A higher-dimensional incarnation, starting by leveraging the stars.

Chapter 4: I faced the First Emperor, and the mirror made me panic.

He covered his mouth and breathed heavily for a long time, making sure he wouldn't make a sound again before he gradually relaxed and removed his hand.

Then, he blinked, his high-dimensional vision disappeared, he took a few deep breaths, opened the door, and smelled the aroma from the dining table.

"Sanhu, come down for dinner!"

"Mom, is your name Niu Guixiang?"

The mother's hand holding the teacup froze. She looked up at Hu Biao, who was peeking out from the stairs, her eyes filled with murderous intent.

Her name used to be Niu Guixiang, but after her husband's business took off, she changed her name to Niu Yafei!

"Dad, you're the second-in-command at Hongda Real Estate, right?"

Hu Shenyan's hand trembled, and he reached for the belt at his waist.

He used to be the second-in-command, and now he's the chairman. Ten years ago, everyone called him the second-in-command, but now he's very averse to the title.

Seeing the reaction downstairs, Hu Biao quickly ran back to his room and locked the door.

"That's right, I'm in the real world, my sister time-traveled!!"

Then, he blinked, and the holographic image at the very center of the Ancestral Dragon Mausoleum reappeared.

He stared blankly at the screen, forgetting to blink.

What did he see?!

In the very center of the platform, instead of the expected coffin, there was a mirror floating in the air!

A mirror with an ancient and peculiar design. The frame was neither gold nor jade, but a dark and restrained bronze color, engraved with intricate runes and patterns of clouds, birds, insects, and fish that he could not understand at all, exuding an ancient and mysterious aura. It floated silently, defying all the laws of physics, about three meters above the ground, without any support.

Even more bizarre was the mirror. It didn't reflect the scene inside the tomb, but instead projected a beam of light from it, as soft as moonlight and as straight as a flashlight beam. This beam of light shone precisely and steadily on a huge, pitch-black dragon throne made of an unknown material directly below the mirror.

The dragon throne is carved with nine dragons of different shapes and fierce expressions. The dragons' eyes seem to be inlaid with some kind of red gemstone, and under the clear light, they faintly shimmer with a red glow, as if they might come to life at any moment.

And sitting upright on the dragon throne was a person!

It was a middle-aged man, wearing a crown with tassels and an imperial robe of black and red, embroidered with the exquisite twelve symbols. His face was majestic, with distinct features, slanted eyebrows that swept into his temples, a high nose, and tightly pursed lips. Even sitting upright with his eyes closed under the clear light, an aura of dominance over the world and control over life and death still emanated from him, making Hu Biao feel a chill in his heart, almost suffocating!

First Emperor?! The government?!

That's not the most terrifying part. What's truly terrifying is that over two thousand years have passed! Buried deep underground in a damp, enclosed environment, his body... his body shows absolutely no signs of decay!

His skin was full and radiant, as if he were merely asleep, even his eyelashes were clearly defined. His ceremonial robes were as vibrant as new, without a trace of age. He sat there quietly, bathed in the mirror's glow, as if time itself had stood still upon him, or rather, frozen by some force. That majesty was not the stiffness of life, but rather carried a dormant, restrained, yet still immense, life force!

Materialists? Scientific worldview? At this moment, they were utterly shattered by this incomprehensible scene before them!

A floating ancient mirror? A beam of light that seems to freeze time? A lifelike emperor from over two thousand years ago?!

You're telling me this is the Ancestral Dragon?

Hu Biao felt that his worldview, like fragile glass, shattered into pieces.

Fortunately, he has a broad mind.

After all, something even more outrageous had happened yesterday, and his threshold was now ridiculously high. After the initial shock, he suddenly realized that he was no ordinary person either!

Oh, I'm not an ordinary person either!

That's all right now!

but……

Another question suddenly popped into his mind.

"No...maybe he's still alive?" Hu Biao reached out to touch him, then froze.

When his hand touched the beam of light, he discovered that it was actually solid.

solid?

How can I still touch solid things in this state?

I can even pass through stars, and you're telling me you're solid?

Sensing something was wrong, he exerted a little force...

Suddenly, a feeling of dizziness arose in my mind.

Sensing something was wrong, he immediately withdrew his strength!

"Holy crap, is this energy consumption that high? It's even more energy consumption than when I moved stars! What's going on?"

Looking at the motionless mirror and the beam of light, he fell into deep thought, and then, a brilliant idea struck him.

"Could this be a time-stopping beam?"

Regardless, Hu Biao was someone who had read thousands of online novels, and based on his experience, he began to have a guess.

"Hmm, my guess makes some sense. The law of time is one of the most supreme laws in online novels, right?" he thought to himself, a bit like a chuunibyou.

Time stood still for two thousand years, which is why the body of the Ancestral Dragon Emperor remained immortal.

"Hmm, let's take a picture to commemorate this, it's the First Emperor!?"

Thinking of this, he quickly picked up his phone and, using the flash, started snapping photos of the dragon throne.

Then, he looked at his phone's photo album.

"Hehe, I actually managed to film it. I'm probably the only person in the world who knows the true face of the Ancestral Dragon Emperor!"

Then, a wave of fatigue washed over me.

"Damn, we can't play anymore."

He blinked, and the scene before him vanished. He took a deep breath, collapsed onto the bed, and fell peacefully asleep. Downstairs, he heard his mother calling out to him.

"Sanhu, get down here and eat!"

"It takes three or four invitations to get you to come down for a meal. If you don't come down, you won't get any food tonight."

"What are you yelling for? If you don't want to eat, then don't eat! This kid is so disobedient now because he's eaten too much. He should be starved for a few meals!"

Hu Shenyan put down his bowl, looking annoyed. Clearly, he was still allergic to the title "second-in-command." "Niu Guixiang, you spoil him too much!"

The moment the name Niu Guixiang was uttered, the mother's face immediately changed. She threw down the bowl and chopsticks in her hand, "Fine, if you don't want to eat, then you wash the dishes today!" With that, she stormed off.

The two of them stopped paying attention to Hu Biao.

It's not that these two are careless; after all, they're in their final year of high school, grown men. Missing a meal isn't a big deal; if they get hungry, they'll take care of themselves.

They are all very busy people with their own things to do.

So, until the early hours of the next day when Hu Biao woke up from his coma, they did not realize that their son had been unconscious for some time.

When Hu Biao regained consciousness, he felt a little dizzy and completely exhausted. His stomach was growling with hunger. He forced himself to go to the kitchen and stuffed something into his stomach, which helped him feel a little better. As his consciousness gradually returned, his spirits lifted again, and then his thoughts began to wander again...

"Well, if I can rob someone's grave, can't I also raid their mine? What if I found a gold mine? Right, why didn't I think of that before!"

He got excited again, jumped in front of the computer, and started searching for the distribution of gold mines around the world. Domestic mines were definitely out of the question, since they belonged to the state. But what about foreign mines?

Which country in this world doesn't have a few gold mines?!