"You're here, Blood Fiend."
"So, you've finally figured out the materials needed to construct the World Crossing Gate?"
"Boundary Breaking Armor, Crystal Realm Fruit, Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire, Truth Incantation, Rakshasa True Word, Gleaming Gold South-Pointing Compass... They're all such troublesome things."
"As your reward, I'll let you be the vanguard in collecting the materials."
"This is the highest of honors... What's wrong? You don't want it?"
"Mm, that's more like it. Do your best, Blood Fiend. Don't disappoint my expectations..."
"How's your progress, Blood Fiend?"
"After all this time, all you've obtained is the Crystal Realm Fruit and a wisp of the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire's kindling?"
"What a useless fool!"
"I'll send someone else to retrieve the Crimson Lotus Karmic Fire's main body."
"As for you... I'm giving you half a year to bring me the Rakshasa True Word..."
"Otherwise... You know what the consequences will be..."
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I woke up with a splitting headache.
I felt grass beneath my back. It seemed I was lying flat on my back.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a sky full of stars, a beautiful night sky, and three moons.
Wait, three moons?
I sprang upright like a shrimp and looked up at the sky—sure enough, three moons hung in the brilliant night sky! One was silver-white, one golden-yellow, and the last orange-yellow... What was going on?
My head began to ache again... Little by little, I remembered what had happened before.
After leaving school to retrieve my bicycle, I had encountered the culprit behind a massacre—that mass of Blood Mist. Just as I was dying, a spatial rift had suddenly appeared and sucked me inside. I had luckily won the tug-of-war against the Blood Mist, and then... while unconscious, I had dreamed of something. It seemed a man had been speaking to me... When I woke again, I was here.
I looked around. This seemed to be a clearing in a forest, surrounded by enormous trees whose names I didn't know. It was worlds apart from the street where I had encountered the Blood Mist. Having been thoroughly poisoned by web novels, I immediately understood the situation: I had transmigrated.
My mind instantly went blank. Transmigration. I had actually transmigrated. It wasn't a soul transmigration or reincarnation, either—I had directly crossed into another world in my original body. As an ordinary deadbeat college student, I knew neither wilderness survival nor magic or martial arts. I didn't even know how to run a trading business and make money. Most protagonists who transmigrated knew at least one skill from their original world, using its knowledge to make money, pick up women, and raise their status in the new world... But what about me? What could I rely on to establish myself in this other world? Soldering circuit boards?
"In any case, I have to understand this world first, and then..." I shook off my confusion and muttered to myself, "...find a way back!"
That's right, I had to find a way back! Since my entire body had transmigrated to another world, the me in the original world must have been listed as missing. My roommates would be anxiously guessing where I had gone while answering the police's questions; my parents would be weeping as they searched throughout the city for traces of me; my grandparents, whose health was already poor, would hear the news of my disappearance and... I didn't dare think any further. My family, my friends, my unfinished college life... Everything I treasured was in another world. There was no way I could be like the male protagonists in transmigration novels, severing all ties with the past the moment they arrived in a new world and enjoying their new lives without a care!
Now that I had steadied my emotions, I had to take action. At the very least, I had to get out of this forest first. With that thought, I brushed back my hair and started walking...
Wait, brush back my hair?
I reached up to the top of my head, but instead of the crew cut I expected, my fingers touched smooth, long hair.
Come to think of it, my chest had felt... so heavy since earlier. And when I had muttered to myself just now, my voice had seemed unexpectedly shrill?
Only now did I realize that my body was abnormal. Until then, I had been too shocked by the fact that I had transmigrated the moment I woke up.
No way, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way.
I lowered my head with a trembling body, but I couldn't see my feet because two towering peaks blocked my view.
"Stop joking around—aaaaah!"
There was no mistaking it! Though the roar I had just let out had warped with anger, it was absolutely, one hundred percent, a woman's voice!
Just as I was in utter disarray, I suddenly heard someone shouting in the distance.
