On the southwestern border of the Dou Qi Continent lay the Jia Ma Empire, a small country famous for the Magic Beast Mountain Range within its borders.
Within this Jia Ma Empire stood the Mist Cloud Sect, a sect with a long history.
Legend had it that its founding patriarch was Yun Potian, a top-tier powerhouse of the southwestern region back in the day.
To this day, the Mist Cloud Sect remained the number one sect in the Jia Ma Empire. In this current generation, the Mist Cloud Sect had even produced a favored child of heaven.
Yun Yun had reached the cultivation of a Dou Emperor at a tender age, and she was expected to break through to the Dou Zong in the future to lead the Mist Cloud Sect in forging a renewed glory!
"I really am fed up with this Yun Ling. Does he seriously have nothing to do all day long? Staring at me day in and day out.
Damn it, just you wait until I break through to the Dou Wang in the future, or the first thing I'll do is crush you to death!"
On a quiet stone path leading to the back mountain of the Mist Cloud Sect, a youth of around fourteen years old was walking with a broom while grumbling and cursing, continuously striking the flowers, plants, and trees along the roadside.
This person was none other than Han Chen, once hailed as a once-in-a-century genius of the Jia Ma Empire. Nowadays, people paired him and the young master of the Wutan City Xiao Clan together as the Twin Stars of Jia Ma.
Han Chen looked at the stone path covered in fallen leaves, couldn't help but sigh, and picked up his broom to start sweeping in a listless manner.
"How truly rotten my luck is. Who would have thought that after crossing over, not only did I fail to latch onto any powerful backers, but I also became the butt of jokes for so many years?
How utterly frustrating. If I had known earlier, I would have gone straight to Xiao Yan's house back then. Maybe I could have managed to secure the position of a good brother by now!"
Yes, that's right. Han Chen was indeed a transmigrator, hailing from the almighty Blue Star.
Originally, he had just been a normal college student.
Never had he expected that while playing a game, he was charging his mobile phone while running the game in the background,
causing the frame rate to skyrocket to 990, which directly blew him straight up into the heavens.
Thinking he was doomed to the netherworld, he had unexpectedly crossed over into the world of Battle Through the Heavens.
The moment he landed, he was picked up by the young rising star of the Mist Cloud Sect, Nalan Yanran, and brought back to the Mist Cloud Sect.
Later on, he even tested positive for wood, water, earth, and fire-all four attributes-and was hailed as a rare genius unseen in a thousand years.
Even Yun Shan had been alarmed, personally coming out to take him in as his grand-disciple and instructing Yun Yun to meticulously guide and cultivate him properly.
You must know that ordinary people on the Dou Qi Continent possessed only a single attribute, and only a tiny minority produced mutated attributes or dual attributes.
Those who possessed dual attributes were, without exception, prized commodities and were hailed as geniuses wherever they went.
The most straightforward example was alchemists. Alchemists could be considered top-tier professionals on the Dou Qi Continent; who wouldn't greet them with a smiling face and utmost respect upon seeing them?
One of the fundamental conditions for becoming an alchemist was to possess both wood and fire attributes, and Han Chen had already achieved these attributes at the very beginning of his awakening.
Logically speaking, such a genius as Han Chen should have long since been inducted as a core member of the Mist Cloud Sect.
Unfortunately, ever since he awakened his attributes, his cultivation progress had been like a tortoise's speed.
For several years, he remained stuck at the stage of the third tier of Dou Qi. Even after exhausting every possible method, his progress had been exceedingly slow.
By all accounts, Han Chen, whose cultivation was only at the Dou Qi stage, should not have been able to have his attributes detected,
because attributes could only be accurately determined after becoming a Dou Zhe.
However, Han Chen was quite special. When he was first brought back to the Mist Cloud Sect, clearly possessing no cultivation at all, he was still able to have four attributes detected.
This caused the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. From the people of the Mist Cloud Sect starting out with full anticipation-
from the joy of thinking the sect had finally welcomed a qilin child and was about to step into an era of rise, all the way to present where everyone despised seeing Han Chen-it was as if even dogs loathed the sight of him.
