Chapter 1: The Opening Manifestation of the Panlong Ring
Material plane, Zhongyuan Continent:
Inside the church in Shengyue City where the Holy See of Light is located, a young man with black eyes and black hair, who looked to be only in his teens, walked into a mysterious hall under the guidance of the church clergy.

"Your Holiness, Mr. Sean is here." The clergyman said to a blond man sitting above.

"Oh, the most talented young man in the Zhongyuan Continent in the past 5000 years. I have heard of your name a long time ago." The blond pope said with a smile, "Sit down."

"Thank you, Your Holiness!" Sean bowed slightly and then sat on a nanmu chair beside him.

Since coming into this world, this is Sean's first contact with the legendary Pope.

He is not from this world, but from Earth. He was in a dream, and when he woke up, he turned into a baby. He was in a forest, and thought he would starve to death or be eaten by some animals, but he was found by an explorer from the Vatican who passed by and was brought back to the Vatican.
It was also because the people of the Holy See discovered that his mental power was very strong, far exceeding that of ordinary babies, so they brought him back to Shengyue City and named him Sean Walker.

Six years later, Sean underwent tests on his mental strength and magical affinity, which were 6 times that of a normal person of his age and he had a super affinity for earth magic.

Afterwards, the Holy See naturally began to focus on training Sean, and Sean, who had traveled through time, also knew the importance of strength. In his previous life, it was power and money, but in this Western fantasy world, it was strength. With strength, you have everything.

Today, nine years later, his earth magic has reached level eight.

"Sean, you are only 17 years old this year. At such a young age, you are already an 8th-level magician. I have to say that you are much more powerful than I was back then." The Pope smiled and asked, "What level of fighting spirit is there in your body?"

"Your Holiness, my warrior level is only level 7," Sean replied.

In his previous life, he had read many novels about the Western fantasy world and knew that although magicians were strong, if their bodies were too weak, it would be a fatal flaw.
So, he also worked hard to learn warrior skills. However, his talent in this area was slightly inferior to that of magic. Even with the support of the powerful resources of the Holy See, he was only at level 7.

"You are a level 8 earth magician and a level 7 warrior, and you are only 17 years old. Sean, you are truly a genius. With your talent, as long as nothing goes wrong, it will only be a matter of time before you reach the Sanctuary." The Pope nodded and said.

"Thank you for the compliment, Your Holiness." Sean replied politely. He still had a favorable impression of the Holy See. After all, it was they who raised him and trained him. Otherwise, he would have died in the forest long ago.

"Are you curious why I called you here today?" Pope Urban asked.

"Yes." Sean nodded.

With his status as an 8th-level magician, he also gained a very high status in the Vatican, but compared with the Pope, he was still far behind. As far as he knew, it was very difficult even for an ordinary strong man in the Sanctuary to meet Pope Urban.

"I asked you to come here because I want to tell you something that is very important to you," Urban said.

"Originally, it would be best to wait until you reach the peak of level 9 or the Holy Domain before telling you about these things. However, our Church may face certain crises in the future. I am not sure what the future will be like, so I need to tell you first."

"The Church is facing a crisis?" Sean's expression changed slightly, and he asked, "Your Holiness, what kind of crisis is it? Is it the Dark Church?"

Zhongyuan Continent covers millions of miles. The Church of Light is the most powerful force, occupying almost half of the area, while the rest is controlled by other forces, including the Church of Darkness, the Water God Cult, the Church of Nature, the Temple of Death, etc.
Among them, the Dark Church is the strongest. These forces even have a tendency to unite to fight against the Light Church, but they are still no match.

As far as Sean knew, these confrontations had lasted for tens of thousands of years, and the Holy See of Light had always had the upper hand.

"You don't need to ask this. This matter cannot be leaked now. Besides, it's useless to tell you. When the time comes, you will know." Urban shook his head and said, "I called you here today to tell you the nature of this world."

"Essence?" Sean's heart moved. He had actually always had some suspicions, but because of his low ability, he had no evidence.

