The cultivators of the Great World would never have imagined the boundless loneliness and fear in the heart of a modern transmigrator upon first arriving in the Cultivation World.
The Wang Family's night raid, cultivators' indiscriminate slaughter, the Upright Official's casual suppression, the sudden betrayal of the medical hall's common folk, and so on... all had carved indelible terror and dread into Chen Xun's young heart.
The shadows of youth took a lifetime to heal; that had never merely been empty words. Chen Xun had simply never revealed it aloud.
All these little things, piled together, had silently shaped his selfish, indifferent side—a side that never trusted outsiders and would only treat others well if they first treated him well.
When he fled Small Mountain Village and sparked a war across the Cultivation World with the story of a single chicken, he had exposed that twisted state of mind he carried in this foreign world—commonly known as Paranoid Delusion!
And it was precisely this journey that had made Chen Xun realize something before entering the Immortal Prison. Whether it was true or false, only by completely perishing once in the Great World could one live anew.
Only by casting aside everything from the past could he truly view all things with the mindset of one Outside the Game. He had to be ruthless toward his enemies, and even more ruthless toward himself—just as when he had boldly opened up the Five Elements Immortal Path.
A savage viciousness seeped from Chen Xun's bones. Whenever he killed, he always destroyed the corpses and erased all traces. He had never softened his hand when slaughtering billions of Defiled Lifespans. All his outward kindness and gentleness were merely disguises.
No one could know the twisted journey of a modern man who had arrived in