klisemfg Chapter 1 Background Introduction: Time Travel
Chapter 1 Background Introduction: Time Travel
Xuan Tian Continent
Chengdu
Located at the very center of the cultivation world, this is the only place where the Hundred Sects Conference is held. It is also a territory not under the jurisdiction of the Five Great Sects, and the city lord has always been the head of the Heavenly Mystery Sect.
The Heavenly Mystery Sect deduces heavenly secrets, predicts good and bad fortune, and helps people avoid disasters and calamities. The Heavenly Mystery Sect places great emphasis on fate, and compared to others at the same cultivation level, members of the Heavenly Mystery Sect generally have shorter lifespans. Furthermore, it does not rely on natural talent, so the cultivation levels are generally uneven.
This has resulted in the Tianji Sect never having more than five members. However, it enjoys a great reputation on the Xuan Tian Continent and has helped the continent overcome calamities many times. Therefore, the Tianji Sect is the only sect among the Hundred Schools that is not one of the Five Great Sects but occupies a single territory.
The cultivation world consists of 27 cities, with five major sects each occupying five cities. In the cultivation world, most disciples in a sect's territory will join that sect, and the sect will also regularly recruit disciples in its territory.
However, not everyone is willing to join a sect. Some may have aspirations, while others may be in a small sect and want to try their luck in joining a large sect.
In the mortal realm, although most people will serve under the dynasty they belong to, not everyone is willing to stay under one family. For various reasons, the annual Hundred Sects Conference is always overcrowded.
Luo Simiao, wrapped in a dirty overcoat, squatted on the side of the street, watching people come and go, waiting for the conference to begin.
The girl's face was dirty, but the fair skin that was inadvertently revealed under her clothes seemed out of place, and the jade bracelet on her wrist revealed a hint of her extraordinary nature.
Luo Simiao glanced around furtively and breathed a sigh of relief when she realized that no one was looking for her or paying attention to her. It seemed that her disguise had been very successful.
The girl's name is Luo Simiao, an ordinary transmigrated woman who was reborn into the world. She only recently regained her memories a month ago.
She was just an ordinary college student last time, but she was hit by a dump truck while on her way to school and was reincarnated.
Ah! Just thinking about it made her numb. She could have died sooner or later, but of all times, she died right before her thesis defense. Her hair loss, her mental preparations—everything vanished into thin air. The thought of all her hard work and still not graduating was unbearable; it only brought her heartache.
In this life, she was just an ordinary young lady. She was born into the Luo family in Hailian City, a small territory under the Yunwu Sect's Wei City.
The Luo family is one of the three major clans in Hailian City, so they are considered quite wealthy.
In any case, apart from her family troubles, Luo Simiao has been living a very carefree life these past few years, with everything done for her!
Let me introduce her mother, Chen Tingyi. Her name is quite nice, but she is actually a hopeless romantic.
Her mother was originally a disciple of an outer sect elder of the Cloud Mist Sect, possessing a superior-grade Water and Wood spiritual root.
The Cloud Mist Sect recruits mostly disciples of the Feng Shui Wood element, so it has considerable expertise in this area.
She could be considered the best in the mainland. With her talent, she could have easily advanced to the Nascent Soul stage and become an outer sect elder.
As a result, during one of her training experiences, she met Luo Xing'an, who was then an outer disciple.
Luo Xing'an was not as talented as her, but he had a handsome face with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes.
Luo Xing'an began to pursue her intensely. Chen Tingyi had never been so receptive to this kind of treatment, so she agreed, left the sect, and married Luo Xing'an.
Luo Xing'an was originally the next patriarch of the Luo family. Compared with the patriarch, the outer disciples are not so ordinary. If he leaves the sect, then the future matriarch will also have to leave.
Chen Tingyi was originally an orphan girl from the mortal world who was fortunate enough to gain a chance to become an immortal and enter the Cloud Mist Sect. Once she left the sect, her advantages became less obvious.
At the time, her mother-in-law hoped that Chen Tingyi would give birth to the next heir.
