1 Ascending heavens
Amidst the flare, there lies a guy, seemingly in his late forties, being consumed by the fire which rises from the Earth reaching the heavens above. As his body was being engulfed by the fire, his life flashbacked in his mind as he thought.
"From birth to death, I have struggled with poverty. Even certain means of survival were difficult for me, so, I thought of death countless times but, now that I am facing it, I wish to live more, once more"
Disparity supremed over his mind as he thought about how pitiful his life has been. As the once alive body was becoming cinders with the heat rivaling hell, a line, aligned with the stars shot down from heavens and fell upon him.
Whoosh
The cold wind blew past the fire, blowing away the cinders of his body.
At the same time, somewhere unknown, A young guy, seemingly, thirteen years old woke up. He was in the middle of a street with rags covering him up. As soon as he woke up, he fell into a trance, the moon got came down, the sun shot up, he didn't budge a single muscle and stayed in that meditative state for around four hours.
He was none other than the guy who was killed in the flames some hours ago. After four hours, he rubbed his eyes as tears threatened to flow down from them
"Hey God, you made me a poor bloke in my past life, its okay, I understand. But, to be reincarnated again in the rugged state and start from the zero, aren't you just toying with me? isn't my luck a little too bad?"
In the past four hours, the guy had regained some vague memories of the guy who used to live in his current body before him. He was a beggar on the street, an orphan that goes with the name, Lou Xuan. thirteen years old, trying his best to survive in a world where people learn martial arts.
Today, a test in the biggest academy of Qinghai empire was about to be conducted to pick out people who had an amplitude for learning the way of martial arts. The previous host of his body was preparing himself for this test as the people who pass the test will be provided with the basic commodities of life. He also thought that the best course of action was to participate in this test, thinking this, he got up and asking around, he found his way to the academy.
His confidence sky rocked as soon as he saw the academy, it was a huge building, thousands of students were present to participate in the examination. They were all wearing flashy dresses and seemed to have come from a rather rich background! As soon as he entered the academy, the guards, staff and the students alike, glared him with detestation in their eyes.
As thick-skinned as Lou Xuan was, He simply Ignored the glares and continued to march forward. He had gained the memories of the previous host of the body but, his memories were unclear and unaligned, He knew that to get accepted into the academy, one would be required to possess cultivation of at least Dan-1 but, he didn't know how to check his cultivation.
He decided to walk into a public library inside of the academy to check how this cultivation thing works, As soon as he walked in, the words from the books throughout the library floated up in the air, mixing with one another. The words soon combined to form some books, the books then merged together, forming yellowish light which headed towards him.
Before he could react, he was struck by the yellow light and his body jolted as if thunder had struck him. His vision soon turned dark and he fell on the floor unconscious.
