Half-Saint

Battle Qi Continent

Northwest Region

Within a vast cave dwelling in the Heavenshade Mountains, a man in black sat cross-legged.

By the moonlight outside the cave, his fair, flawless face revealed sharply defined, cool features. His deep black eyes gleamed with a captivating light, while an aura of regal authority faintly radiated from his entire body.

At this moment, he seemed like an old monk in meditation, completely merging with his surroundings.

After a long while.

He slowly opened his eyes, looked blankly around, and spoke in an unfamiliar voice. "Where is this...?"

After speaking, he swept his doubtful gaze from side to side, as though trying to take in the entire valley.

"I remember staying up late in bed reading a novel. What's going on now?"

With that thought, he hurriedly lowered his head to examine his body.

Then, to his surprise, he discovered that his clothes were no longer the white shirt and black casual shorts he had worn on Blue-White Star. Instead, he wore a long black robe embroidered with strange patterns, making him look like some kind of mage.

"Wh-what is going on?"

"Fuck! Don't tell me I died from staying up late reading novels and then transmigrated to ancient times?"

Seeing this, the man in black could not help cursing.

He was truly afraid that he had transmigrated somewhere terrible—an ancient imperial palace, the royal court, a den of beggars outside the palace, or even some assassin organization.

"Ah!"

"It hurts, my head hurts!"

He dropped to one knee, clutching his head as agony covered his face. Beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his smooth, fair forehead.

The next second, his mind spun, and memories surged into his head like a raging tide.

No one knew how long passed. After finally absorbing those fragments and learning about his current circumstances, the man in black muttered, "So that's how it is."

"I actually died suddenly from staying up late reading, but I really did transmigrate—and it's one hell of a transmigration!"

That was right. He had transmigrated into the Battle Qi Continent, the setting of a hugely popular novel on Blue-White Star! And he had even become a super expert at the Half-Saint level!

"Hahaha, this is great!"

"I actually transmigrated into a super expert. This is like a miser laying an egg—something no one could have hoped for!"

However...

"Cough, cough."

"Keep a low profile, keep a low profile. I'm an expert now. I need to watch my tone."

As if remembering something, Xie Tianxiao pretended to cough a few times and restrained his smile, putting on a calm appearance. Yet inside, he was overjoyed.

That was right. This man in black was no longer a native of the Battle Qi Continent, but a transmigrator from Blue-White Star.

In his previous life, his name had been Xie Tianxiao. He was an ordinary person who had just graduated from university and was currently trapped in the 996 work grind.

After finally completing the extra work his boss had dumped on him, he had planned to stay up that night and relax with a novel. Instead, he had somehow arrived in the Battle Qi Continent.

The original owner of this body had been named Xie Xiao and called himself the Owl Saint! His name differed from Xie Tianxiao's by only one character, yet he had been a Half-Saint expert of the Battle Qi Continent!

Having read the original novel, Xie Tianxiao naturally understood the weight carried by the title of Half-Saint on this continent!

In an era where Dou Emperors had vanished, Dou Saints lived in seclusion, and Dou Venerates could dominate the land, Half-Saints were the strongest beings—legendary figures, one could say.

As long as he did not court death by provoking those ancient clans, he could walk sideways across the continent.

"What a pity. The original owner seemed to be a cultivation maniac and never built up his own faction."

"After breaking through to the Dou Venerate realm, he either went into seclusion to cultivate, explored major ruins, wiped out small and medium-sized factions, or stole the opportunities and treasures of the weak."

Xie Tianxiao slowly recalled the various memories contained within the mind of a Half-Saint expert.

The most outrageous part was that the original owner had single-handedly relied on his own efforts and countless fortuitous encounters to reach the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Venerate realm.

He had even obtained an Extraordinary Flame that countless alchemists across the world dreamed of: the Yin-Yang Twin Flame!

A few decades ago, he had even struck it lucky in an unknown ruin in the Northwest Region.

There, he had obtained half a drop of Dou Saint blood essence, along with some high-level cultivation techniques and medicinal pills, allowing him to break through from the peak of the Nine-Star Dou Venerate realm and become an early-stage Half-Saint!

He truly had immense luck—a born protagonist, no doubt about it!

"Damn, this guy really was something. He even dared to rob the top factions of the Central Plains!"

Since the original owner had reached the Half-Saint realm, that low-ranked Extraordinary Flame was indeed no longer of much use to him.

So he had wanted to find and subdue a higher-ranked Extraordinary Flame. Yet after searching for years without finding any trace of one, he had no choice but to head to the Central Plains.

Among the factions in the Central Plains rumored to possess Extraordinary Flames, there were only two. One was the Pill Tower, which possessed the ninth-ranked Three Thousand Burning Flame. The other was Burning Flame Valley, which possessed the twelfth-ranked Nine Dragon Lightning Flame.

Naturally, one picked the softest persimmon to squeeze. The Pill Tower was a major faction as famous as the Soul Hall in the Central Plains, and it was also the continent's foremost holy land for alchemists. It definitely had Half-Saints and Dou Saints.

So the original owner could not afford to provoke the Pill Tower. Instead, he secretly went to Burning Flame Valley, which was supposedly only a Dou Venerate-level faction, intending to steal the Nine Dragon Lightning Flame from the valley.

However, the moment he entered Burning Flame Valley's territory, he was terrified by a Dou Saint aura that suddenly emerged from within. He immediately turned around, tore through space, and fled.

After searching in vain through many avenues, and with his strength coincidentally reaching the peak of the early-stage Half-Saint realm, he had no choice but to give up searching for Extraordinary Flames. He returned to the Northwest Region and entered a life-or-death seclusion to seek a breakthrough.

By a strange coincidence, just as he was advancing to the middle-stage Half-Saint realm, Xie Tianxiao, who had transmigrated from Blue-White Star, somehow devoured his soul.

His soul then miraculously fused with the original owner's body, allowing him to break through into the middle-stage Half-Saint realm!

"Hehe, this is good too. I'm alone, with no women or major factions tied to me. It'll be easier for me to act without exposing any flaws." Xie Tianxiao was delighted.

"Still, I thought that after transmigrating into this Half-Saint, I'd become a middle-aged uncle or an old man."

"I never expected my own soul to take the lead, causing the original owner's hundred-plus-year-old middle-aged appearance to fuse and change again, turning into the way I looked in my twenties on Blue Star!"

In short.

It was fucking awesome!

"Well, I don't know why this happened, but since I've fused with your body and transmigrated to the Battle Qi Continent..."

"Then I can't stop at Half-Saint. After all, I'm a man who's going to become a Dou Emperor!"

A blazing light flashed in Xie Tianxiao's eyes as he declared boldly.

A mere Dou Emperor—wasn't it enough to just cultivate?

This was neither boasting nor youthful recklessness. Having read the original novel, he naturally knew where the opportunities to become a Dou Saint and Dou Emperor lay.

Therefore, Xie Tianxiao had immense confidence that he could become a Dou Emperor!

"So this is the power of a Half-Saint."

Xie Tianxiao slowly clenched his fist, sensing the energy contained within his body.

"What an incredible feeling. Even though I still can't fully control this power, I can sense that if even a trace of energy leaked from my body, it would be enough to collapse the entire mountain outside!"

A newcomer writing for fun. I know no one will read this, but I'll say it anyway: my writing isn't very good, so please just take a casual look, everyone.