Cultivators don't have children easily, and pregnancy and childbirth are extremely unfair to female cultivators. The more gifted the child is, the greater the harm to the mother's body.
Moreover, she possesses both water and wood spiritual roots, making her an excellent material for a cauldron. Before giving birth to her, her mother was forced to have several abortions and consumed a considerable amount of so-called fertility medicine.
The reasons for abortion vary. In any case, Luo Simiao vaguely knew that one of the children was due to her father's attempt to break through to a higher level, which resulted in him forcibly taking her essence without her consent.
In addition, her mother-in-law went mad and was determined to have Chen Tingyi give birth to a gifted heir. She was forced to take a lot of medicine and ended up having an abortion.
Under constant manipulation, Chen Tingyi, this fairy, became paranoid and resentful.
She didn't encounter any demons when she gave birth to Luo Simiao, but after giving birth to Luo Simiao, her cultivation level actually improved!
There's no need to question her talent; she's also very resentful, blaming Luo Simiao for not being a boy.
She didn't care much about her daughter and often threw tantrums at Luo Simiao because Luo Xing'an wasn't home.
When Luo Simiao was six years old, she became pregnant again, but the baby was not born; she died in childbirth.
Luo Simiao wasn't exactly heartbroken, was she? After all, she didn't feel much maternal love from Chen Tingyi.
She didn't hate Chen Tingyi, though. Chen Tingyi never laid a hand on her, only scolded and reprimanded her. But she wasn't an ordinary child either; just like in her previous life, she was very cunning and rarely went near Chen Tingyi.
She was a pitiful woman. She was only in her sixties or seventies and still very young, but because of childbirth, she fell from the Golden Core stage to the Foundation Establishment stage. Even at the Foundation Establishment stage, one should be able to live to be at least 500 years old.
Her scumbag father, through the practice of sexual cultivation, actually broke through to the Nascent Soul stage in just thirty or forty years.
It's quite pitiful, but did Chen Tingyi really not realize it? It's just a matter of one willing to hit and the other willing to be hit.
Three days after her death, her father brought back a woman who had a son and a daughter, the daughter being three years older than her.
According to his father, the woman was his cousin. The two had been childhood sweethearts, but after they grew up, his cousin was sent to marry someone else by his uncle, and the two were separated.
Unfortunately, fate is unpredictable. Her cousin's husband abandoned her, and with nowhere else to go, she had no choice but to come and seek refuge with him.
Unlike Chen Tingyi's striking appearance, my cousin is clearly the kind of person whose beauty is as pure as a lotus emerging from the water.
Luo Simiao thought her father was talking nonsense, but thinking about it, it was quite absurd. If you looked at his son alone, he was somewhat similar to Zhao Meier, but when he was with Luo Xing'an, they were completely cut from the same mold.
She didn't know if Zhao Meier had recently divorced or had divorced a long time ago. If it was recent, that would be quite shocking. She felt even more sorrow for Chen Tingyi.
That night, she awakened her memories of her past life, and recalling them felt like an explosion.
Based on her memories of reading countless novels in her previous life, she knew that this house was absolutely unacceptable to stay in.
Imagine this cousin is your childhood sweetheart, the ultimate white moonlight, plus the so-called wife is not as good as a concubine, and a concubine is not as good as a stolen one, and the two of them have two children from their affair. That's it, the buffs are stacked to the max.
That's the truth. She actually turned six last month. On the Xuan Tian Continent, the age of awakening is generally between 6 and 15 years old. If it's too early or too late, even if you have outstanding talent, you won't achieve much.
She should have awakened last month. Even though her mother passed away, she should have prepared for the awakening ceremony next month, but there was no sign of it at all.
Her heart sank. It seemed her father had never intended for her to cultivate. Women from prominent families who couldn't cultivate were likely to be sent to be concubines or arranged marriages with powerful figures, and some even suffered worse fates.
Luo Simiao was quite confident in her looks, but then what's worse?
No, she has to be prepared. To hell with that scumbag dad!
At first, the two siblings were fairly honest; to be honest, their father's excuse was just a way to fool the idiots.
