cui thought Zhou Hong had gone mad. She had no idea that Zhou Hong was conversing with Old Ma in his mind in the sub-world.
Of course, something like a sub-world was unheard of on this Zi Xiao Continent.