Transmigration

"Ugh, my head hurts so much. I shouldn't have drunk so much if I'd known..."

Qi Fei opened his eyes in a daze.

Purple bed curtains came into view, making him feel somewhat strange.

He remembered that his own bed shouldn't have had such things installed.

Just as Qi Fei prepared to get up to investigate, a sound from beside him caught his attention, causing him to instinctively glance over.

The very first moment he looked over, Qi Fei instantly sobered up.

It was a woman who felt both strange and familiar, and she even appeared to be a foreigner.

--Her facial features were more defined compared to Asians, and her long, pale golden hair possessed quite an exotic charm.

Someone is setting me up.

These four words instantly surfaced in Qi Fei's mind.

He had heard before that some hospital departments couldn't resist temptation and would get involved in improper wining and dining with pharmaceutical representatives.

Then, the entire department would be rounded up in one fell swoop by the police.

Clearly, he had encountered a similar situation.

And his situation was even more ruthless.

At least those people got to eat, take, and have a good time while fully conscious.

He, on the other hand, had been directly drugged, thrown onto the bed, and forced onto a pirate ship without experiencing anything at all.

No, I can't just accept my fate like this; I have to run.

Qi Fei made a decision in an instant.

These bastards, trying to drag someone onto a pirate ship without even letting them taste the meat—they really aren't acting like human beings.

I absolutely cannot let them get their way.

Qi Fei immediately scanned his surroundings, attempting to find a way to escape.

He had already made up his mind.

Once he ran out, he would find a passerby to borrow a phone and call the police, giving these bastards a harsh lesson.

Then, as he looked around, Qi Fei discovered something even more despairing.

There was more than one woman on the bed.

Besides the blonde foreigner, there were two others.

One was a mature big sister with black hair and blue highlights, and the other was a silver-haired young girl.

Good grief, they even ordered a special package.

Framing me and even adding a plot to it, huh?

The indignation in Qi Fei's heart grew even stronger.

You bastards, just you wait. Even if I have to spend a few days locked up myself, I'll make sure to send all of you in.

However, just as Qi Fei prepared to get out of bed and flee, the pale golden-haired foreigner beside him seemed to be awakened by his movements.

After adjusting her posture, she opened her eyes under Qi Fei's despairing gaze.

The awakened foreigner let out a yawn and propped herself up from the covers.

Qi Fei, who had been single since birth, instinctively took a glance.

It would have been fine if he hadn't looked, but once he did, he couldn't help but be drawn in by another kind of force, making one marvel at the power of gravity.

But Qi Fei immediately averted his gaze.

Although the scenery was excellent, this was not the time to appreciate it.

The most urgent task now was to think about how to stabilize the other party, then wait for an opportunity to run and call the police.

"My Lord?"

The foreigner's tone was somewhat puzzled.

What was strange was that she wasn't using a language Qi Fei recognized.

It wasn't Chinese, nor Japanese, and certainly not English...

What made Qi Fei feel even stranger was that he could understand it without any obstacles.

Such a bizarre situation made Qi Fei doubt his own brain, and he hesitated for a split second because of it.

Then, the foreigner seized this moment to pounce on him, wrapping her arms around Qi Fei's neck and kissing him right on the mouth.

Unable to dodge in time, Qi Fei was kissed squarely.

Qi Fei wanted to break free and escape, but he discovered that this woman's strength was surprisingly great; he couldn't break free at all.

What was even more despairing was that, perhaps due to the commotion caused by his struggle, the silver-haired girl on the other side also woke up.

She woke up, muttered something at the two people kissing, and then burrowed back under the covers.

"It's over."

Tears streamed from the corners of Qi Fei's eyes.

It was over, everything was over.

This wasn't a frame-up anymore.

It was likely due to the connection between his lower head and his upper head.

During the fierce battle, some memories gradually flooded into his mind.

By the time the chaotic fight ended, he had successfully sorted through the general gist of those memories.

So, I wasn't framed; I transmigrated?

Qi Fei muttered to himself while resting in bed.

According to the memories he had acquired, this region was the Yulan Continent, specifically the Fenlai Kingdom among the many kingdoms of the Holy Union.

It was the place where Linley Baruch, the protagonist of the novel Coiling Dragon, was born.

As for whether it might just be a coincidence of names and not actually the world of the novel.

Qi Fei could guarantee that it absolutely was.

Because in the original body's memories, the most glorious history of their Cadmus Family was that their third-generation ancestor once fought to a draw with a Level 9 Warrior from the Dragonblood Family.

