One-Click Cultivation Skip System

Violent winds sliced like blades through the falling body.

The sensation of weightlessness gripped Ye Xingchen's heart like an invisible, massive hand, squeezing the blood toward his brain.

A deafening roar filled his ears, and beneath him lay the bottomless, misty depths of Jueyun Cliff.

He had transmigrated.

And it was a hell-difficulty start.

Ye Xingchen barely had time to curse, when a torrential flood of memories violently crashed into his mind!

The original owner was also named "Ye Xingchen," a mortal from a small town whose parents had died tragically in the jaws of ferocious beasts.

He had fled to the foot of the First Saint Sect, yearning to cultivate immortality and exact revenge.

Unfortunately, he possessed no spiritual root.

He did not give up, grinding away as a beast of burden on the Servant Peak of the First Saint Sect for three years, all for that shred of a chance at immortality.

When the three-year term expired, the First Saint Sect opened its gates to accept disciples once more, but his spiritual root remained utterly dead.

"There is no hope for the immortal path in this life. Take your severance pay and go down the mountain."

The outer sect elder's cold words still echoed in his ears, like the vermilion brush of a judge striking out the original owner's sole motivation to live.

The original owner despaired. Clutching the three low-grade spirit stones the sect had tossed him, he walked step by step up Jueyun Cliff and took a desperate leap...

The flood of memories abruptly ceased.

What the hell!

Ye Xingchen could not help blurting out a curse.

Other people transmigrate as nobles or generals, and the absolute worst is still a trash young master. Why am I dropping straight into a death box?!

Ye Xingchen could not open his eyes as the raging airflow deformed his face. The shadow of death already brushed against the tip of his nose, and the terror of imminent pulverization bit deeper than the cold wind.

At that moment, a heavenly chime rang out, abruptly drowning out the roar of the wind.

[Detected that the host is in a mortal desperate situation, system activation conditions met.]

[The "One-Click Cultivation Skip" system has been bound.]

[Detected that the host is performing a "free fall" motion, estimated contact with the ground in 3 seconds. Consume the novice protection mechanism to forcibly abort the current displacement state?]

Without a second thought, Ye Xingchen roared in his mind: Yes!

Hum—!

The world seemed to have the pause button pressed on it.

His body, which had been plummeting at extreme speed, suddenly suspended mid-air in defiance of the laws of physics. Momentum vanished, the wind stopped howling, and only the surrounding wisps of cloud drifted slowly, proving that time had not stopped.

Ye Xingchen panted heavily, his heart hammering like a war drum. He looked down; less than a hundred meters below his feet lay jagged, strange rocks. One second later, and he would have been a puddle of mush.

A translucent, light-blue light screen projected directly onto his retina.

"Name: Ye Xingchen"

"Realm: None"

"Spiritual Root: Lowest Grade (horribly impure, suggest rerolling)"

"Cultivation Method: Basic Qi Condensation Method"

"Source Points: 0"

Looking at the "Lowest Grade" spiritual root evaluation on the panel, Ye Xingchen felt a dull ache in his teeth.

Good grief, this aptitude really was the cream of the crop among trash. No wonder that elder told him to get lost.

Ye Xingchen's gaze swept quickly over the introduction of the system's functions.

"System core function: One-click skip of the cultivation process, bringing entry-level cultivation methods directly to Great Completion."

"Condition: Consume any item containing 'spiritual qi', including spirit stones, beast inner cores, heavenly treasures, pills..."

"All consumed items will be converted into 'Source Points'."

"Use of 'Source Points': Consume Source Points to skip all cultivation, comprehension, and polishing processes. The practiced cultivation method goes straight to Great Completion with no bottlenecks and zero side effects!"

Looking at this simple and brutal introduction, Ye Xingchen's breathing grew ragged.

Skip the process and take the results directly?

This system... is heaven-defying! Cultivators not only consume massive amounts of resources to progress, but also vast amounts of time. Yet as long as I consume resources, I can skip the cultivation process, instantly improve, and suffer no side effects. This... this is tailor-made for me!

