Heavenly Pivot Continent.
Divine Firmament Sect.
At this moment, dawn.
The four great suns in the sky slowly rose. A day's plan starts with the morning, and cultivating at this time yielded twice the result with half the effort.
Inside a courtyard.
Yu Ke also slowly stood up, yawning.
Then, he sat cross-legged on the bed, gently placing both hands on his knees and striking a posture for cultivation.
Not long after.
He collapsed onto the bed like an "old tree twisting its roots."
Until the sun was high in the sky.
Sunlight shone through the window onto Yu Ke's face.
It was warm and surprisingly comfortable.
...Damn... slept in, I'm late for work!
Yu Ke snapped awake.
He bounced fiercely off the bed, executed a slide tackle, and froze the next moment.
Oh... he had transmigrated, so it was fine.
Fourth day since transmigration, and he still had some fight-or-flight reactions.
Recalling his past life, Yu Ke was an upstanding, ambitious youth who had experienced his first time.
But as he grew older.
At 18, he firmly believed that my fate is up to me, not the heavens.
At 24, he went along with whatever was asked.
Now that he had transmigrated, since he had arrived, he would make the best of it.
This was a fantasy world where practitioners soared through the skies and plunged into the earth, moved mountains and filled seas, capable of anything.
As for the original owner, an Outer Disciple of the Divine Firmament Sect, his cultivation had already reached the completion of the Second Heavenly Ladder, and his strength was considered quite good among the outer sect.
After completion, one could forge a Dao Foundation.
However, the original body was simply too eager to "make progress."
Having cultivated in the Outer Sect for a mere four years, he intended to forge a High-Grade Dao Foundation to prepare for joining the Inner Sect!
I know you're in a rush, but don't rush.
And so... he kicked the bucket.
Without a solid foundation, he forced a Foundation Establishment and his soul ultimately scattered, making way for Yu Ke's arrival!
Yu Ke let out a long sigh, a mixture of emotions churning in his heart.
The terrible part was!
The previous body's Dao Foundation is destroyed, he suffered heavy injuries, and a High-Grade Foundation Establishment has become a distant dream. From now on, even an ordinary Foundation Establishment will likely be unimaginably difficult, making further cultivation almost impossible.
Three months from now is the four-yearly Outer Disciple Assessment. The outstanding ones will receive rewards from the sect, while those who fall behind will be demoted to Servant Disciples.
This time, the cultivation progress of the outer disciples had attracted close attention from the sect, and the rewards were unprecedentedly generous.
This was also one of the reasons the original body had been so eager to establish his foundation.
Now that his foundation establishment had failed and his cultivation had plummeted, he would likely find it hard to escape the fate of demotion to a servant disciple.
A servant disciple meant spending all day busy with trivial chores with no time for cultivation.
They were summoned and dismissed at will by outer and inner disciples, living a mediocre life forever.
A flash of unwillingness crossed Yu Ke's eyes. Who liked being an ox or a horse for a lifetime?
This young master wanted to cultivate immortality!
Fortunately, there were still more than three months left, and perhaps there was still a sliver of a turning point.
What Yu Ke was most anxious about right now was!
To succeed in his foundation establishment, the original body had exhausted all his savings of the past five years, selling off all his treasures to purchase the necessary items.
He had put all his eggs in one basket!
In the end!
He had even squeezed everyone around him, running up a huge debt.
Just out of university in his past life, clutching the dream of wandering the ends of the earth with a sword, he found out after taking a beating from society that things were fantastic.
The sword was gone, but the billing statements were still there.
He originally thought that after transmigrating, he could shake off the shackles of mortgage and car loans and gain a new lease on life.
Once again, my fate is up to me, not the heavens!
Who could have expected that he would still have to walk the exact same path he had just come from.
Could it be that he possessed the Innate Debt-Ridden Physique?
"As expected, gambling dogs come to no good end, and going all-in ruins oneself and others."
"The Foundation Establishment failed, and all the treasures were completely destroyed."
"Aside from the mere two spirit stones left in his pocket, he was utterly penniless."
"What a Heavenly Collapse starting hand!"
Thinking back on the predecessor's series of operations, Yu Ke could no longer help cursing and ranting!
Divine Firmament Mountain was no charity house either!
Within such an immortal mountain, even an outer disciple like him needed to trade goods for everything if he wished to cultivate, eat, lodge, study martial arts, and even seek guidance and answers on cultivation.
And this currency was not the gold and silver of the mortal world, but the "wealth" among cultivators—spirit stones.
In short, it meant spending money.
Without money, every step was impossible!
His predecessor had thought that succeeding in an upper-grade Foundation Establishment would allow him to collect generous rewards within the sect.
He thought quite well... don't think like that next time.
Right at this moment.
His mind underwent a change like an erupting volcano, blazing with myriad rays of colorful light.
Damn, damn, damn, what is going on!
Yu Ke was at a complete loss.
A small cauldron wreathed in the currents of the Chaos Era appeared within his mind.
"This... isn't this the thousand-year-old antique I bought in my past life on a certain secondhand platform for 9.9 with free shipping after a bone-cracking discount? Good reviews even gave a 3-yuan cash back."
He had only unwrapped the packaging upon arrival before the cauldron vanished, and he had mourned it for a long time.
Going back to buy it again actually cost 99999.
