"Holy shit, where the hell did I end up?"
Ye Wushuang opened his eyes and saw banks of pitch-black tribulation clouds filling the sky outside the palace.
"Those aren't here to strike me, are they?" Watching the surging lightning, Ye Wushuang suddenly felt as though sweat were pouring down his back.
One hit from that would probably hurt like hell, Ye Wushuang thought.
Just as he tried to get up and run, he discovered that he could not move at all. He was actually still a baby!
"I'm screwed!" Ye Wushuang wanted to cry, but had no tears.
He had clearly just been a university student out hiking. How had he transmigrated?
Everyone else got a golden finger when they transmigrated. Why had he been given a sky-collapsing start?
A fierce bolt of lightning hurtled down from the heavens toward the palace.
Ye Wushuang closed his eyes, preparing to leave his fate to heaven.
Yet the pain he imagined never came.
A towering pagoda that reached into the heavens released strands of light. Even the lightning of the heavenly tribulation was scattered outright.
As though it had encountered something terrifying, the tribulation lightning actually dared not gather again, and the dark clouds in the sky vanished as well.
As it turned out, this was the Azure Cloud Realm Domain, one of the ten supreme realm domains.
The Immortal Ancient Ye Clan was also the supreme imperial clan of this land.
And the towering pagoda that had just repelled the heavenly tribulation belonged to the Immortal Ancient Ye Clan. It was the clan's signature imperial weapon-the Chaos Tower.
The Immortal Ancient Ye Clan was a top-tier power whose legacy came from the Immortal Domain. It had endured countless epochs and still stood unshaken.
Its ancestors included several Emperor Realm patriarchs, as well as powerhouses who had attained the unspeakable exalted rank of Heavenly Emperor.
Today, Ye Wushuang's birth had filled this place with extraordinary phenomena and even drawn a heavenly tribulation.
Divine light cascading from the sky, strands of purple qi spreading outward, and divine might revealed from time to time had all shaken the other powers of the Azure Cloud Realm Domain.
They had all heard something of it: the child of that legendary figure of the Immortal Ancient Ye Clan had been born into this world today.
Ye Wushuang looked up and saw a few old geezers, every one of them exuding a powerful presence.
So this was a heaven-blessed starting hand after all, Ye Wushuang thought with secret delight.
At that moment, numerous clan elders and the hall masters of the Ye Lineage's various branches stood on either side. At the center were several patriarchs and the Ye Lineage's current clan head, Ye Daolin.
They activated all kinds of heavenly treasures around them, sending them pouring into Ye Wushuang's body.
The Primordial Dao Fruit, said to have vanished since primordial times; Supreme Azure Divine Water, which sealed within it the power of the heavens; the Emperor's Mandate Stone, containing strands of imperial might...
The essences of numerous divine treasures poured into Ye Wushuang's body as though they cost nothing.
"Lingxiao's child was born today. He still has important matters to attend to, so we must lay a supreme foundation for this child."
Hearing this, Ye Wushuang could not help thinking, Lingxiao? Could that be my father in this life?
Being nourished by the divine treasures' essences felt far too comfortable, and Ye Wushuang obligingly let out a cry.
Hearing that infant's cry, the patriarchs quickly gathered around, each beaming with smiles. None of the dignity they displayed outside remained.
Ye Wushuang looked up and saw an exceptionally beautiful woman holding him.
She was Ji Luoshen, Ye Lingxiao's wife and the bride in the grand marriage alliance between the Ye and Ji clans, the twin titans of Immortal Ancient, a hundred years ago.
"Hehehe, let me hold the child first." Spatial power surged around the Ye Lineage's Third Patriarch as he became the first to appear before the child.
"Third Brother, that's hardly fair of you." The other patriarchs also stepped forward and looked at the child.
Golden light surrounded the infant's entire body. The Ninth Patriarch activated his divine eyes to examine the child and discovered a bone within him radiating supreme might.
"To think it's a Supreme Bone, guaranteeing that he'll become a supreme! With our Ye Lineage's bloodline power passed down by Lingxiao as well, it seems our Ye Lineage is about to produce another qilin son," the patriarchs said with smiles.
Ye Wushuang was also sorting through his thoughts at that moment.
I transmigrated? And it looks like I'm in an incredibly powerful lineage.
While traveling on Blue Star, Ye Wushuang had encountered a Daoist priest.
The Daoist had spoken of nothing but karma and smiled at Ye Wushuang.
Then Ye Wushuang had seen a meteor streak across the sky. Too entranced by it, he had promptly met Truck-kun.
When he woke up, he had arrived in this Immortal Ancient World.
"You have been born into the Immortal Ancient World. Would you like to sign in, Master?" An ethereal female voice suddenly sounded in his mind.
