Age of God Abandonment, Universal Job Change!

"Two hundred ninety-nine."

"Three hundred."

"Three hundred one."

"Three hundred two."

Morning light spilled through the windowsill into the cramped room, where a handsome, shirtless youth was drenched in sweat, performing one-armed push-ups.

He didn't stop until a knock sounded at the door.

"Little Yuan, Auntie is heading to work. Breakfast is on the table, remember to eat it."

"Got it."

As the sound of the door closing echoed, Jiang Yuan braced his hands against the floor, engaged his core, and flipped backward to his feet, exhaling a breath of stale air.

He glanced at the watch on his left wrist and spoke, "Little Black, how long have I been training?"

A cute black cat appeared on the watch face, standing on two legs and emitting an adorable sound.

"Master has been training since waking up for one hour and seven minutes. That's truly amazing, meow."

Jiang Yuan nodded slightly.

He had spent a total of one hour performing ten sets of Basic Martial Arts drills, ten sets of sit-ups with 100 reps each, and three hundred one-armed push-ups for each arm.

The pace was decent.

"Open panel," Jiang Yuan said softly.

[Character: Jiang Yuan]
[Race: Human]
[Level: Unranked]
[Age: 17]
[Stamina: 14]
[Strength: 12+1]
[Speed: 11]
[Spirit: 15]
[Cultivation Techniques: Basic Martial Arts, Basic Breathing Method, Basic Body Tempering Method]
[Evaluation: Weaker than an ant]

"Sigh, the attribute panel is as trashy as ever."

Jiang Yuan let out a sigh.

He checked the time on his watch.

"It's this late already?"

"Crap, today is the day of the Awakening and Class Transfer. I can't be late."

After a hurried three-minute shower and a quick breakfast, Jiang Yuan headed out to catch the Sky Rail to school.

The morning Sky Rail was crowded, but Jiang Yuan was lucky enough to snag a seat.

"Ha..."

Jiang Yuan yawned as he sat on the Sky Rail.

Suddenly, the view outside the window brightened as the tram passed the towering Terminal Building.

Jiang Yuan leaned against the window, peering out at the transparent view, and murmured softly, "No matter how many times I see it, it's still breathtaking..."

The field of vision was vast; the Sky Rail was traveling a hundred meters above the ground.

Below lay a suburban residential area where detached houses appeared tiny. Directly ahead stood massive buildings, forming a Steel Forest of skyscrapers hundreds of meters high. Sky Rail tracks wove through this urban jungle, and various aircraft zipped through the high-altitude air like streaks of light—a scene straight out of science fiction.

In the center of the city stood a Giant Clock Tower so tall its top was lost to sight.

Looking further toward the horizon, one could vaguely make out a Steel Wall that pierced the clouds and vanished into the mist; being able to see it meant the weather was good.

"Welcome aboard No. 51 Sky Rail Tram. Good morning, passengers of Nanjiang City. It is another peaceful day," the AI-synthesized voice announced over the broadcast.

"Broadcasting today's morning news."

"Last night, a small-scale beast tide erupted from an A-rank Abyss in Area 13 outside the city. It was suppressed within half an hour by the city defense commander Qin Zhan and his men, who killed a Level 6 ferocious beast."

"Reports indicate that Liu He, principal of Nanjiang City No. 1 Martial Arts Middle School, has broken through to a Tier 7 Martial Artist and is expected to run for the next City Lord."

"Regarding the recent anomalies in the East Sea, authoritative agencies suspect a high probability that they were caused by a King-rank ferocious beast. Sakura Country has dispatched envoys to Great Xia to discuss the details."

"A new Level 7 Abyss has been discovered outside Beijiang City, and the local Martial Artist Association is currently organizing martial artists to head out for exploration..."

"The annual Martial Arts College Entrance Exam begins next month. This is a grand event for the Great Xia Kingdom. I wonder how many attention-grabbing prodigies and dark horses will emerge this year. These students carry the earnest expectations of countless parents, having undergone days and nights of grueling training, all to get into their ideal Martial Arts University. Regardless of the outcome, I want to say one thing to them: fight for one more month, live up to your youth, and live up to the Martial Dao..."

Listening to the broadcast and looking out the window, Jiang Yuan's thoughts drifted away.

As a transmigrator, he had been in this world for 17 years.

He couldn't even tell if he had transmigrated to another world or if he had arrived in the future of his original world.

According to the history books.

Three hundred years ago, up until the year 2024, the course of history was exactly the same as the world Jiang Yuan originally came from, until 2025.

Everything changed.

That year, Abyss planes suddenly descended across the globe, and endless ferocious beasts poured out from them.

Dragon-like creatures a kilometer long built nests on the ocean floor, a hundred-thousand-meter-tall giant tree appeared on the far side of the moon, hundred-meter-tall demon wolves roared across the wilderness, and disaster followed wherever eerie demonic shadows walked... The human population was halved during the Great Cataclysm.

That year was also known as the First Year of God's Abandonment.

Fortunately, a full-immersion game called [Heavenly Dao] descended and merged with the real world!

The world expanded a hundredfold, and game elements like quests, dungeons, equipment, items, and potions appeared one after another.

Everyone received a digitized game interface and could gain experience points and high-level materials or equipment by cultivating and killing ferocious beasts. Some people who awakened super-strong talents quickly became human powerhouses, embarking on the path to godhood, evolving their life forms, and resisting the Abyss!

One hundred years after God's Abandonment, powerhouses emerged in succession among humans. People with various talents found their own professions, and at the same time, with all of humanity united, technology developed rapidly, establishing a Martial Dao order that allowed even ordinary people to cultivate and become stronger.

Two hundred years after God's Abandonment, humanity gradually flourished. Successive powerhouses stepped into the Demigod level, opened up low-risk Abyss zones as leveling grounds, established Martial Artist Associations and Martial Arts Universities of all levels to train powerhouses, and began to suppress the Abyss's counterattacks...

And now, it is the 297th year of God's Abandonment.

"Why are you so sleepy? Did you stay up late training last night?"

"Don't even ask. I used my dad's account to sneak into the Star Domain last night and watched a few female streamers practicing martial arts. Damn, that figure, tsk tsk, it was invincible."

"Is it really that top-tier?!"

"Nonsense, didn't you see my blood energy dropped?"

Two high school students in uniforms nearby were chatting, excitedly discussing the suggestive female streamers.

Jiang Yuan wasn't interested; he was currently thinking about awakening and changing classes.

In this life, he was born into an ordinary family. His father, Jiang Damu, was a border sentry, a Tier 1 Martial Artist, and a full-time warrior who was stationed at the city walls year-round and never came home. His mother, Tao Chunru, had awakened a healing-type talent and changed classes to a physician, working as a nurse at the Beijiang City Third People's Hospital.

He was currently living with his aunt in Nanjiang City, staying with her family, while his cousin was in her first year of high school.

It could be said that apart from his identity as a transmigrator and his memories from the womb, Jiang Yuan was no different from the masses of teenagers at the bottom of society. He had no "golden finger" like in novels, no family background, and nothing to his name except for a handsome face that earned him the title of school heartthrob.

Yet, in this dangerous, terrifying, and magnificent era, only by awakening a powerful talent and profession could one be qualified to become a powerhouse and change their destiny.

"The Martial Arts Middle School station has arrived."