Becoming Shichen

In the empty, silent Chaos, countless giant eggs floated. Each one resembled a small mountain, its surface shimmering with the light of different laws.

Closest to the center of the Chaos, a cyan giant egg trembled slightly.

Where is this?

Su Yun struggled to open his eyes, only to find himself curled up in a cramped space.

He instinctively tried to reach out and touch the eggshell, but discovered that he had no control over his own body.

Suddenly, memories flooded in like a tide.

Twenty-eight years old, unmarried, fifty thousand in savings, thirty years left on a mortgage, and then, on a night he was returning home after working overtime until the early hours, the final image was a pair of blinding headlights.

"Damn it," Su Yun cursed.

Only then did Su Yun notice his surroundings. Before his eyes was a gentle cyan glow; looking outward, he saw only endless, hazy gray.

Something was wrong.

Before he could think it through, the depths of the Chaos suddenly shuddered.

A deafening roar pierced the eggshell, vibrating directly into the depths of his soul.

Su Yun trembled all over. Through the translucent shell, he saw a crack split open in the deep Chaos, and a massive eye slowly emerged.

That eye held only cold indifference.

It swept across the countless giant eggs, much like a human looking at an ant on the side of the road, but when that gaze landed on Su Yun's cyan egg, it suddenly stopped.

Su Yun felt his scalp go numb.

He felt as if his soul were being pierced through by that eye; a fear born from the instinct of life seized him. He wanted to lower his head to avoid that gaze, but he didn't even have the strength to move.

Fortunately, the eye only paused for a few breaths.

It withdrew its gaze and faded back into the depths of the Chaos, and the crack closed behind it.

The pressure vanished along with it.

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

"What the hell was that?"

No sooner had the words left his mind than another massive stream of information poured into his consciousness.

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

Su Yun was stunned.

He had transmigrated.

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

"A blessing in disguise, who knows?"

After a few seconds of shock, a wave of ecstasy surged up.

The Time Demon God! The leader of the three thousand Demon Gods! Wasn't this start ten thousand times better than trading his life for that meager salary in his past life? Did dying once mean he had jumped out of Reincarnation and landed a god-tier script?

The corners of Su Yun's mouth couldn't help but curl upward; he almost laughed out loud.

But the smile froze on his face halfway up.

Wait.

The Heaven-Opening Calamity.

Pangu wields his axe to open the heavens, and the three thousand Chaos Demon Gods, standing in his way, are all slaughtered.

As the number one Time Demon God, he would be the first to bear the brunt of it, his true spirit shattered, his remnant soul melting into the River of Time, without even a chance at resurrection.

The ecstasy was instantly doused by ice water, leaving him shivering with cold.

"So, I just got ashore only to be hacked to death?"

Su Yun gritted his teeth.

In his past life, he had worked himself to death only to end up with nothing. Now that he had finally secured a perfect start, he absolutely could not end up dead and extinguished.

"As Heaven maintains vigor through movement, a gentleman should unremittingly practice self-improvement," he whispered to himself, his gaze darkening bit by bit. "Since I know the ending, I will change it."

Without a moment's hesitation, he immediately sat cross-legged according to the inheritance techniques in his memory and channeled the laws of time around him.

A vast amount of the primordial energy of Chaos gathered toward the cyan eggshell, gradually forming a massive vortex. The vortex erupted with violent energy, like the surging waves of a great sea.

Under the nourishment of such immense primordial Chaos energy, the giant egg, which was originally only ten thousand zhang tall, gradually grew to hundreds of millions of zhang.

Some of the nearby eggs even began to dodge away, as if avoiding a plague god.

He did not know how much time had passed—there was no concept of time in the Chaos yet—but Su Yun only knew that the giant eye had appeared four more times. Each time it swept over all the eggs, it would linger on him for a moment.

Today, it appeared once again. This time, it paused even longer when looking at Su Yun, and a hint of contemplation actually flickered within that eye.

Su Yun's heart nearly stopped from the tension. He was terrified that the owner of that eye would slap him to death.

But the eye only watched him for a while before returning to its cold indifference and vanishing into the depths of the Chaos.

Su Yun let out a long sigh of relief.

The Great Dao is supreme and impartial; it encompasses everything and ignores everything. It tolerates all variables and never cares about any anomalies.

Time inside the eggshell was long and dull. Su Yun polished his laws over and over, feeling the flow of time.

Sometimes he would wonder, if he hadn't transmigrated,

would he have been laid off by now? Had he finished paying off his mortgage?

But these thoughts only flashed by.

The only thing he could do now was cultivate.

Cultivate.

And cultivate some more.

Until he was strong enough to change everything.

And since that day, the Great Dao never appeared again.