"Did you hear that? Sounds like someone was yelling over there."
A reply came from another direction: "Sounds like it. Let's go take a look."
I came back to my senses from my panic. I could examine my body later. From that conversation, could they be residents of this world? Was I about to come into contact with the natives so soon? Their language seemed no different from Chinese. Were they friendly? Should I ask them for information?
After thinking for a moment, I decided to hide first and observe the situation. I immediately ran toward the bushes beside me and discovered a hollow in the ground. It was practically a natural hiding place.
I watched the clearing through the gaps between the branches and leaves. Before long, two men emerged from the giant forest.
Their faces looked somewhat like a mishmash of things from Earth. They wore pure white uniforms; one appeared relaxed, while the other had a stern expression. Both held a palm-sized box in their hands. As soon as they came out, they looked around, as if searching for something.
"We must've heard wrong. There's no one here. Let's hurry up, finish work, and go home."
"The Patriarch discovered two days ago that a powerful Spiritual Energy Shockwave had appeared in this area. Strange things have been happening all over recently. If something really happened here, we wouldn't be able to shoulder the responsibility."
As he spoke, the man lifted the lid of the small box in his hand. A pale-yellow curtain of light immediately spread out from within. I hurriedly lowered my head and curled up completely inside the hollow. The curtain of light skimmed right over my head, spreading several dozen meters before fading and vanishing.
"See? There's no abnormal reaction at all. You're overthinking it."
"That only proves there's no living person above the surface. Our compass is too low-grade, and its detection range is too narrow."
"Hey, hey... Don't tell me you want to search for it yourself? With our detection abilities, we're complete trash without a compass to assist us! Besides, those top students already searched most of the area and didn't find so much as a hair!"
"Indeed. In that case, I'll report this place..."
"What's wrong with you?! You want to alarm the higher-ups over this trivial matter?"
Seeing the two of them argue endlessly, I quietly rose to my feet, doing my best to ignore the two mountains swaying lightly before my chest. Then, using the trees as cover, I slipped away. Ten meters, twenty meters... I moved stealthily through the dense forest for nearly three hundred meters. Only after reaching a river sparkling with rippling light did I finally relax.
At this distance, they shouldn't be able to find me, right? To be safe, I waited quietly for a few more minutes. There was still no movement around me.
It seemed there was no one else nearby.
Then...
I swallowed.
It was time to examine my body.
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I carefully removed my tattered clothes and slowly walked toward the riverbank. My long hair brushed against my neck, making it itch, while the two lumps on my chest swayed with every step, filling me with unbearable restlessness. The moonlight in this world was exceptionally bright. The slowly flowing river reflected it, forming a natural mirror. I took a deep breath and, with the attitude of someone who had already decided to face the worst, looked toward the water!
At that moment, my heartbeat seemed to stop.
Black hair as beautiful as a cascading waterfall, a flawless snow-white face, cherry-red lips, limpid, crystalline eyes, slender willow brows, a lovely delicate nose, and dainty ears hidden within the waterfall of black hair, occasionally peeking out playfully and creating a strange, alluring charm. Every feature had its own beauty, yet together they formed a perfect whole—she was simply as beautiful as a Goddess.
Looking lower, I saw a graceful, perfectly proportioned figure. Paired with skin as pure and flawless as white jade, it formed a beautiful body that seemed like a work of art. Her slender hands bore not the slightest scar, as tender as those of a newborn baby. Her slim, jade-like legs resembled a sculpture, gleaming with a snowy, delicate whiteness that invited endless imaginings... Her tender, snow-white neck had already lost the masculine symbol it once possessed, instead taking on a faint flush of pink that made her entire appearance radiate an astonishing beauty.
...That much I could accept, but the breasts were the real issue! This cup size was at least an E! They hadn't sagged at all under gravity!
I collapsed weakly onto the ground.
I had transformed. I had really transformed.
And into a beauty capable of toppling kingdoms, at that.