Chapter 192: Chapter 196 - Starting with Soul Land, One Trial Card a Day

"It's been three years. I've been in this world for three years now. It's a pity I don't have any cheat codes. Tonight is the night to decide my fate."

Whether you become a superior person or a corporate slave depends on whether fate will be on your side tomorrow.

A man with an ordinary appearance, much like Pingping Koo, lay on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling, muttering to himself.

Lu Xuan, that's his name.

Originally just a corporate slave in China, working 996 every day, Lu Xuan woke up one night to find himself transmigrated into the body of a boy with the same name in a parallel universe. Lu Xuan wondered if he had died suddenly from overwork.

This young man named Lu Xuan happened to be in the midst of a devastating natural disaster. Overnight, all his parents and relatives died, and he himself was left in a hospital bed, in a vegetative state.

If it weren't for the arrival of Lu Xuan from the Celestial Empire, this young man named Lu Xuan would probably have died lying in his sickbed.

The boy, who miraculously woke up, underwent a drastic personality change, as if he were a completely different person.

To outsiders, this situation was all due to the family's pitiful circumstances, and no one doubted that she had already usurped the family's place.

When Lu Xuan Lu Xuan up, government officials quickly came to comfort him and compensated him with a large sum of money, enough for an ordinary person to live on for three lifetimes as long as they didn't cause trouble.

In addition, Lu Xuan was given a luxury villa, the kind that an ordinary person couldn't afford even if they worked for three lifetimes. Moreover, the villa area was full of high-ranking officials and nobles, so even if you had money, you couldn't buy one.

As for their original home, it had long been razed to the ground. Although the land deed and house deed were still in effect, the house itself was long gone, reduced to ruins in the aftermath of a battle.

Later, Lu Xuan learned that his family had unfortunately become the battlefield between two reincarnators, and everyone in his family except himself had died on the spot.

During this time, Lu Xuan inquired about which reincarnator was fighting here, but the officials refused to mention it and did not reveal any information.

However, after years of investigation, Lu Xuan learned from an unnamed official that the woman was a kind-hearted and important figure. At the time, she was chasing a reincarnated person who had committed a crime. Although she eventually captured the criminal, she was unable to protect her own family.

Out of compassion and guilt, the other party made a special request to treat the sole survivor, Lu Xuan, well. Only then did Lu Xuan receive such generous compensation. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, he would be lucky to get one-tenth of what he deserved, and he would also have to be wary of someone trying to profit from it, not to mention the luxurious villa that the other party had privately gifted him.

As for the name of this kind person, the officials didn't know either; they couldn't find any information about reincarnated beings.

Thanks to the influence of that important figure, Lu Xuan was even admitted to the best high school in the area without taking the entrance exam.

And so, over these three years, Lu Xuan gradually came to understand what kind of world this was. It was probably a parallel world to Earth, with time roughly equivalent to 2017 in another timeline of China.

This world was normal before the Ming Dynasty's carpenter emperor Emperor Tianqi. However, after Zhu Youjian, the Emperor Chongzhen, ascended the throne in the history of the Celestial Empire, the style of this world began to change. Of course, the Emperor Chongzhen in this world was not like the Chongzhen Emperor in the Celestial Chongzhen, who was manipulated by civil officials in the early stages and later became a ruler who brought about the downfall of his country.

Zhu Youjiao in this world is incredibly powerful, practically cheating. He not only easily solved the domestic famine problem and prevented many rebellions, but also heavily relied on capable ministers and generals such as Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting to defeat the wild boars and Mongolian tribes on the grasslands. Lu Xuan strongly suspects that he, like himself, is also a transmigrator from the Celestial Empire.

Of course, besides his various precognitive maneuvers, the Paradise and the Reincarnators also deserve credit. If the Reincarnators hadn't brought various high-yield seeds and advanced technologies from the Paradise Space, Zhu Youjiao would have had a hard time achieving these things.

After clearing away domestic troubles, Zhu Youjiao turned his attention to the sea, aiming to colonize the world and use global resources to support the Da Ming.

As the world's most powerful reincarnator, Zhu Youjiao single-handedly controlled the entire globe.

Similar to Qin Shi Huang, during Zhu Youjiao, no one in the world dared to harbor any thoughts of rebellion.

However, after Zhu Youjiao, internal power struggles intensified, leading to violent clashes. In addition, as other oppressed colony reincarnators also grew up, they began to have the will and ability to resist.

Then, many countries broke away from the control of the Da Ming Empire, and thus, a massive global war broke out.