As for Han Chen, who had been freeloading and living off the Mist Cloud Sect for so many years yet remained utterly useless, one could say that not beating him to death could already be considered showing mercy.
Because of this, Han Chen's treatment had dropped from that of an ordinary disciple to a miscellaneous chore disciple over the past year.
The teacher who once held high expectations for him also began to gradually distance herself from him. He couldn't even enter the peaks where Nalan Yanran and Yun Yun resided anymore.
Two days ago, because Yun Ling saw him idling about, he was directly banished to sweep fallen leaves in the Stele Forest of the back mountain.
"This is truly dog-cursed! Cruel heavens, if you weren't going to let me cultivate, you should have said so earlier! Making it so that now whenever people see me they want to beat me up, you damned heavens!"
The more Han Chen thought about it, the angrier he became. On what grounds? You were the ones who dragged me back to the Mist Cloud Sect in the beginning, and now you are the ones who ignore me.
Isn't the contrast you've created a bit too massive? You saw my attributes yourselves; could it be that I didn't want to cultivate?
Just as Han Chen was burning with anger, an ethereal voice suddenly echoed in his mind, causing his entire body to freeze in place.
"Ding! Host detected, the system is now activating."
"A system? It really is a system! Why did you only come now? Do you have any idea how I've been getting by all these years?
Your young master here hasn't even eaten a single meal from last night until now!"
When Han Chen first heard this ethereal voice, he thought he was experiencing auditory hallucinations. Could it be that he had hallucinated from hunger?
It wasn't until the system subsequently spat out a series of soundbites that Han Chen could finally confirm he had truly activated the system.
So he actually had a system! Aside from his excitement, the bitter grievances in his heart were also dug up, and he immediately wept in the Stele Forest, his face covered in a mess of snot and tears.
"Apologies, host. Due to system maintenance and updates, the awakening was delayed.
Now beginning to bind and reward the novice gift pack. System binding at 1%, 2%, 3%... 99%, 100%.
Ding! System binding complete."
Hearing the prompt that the system binding was complete, Han Chen wiped the tears from his face and hurriedly spoke in a raspy voice.
"Activate it, hurry up and activate it for me, give me the beginner's gift pack, starting today I won't eat beef!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for awakening the Mortal Cultivation System. The beginner's gift pack is now rewarded:"
"A bottle of Yellow Dragon Pill, a Foundation Establishment Pill, a set of Golden Mayfly Mother-Child Blades, a Flying Sword Talisman Treasure, a Heavenly Thunder Bead."
"The rewards have been distributed, please check and extract them, host."
Hearing the rewards issued by the system, Han Chen went from his initial excitement to a head full of question marks.
"???"
"Hold on, wait a minute."
"System, did you issue the wrong rewards? What the hell are the Golden Mayfly Mother-Child Blades? And the Talisman Treasure and Foundation Establishment Pill-I am on the Dou Qi Continent!"
How did any of this sound like something from the Dou Qi Continent? When had the Dou Qi Continent ever possessed a Foundation Establishment Pill? And was this Mortal Cultivation System of his even legitimate? Surely it wasn't what he thought it was, right?
Just as Han Chen was filled with doubt, wondering if the system had bound to the wrong person and whether the host would run away halfway through, the system provided an explanation.
"Ding! Verification complete. The host transmigrated to the wrong world."
"Originally you were supposed to transmigrate to the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality, but unexpectedly you arrived at the Dou Qi Continent."
"This system belongs to the world of A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality."
"What am I supposed to do then? System, you aren't going to unbind, are you?"
Hearing the system say this, Han Chen instantly panicked.
According to the usual tropes, if the binding was wrong, didn't that mean an unbinding was coming?
He couldn't allow that. He hadn't even stood tall yet; was he going to go soft again?
Besides, cultivating immortals was cultivating immortals, there was nothing wrong with that. He liked cultivating immortals, he loved cultivating immortals.
"No, the host is overthinking. Once bound, the system does not accept returns under any circumstances, and can only unbind after the host fulfills their long-cherished wish."
"Arbitrarily unbinding the host would affect my performance and deduct my salary."
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