Becoming Shichen

In the empty, silent Chaos, countless enormous eggs floated. Each one was like a small mountain, its surface shimmering with the radiance of different laws.

Closest to the center of Chaos, a cyan giant egg gave a slight tremble.

"Where is this?"

Su Yun struggled to open his eyes and found himself curled up in a cramped space.

He instinctively tried to reach out and touch the eggshell, only to realize that he had no control over his body at all.

Suddenly, memories surged into his mind like a rising tide.

Twenty-eight years old, unmarried, fifty thousand in savings, thirty years left on his mortgage—and then, on a night when he'd worked overtime until the early hours and was heading home, the last thing he saw was a big truck with two blazing headlights.

"Fuck." Su Yun cursed.

Only then did Su Yun notice his surroundings. Before him was a gentle cyan glow; beyond it stretched an endless expanse of gray.

Something was wrong.

Before he could think it through, a tremor suddenly shook the depths of Chaos.

A deafening boom pierced the eggshell and struck straight into the depths of his soul.

Su Yun shuddered. Through the translucent eggshell, he saw a rift split open in the depths of Chaos, and an enormous eye slowly emerged.

That eye held nothing but cold indifference.

It swept over countless giant eggs, as casually as a human might notice an ant by the roadside. But when its gaze fell upon Su Yun's cyan egg, it suddenly stopped.

Su Yun's scalp went numb.

He felt as if the eye could see straight through his soul. A fear born of instinct seized him. He wanted to lower his head and avoid that gaze, but he didn't even have the strength to turn.

Fortunately, the eye paused for only a few breaths.

It withdrew its gaze and vanished once more into the depths of Chaos. The rift closed with it.

The pressure disappeared as well.

Su Yun gasped for breath, his heart pounding wildly. He felt as if he'd just returned from the gates of hell.

"What the hell was that?"

As soon as the words left his mouth, another torrent of information poured into his mind.

Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods, the Chaos Era, the Heaven-Opening Calamity...

Su Yun froze.

He had transmigrated.

He had become Shichen, the Time Demon God of Chaos.

"Every cloud has a silver lining."

After a few seconds of stunned silence, wild delight surged through him.

The Time Demon God! The leader of the Three Thousand Demon Gods! Wasn't this start ten thousand times better than risking his life for that lousy salary in his previous life? So he'd died once and jumped straight out of Reincarnation into a god-tier script?

The corners of Su Yun's mouth lifted despite himself. He almost laughed out loud.

But halfway through, his smile abruptly froze on his face.

Something was wrong.

The Heaven-Opening Calamity.

Pangu would wield his axe to open Heaven. The Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods would stand in his way, and every last one of them would be slain.

As the Time Demon God ranked first, he would bear the brunt of it. His True Spirit would be shattered, his remnant soul would merge into the River of Time, and he wouldn't even get the chance to be reborn.

His wild delight was doused in icy water, chilling him with a shudder.

"So I've barely made it ashore, and now I'm about to get hacked to death?"

Su Yun gritted his teeth.

He had worked himself to death in his previous life, only to end up with nothing. Now that he'd finally gotten a god-tier start in this life, he absolutely couldn't let himself meet a fate of death and obliteration.

"Heaven moves with vigor; the noble-minded strive without ceasing." He murmured to himself, his expression gradually turning solemn. "Since I know how this ends, I'll change it."

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately followed the cultivation method passed down in his memories, sat cross-legged, and stirred the Laws of Time around him.

Vast quantities of Chaos Origin gathered toward the cyan eggshell, gradually forming an enormous vortex. The vortex unleashed a violent surge of energy, like towering waves crashing against the shore.

Nourished by such vast quantities of Chaos Origin, the giant egg, originally only ten thousand zhang tall, gradually grew to hundreds of millions of zhang.

The nearby giant eggs began to scatter, as though fleeing from a plague god.

No one knew how long had passed. Time had no meaning in Chaos yet. Su Yun only knew that the enormous eye had appeared four more times, and each time it swept over all the giant eggs, its gaze lingered on him for a moment.

Today, it appeared once again. This time, it paused even longer when it looked at Su Yun. A hint of thoughtfulness even surfaced in that eye.

Su Yun was so nervous that his heart nearly stopped. He feared the eye's owner would slap him to death.

But the eye merely watched him for a while, then turned cold and indifferent once more before disappearing into the depths of Chaos.

Su Yun finally let out a sigh of relief.

The Great Dao stood above all, yet was perfectly impartial. It embraced everything and ignored everything; it accepted every twist of fate and never cared about any anomaly.

The years inside the eggshell were long and dull. Su Yun tempered his laws over and over, sensing the flow of time.

Sometimes, he wondered: if he hadn't transmigrated, would he have been laid off by now? Would he have paid off his mortgage?

But those thoughts passed in a flash.

The only thing he could do now was cultivate.

Cultivate.

And cultivate some more.

Until he grew strong enough to change everything.

After that day, the Great Dao never appeared again.