--Of course, that was before the other party transformed; a Level 9 Dragonblood Warrior becomes a Saint Realm expert after transforming and could beat a regular Level 9 Warrior to a pulp.

In that sense, Qi Fei and the original body were quite fated.

The reason Qi Fei was named Qi Fei was because the director of the orphanage in his past life loved the dragon-slaying epic, the Nibelungenlied.

The names in their orphanage were basically all derived from it.

For example, Sieg, Qi Fei (Siegfried), and Sieg (Siegfried)...

And the original body's family happened to have some connection to the Dragonblood Family of this world.

Could it be that this transmigration of mine is meant for me to take on the original protagonist, Linley of the Dragonblood Family?

Me, fighting the Controller of Hongmeng who can create worlds?

Is that for real?

Qi Fei shook his head vigorously to clear away the distracting thoughts and continued to organize his memories.

In short, although the battle involving the original body's ancestor was just a sparring match, it still won the Cadmus Family immense prestige.

The Cadmus Family thus became one of the top families in the Fenlai Kingdom.

Unfortunately, the family's later generations lacked talent in cultivation.

Let alone Level 9 Warriors, even Level 7 ones rarely appeared.

The wish of the third-generation ancestor, who longed for a Saint Realm expert to emerge among the family's descendants to fight the Dragonblood Family once more, also fell through.

The Cadmus Family declined just like that.

It wasn't until the original body's father was born.

The original body's father had cultivated to a Level 8 Warrior by his early thirties.

This level of talent didn't count for much compared to the various protagonists, but for the general public, it was already quite terrifying.

Breaking through to the Saint Realm and fulfilling the future the ancestor had hoped for could be said to have been beckoning to him.

Then, as expected, the unexpected happened.

The original body's father unfortunately met his end while adventuring in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and the original body's mother, a Level 7 Great Magus, did not escape the same fate.

The Cadmus Family, which had been showing signs of revival, had its momentum cut short.

Even Qi Fei, who had lived in a peaceful era, could see that there must have been something fishy going on.

The original body, having grown up in the Yulan Continent, naturally understood this as well.

But he was helpless, because at that time, he was merely a Level 5 Warrior.

A Level 5 Warrior; the captains of the guard units for those great families in the Fenlai Kingdom were at least at this level.

Under these circumstances, let alone investigating the mastermind behind the scenes, the original body couldn't even guarantee his own survival.

Thus, the original body made a prompt decision, handing over all the assets his father had acquired during his rise to the Fenlai Royal Family.

At the same time, he declared that he would retreat to the family territory, withdraw from the royal capital, and no longer participate in the struggle for interests.

To further lull the mastermind into a false sense of security, the original body even specifically purchased three beautiful maids.

He spent every night in revelry with them, appearing as if he had completely given up on himself.

This series of maneuvers succeeded.

The original body not only retreated from the royal capital unscathed, but the royal family also retained a ten percent dividend of his assets for him.

Ten percent of the assets earned by a Level 8 Warrior were enough to ensure the original owner lived a life of comfort without any worries.

If the original owner were the protagonist, the next steps would be to endure humiliation, bide his time, and eventually rise up to conquer his enemies.

But unfortunately, he was not.

A life of debauchery and extravagance quickly eroded his will.

Six years passed, and the original owner completely abandoned the idea of uncovering the truth.

His cultivation also plummeted from a Level 5 Warrior to a mere Level 2 during these years of reckless living.

In fact, if not for the Battle Qi still supporting his body from within, he wouldn't even have been able to maintain that Level 2 strength.

Because his constitution was so weak, the original owner caught a cold while playing in the water with his maids the day before yesterday and fell ill.

Under normal circumstances, he should have rested quietly and waited until he recovered before causing any more trouble.

But the original owner insisted otherwise.

Last night, having been cooped up all day, he claimed he was already cured and had a wild time with the maids.

And then, he breathed his last breath right there on the bed.

That was how the transmigrator Qi Fei came to inhabit this borrowed body.

"..."

Qi Fei sat up from the bed in silence.

This rather imaginative way of dying truly shocked him, a man who had been single his whole life.

He would rather believe that someone had poisoned the original owner in secret than accept this as the cause of death.

But the various traces in his memories indicated that this was indeed reality.

If the mastermind behind the scenes wanted to kill him, they would have done it long ago; they wouldn't have waited until his cultivation was completely wasted to go through the trouble of an assassination.

And the current Fenlai Royal Family would not allow the original owner to die under suspicious circumstances.

This was not only because the Fenlai Royal Family had seized all the assets earned by the original owner's father, but also because the original owner himself was a symbol.

A symbol of the rules of the game played by the kingdom's nobility.

