Salted Fish

Chapter 1: Salted Fish (Seeking Collections and Recommendations)

The sky was filled with a scorching sun, more dazzling than usual today.

A slightly thin, somewhat childish-looking black-haired youth ambled towards a stone platform ahead.

The stone platform was shaded from the intense sunlight by a hundred-year-old willow tree with countless outstretched branches, casting a patch of coolness.

At this moment, hundreds of figures sat cross-legged around the stone platform.

They were a group of somewhat green youths, their fingers interlaced, eyes closed. With each breath, they seemed to follow a certain rhythm, and faint, almost imperceptible points of light swirled around them.

"Hoo hoo hoo..."

Suddenly, an out-of-place snoring sound rang out.

The youth's body stiffened. Glancing towards the snoring sound, his expression couldn't help but twitch.

"Brother Yuan..."

A white-clothed youth was leaning against the hundred-year-old willow tree, fast asleep, drool trickling from the corner of his mouth, sleeping soundly.

It was hard to believe that while everyone else was diligently cultivating, someone was sleeping nearby.

The white-clothed youth's peculiar snoring was so jarring that everyone involuntarily opened their eyes and looked over.

Upon discovering who it was, everyone's expression turned incredibly strange.

Brother Yuan, whose full name was Mu Yuan.

He was a famous slacker at the Northern Spiritual Academy.

While others trained desperately every day, striving to break through to the Sensing Realm and enter the Spiritual Movement Realm, Mu Yuan...

He often looked as if he had no will to live, sleeping whenever he had nothing else to do. To this day, he couldn't sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

If it weren't for his genius younger brother, Mu Chen, and his father being the domain lord of the Mu Region, giving him a powerful backing, he would have been expelled from the Northern Spiritual Academy long ago.

As if sensing everyone's gaze, Mu Yuan slowly opened his eyes.

Seeing Mu Chen, Mu Yuan lazily spoke, without a trace of embarrassment:

"Little Mu, you're here. It's getting hotter and hotter. I found that it's cool under the big tree, a great place to sleep. I'm going to nap a bit longer. I'll have you wake me up when you break through to the Spiritual Movement Realm."

Hearing this, Mu Chen was slightly taken aback:

"Brother Yuan, how did you know?"

The beginning of cultivation was the Sensing Realm, sensing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, followed by the Spiritual Movement Realm. At this level, one could absorb spiritual energy into their body.

Having been stuck in the Sensing Realm for many days, Mu Chen had only felt the breakthrough opportunity this morning.

Generally, only powerful individuals several realms higher than oneself could sense the spiritual energy fluctuations emanating from them.

And Brother Yuan hadn't even entered the Sensing Realm yet; he knew just by looking at him, which truly made him curious.

Mu Chen knew that although Brother Yuan was lazy, he was undeniably brilliant.

The Great Thousand World he inhabited was vast and boundless, populated by myriad races and connected to countless planes.

However, those planes could only be called lower planes.

This was because the Great Thousand World was the center of those countless planes.

But even those lower planes were not without truly exceptional individuals.

They could break through the limitations of their planes and arrive in this 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 this Great Thousand World, they were considered true Supremes, objects of worship for countless people in the Great Thousand World.

Brother Yuan had even written two stories, "Battle Through the Heavens" and "Wu Dong Qian Kun," based on the legends of the Flame Emperor and the Martial Ancestor, describing them in an almost mythical way.

"Battle Through the Heavens" and "Wu Dong Qian Kun" became instantly popular in the Northern Spiritual Territory, with each new volume selling out.

As a result, the Mu Region even built several scenic spots, recreating scenes from the stories.

This attracted countless tourists from around the Northern Spiritual Territory, and even visitors from beyond the Northern Spiritual Territory came specifically for it.

In just a few years, the Mu Region had become the most prosperous region in the Northern Spiritual Territory.

Everyone in the Mu Region liked Brother Yuan.

But he was just too lazy.

And now, Mu Yuan had gone offline.

He had closed his eyes again and fallen asleep.

Many students at the Northern Spiritual Academy felt dissatisfied, but there were also many students and even teachers who were die-hard fans of "Battle Through the Heavens" and "Wu Dong Qian Kun."

Despite their dissatisfaction, they didn't dare to openly lecture him, choosing instead to turn a blind eye.

"..."

Mu Chen was speechless. He then walked towards the stone platform, sat down, clasped his hands in front of him, and entered a state of cultivation.

Not long after, visible light began to bloom around him.

That light was like a working vacuum cleaner, drawing spiritual energy from his surroundings into his body.

"As the protagonist of 'The Great Ruler', it's different..."

Mu Yuan sighed inwardly.

Like the Flame Emperor, he was a transmigrator.

It was just that Xiao Yan had transmigrated to the Dou Qi Continent, while he had transmigrated to the world of The Great Ruler, arriving in the Great Thousand World, and becoming Mu Chen's older brother.

"The plot of The Great Ruler is about to begin, and they haven't even given me a golden finger. How am I supposed to play?"

Don't be fooled by his current status as Mu Chen's older brother.

The crucial point was that Mu Chen hadn't grown up yet, so he couldn't rely on him.

Although the Mu Region was a dominant force in the Northern Spiritual Territory, it was merely a speck of dust in the entire Great Thousand World.

Even the Hundred Spirit Continent was just an insignificant, poor backwater.

Over the years since transmigrating to the Great Thousand World, Mu Yuan knew from birth that he wasn't Mu Chen's biological 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 elaborate golden fingers.

No peerless secret manuals, no old grandpas, and not even any awesome Divine Veins...

None of the golden fingers Mu Yuan desperately craved had appeared.

For the years he had been a salted fish, he could only rely on his experience from reading novels in his previous life to improve the Mu Region and make his own life more comfortable.

But he knew that ultimately, the Great Thousand World was a place where strength was paramount.

Without strength, everything was just talk.

Otherwise, one day, while being a salted fish, he might accidentally offend some powerful figure.

That would truly be a disaster for himself and his brother.

What's more, the outer realm devils had always been coveting the Great Thousand World.

If he had a golden finger, Mu Yuan could draw a dragon with his left hand and a rainbow with his right hand...

He could dominate all sorts of geniuses in this Great Thousand World where heroes gathered, and contend with the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor!

And there was the Heavenly Evil God; there would be no need to panic, it wouldn't be a problem at all!

Unfortunately.

After waiting for more than ten years, it still hadn't appeared.

Forget it.

He would honestly remain a salted fish and continue sleeping!

Perhaps, after another nap, he would go back.

Back then, he had fallen asleep while reading novels in bed.

When he woke up again, he was already in the world of The Great Ruler.

Soon, the hushed whispers of many youths could be heard.

"Just as Brother Yuan said, Mu Ge has successfully entered the Spiritual Movement Realm. He truly is the number one person in the Earth class of our East Courtyard."

They looked at Mu Chen, their faces showing envy and admiration.

"Sigh!"

Mu Yuan felt another pang of sourness in his heart.

The difference between a supporting character and the protagonist was that vast.

Even transmigrating to become the protagonist's older brother, it was useless without the protagonist's halo.

"Ding! The Great Ruler plot officially begins, congratulations to the host for activating the Check-in System!"

"Check-in System?!"

Boom!

As this voice sounded in Mu Yuan's mind.

His mouth fell wide open, drooling, and only then did he snap back to reality.

So it turned out to be a system-based story.

The experience of his nine hundred and ninety-nine transmigrator predecessors had taught him one thing: golden fingers might be late, but they would never be absent!

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