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[Name]: Chu Zhou. [Age]: 22 [Attribute]: Fire with a trace of Wood Attribute [Talent]: Void Perception (an unknown cause subjected the soul to the baptism of space and time, granting powerful Soul Perception and increased affinity for space) [Cultivation]: Three-Stage Dou Qi [Cultivation Method]: None [Dou Techniques]: None [Equipment]: None [Location]: Wutan City, Jia Ma Empire, Northwest Continent, Dou Qi Continent [Identity]: Newly recruited attendant of the Mittel Merchant Guild
Chu Zhou had never expected to have something like a talent.
He just did not know whether talents were rare, what rank Void Perception was, or how far it fell short of talents like the Woeful Poison Body and the Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils.
He had a feeling that this talent had something to do with his transmigration.
"No matter what rank this talent is, at least my Soul Perception is strong enough. Becoming an Alchemist should be no problem."
"An affinity for space won't be much use early on, but if I reach the higher levels of Dou Emperor, it might help me get a grasp of spatial power sooner. Breaking through to Dou Zong in the future should be easier for me than for most people, unlike Jia Xingtian."
Jia Xingtian had spent so many years as a Nine-Star Peak Dou Emperor, yet he still said he could find no way to advance to Dou Zong.
But all of that was still a little too far off for Chu Zhou. He did not need to dwell on it yet.
Setting his emotions aside, he began examining his body.
Everything felt real, as though his actual body had entered this world, but the official information said that "players have ten lives." He had no idea how that worked.
After moving his body around a little, Chu Zhou began studying the wristwatch on his arm and discovered that it only had two pages.
One: Chosen One Information
Two: Public Chat Channel
He could either operate the screen manually to view these two pages or close his eyes and have them appear directly in his mind.
"There's no trading function? No friend system? No storage?"
Chu Zhou thought this second world really was taking realism seriously. Apparently, he would have to work for everything himself.
Curious, Chu Zhou opened the Chat Channel page and found five channels in total—[World Channel], [Northwest Continent Channel], [Jia Ma Empire Channel], [Northeast Province Channel], and [Wutan City Channel]—along with an announcement.
[Chat Channel Announcement]: Each person may post one message per day in the World Channel and their current continental channel, two messages in their current regional channel, three messages in their current provincial channel, and ten messages in their current town or wilderness channel. With each major cultivation realm gained, the corresponding message limits double.
After noting down this rule, Chu Zhou opened the World Channel.
[Ma Rulong]: Why wasn't there a character customization step? It's using my real name, too. I came up with a ridiculously badass username.
[Liu San]: The officials said this is a completely real second world. If you treat it like an online game, you've already lost. You have to treat the people here as real people.
[Wu Qianqian]: My information page is completely blank. Do we acquire talents ourselves, or are we born with them? Could any brother who knows explain?
[Gu Yuan]: Holy shit, I have a standard wristwatch and got randomly transported to the Western Region of the Central Plains. I appeared somewhere called the Hall of Souls, and a guy in a black robe went "kekeke" and killed me.
[Liu Yali]: Why isn't there a beginner's guide? There's no quest system or experience bar either. Are we supposed to cultivate using that seal from when we first entered this world?
Messages in the World Channel refreshed extremely quickly.
Although each person could only post once a day, at least a billion people on Blue Star had probably entered at the same time. Even one message from each person would amount to a staggering volume of information.
Chu Zhou browsed for a while, found nothing particularly useful, then rubbed his eyes and switched to the Northwest Continent Channel. Messages refreshed just as quickly there.
[Hu Hansan]: I spawned in a place called the Black-Corner Region and saw a man r***ing a woman right in the street. I instinctively took another look, and both of them attacked me. There goes my first life.
[Xue Shanshan]: Boohoo, I spawned in a little village in a place called the Chu Yun Empire. Since I appeared so suddenly, they suspected I was a spy from the Jia Ma Empire and fed me poison. I lost a life.
[Gu Nuanyang]: I have a special wristwatch. I chose to spawn in the Heavenly Snake Empire and randomly received the identity of a groom at a Marquis's Manor. [Wen Qian]: I am a Special Watch too. I chose to spawn in the Maple Leaf Empire, and my random identity is the newly taken concubine of a Da Dou Shi commander of a Mercenary Group. I have to hold on to him. He's a Da Dou Shi! [Liu Yong]: People with standard wristwatches all spawn randomly out of thin air with no identity. Special Watches let you choose your spawn location and Soul Attribute, and you get a random identity too. If I'd known, I would've paid for a Special Watch. Fuck! [Wang Sheng]: I already knew that, so I bought a Special Watch. But I picked a random spawn location to try my luck, hoping to land in the Central Plains. Turns out I still ended up on the Northwest Continent.
"Only Special Watches provide random identities?" Chu Zhou rested his chin on his hand, thinking.
He had assumed everyone would receive a random identity upon entering.
And judging by what Wang Sheng had said, he seemed to have known from the start that the Central Plains was a better place.
It seemed the rumors online were true. There really might be wristwatches of an even higher grade than the special ones.
Could they let people choose to transmigrate directly to places like the Central Plains or even the Ancient Realm, and specify the identity they wanted?
At that thought, Chu Zhou suddenly felt a sense of urgency.
Sure enough, every world had a privileged class.
He did not hate the privileged class. He only hated that he was not part of it. Fortunately, in a sense, he counted as one of those "chosen ones" mentioned in novels.
After all, only he knew the plot. With that foreknowledge, he might well be able to compete with those "players" who started so far ahead.
As he pondered, Chu Zhou opened the [Jia Ma Empire Channel]. This time, the messages refreshed much more slowly.
[Ye Fan]: Hahaha, selling everything I had to preorder a Special Watch was worth it. My random identity is a prospective disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect. It's the biggest Sect in the Jia Ma Empire, with a Dou Huang expert backing it! Once I rise to the top, I'll make that two-faced bitch pay. [Lie Zhantian]: I'm screwed. My random identity is a collateral branch disciple of the Mo Clan in the Northeast Province. If I haven't reached Seventh Stage Dou Qi by the coming-of-age ceremony in six months, I'll be sent off to the reservoir. [Xiao Tian]: I'm the one who's really screwed. I'm a collateral branch disciple of the Xiao Clan in Wutan City. The Xiao Clan's third young master has a Three-Year Agreement with the Misty Cloud Sect's young sect master. He's got some guts. His cultivation is just as pathetic as mine. Does he think he can turn things around? [Liu Ye]: I'm in Qingshan Town, working as an herbal apprentice at the Myriad Medicine Pavilion. There's a Xiao Yi Xian here who's breathtakingly beautiful. Those female celebrities aren't even worthy of carrying her shoes.
Chu Zhou: "..."
Wait three years, then the three of you can take another look.
"The Three-Year Agreement has already been made. I'll have to investigate the exact timeline a little more."
Chu Zhou looked at the identity he had randomly received.
"Newly recruited attendant of the Mittel Auction House?"
A smile suddenly appeared on Chu Zhou's face.
What a coincidence. Winning over older women was his specialty.
"Riding Sister Ya Fei's coattails early on is definitely going to be sweet."
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