The Escaped One

"Hmm? Where was this?"

Lin Tian opened his eyes and looked around.

Everything around him was gray and hazy; he could not see a thing.

He was instantly stunned. "What kind of place is this? Was I kidnapped?"

Lin Tian subconsciously reached for his body, wanting to check whether anyone had harvested his kidneys.

Then he saw that his body was gone, completely transparent.

"Did I... turn into a ghost?"

Lin Tian was utterly shocked and filled with confusion.

He only remembered drinking a little last night and grumbling while holding the gray bead he had bought from a street stall.

Then, the bead fell into his mouth. He slammed into the wall and passed out.

It turned out that Lin Tian had broken up with his girlfriend the day before.

He and his girlfriend, Li Na, had both attended Bamboo Sea University.

When school had first started, the two had fallen in love at first sight after an accident.

From then on, Lin Tian had begun pursuing Li Na.

He often arranged surprises for her and looked after her.

Three months later, they naturally became boyfriend and girlfriend.

Just like that, throughout their four years of university, the two had been inseparable.

Lin Tian had been looking forward to graduating, finding a good job, earning money, and supporting Li Na.

But reality taught him a lesson. He sent out countless résumés, yet no one wanted him.

In the end, with no other choice, he could only deliver takeout.

Li Na, meanwhile, became a real estate salesperson.

However, Li Na did not blame Lin Tian.

Instead, she encouraged him and cheered him on.

That made Lin Tian cherish Li Na even more. Rain or shine, he worked tirelessly day after day.

One day, Lin Tian delivered an order of condoms to a hotel, only for Li Na to answer the door!

A middle-aged man's voice could be heard from inside.

Lin Tian was instantly dumbfounded. He rushed in and beat the man up.

He had seen that old man before. The man had once driven Li Na home. Though they had met only briefly, Lin Tian remembered him clearly!

In the end, the middle-aged man called the police, and Lin Tian was taken to the station.

When his university classmate Xiao Hua found out, he paid bail to get him out.

"Brother, come on. Let's go settle the score with her!"

Xiao Hua was furious on Lin Tian's behalf. Lin Tian had worked himself to the bone every day for that woman, only for her to cuckold his brother in the end.

This was utterly intolerable!

But Lin Tian stopped him. He only wanted to preserve his last shred of dignity.

When he returned home, he found that Li Na had already packed her things and left behind a note.

"You can't give me happiness. Don't look for me again. Let's break up!"

Though it was only eighteen short characters, every single word stabbed straight into Lin Tian's heart.

Lin Tian cried. Even when life had been disappointing, he had never shed a tear.

Yet for Li Na, he finally cried.

"Heh... It was all fake! All fake!"

Lin Tian shouted unwillingly, as though he wanted to vent the resentment in his heart.

After a long while, Lin Tian stared silently at the note in his hand.

To forget Li Na, he threw himself into work from morning to night. Xiao Hua knew that this could not continue.

So he called Lin Tian out to relax and visit the nearby Antique Street.

Lin Tian wanted to say that he had already moved on, but faced with Xiao Hua's insistence, he could not refuse and went anyway.

The Antique Street was huge, filled with all sorts of people and countless varieties of antiques.

Most people came to try their luck, hoping to find a genuine treasure and strike it rich.

Lin Tian walked around listlessly, paying no attention to Xiao Hua's enthusiastic introductions.

Suddenly, Lin Tian noticed a gray bead at a stall ahead flash with gray light, only for it to vanish immediately afterward.

Lin Tian hurried over and picked it up to inspect it, but he found nothing unusual.

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Seeing a customer arrive, the owner immediately began his sales pitch. "Young man, you've got a good eye! This was passed down from my ancestors a thousand years ago. It's extremely precious. I normally can't bear to sell it, but since we're fated to meet, I'll let you have it for two million!"

The moment Xiao Hua heard that, he exploded in anger, cursed the owner as a crooked merchant, and grabbed Lin Tian to leave.

But Lin Tian stopped him, saying it was just a marble and not worth much. Since he happened to want it as a collectible, he offered a flat price of thirty.

The owner refused and wanted to haggle.

But then Lin Tian pulled Xiao Hua away as if to leave.

Seeing that the deal was about to fall through, the owner hurriedly stopped them. His eyes rolled as he thought, It's just some little trinket I bought from a farmer. I haven't even made a sale today. Fine, thirty it is!

So the owner and Lin Tian went back and forth a little before finally closing the deal for thirty yuan.

"Lin Tian, why did you buy that?"

Xiao Hua was somewhat puzzled. It was obviously a fake.

Lin Tian smiled faintly. "Since I came to Antique Street, I bought something to keep as a souvenir."

He was certain that what he had seen earlier was not an illusion. There was something unusual about this bead.

But it was not something he could tell Xiao Hua, lest he be taken for a lunatic.

Xiao Hua said nothing more.

After they finished eating, they each went home.

However, Lin Tian bought a whole case of alcohol.

It turned out that he had wanted to message Li Na earlier and ask how she had been lately.

But Li Na had blocked him.

Lin Tian gave a bitter smile. Years of affection had ultimately been no match for the lure of money.

Night fell.

Lin Tian drank himself into a complete stupor.

In his daze, he took out the gray bead and examined it from every angle, but could not make sense of it.

He raised the bead and started cursing at it.

Unexpectedly, the bead fell into his mouth. He immediately could not breathe, slammed into the wall, and passed out.

When he woke up again, he was here.

"Right, that bead? Did the bead bring me here?"

Lin Tian searched himself from top to bottom, but could not find it.

Only then did Lin Tian notice that although he was in a soul state, the gray energy around him had no effect on him whatsoever.

Suddenly, a piece of information appeared in his mind.

After a long while, Lin Tian finally opened his eyes.

"So the gray bead I bought was what brought me here. It was the Chaos Pearl! I obtained it by accident, and because of it, I transmigrated to Chaos."

Lin Tian breathed a sigh of relief. It was good enough that he understood what had happened.

"But I don't have a body right now? Chaos Pearl, you didn't even give me a cultivation technique. How am I supposed to cultivate?"

Lin Tian was speechless. There was no information about cultivation techniques in his mind either.

What could he do in his current state as a soul?

"Didn't they say Chaos had Three Thousand Demon Gods? Why haven't I seen a single one?"

He looked at the boundless surroundings, where there was nothing at all.

"Which Chaos Demon God am I supposed to possess? At least give me a hint!"

Lin Tian was at a complete loss.

Suddenly, a rumbling sound came from above him.

Then a huge eye appeared. It looked around before finally fixing its gaze on Lin Tian.

It radiated an ancient aura and boundless majesty.

Lin Tian was stunned. "What is that?"

Then he seemed to think of something and cried out, "Could that be the Eye of the Great Dao?"

A moment later, a mechanical voice rang out. Though it was not loud, it echoed throughout all of Chaos.

"Anomaly? You must be executed!!!"

At once, more than a dozen bolts of Great Dao Divine Thunder came crashing down.

"Ah! I'm going to die! I'm going to die!"

Lin Tian trembled in terror as the Thunder was about to strike.

A gray light suddenly emerged from Lin Tian's body and enveloped him.