Everyone belonged to great families with histories spanning hundreds or even thousands of years; ups and downs were perfectly normal.

Losing a struggle simply meant spitting out your interests and crawling back to your fief to lick your wounds.

That way, no one would chase you down or make things difficult for you.

This was the most basic unspoken agreement among the major nobles.

Otherwise, if every struggle aimed to wipe out the other side's entire family and sever their lineage, who could possibly endure that?

Therefore, Qi Fei had no choice but to helplessly accept reality.

"Master, are you getting up?"

Elena, the foreigner with pale golden hair whom Qi Fei had seen first, asked.

As for the other two, the big sister with dyed black hair was Nancy, and the silver-haired girl was Aisha.

They were the three maids the original owner had purchased back then.

These maids had all practiced a special water-attribute Battle Qi Secret Manual, which made them fair-skinned and beautiful, and they were quite favored by the original owner.

Among them, Elena had recently broken through to the level of a Level 3 Warrior.

No wonder he couldn't push her around earlier.

"Yes, I'm planning to practice my Battle Qi; otherwise, I won't have enough stamina to have fun with you all."

Qi Fei said, imitating the original owner's tone.

The original owner had tried to work hard halfway through, and the reason he gave was also to have more fun with his maids.

—It was just that, aside from the first time when he persisted for a month, he rarely managed to last more than a week at any other time.

Therefore, this excuse from Qi Fei did not arouse any suspicion from the maids, and they got up as usual to help Qi Fei wash and change his clothes.

"I wonder if it's still in time."

Qi Fei pondered silently.

The reason he suddenly wanted to practice, besides his curiosity about extraordinary power, was more importantly a lack of a sense of security.

The mastermind who killed the original owner's father was one thing, but on the other hand, the entire Fenlai Kingdom would face a catastrophe in the future.

In the original story, the protagonist Linley had obtained a divine artifact in the Magical Beast Mountain Range called the Violet Blood Soft Sword.

However, this divine artifact was actually a support component for a magic array used to seal a gap in the Plane Prison.

Not long after Linley pulled out this divine artifact, a god-level magical beast escaped from the Plane Prison.

In order to seize faith, this being unified many magical beasts in the Magical Beast Mountain Range after coming out.

Later, it launched an attack on human cities, directly occupying half the territory of both the Light Alliance and the Dark Alliance.

The Fenlai Kingdom, as the core region of the Light Alliance, was also within that portion of the land.

As for the humans in these places.

Except for a few powerhouses who managed to survive, everyone else basically ended up as food for the Magic Beast.

Qi Fei, having lived a second life, naturally refused to accept such an ending.

"First, I must try my best to restore the warrior cultivation of this original body, and at the same time, send people to find out the current situation of Linley to confirm the timeline."

Qi Fei planned out his next course of action in his mind.

If Linley had not yet graduated from the magic academy, then he would still have enough time to cultivate.

With a higher level of cultivation, going elsewhere would also be safer.

This world was not like his previous life; here, those with poor strength could easily drop dead on the road just by stepping outside.

But if Linley had already graduated and was preparing to sell that stone sculpture, "Dream Awakening," which he created due to heartbreak.

Then there would be no need to consider anything else; he should just run.

Because that deadly Magic Beast siege event happened about half a year after Linley sold that stone sculpture.

While pondering, Qi Fei finished his breakfast under the arrangements of his maid.

Afterward, he called the butler of the castle over to inquire about any famous stone sculptures recently.

He was not worried that this request would arouse suspicion from others.

After all, he was a noble; having some hobbies was normal, especially stone sculpture, which had a long history on the Yulan Continent.

If you didn't collect some impressive works, could your family even be called long-standing?

"The stone sculptures to be auctioned recently include 'Lion King' and 'Wolf Pack' depicting Magic Beasts, and 'Divine Light' and 'Angel' praising the Holy See..."

The butler reported a long list of stone sculpture names.

The name Qi Fei was worried about was not among them, which made him feel slightly relieved.

"Are there no master-level stone sculptures with themes of beauty and love?"

To ensure the information was accurate, Qi Fei asked an additional question.

"No, works of that type are generally private in nature and are rarely taken out for sale."

The butler explained.

"What a pity."

Qi Fei appeared regretful on the surface, but he was actually exceptionally happy inside.

"If there are any stone sculptures of this type in the future, remember to report them to me."

This concerned everyone's life, after all.

"Yes, Master."

The butler did not find Qi Fei's instruction strange at all.

He simply assumed that Qi Fei had grown tired of his usual interests and wanted to find something fresh elsewhere.