This... it wasn't a discount before, it was discounted all the way to ashes!
So the matter had simply been dropped.
Could this be his golden finger?
Behold!
Inscribed upon the small cauldron were countless patterns; the painted mountains and rivers were as vivid as reality, flying birds and beasts leaped upon the cauldron, and the trees, flowers, and plants were even more lifelike, a masterpiece of exquisite workmanship that left one in awe.
Within his heart, the name of this object naturally and spontaneously surfaced.
Its name—[Kun Void Cauldron]
It was an object carrying the heritage of the Kun Void World, one cauldron, one world.
Countless obscure runes appeared within his mind, golden light flickering as if urging him to look.
This... he couldn't understand a single thing.
The golden light changed, turning into talismanic scripts resembling the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.
Damn! He still couldn't understand it, dammit.
The divine artifact possessed spirit, and abruptly changed yet again.
Boom!
[Cauldron Master: Yu Ke]
[Able to undergo Celestial Reincarnation into the Kun Void World.]
[Upon the conclusion of each reincarnation, the Cauldron Master will obtain Heavenly Mandate blessings and all memories and insights.]
[Acquiring reincarnation... Acquisition successful]
[Reading "Identity", "Destiny", and "Talent"!]
Yu Ke finally understood, his heart stirring with inexplicable excitement.
This so-called Celestial Reincarnation was actually a magical method capable of simulating reincarnation.
Through it, virtual characters he set up could be reincarnated into the Kun Void Cauldron, which was the so-called Kun Void World.
And in this world, as long as one could accomplish something, they could obtain generous rewards.
Wasn't this simply a carbon copy of clearing monsters and beating levels in his past life?
Kun Void World—a gaming instance.
Celestial Reincarnation: game character.
Identity, fate, destiny-energy!
What were these three things?
The light screen continued to shift.
[Please select your identity?]
1. [Righteous Dao Sect]
2. [Dynastic Aristocratic Clan]
3. [Demon Sect]
Time to pick a character!
Yu Ke rubbed his hands together; the familiar feeling had arrived.
After only a brief hesitation, he chose 1, Righteous Dao Sect.
In the memories of this lifetime, Divine Firmament Sect was also a member of the righteous Dao. Right now, the righteous and demonic paths were irreconcilable. If he wanted to obtain rewards, it was best for him to align with a righteous Dao sect.
If he obtained demonic rewards later on, the sect would instantly "dispatch the police" right where they stood and arrest him on the spot.
Datie!
After eliminating the Demon Sect, as for the [Dynastic Aristocratic Clan], at a glance it was not a good option—that sort of thing depended entirely on reincarnation!
After the selection was made, the light screen changed again.
[Fate and fortune are heavenly numbers that cannot be altered or chosen. Acquiring now.]
[Acquisition complete...]
Fate: [Late Bloomer]
Talent: [Insight into People]
Yu Ke looked at these two terms, deep in thought.
Even though they offered no benefit to martial cultivation and immortality refinement, they were still pretty decent, sitting right on the passing line.
[Character has been generated. Will you begin Celestial Reincarnation?]
Yu Ke did not hesitate. Whether success or failure came of this, everything depended on now!
"Ori... Shi—"
A low voice involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
Wrong channel.
"Destiny Reincarnation, initiate!"
The [Kun Void Cauldron] shuddered violently, and a scarlet dot of light upon it quietly slipped across, plunging into the cauldron like a swift shooting star and stirring up a ripple.
[Celestial Reincarnation has begun. Every choice you make represents a fork in the road of life. Please choose prudently.]
[One day in the mortal world, ten years in the cauldron]
[Location has refreshed...]
[Kun Void Realm, Central Lands, Qing Kingdom.]
[Emperor Huizong of Qing, Zhou Jie, ascended the throne. During his reign, treacherous ministers and eunuchs monopolized court politics, extorting the grease and fat of the people. The imperial court was corrupt from top to bottom, and the common people lived in dire straits.]
[Emperor Huizong indulged in Daoism, establishing twenty-six ranks of Daoist officials and issuing generous stipends to the Daoists.]
[The people could not make a living, officials drove the people to rebellion, and uprisings broke out everywhere, with the fires of war connecting the skies.]
[The northern nomadic ethnicity, North Wind Profound Kingdom, also seized this opportunity to march south with two separate armies, east and west, intending to annex Qing Kingdom.]
[Emperor Huizong of Qing pinned his hopes on the Daoist Guo Jin, foolishly attempting to defeat the enemy with the "Six Jia Method", but his divine troops suffered a crushing defeat, and the North Wind army captured and occupied Kyoto.]
[On the day the city fell, Emperor Hui of Qing, along with imperial concubines, members of the imperial clan, thousands of officials, as well as Music Bureau musicians, skilled artisans, imperial carriages, regalia, antiques, and maps of the empire's prefectures and provinces, were escorted north. The public and private savings within Kyoto were plundered clean, and Northern Qing perished.]
[The north was lost, and righteous men and noble-hearted scholars across the realm widely scattered their family wealth to raise righteous armies and resist North Wind.]
[The news traveled back to the south, and Emperor Huizong's younger brother hastily declared himself emperor with the era name Yongxiang, proclaiming a new epoch.]
[The first year of Yongxiang, late spring, you were born.]
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