Global Dungeon: I Can See the Status Bar

Yan Chao’s eyes had been shining since earlier.

He suppressed the joy in his heart and cautiously asked, "May I ask, are you... are you... one of those very powerful... cultivators...?"

This guy somewhat had a Ye Gong loves dragons complex.

He usually hoped to meet the legendary cultivators, but now he was so nervous he stuttered.

"You want to ask if I’m a cultivator? I guess you could say that." Lu Wenwu replied while grilling a pancake, "I do know a bit of magic and Daoist arts, but I’m not really skilled."

Previously, he had acquired part of the Mao Mountain Daoist skill inheritance in a zombie dungeon.

However, Lu Wenwu basically never used it, just dabbled in it, learning a few practical auxiliary arts for daily life convenience.

Yan Chao was a bit bewildered: "Huh? But I read... I read in historical records that powerful cultivators can incinerate the sky and boil the seas with one spell..."

Lu Wenwu shrugged: "No need. One punch solves everything. If it doesn’t, just punch again. Since I started cultivating, I’ve never encountered an opponent my fists couldn’t resolve."

With... fists!?

Never needing spells to solve opponents!?

Wait!

Punch that shakes mountains and rivers, overturns heaven and earth?

Hiss!

The few high-achieving students in the mythological archaeology major seemed to simultaneously realize something, their eyes filled with intense shock and incredulity.

This characteristic clearly matched the situation of those first people who embarked on the path of cultivation after the ancient gods vanished!

Back then, the cultivation methods weren’t refined, focusing on hunting exotic beasts and toughening the body.

Mythological history dubs that period the dawn of human civilization, prior to which was the mythological civilization phase.

For those first on the path of cultivation, mythistory has a specific term.

Pathfinder.

Lan Xin gazed at Lu Wenwu with reverence and respectfully asked, "May I know how long you have been cultivating to be so powerful? It must be a tough, monotonous life, right?"

"How long? I don’t remember."

Lu Wenwu spread the cooked pancake, skillfully adding an egg.

"It’s not tough, maybe monotonous... perhaps. In my self-created cave mansion, I mostly cultivate, occasionally researching the egg-filled pancake or raising small animals. Before meeting you, this was my life."

Mao Mao chimed in, "Master is really hardworking!"

Self-created cave mansion!

This was his life before meeting us!

And there’s even a spirit beast that talks like a human!

The five of them were on the verge of total shock.

By now, they were completely convinced that this cultivator, who didn’t quite seem like a Daoist, was indeed an immensely powerful Pathfinder.

He must have been cultivating away from civilization since ancient times to the present.

He had even reached the extent of developing a small space as his cave mansion, like the Immortal Gods!

Incredible. They were lucky to be rescued by such a powerful ancestor of humanity!

Oddly, he was also unexpectedly gentle!

"By the way, you haven’t answered my question yet, what is Yanjing Academy and the mythological archaeology major?" Lu Wenwu asked.

Gu Taixing promptly replied, "Senior, Yanjing Academy is a place of learning. You might think of it as an organization that imparts non-cultivation knowledge, with many erudite elders. We students are like named disciples of these learned elders."

"And the mythological archaeology major involves studying, deducing, recording the historical changes of the mythological era through ancient artifacts and arranging and revising the unrecorded histories of cultivators."

"Mythical era... what is that?" Lu Wenwu honestly inquired.

This time, Qian Qian explained, "Reporting to Senior, the mythical era is a term defined by later generations. The long period nearly ten thousand years under the reign of ancient Immortal Gods is called the mythical era by scholars. The era we currently live in is termed the human era."

"The beginning of the human era is said to be around ten thousand years after the complete disappearance of the ancient gods. Humans, led by ’Pathfinders’ like you, gradually broke away from the gifts of Immortal Gods, mastered the power of cultivation by themselves, established our own civilization, even ascending to become new Immortal Gods, developing to the present-day."

At this point, Qian Qian suddenly bowed ninety degrees, holding his fist in salute.

"Thank you, Senior, for your contributions to us descendants. Without Pathfinders like you, we might never have been able to truly control our own fate."

"Please, don’t. I’m not a Pathfinder." Lu Wenwu quickly refused, "I just cultivate silently by myself. I haven’t contributed anything to humanity, absolutely undeserving of such merit. The title should be left to those true Pathfinders."

He was just a transmigrator going through dungeons for tasks, undeserving of such an epic title as "Pathfinder."

If he truly acknowledged it, it would be disrespectful to those real Pathfinders of this world.

Moreover, it seems from this guy’s words that some Pathfinders might have already attained immortality, or ascended the divine throne to become new Immortal Gods.

Things were starting to get interesting.

Wonder if the purity of this world’s Immortal Gods is high?

Even though Lu Wenwu firmly refused, it seemed Gu Taixing and the others were steadfast in regarding him as a Pathfinder, a forefather of humanity to be respected.

Each no longer displayed mere worship of the powerful but instead viewed him as a venerable elder, all serious and solemn.

This left Lu Wenwu a bit exasperated yet amused.

Fortunately, it seemed quite beneficial for integrating into this world.

In this world, it seemed that archaeologists occasionally dug up ancient cultivators from unknown eras, thus a set of mature response strategies existed.

Even though it was Gu Taixing’s first time, they were evidently quite used to such matters and highly adaptive.

Even...

These guys seemed to treat it as a chance to practice what they learned, revolving around Lu Wenwu with textbook knowledge and amassing experience.

Who knows if Lu Wenwu could help them gain some extra credit... or maybe count as something like a graduation project.

Bad news: Being forced as someone’s ancestor is quite exhausting.

Good news: No need to painstakingly gather information about this world as these professionals gave him a textbook explanation of the current world situation.

In simple terms, this is a technological civilization with a cultivation system, with technology equivalent to Blue Star before Lu Wenwu’s transmigration, and there are still existing Immortal Gods.

The East refers to them as Immortals and the corresponding cultivators, and the West as Gods and the corresponding Transcendents.

The Immortal Gods mostly reside in the Celestial Realm and Divine Realm.

While cultivators and Transcendents compose various sects, some hidden in the mundane world or deep in mountain forests, others in their sect’s little world.

Everyone knows of their existence, but few have the fortune to witness them firsthand.

Or rather... even on the street, they may not recognize them.

The humans and all beings, even the entire world, are clearly created by ancient Immortal Gods.

The ancient Immortal Gods were largely divided into two opposing camps: Gods and Immortals, sending followers to attack each other, sparking Divine Wars, occasionally fractioning into smaller factions within the larger camps.

This kind of life persisted for ten thousand years.

For some unknown reasons, ancient Immortal Gods entered the Twilight of the Gods, successively disappearing.

Existing Immortal Gods all ascended from humans.

The accumulated grudges and the hostility from the mythological era passed down to the new generation of Immortal Gods and humans, creating two parts of human civilization, the West and East, with numerous countries appearing.

Although those countries occasionally have friction, they are far more harmonious compared to the mythological era.

After understanding the situation, Lu Wenwu, leveraging the egg-filled pancake to build rapport, also learned the reason behind the group’s entrapment in the "Ghost Wall."

It was the deserted temple Lu Wenwu sensed not long ago.

Its proper name is—Dao Fire True Monarch Temple.

In the mythic era, it was used for worshipping an ancient Immortal.

An immensely powerful True Monarch even among the ancient Immortal Gods!