"Our Zhongyuan Continent is about three million miles in radius. For those below the Saint Realm, such a large continent may not be explored in its entirety in a lifetime. But what they don't know is that the Zhongyuan Continent is just a drop in the ocean of our world. The vast South China Sea and East China Sea are more than a thousand times the size of the Zhongyuan Continent." Urban paused and said:

"You may know some of these, but what I want to tell you is that the entire world you know, we call it a plane. The place we are in is called the material plane of Zhongyuan Continent, which is just one of the planes between heaven and earth. Above the material plane are the four supreme planes and the seven god planes." "..." Sean seemed to be so "shocked" that he couldn't speak.

However, what Urban didn't know was that he had actually suspected a long time ago that this was the world in the novel he had read in his previous life: the "Panlong" world. It's just that he had no evidence and could not confirm it because, at level 8, he could not access a world that was too advanced.

Now, with the Pope's approval, it has finally been implemented.

And just when he learned that he was indeed in the Panlong world, a book of holy light appeared in his mind, deep in Sean's soul. The first page of the book was naturally the word "Panlong".

"Is this my golden finger?" Sean was delighted. The biggest advantage of coming to Panlong's world is that one can live forever in the holy land. This is much better than the "Ten Thousand Years Emperor who shocked the universe and suppressed the Supreme Being" next door.

However, if you want to do well in the Panlong world, you can't do without a golden finger. Not to mention the main gods and the great perfection, in fact, the number of people who can become independent upper gods is one in countless billions.

As a time traveler, even if he has a good talent for the laws of the earth, it is hard to say what his final achievements will be. Super geniuses in the material plane are generally in the holy realm, and whether they can become gods depends on various opportunities.

When the book "Panlong" appeared in his mind, it had already been bound to his soul. Its ability was to materialize the ownerless treasures that appeared in the form of text in the book. The prerequisite was that he had reached the level of Lin Lei, the protagonist of the book.

Urban continued to explain the basic structure of this world: lower gods, middle gods, upper gods, main gods, and supreme gods. However, with his understanding of this world at the peak of the holy domain, he only had some superficial knowledge.

Sean also found some mistakes, but he didn't say them out loud. For example, regarding the laws, it was obvious that Urban didn't know about the fusion. Not to mention him as a sanctuary, even most of the gods in the material plane might not know about it.

After a while, Urban said, "Sean, if you want to become a god in the Holy Land, you don't need to practice, but rely on understanding the laws of heaven and earth. You practice the laws of the earth, so you should study the most commonly used magic. I can't teach you anything else.

If the Holy See is safe and sound, then you can follow the procedures and explore slowly. If there is any accident, I hope that what I told you today will help you avoid some detours in the future."

"I understand. Thank you, Your Holiness." Sean bowed and said. In the original book, the Holy See in the Magnolia plane was the plane boss, but not in his plane, at least not for him.

"You go back first. You can think about the future path slowly yourself." Urban waved his hand and said.

"Then I'll take my leave, Your Holiness." Sean said and walked out.

Afterwards, he leisurely took the carriage back to where he lived, which was a single-family house located less than 10 miles away from the headquarters of the Holy See in Shengyue City. Generally speaking, you couldn't buy it even if you had money, and only important people in the Holy See could live here.

After asking everyone to leave, Sean came to his bedroom and activated the monitoring magic circle. This magic circle was made by a wind magic saint mage of the Holy See. It was based on the wind of wind magic detection. The magic circle was made in reverse order and could sense the detection of other people.

After arriving at his own secret room, Sean quickly used the power of his soul to communicate with the "Panlong" book in his mind and turned to the seventh chapter of the first episode: Panlong Ring (Part 2).

When Sean's soul saw the "black ring" marked in red in the content, he immediately said to himself: manifest.

Suddenly, a black ring appeared out of thin air in the blank area in front of Sean and fell rapidly under the influence of gravity.

When Sean saw the ring, he was excited and quickly wrapped it with the power of his soul and took it over. This black ring was the most important existence in the original book: the Panlong Ring.

A soul defense main artifact, although it is broken.

(End of this chapter)