Ye Xingchen looked down at the three spirit stones clutched tightly in his hand.

Gray and dull stones choked with impurities, yet in the eyes of a mortal, they were already priceless treasures.

Almost the instant his gaze touched them, the system prompt sounded again.

"Detected convertible resources: Three Low-Grade Spirit Stones"

"Quality: Inferior"

"Spiritual Qi Contained: Sparse"

"Estimated Convertible Source Points: 3 points"

"Meets the skip conditions for Basic Qi Condensation Method"

"Do you want to skip the cultivation process with one click?"

The Basic Qi Condensation Method was the most fundamental qi condensation technique he had traded for from a First Saint Sect outer sect disciple using the meager spirit stones he earned from doing chores in his past life.

Yet because his past self's cultivation aptitude was too poor, he had practiced for three years without even touching qi sensation.

Just how terrible must this aptitude have been?! For three years, even if you slowly gnawed at it like an old man, you should have figured out a thing or two, yet you couldn't even grasp the feeling of qi. Calling you a study slag is actually flattering you.

He was left speechless.

Ye Xingchen stared at the flashing "Skip" button on the panel and pressed his will down hard.

Skip!

The instant the thought fell, the three spirit stones in his hand instantly turned to powder, drifting away from between his fingers.

Boom!

There was no lengthy meditation, no dry and tedious breathing exercises.

The moment the button was pressed, a violent surge of energy exploded out of nowhere within Ye Xingchen's body. It didn't feel like cultivation; rather, it felt as though someone was forcefully pouring molten lava straight into his blood vessels.

Ugh!

Ye Xingchen let out a muffled groan as the veins across his entire body bulged.

Excruciating pain.

It was the agonizing pain of his meridians being forcibly widened and his bones crushed to powder and reassembled inch by inch.

A continuous series of crisp cracking sounds echoed within his body. His pores opened wide, and foul black filth mixed with blood spewed out—the acquired turbid qi and impurities of the flawed spiritual root that had accumulated within the original owner's body.

The blocked and withered meridians were scoured clean, turning broad and resilient in the blink of an eye. The spiritual qi between heaven and earth seemed to receive some kind of mandatory command, no longer trickling as a meager stream, but transforming into a funnel-shaped vortex that poured wildly back into the crown of his head.

Meanwhile, on the system panel, the progress bar flashed at a terrifying speed.

[Skipping the "Qi-Sensing" stage... Complete.]

[Skipping the "Meridian Opening" stage... Complete.]

[Skipping the "Cosmic Circulation" three thousand six hundred times... Complete!]

A mere three breaths.

What was decades of bitter hardship for ordinary cultivators was merely a moment of pain for Ye Xingchen.

The wind stopped.

The excruciating pain in his body receded like the tide, replaced by an unprecedented sense of powerful control. A cool, majestic current of qi slowly revolved within his dantian—that was spiritual power.

[Ding! Basic Qi Condensation Method has been cultivated to Great Completion.]

[Congratulations, host. Spiritual root impurities purged, promoted to: Medium-Grade Spiritual Root.]

[Current Realm: Qi Refining, Fourth Layer.]

Ye Xingchen clenched his fists, the air crushed in his palms exploding with a crisp sonic boom.

His vision grew intensely sharp, the textures of rocks a hundred meters away clearly visible.

His hearing extended outward, the sound of a bird's wings beating in the clouds ringing as though right beside his ear.

This sensation of power was intoxicating.

[Novice protection period has ended.]

The system prompt rang out right on cue.

The force of suspension vanished instantly, and gravity recaptured Ye Xingchen.

Yet this time, he did not panic.

The spiritual power within his body circulated wildly along the routes of the Basic Qi Condensation Method, and Ye Xingchen tapped his toes against the empty air. Light cyan spiritual qi surged out, actually treading a ring of visible ripples into the atmosphere.

Light as a swallow, riding the qi to travel.

Instead of choosing to land, he suddenly raised his head and looked up toward the cloud-shrouded peak of Jueyun Cliff above him.

There lay the First Saint Sect.