The blazing sun hung high in the sky, and compared to usual, today's sunlight was especially glaring.
A somewhat thin black-haired youth with a childish-looking face strolled slowly toward the stone platform ahead.
A century-old willow tree, its countless branches spread wide like arms, shaded the stone platform from the scorching sunlight and cast a patch of cool shadow.
At this moment, several hundred figures sat quietly around the stone platform.
They were a group of somewhat immature boys and girls. Their fingers were interlocked, their eyes tightly shut, and each breath seemed to follow a certain rhythm. Faint specks of light, barely perceptible, swirled around them.
"Snore, snore, snore..."
Suddenly, an ill-timed sound of deep sleep rang out.
The youth stiffened, glanced toward the snoring, and his face twitched.
"Brother Yuan..."
A white-robed youth was leaning against the century-old willow tree, sleeping soundly. An embarrassing trail of drool hung from the corner of his mouth.
It was hard to believe that while everyone else was diligently cultivating, someone was actually sleeping nearby.
The white-robed youth's unusual snoring was so piercing that everyone involuntarily opened their eyes and turned to look.
Once they saw who it was, their expressions all became exceedingly strange.
Brother Yuan, whose full name was Mu Yuan.
He was Northern Spiritual Academy's famously lazy good-for-nothing.
Everyone else cultivated desperately every day, striving to break through the Sensing Realm and enter the Spiritual Movement Realm.
But what about Mu Yuan?
He often looked as though life had lost all meaning, slept whenever he had nothing to do, and still could not sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
If not for his genius younger brother, Mu Chen, and his father, the lord of Mu Domain, having such a powerful backing, he would have been thrown out of Northern Spiritual Academy long ago.
As though he had sensed everyone's gazes, Mu Yuan slowly opened his eyes.
When he saw Mu Chen, Mu Yuan spoke lazily, without the slightest embarrassment:
"Little Mu, you're here. It's getting hotter and hotter. I've discovered that it's cool beneath this tree, the perfect place to sleep. I'll nap a little longer. Wake me when you break through to the Spiritual Movement Realm."
Mu Chen froze slightly upon hearing that.
"Brother Yuan, how did you know?"
Cultivation began with the Sensing Realm, sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Only after that came the Spiritual Movement Realm, where one could finally absorb spiritual energy into the body.
Having been stuck in the Sensing Realm for many days, Mu Chen had only sensed an opportunity for a breakthrough this morning.
Generally speaking, only experts several realms above him could detect the spiritual energy fluctuations on his body.
Yet Brother Yuan had not even entered the Sensing Realm. He had merely glanced at him and already known, which truly made Mu Chen curious.
Mu Chen knew that although Brother Yuan was lazy and unrestrained, he was indeed exceptionally intelligent.
The Great Thousand World where he lived was boundless and vast, home to countless races and connected to innumerable planes.
However, those planes could only be called lower planes.
Because the Great Thousand World was the center of those countless planes.
Yet those lower planes were not without truly extraordinary geniuses.
They could break the shackles of their planes and come to the Great Thousand World.
The two most famous among them were the Flame Emperor and the Martial Ancestor.
Although they came from lower planes, Mu Chen knew that even in the Great Thousand World, they counted as true supreme experts, objects of worship for countless people.
Using the legends of the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor as templates, Brother Yuan had written two stories, Battle Through the Heavens and Wu Dong Qian Kun, making them sound incredibly fantastical.
Battle Through the Heavens and Wu Dong Qian Kun had become wildly popular throughout the Northern Spiritual Territory, with every new volume selling out immediately.
Because of this, Mu Domain had even built several tourist attractions recreating scenes from the stories.
They attracted countless visitors from around the Northern Spiritual Territory, and even travelers from beyond it came by reputation.
In just a few years, Mu Domain had become the most prosperous domain in the Northern Spiritual Territory.
Everyone in Mu Domain liked Brother Yuan.
He was just a little too lazy.
And there he was, Mu Yuan had gone offline again.
Because he had closed his eyes once more and gone back to sleep.
Many students of Northern Spiritual Academy were dissatisfied, but quite a few students and even teachers were diehard fans of Battle Through the Heavens and Wu Dong Qian Kun.
No matter how displeased they were, they did not dare lecture him openly and could only turn a blind eye.
"..."
Mu Chen was speechless. Then he walked to the stone platform, sat cross-legged, pressed his hands together before him, and entered a cultivation state.
Before long, visible light began blooming around his body.
The light was like a working vacuum cleaner, drawing the surrounding spiritual energy into his body.
"As expected of the protagonist of The Great Ruler..."
Mu Yuan sighed inwardly.
Like the Flame Emperor, he was also a transmigrator.
It was just that Xiao Yan had transmigrated to the Dou Qi Continent, while he had transmigrated into the world of The Great Ruler, arriving in the Great Thousand World and even becoming Mu Chen's older brother.
"The plot of The Great Ruler is about to begin, and you won't even give me a cheat? How am I supposed to play this?"
Don't be fooled by the fact that he was now Mu Chen's older brother.
The problem was that Mu Chen had not grown strong yet, so he could not cling to this thigh.
Although Mu Domain was a dominant force in the Northern Spiritual Territory, it was merely a grain of dust in the entire Great Thousand World.
Even the Hundred Spirits Continent was just an insignificant backwater.
After transmigrating to the Great Thousand World, Mu Yuan had known from the moment he was born that he was not Mu Chen's biological older brother.
He was the son of Mu Feng's sworn brother.
In his previous life, he had read nine hundred and ninety-nine transmigration novels and seen four hundred and ninety different kinds of cheats.
There was no peerless cultivation manual, no old grandpa, and no absurdly overpowered God Vein either...
Not a single cheat that Mu Yuan desperately desired had appeared.
After being a slacker for all these years, he could only rely on his experience of reading novels in his previous life to improve Mu Domain and make his own life more comfortable.
But he knew that in the Great Thousand World, strength was ultimately supreme.
Without strength, everything was empty talk.
Otherwise, one day, he might accidentally offend some great figure even while being a slacker.
Then he would truly screw over both his father and his brother.
What was more, the extraterrestrial evil demons had always eyed the Great Thousand World covetously.
If he had a cheat, Mu Yuan could draw a dragon with his left hand and paint a rainbow with his right...
He could crush every genius in this gathering of heroes that was the Great Thousand World and contend with the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor!
Even the Heavenly Evil God would be nothing to panic about, not worth mentioning at all!
Unfortunately.
After waiting more than ten years, it still had not come.
Forget it.
He should just honestly be a slacker and keep sleeping!
Maybe if he took another nap, he would return.
Back then, he had fallen asleep while lying in bed reading a novel.
When he woke up again, he was already in the world of The Great Ruler.
Soon, the whispers of numerous youths arose.
"Just as Brother Yuan said, Mu Chen really did successfully advance into the Spiritual Movement Realm. He truly is the number one person in our East Courtyard Earth Tier."
They looked at Mu Chen with envy and admiration on their faces.
"Ugh!"
Mu Yuan felt another sour pang in his heart.
The difference between a nameless extra and a protagonist was simply this huge.
Even after transmigrating into the protagonist's older brother, it was still no good without protagonist luck.
"Ding! The plot of The Great Ruler has officially begun. Congratulations, Host, for activating the Check-in System!"
"The Check-in System?!"
Boom!
As the voice rang out in Mu Yuan's mind.
His mouth fell wide open, and drool spilled all over the ground before he suddenly came back to his senses.
So it was actually a system-type transmigration.
The experience of nine hundred and ninety-nine transmigrator predecessors had taught him one truth: cheats might be late, but they would never be absent!
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