Sure enough, the novels from my previous life didn't lie. Transmigration comes with a golden finger. Was something like a system actually born alongside me?
Sign in, Ye Wushuang said silently.
Something tore open the void, and an origin essence flew out and merged into Ye Wushuang's body.
Chaos Qi suddenly spread around Ye Wushuang's body.
"Sign-in successful. Congratulations, Master, on obtaining a Chaos Physique."
Everyone looked at Ye Wushuang and could not help drawing in a sharp breath. "Not only was he born with a Supreme Bone, but he also possesses the Chaos Physique, rumored to rank first among all physiques!"
"For such a method to appear, it actually forcibly suppressed this world's Heavenly Dao. Yet there was also a trace of our Ye Lineage within it. Was this the work of a senior in the Immortal Domain?" Several patriarchs stared for a long time at the spot where the void had just been torn open.
Legend had it that in ancient times, all kinds of powerful physiques emerged one after another, each displaying its divine might.
The Ancient Desolate Sacred Physique with its unparalleled flesh, the Innate Dao Embryo naturally close to the Dao, the Spacetime Divine Physique that commanded space and time, and the Primordial Dao Physique born within primordial chaos.
Yet the strongest was beyond question: the legendary Chaos Physique.
Its body merged with the myriad Daos and could encompass the powers of all kinds of laws.
"Hahahahaha! It seems our Ye Lineage will dominate another era's imperial mandate!" All the clan elders in the hall roared with laughter.
"Heaven sent extraordinary phenomena when this child was born. I wish for him to take our Ye Lineage one step further, unparalleled throughout the ages. Let the child's name be Ye Wushuang."
Hearing this, Ye Wushuang smiled inwardly as well. So I'm named Ye Wushuang in this life too?
That old Daoist really got it right. There's no escaping karma.
Ji Luoshen gazed tenderly at Ye Wushuang and said with a smile:
"Lingxiao, our child Wushuang was born so outstanding. He was born with a Supreme Bone and even awakened a Chaos Physique. Did you see?"
At the boundary between the Myriad Spirits Realm and the Desolate Realm.
On a rainy night, a handsome man stood atop a majestic city wall. The falling rain never came near him, scattered entirely by his True Qi.
He revealed no trace of his presence, yet standing there, he was like a god descended. He was the very man who had intimidated the Desolate Realm so thoroughly that no one had dared cross the line all these years.
Back then, the Desolate Realm had sought to invade the Myriad Spirits Realm. Before the fighting had settled, conflict erupted once more.
To suppress the border invasion, the ten supreme realm domains took the lead, guiding the myriad realms in resisting the Desolate Realm.
As the Immortal Ancient Ye Clan's current Son of Heaven, Ye Lingxiao shouldered the great responsibility of saving all living beings. Leading by example, he went to the border.
He had been away for many years, spending more time apart from his wife Ji Luoshen than together.
During one massive offensive by the Desolate Realm, the Desolate Heaven Devil Emperor awakened after ten thousand years of slumber in the Desolate Realm's forbidden ruins.
A Great Emperor-level existence!
At that moment of peril for the Myriad Spirits borderlands.
Though Ye Lingxiao had not entered the Emperor Realm, he went to face the Desolate Heaven Devil Emperor, drawing upon the legacies of the ancient Human Emperor, the ancient War Emperor, and the Ye Lineage's Primordial Emperor.
With the peerless immortal art One Qi Transforms into Three Purities, he manifested the War Emperor, the Primordial Emperor, and the Human Emperor, wielding the imperial weapons of all three lineages and commanding their imperial arts.
He wrote a divine legend of an emperor's fall, slaying an emperor without having become one!
Knowing not the past, asking nothing of the future, forever extinguishing the desolate heavens-I, Lingxiao, stood above the skies.
This was the Human Emperor Body, Ye Lingxiao!
Standing atop the city wall, Ye Lingxiao smiled faintly. "Wushuang? Good. My son will lead our Ye Lineage down a path unparalleled throughout the ages."
"Taiyan, take this Immortal-Slaying Sword back to the Ye Lineage for Wushuang. Though I cannot be by his side, I still wish to protect my child."
Then Ye Lingxiao also sealed One Qi Transforms into Three Purities and his own blood essence within the Immortal-Slaying Sword.
"When Wushuang cultivates One Qi Transforms into Three Purities in the future, he can use the blood essence of my Human Emperor Body to form his first physique."
(After getting criticized, I took some feedback and changed the setting here. Some readers don't like clones, so One Qi Transforms into Three Purities won't produce separate clones here. After cultivating it, the protagonist will have a threefold divine soul, each part able to obtain a different physique. He can switch at any time, freely changing physiques in battle.)