The Luo family is not a casual family. They actually place great importance on rules. For example, Luo Simiao, although she was judged to have only average talent, was the only daughter of the family head, so basically no one dared to disrespect her.
Her father wanted to marry her younger cousin as his legal wife, but a divorced woman and an illegitimate child didn't sound good at all.
However, his father was still very confident, because these two illegitimate children were said to be very talented, but they did not participate in the Cloud Mist Sect's recruitment conference.
However, he tested their talents and found they were exceptionally gifted.
So during his battle with the family elders, Luo Simiao found an opportunity to leave the house. To achieve her goal, a regular shop was definitely not an option.
If she goes there, she'll be discovered in no time, and she won't be able to explain herself. After all, in a city, there are no secrets in the eyes of powerful and influential families.
Her first choice was the black market. She didn't know who started it, but it had been around for a long time, and no one dared to touch it.
Where there is white, there is black; where there are people, there is a social hierarchy; and where there are people, there are social classes. It is not true that everyone can obtain the necessary permits to operate a legitimate business.
For example, alchemists must obtain an alchemist certificate certified by the Medicine Alliance before they can sell pills of a certain quality.
Although the Medicine Alliance appears to be a relatively fair and just place, there are always some filth lurking in the shadows.
If a rogue cultivator is unlucky, the other party doesn't even need to do anything; they can simply block them, or even fabricate charges against them and put them on the Medicine Alliance's blacklist.
However, the overall system is relatively fair. For various reasons, some independent cultivators still cannot obtain the Alchemist Certificate and choose to sell pills on the black market.
Moreover, the price the Medicine Alliance charges for pills varies from person to person. For independent cultivators, a price of 30% to 40% is already considered very reasonable.
Cultivation is prevalent on the mainland, and there is no shortage of elixirs in the cultivation world. With so many people, elixirs are not valuable.
Of course, this does not mean that alchemists have a low status. As one of the five major sects, Medicine King Valley is the main force in maintaining the Medicine Alliance.
Furthermore, alchemists have always been a profession exclusive to humans, while the other two realms have a greater demand for elixirs, so alchemists are also highly sought after.
However, this does not prevent some alchemists from selling their products on the black market because the Medicine Alliance offers lower purchase prices.
What she wanted to buy this time was a forbidden drug, invented by an alchemist a thousand years ago.
Of course, that extraordinary person is still alive today. She is a ninth-grade alchemist in the Tribulation Transcending stage of Medicine King Valley. This master can be described as a divine person. The pills she created were not mainstream at the time and belonged to a relatively unorthodox type of pills.
For example, the third-grade pill she wants to buy now: the pill that will make you faint for three days, is that too abstract?
The names of Medicine King Valley are all very abstract. This thing can fascinate people at the Nascent Soul stage and below.
After this elixir came into existence, numerous scams, frauds, murders, and arsons occurred.
After all, it was truly cheap and effective, and there is still no known antidote. At the time, the Medicine Alliance listed it as a forbidden drug and even wanted to destroy the formula.
But it's so useful that even a Qi Refining stage cultivator can take down a Nascent Soul stage cultivator when they're not paying attention.
Humans are not the only race on the continent. If you bring this powerful weapon, which can kill people of a higher level, along with you on your training, the gains will be extraordinary.
Most secret realms have level restrictions, but these only restrict the cultivation level of the person entering the secret realm; they do not restrict the monsters within the secret realm.
Entering the secret realm is entirely a matter of luck and skill. But despite its significant drawbacks, this elixir is incredibly useful within the secret realm!
Therefore, the Medicine Alliance established a new rule specifically for this eccentric alchemist: this type of pill is not allowed to be used on people, and if caught, the Medicine Alliance has the right to deal with him.
This greatly reduced the chaos caused by the use of this elixir. It could be said that when the benefits become too great, concessions are not unacceptable.
Of course, Luo Simiao was also aware of this rule.
But it didn't matter. If she couldn't leave this family, she felt that her fate might not be any better than being wanted by the Medicine Alliance.