Although Paradise has sealed most of the reincarnators' abilities, for high-level reincarnators, even a tiny bit of power is enough to make them human nuclear bombs. It is said that some reincarnators, even when suppressed by Paradise, still have the ability to destroy the Earth.

That world war lasted for nearly a century. Before the war, the global population exceeded 10 billion, but after the war, the global population was less than 1 billion. Over the past century, the death toll has exceeded 80 billion, which led to the current landscape of three major empires, three powerful nations, and hundreds of smaller countries.

The three great empires refer to the Da Ming Empire, the Empire of Great Britain, and the Indian Empire, while the three great powers are Rus', Prussia, and France.

The place where Lu Xuan is now is Hongdu County, Gan Province Hongdu Commandery City, in the Da Ming Empire.

The administrative hierarchy of the Da Ming Empire was: village-town-county-prefecture city (special administrative region, colony)-provincial city (special administrative region, colony).

"Lu Xuan, stand up and explain this problem to me."

Lu Xuan jumped up immediately.

Lu Xuan: Oh no! I didn't sleep a wink last night and I actually fell asleep in class! Oh my god.

Lu Xuan honestly replied, "No."

"Then stand up! Wake up!"

"Class, look, this problem can be solved by doing this, this, and this. Got it?..."

Well!

What bad luck!

I waited all night last night, but I didn't get the result I wanted, so I kept dozing off in class this morning.

Still asleep. Looks like I'll be going to the office for a cup of tea again today.

Today is my 18th birthday!

I wasn't chosen by the Paradise, but the teacher got called out instead! Damn it!

Hongcheng No. 1 Experimental Middle School, as its name suggests, is the top-ranked middle school in Hongdu Commandery City. It includes primary, junior high and senior high sections. Leaving aside the primary section for now, the junior high and senior high sections are schools that can only be entered by the wealthy and powerful or by true geniuses.

The chances of high school students being admitted to university are as high as 90%. Unlike in China, where university diplomas are devalued, in this world, on average, three or four out of ten high school students can go to university.

The universities in this world are extremely prestigious. Of the top 100 universities in the world, 86 are located in the Da Ming Empire. Moreover, there are only 1,000 universities in the Da Ming Empire in total, and they adopt a bottom-ranking elimination system, making the competition extremely fierce.

In this world, the Earthling is close to 30 billion, of which about 10 billion are citizens of the Da Ming Empire. With the addition of numerous vassal states and colonies, the total population is close to 18 billion.

According to official statistics, there are over 100 million college entrance examination candidates each year, but how many places are available?

Each university admits roughly the same number of students, around three thousand. Three thousand multiplied by one thousand equals three million, which averages out to three students for every hundred.

That's a 3% chance, or even less!

Its gold content is obviously quite high.

As a transmigrator, Lu Xuan's memory and thinking abilities improved significantly after he transmigrated, perhaps due to the fusion with the original owner's memories.

Even so, Lu Xuan's academic level was only in the upper-middle range of the entire senior year of high school.

It's so damn curly!

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"Tell me, what's wrong with you today? You've been so out of sorts. You know, this is the most crucial time of your senior year. With your abilities, you absolutely have a chance to get into one of the top 100 universities in the country."

Because he fell asleep in class, Lu Xuan was invited to the teacher's office for a chat and given a long lecture.

After the teacher finished speaking, Lu Xuan said helplessly.

Today is my eighteenth birthday!

"This."

Lu Chen fell silent.

In this world, turning eighteen is the most important day for everyone.

Because on this day, the chances of being chosen by the Paradise are the highest, bar none.

As for what happens next, although there is still a chance of being selected by the Paradise, the probability is almost zero.

Those chosen by the Paradise are already one in ten thousand, and after turning eighteen, the odds become one in a hundred million.

Reincarnators are the primary productive force!

This is the first sentence written in every textbook.

Reincarnators hold an extremely high status. Once someone becomes a member, they immediately rise to the privileged class, receiving a title that is recognized and universally accepted worldwide.

Earth's technology and prosperous society are largely driven by reincarnated beings.

The grain crops with yields of 10,000 jin per mu, virtual technology, biotechnology, aerospace technology, and so on, were mostly brought from Paradise by the reincarnators.

This is also a major reason why reincarnators can enjoy various privileges.

However, although reincarnators have many privileges, ordinary people have no access to this privileged class, and they can't get any information about what Paradise is.

I tried searching online, but all I found were 404 errors. The chances of high school students being admitted to university are as high as 90%. Unlike in China, where university diplomas are devalued, in this world, on average, three or four out of ten high school students can go to university.