1-A Familiar Story

It was a weird experience. As If my body was fully numb, only now regaining its senses as if I could only now feel the world beneath my feet again. Darkness exploded with an array of colors. My head rang with pain but only for a split second, memories not of my own flooded in. To keep myself from losing me, I constantly reminded myself of who I am/or was.

My name is Rai, I am 19 this year, my mother is called UGH a striking pain as I tried to remember my own memories.

Memories of a guy similar to me in age surfaced in my head. His name was Sun Zedong. His father was an elder in the 'demon-slaying sword' Sect he was currently in. Did this mean he himself had any influence? No, he was one of his father's 13 children, born to a concubine, and with his lack of talent, he was basically ignored as a human. I had transmigrated, and as confused as I should be, my numerous hours of knowledge that came from novel-reading helped me maintain my sanity and even caused me to be more excited than I had ever been. I had transmigrated into a xianxia/ cultivation world.

Wasn't this perfect? A father that didn't care, A talent seen as weak and worthless and brothers and sisters that were better than me. I was the family's disgrace!

A pathetic weak to strong MC template!

I was happy. Incredibly Happy!

I should go look for a sky-piercing cultivation method after I'm done beating up this weak boy 1 year younger than me, In front of his childhood frien- wait. what?

Escaping from my own delusions I finally took in my surroundings. The boy in front me was called Xie Daiyu, The only son of a farmer, to save his sisters from the fate of being married off to a rich noble, he went through many trials to join this sect even though normal mortals should have died or given up, he made it using sheer willpower. He later found out that his childhood friend the lord's daughter who often went to play in the land his father farmed on was a disciple here.

The guy who's body I took over apparently liked the girl and seeing her with this 'peasant' as he put it, was annoying to see. So, he simply went and decided to beat him up in front of her to prove his 'masculinity' and how 'alpha' he was. I couldn't help but cringe to my core.

"Sun, you okay?" One of the two people that are with me, Pan Tian but everyone called him fat pan, He was as round as he was happy and he was INCREDIBLY happy all the time.

"Yeah, you turned quite pale!" The other person was Qin Fu, skinny but also incredibly tall at least one head taller than me and I was 5ft 10 is, well maybe, I wasn't sure if it was the same in this world or not.

These were the two that I grew up with and I guess they could be called my henchme- *cough* friends. They agreed to this plan and would restrain the girl if she tried to save Xie.

Waiting for the girl, Shi Yingtai, to come to him during their daily meets at his shabby hut that was originally used to store tools in but now, a makeshift living space.

As they were leaving the hut my former self ambushed them and beat up Xie. And with that, we are now all caught up with the situation, this Xie is now gasping for air on the ground. While the Shi Yingtai girl is tending to his wounds with tears in her eyes. Would the MC be beating up children at the start? maybe some but I don't think I was one of them....that means I wasn't an MC. Since I was of the worst standing in my family, It wouldn't matter much if I died...I... I am cannon fodder, an antagonist...an easy to kill bit of EXP."My master will hear of this!" The girl shouted at me. She already had a master as she was born with rare light roots and didn't have to go through the disciple selection ceremony.

I was already dispirited at learning I was not the main character and staying here would just make matters worse. Crap. Now that I had made the main character, the girl, and potentially her master my enemy, I needed to think about what to do. Here wasn't the best place to think so I quickly turned and left.

Fat Pan and Qin started to follow behind me.

"Haha! Brother Sun, We should've hurt him more and made him fear ever coming near your woman ever again"

"Fat Pan is right, how dare he think himself of noble birth"

"Enough, She isn't my woman and I no longer feel a need to care about what they do, so leave them be"

I was saying this for their case, it's obvious that the guy I just beat up was the MC, ahhhh God damn it!

It hasn't even been 10 minutes and I have already marked myself for death in this new world.

"But Brother!"

"I don't want to speak about this anymore If you have enough time to complain then go train"

Although I have memories of this place, It felt more like a fleeting dream and so I told the two henchmen I wanted to go home and secretly let them lead. I didn't want to raise any more suspicion about my behavior than what I already had.

Although my standing in the family was the lowest, for the sake of keeping up appearances my home was relatively large. I was assigned a maid and cook, I barely met either of them.

I bid goodbye to the duo saying I needed time alone. Using the new memories I had, I struggled, but eventually managed to reach my room. In my room was a small bookcase filled with books on various subjects but in one corner of the bookshelf. Found it! Cultivation tomes!

When I was younger, I was given various cultivation tomes in hopes that I wasn't untalented but instead just using an unsuitable cultivation method for my spiritual root.

