"Parallel world, Blue Star."
In the pitch-black room, it was impossible to see one's hand before one's face. A figure lay on the bed, snoring away.
"Ding..."
A crisp chime rang out in the figure's mind.
After the chime faded, a pale golden glow unexpectedly appeared around the figure sleeping on the bed.
The pale golden glow lasted for an extremely short time. It vanished in less than a second.
As the pale golden glow disappeared, the sleeping figure on the bed vanished along with it.
The pitch-black room was empty. If not for the lingering warmth beneath the covers, no one would have thought that anyone had been sleeping there.
"Who opened my curtains?"
Lin Li slowly opened his eyes and sat up, muttering under his breath before yawning.
"Huh???" Lin Li, who was in the middle of yawning, suddenly froze, his eyes filled with confusion.
What's going on? What's with this vast white fog in front of me?
"Ugh! What a strange dream I had today! What does dreaming of a huge expanse of white fog even mean? Give me a colorful dream instead!" Lin Li grumbled inwardly before lying down and closing his eyes again.
Ten seconds, twenty seconds, one minute, two minutes...
After lying back down and closing his eyes to continue sleeping, Lin Li opened his eyes again three minutes later.
He abruptly sat up and looked around. Astonishment gradually appeared on his face.
"No way! This dream is way too realistic." Lin Li raised his right hand and forcefully pinched his handsome, delicate face.
"Ow... That hurts..."
After pinching his cheek hard, the intense pain let Lin Li know that he was not dreaming.
He hurriedly climbed to his feet from the grass. First, he took a deep breath to steady his emotions, then walked once around the land beneath his feet.
Several minutes later, Lin Li returned to where he had originally gotten up. His expression shifted constantly before he suddenly burst into loud laughter.
"Hahaha... Twenty-two years after being reborn in this world, my golden finger has finally gone live."
The patch of land beneath his feet covered roughly one hundred square meters. Water surrounded it on all sides, along with vast expanses of white fog... It was an island, an island so tiny it could hardly be any smaller.
Aside from an ordinary small tree standing two meters tall in the center of the island, there was nothing else.
After laughing loudly for a while, Lin Li felt a little thirsty. Looking at the crystal-clear water before him, he could not help feeling tempted.
He then went to the edge of the island, squatted down, and dipped his finger into the water before him. He smelled it first and detected no strange odor, then put it into his mouth and tasted it.
"It's fresh water, with a faint sweetness. It's about the same as the bottled mineral water I usually buy."
"Gulp..." After confirming that the clear water before him was drinkable, Lin Li, whose mouth was parched, immediately bent forward, brought his mouth to the water, and began drinking deeply.
"Ha~" After drinking his fill, his thirst disappeared. Lin Li then happily washed his face with the water before him.
"Other than an ordinary two-meter-tall small tree in the center, there's nothing else on this island. This place is way too barren!"
Once his initial excitement subsided, Lin Li felt that this island before him did not seem capable of changing his current life by much.
"Ugh, if only I could awaken an ability I could use for combat!"
The moment Lin Li finished speaking, he suddenly felt dizzy. His vision went black, and his entire body toppled backward.
In the pitch-black room, a pale golden glow suddenly flashed across the empty bed. Then, a figure appeared on the bed out of thin air.
"Ow, that hurts!" Back in his own home, Lin Li slapped his head with one hand. His head felt as though someone had struck it, leaving him with a headache and a dizzy spell.
The discomfort lasted for a while before Lin Li finally recovered.
He got out of bed and went to the window to pull open the curtains.
Bright sunlight streamed into the bedroom, instantly driving away the darkness inside.
Golden sunlight shone onto Lin Li's face. Unaccustomed to it, he narrowed his eyes slightly and looked down into the residential complex.
Though it was early in the morning, quite a few people in the complex had already gotten up to exercise. Pale golden glows occasionally appeared around their bodies.
How could pale golden glows appear around people's bodies?
That was right. Unlike Earth in his previous life, this parallel world known as Blue Star was a world that possessed Spiritual Energy and supernatural abilities.
After a person was born, once they reached the age of fifteen, they would automatically awaken spiritual nature if they possessed cultivation talent.
After awakening spiritual nature, they could persist in training their bodies and absorb the free Spiritual Energy in the air. In the future, they might become a Cultivator.
Lin Li, who had been reborn in this world, was fairly lucky. At the age of fifteen, he had awakened spiritual nature and gained the qualifications to become a Cultivator.
Lin Li had been overjoyed when he awakened his spiritual nature back then. He had once fantasized about becoming a superhero with extraordinary abilities while on Earth. He had never expected that after waking up, he would be reborn in this world and actually receive such an opportunity.
After awakening spiritual nature, Lin Li decided that he would train his body properly from then on, become a Cultivator as soon as possible, and grow stronger without end. He would become a man who married a beautiful, wealthy woman and climbed to the pinnacle of life.
Unfortunately, ideals were always beautiful, while reality was cruel.
After awakening spiritual nature, people's cultivation aptitudes differed greatly.
Those with good aptitude progressed rapidly. After training their bodies consistently for one year, they could become first-order initial stage Cultivators. Those who were a little slower could become Cultivators in three years.
Then there were those with exceptionally poor aptitude. No one knew when they would become Cultivators—or rather, they might never have any chance of becoming one.
Unfortunately, Lin Li belonged to that group with exceptionally poor aptitude. Although he trained his body every day after awakening his spiritual nature, his efficiency at absorbing the free Spiritual Energy in the air was incredibly low.
He had started cultivating at the age of fifteen, and seven years had already passed. Yet he was still standing where he started, nowhere near breaking through to the first-order initial stage and officially becoming a Cultivator.
Such awful cultivation aptitude had completely turned Lin Li into a salted fish who preferred to stay at home.
His former dreams of becoming a powerful cultivator, marrying a beautiful, wealthy woman, and reaching the pinnacle of life had all been thrown into the trash.
Now, Lin Li only wanted to live comfortably at home, relying on rent collection and interest from his bank savings while playing games, watching anime, and leisurely passing his life.
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