Azure Cloud Sect

"Young Master, the Sect Grand Competition will begin in three days."

The morning mist had yet to disperse, and in an elegant courtyard with gray-tiled roofs and flying eaves,

fine beads of dew clung to the bluestone floor, while the emerald bamboo in the corner swayed gently in the breeze, laden with morning dew.

Bai Ye sat cross-legged on a white jade stone bench in the courtyard. His eyes slowly opened, his long lashes still damp with a hazy moisture.

Those eyes were exceptionally handsome, their outer corners slightly raised, their irises a deep ink-black.

At that moment, a thick layer of confusion first flashed through those beautiful eyes.

Very soon,

the confusion faded, and his eyes became clear as if washed clean. He could even see a sudden look of realization swiftly pass through their depths.

It was like a dust-covered Bronze Mirror being suddenly polished bright!

He rose, the hem of his moon-white robe brushing across the stone bench and stirring a few wisps of breeze.

He answered toward the courtyard entrance, his voice still carrying a slight hoarseness from just awakening after meditation: "Got it."

The gray-clad figure outside answered, "Yes," and the sound of footsteps gradually receded, vanishing at the end of the covered corridor.

Only then did Bai Ye let out a heavy breath of stale air.

He raised a hand and rubbed between his brows. His fingertips touched cool skin as he murmured inwardly, "Heavenly Profound Continent... Azure Cloud Sect... Inner Disciple..."

He paused, his Adam's apple bobbing. "Looks like I really did transmigrate."

"Coincidentally, the original owner of this body is also called Bai Ye..."

He lowered his head and examined his long, clearly jointed hands.

These hands were more slender than they had been when he was on Blue Star, and thin calluses from years of martial training still remained at the base of his thumbs.

"Could this name be the reason I transmigrated?"

That was right.

Bai Ye had transmigrated!

The previous second, he had still been slaughtering his way through games in front of the computer in his rental apartment on Blue Star!

The next second, the heavens and earth spun without warning.

He felt as though someone had violently stuffed him into a washing machine. After the world turned upside down, he suddenly hit the ground, and when he opened his eyes again, he had already arrived in this strange world!

"This start... is a little troublesome."

He rubbed his brow as the memories that did not belong to him continued surging through his mind:

Profound cultivation formulas, the rules of the family, the commandments of the sect, and the original owner's years of cultivation experience battered his consciousness wave after wave like a rising tide.

Leaning against a corridor pillar, he slowly digested this information.

This world was called the Heavenly Profound Continent, a xuanhuan world where cultivators could split stones with a raised hand and scorch forests with an exhalation!

According to his memories, this continent was divided into eight great domains: Heaven, Earth, Profound, Yellow, Universe, Cosmos, Vast, and Wild.

Each domain was astonishingly vast. Senior cultivators often said that even riding a Spirit Boat across a single domain would take several decades!

The Wild Domain alone was the size of a hundred Blue Stars. Ten billion living beings multiplied and thrived there, cultivators and mortals living together, towns interspersed with mountains and wilderness.

And the place where he was now was precisely the weakest and most savage of the eight great domains—the Wild Domain.

The Wild Domain was further divided into several states. The place where he was located was Azure State.

The Azure Cloud Sect was one of the ten great powers of Azure State!

The Azure Cloud Sect's mountain gate occupied the heart of Azure State, within the Azure Cloud Mountain Range. Seventy-two Peaks were wreathed in clouds and mist, gathering countless experts and intimidating the surrounding lands.

Bai Ye himself was an Inner Disciple of the Azure Cloud Sect.

Not only that, but the Bai Family he came from was an ancient clan that had been passed down in Azure State for a thousand years.

The clan treasured quite a few artifacts handed down from a millennium ago. Its influence was deeply rooted throughout Azure State, and even the ten great powers would show it some respect.

"Tsk, tsk..."

Bai Ye rubbed his chin and muttered inwardly, "An Inner Disciple of one of the ten great powers, plus a direct descendant of a thousand-year-old clan. By transmigration standards, this setup counts as top-tier, right?"

He remembered that in the novels he had read before, transmigrators usually started as outer-sect laborers or as down-and-out young masters from fallen families. How could anyone have a smoother start than him?

But after thinking it over, he could not help sighing again, his voice carrying a touch of helplessness. "The background is pretty good, but this cultivation talent... sigh."

After all, this was a xuanhuan world. No matter how powerful one's background was, it could never surpass genuine cultivation.

And in cultivation, natural endowments had always revered physique and comprehension above all.

Unfortunately, this body's cultivation talent was exceedingly ordinary.

As for resources, as a direct descendant of the Bai Family, he could receive additional high-grade cultivation resources such as Spirit Condensing Pills and Body Tempering Fluid from the family every month.

Compared with the other Inner Disciples, he was far wealthier.

But physique and comprehension were his weak points.

His cultivation had always progressed slowly.

This world's cultivation system, from low to high, was Qi Refining, Vein Condensation, Origin Core, Profound Transformation, Nascent Soul, Tribulation Transcendence... Each realm was further divided into nine levels.

Bai Ye's predecessor had already cultivated for more than a decade. The Bai Family had thrown in countless rare resources, yet he had only barely reached the peak of the Second Level of Meridian Condensation.

Among his peers, he could not even be called average, much less a genius. This was enough to show how mediocre his physique and comprehension were.

"One gives up something to gain something? But what I gave up was far too crucial." Bai Ye smiled bitterly. "I might as well have been born a nobody in exchange for better talent."

In this world where the strong preyed on the weak, lacking talent meant being unable to reach the summit.

He could practically see his own future: in a few years, his cultivation would become stuck in the Vein Condensation Realm and never advance. He would either find some idle position as an Outer Sect Elder in a third-rate minor sect, or return to the Bai Family, guard the ancestral property, and become an overseer who lived off the family until death—finally turning silently into a mound of yellow earth when his lifespan ran out...

"Where's the system? Where's the transmigrator's cheat? Come save the day!" He could not help shouting inwardly, his fingertips squeezing until they turned slightly white.

The instant this thought fell--

a voice clear as jade striking jade, yet carrying a trace of the boundless majesty of the Heavenly Path, rang out without warning from the depths of his Sea of Consciousness:

"Host detected as having successfully fused with the physical body. Soul stability: 100%. Binding conditions met..."

"The Myriad Heavens Cultivation Assistance System is activating..."

"Activation successful!"

"Conducting the host's first talent draw... Draw complete!"

"Congratulations, Host. You have obtained a top-tier cultivation talent—Ten Thousand Times Comprehension!"