I had always wished to be able to cultivate while on Earth, being untalented would stop me from still practicing. This would be a perfect time if a system would like to reveal itself? please?

*Silence*

I could almost hear tumbleweed rolling but I suppose that's to be expected since I'm only a stepping stone.

I opened the largest and oldest looking book first and stared at it for a good 5 minutes...Crap I couldn't read it...

WHAT THE HELL!?!?!

I started throwing a mini tantrum before finally settling down. Having his memories didn't help me in learning the language since to me the memories were as if I was watching someone else's life on a TV screen..but if that's the case, how did I manage to speak and understand other people earlier?

{System Fully Integrated}

{Memories Fully Integrated}

{Language Interpretation: Level 1 Removed- Full memory integration means this temporary skill is no longer needed currently}

YES!!!! I couldn't help but yell out in excitement. After finally calming myself I realized I could read the tome that was currently in my hands. I suppose the Language interpretation ability explains why I could understand the people earlier. In the corner of my, I caught my reflection. The face of my body had red eyes and looks that could be called...average? maybe below it.

{Body Integration 35%....70%...90%...95%...100%}

{Body Integration Complete}

The face in the mirror changed to mine. My appearance was WORSE!?!? ah, come on! Okay, maybe I'm being too harsh on myself. I had black hair and looks that fit my age.

The next most important thing to do in the transmigrator handbook is...

'Status'

[Name: Sun Rai]

[Race: Human]

[Gender: Male]

[Age:18]

[Title: Disgrace Of The Sun Family]

[Level 1: (1/10)]

[System Level: 1]

[Cultivation: Body Tempering Stage-2nd (125/500)]

[Constitution: None]

[Bloodline: Flame Emperor (Minor Bloodline)]

[Root(s): Earth(13%purity)]

[Sect: Demon Slaying Sword]

[Cultivation Method]

[Earthly Body]

-Strength: Low

-Understanding: Beginner (1/10)

[Martial Arts Technique]

[Earthly Impact]

-Strength: Average

-Understanding: Beginner( 7/10)

[Quest Completed: 'Opening Status screen for the first time']

[Quest Rewards Given: Welcome Gift Box]

[New Quest]

[Foundation Crafting]

[Quest Details: A Good House Needs A Strong Foundation]

[Time Limit: 25 Days]

[Requirements: 1000 Push ups]

[Quest Reward: Increase Cultivation By One Minor Realm]

[Failure: Survival Punishment]

1000 push-ups? I could already feel my arms aching. Well, apart from that the reward was quite attractive although I'm not sure how much stronger one minor realm is. I have 25 days to do them so roughly 40 push-ups a day. Which is...quite manageable, before I started I propped down and started reading the cultivation tome. The one I had in my hands was for my [Earthly Body] cultivation method.I opened the book and for the next hour, I studied it. Okay...I see. I see. I gently put down the book. Yep. I understood none of it.'The Moon Moves Whilst The Flowers Blossom' What does that have anything to do with my cultivation??? I eventually picked up the book again and managed to piece together what to do. Using my memories for assistance as well, I sat down and began to cultivate. The sad tale of the owner of this body before me, his bloodline is something that aids in cultivating fire Qi but his root only allows him to cultivate Earthly Qi. There are multiple different types of Qi in this world but the most commonly used are

Light Darkness Water Fire

Earth

You cultivate by feeling the air and life around you, you then take it in. Your root determines what Qi-type you can be a vessel for and so, what you can absorb. The higher the purity of your root, the quicker and larger volumes of qi you can absorb at once since a higher purity attracts more Qi to you. Saying that the average purity of roots in a cultivator was 15-20% meaning, I was below average.

No point complaining now though. I felt the space around me. Sat in the iconic lotus position and with my eyes close. I could feel it. Particles throbbing in the space I was in. I instinctively knew what type of Qi each particle was. Although scarce, I could feel Earth Qi as well. I called to it, they seemed to feel emotions too. I called it once again trying my best to show it I wasn't threatening. Slowly but surely, I guided it and other particles of Qi into my body. I let them run through my body, they were absorbed after strengthening whatever it ran passed. I checked my status once again:

[Cultivation: Body Tempering Stage-2nd (130/500)]

[Earthly Body]

-Strength: Low

-Understanding: Beginner (3/10)

I had spent maybe close to an hour cultivating and my points had only gone up by 5 points which means I would have to cultivate without moving for 74 hours in order to go up to the next minor realm. In the Body Tempering Stage, there were 9 minor realms...This was going to be a long journey. Then I suddenly remembered. The Welcome Gift!

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