“Pa!” Ethan Clark snapped his fingers. “It's settled, then.”

Ethan Clark pressed his hand on the car, and his ability had already scanned the entire vehicle. There were no major issues with the car, and restoring it to its optimal state was a piece of cake for Ethan Clark. If it were as badly damaged as his own Lamborghini that had been blown apart by a rocket launcher, Ethan Clark would need at least a few days—his limit for a completely wrecked supercar was about thirty-five percent repair per day.

As for these minor issues, they were resolved in an instant. With his hand on the car, he activated his ability, and in less than ten seconds, it was one hundred percent restored.

“All right, give it a try.”

Grace Thompson took it for a spin, and when she found that the previous problems were truly gone, her face was full of confusion, but also a bit of excitement.

“How… did you do that? That’s amazing.”

Ethan Clark smiled and said, “Don’t worry about how I fixed it for now. There’ll be plenty of time to explain it to you later. What you just promised… heh…”

Grace Thompson wasn’t an ordinary girl. After taking a slight breath, she said, “Of course I’ll keep my word, but you have to tell me how you did it.”

“Let me collect a little interest first. Tonight, I’ll give you a thorough explanation of the principle behind it…” As Ethan Clark spoke, his hand was already around the model’s waist, and he lowered his head to kiss her.

“Boom…” At that moment, a huge explosion sent everything within a half-kilometer radius centered on Ethan Clark and the others flying into the air. Countless more explosions followed, affecting several kilometers around.

On May 8, 2058, a massive explosion occurred in Changzhou City. The number of casualties is currently unknown. Preliminary investigations indicate that the explosion was caused by serious quality issues and corner-cutting in the underground gas pipeline, leading to a leak and explosion, which in turn triggered an explosion in a nearby underground oil storage facility. The relevant responsibilities are under investigation…

Chapter Two: Disciples, Do Not Be Afraid!

“Master… you can’t die… Master…” The sound of soft crying reached Ethan Clark’s ears.

Where is this? Why does it sound like someone around me is calling me ‘Master’? Could it be those bastards from the Thunder Division? Although I’ve always acted as a master, what era is it now, especially in the government’s ability department? Outside, they all call me Captain, and in the Thunder Division, they call me Instructor. No one has ever called me Master.

Ethan Clark quickly realized something was wrong. He seemed to remember a sudden, violent explosion. Although he reacted at the last moment and pulled Grace Thompson up to leap away, he didn’t escape the massive blast. Ethan Clark knew better than anyone that there was no way he could have survived an explosion of that magnitude.

So now? Ethan Clark found that he could hear sounds from outside, and could even sense some things about the people outside—there were men and women, and it seemed like an argument was going on. But these were just sensations; when he tried to look, he couldn’t see anything.

He was like a blind man, with only this strange sense. Just then, Ethan Clark felt a sudden brightness before his eyes, as a ball of white light enveloped him.

“Let’s take the long view… take the long view. Now that Master’s fate is uncertain, we absolutely cannot act rashly.”

“Take the long view, my ass! Master’s been killed, and you’re still talking about taking the long view. Today I’ll make them pay! If I kill one, it’s worth it; if I kill two, I profit. A person lives for their pride—better to die fighting than to die in humiliation. Senior brother, get out of my way.”

“Absolutely not. We need to return to Yushan immediately and let the elders decide.”

“Elders… ha… Ever since Grandmaster died, do we even have a place in Yushan? All these years, we’ve been met with cold stares and exclusion whenever we went back—most of the time, we’ve been living outside. Who would care about us if we returned? Now that Master is dead, whether they even acknowledge us as Yushan disciples is another matter. Anyway, I don’t care about anything else. Master may have been weak, but I will avenge him today, no matter the cost.”

When Ethan Clark woke up again, he heard two people arguing. It turned out that his eldest disciple, Olivia Smith, was stopping his second disciple, Emily Harris. Olivia Smith was honest, steady, and generous, while the second disciple, though a girl, had a fiery temper…

Ethan Clark suddenly realized—how could he know who they were just by hearing their voices? It was as if he was as familiar with them as he was with his own team members, knowing their personalities and everything about their pasts. Even scenes from their childhood flashed through his mind.

As this information appeared, countless more memories flooded into Ethan Clark’s mind.

There was so much information that it took Ethan Clark quite a while to react. Only then did he realize that he and Grace Thompson had died together in that violent explosion—at least, in that world, they had died. But for some unknown reason, he had been reborn in this person’s body.

Not only reborn, but he had also merged with his memories. The last segment of those memories was quite interesting: this person was called David Smith, a disciple of Yushan under the Three Mountains, Two Sects, and One School of the cultivation world in Shenzhou. Yushan was an ancient famous mountain, the birthplace of Yu the Great.

Although he had merged with David Smith’s memories, Ethan Clark still wasn’t sure if this Yushan was the same as the legendary Yushan on Earth. That was something he would have to figure out slowly in the future.