3 A New World

Ling Tian stood quietly in the depths of the forest as he tried to digest the unknown memories in his head.

It turned out that the previous owner of his body had the same name as him!

In the beginning, Ling Tian thought that it may be just a coincidence, but it turned out that the system intentionally chose someone with the name "Ling Tian" in order to avoid any unnecessary confusion.

From the memories of his predecessor, Ling Tian also found out that this world was completely different from the one he came from. In this place, there was no such thing as science, instead, this world was based on something called cultivation.

Cultivation was similar to the education of his previous world. Here cultivation was treated as basic right of every living being so even a beggar had plenty of knowledge regarding various subjects related to cultivation.

In this world, there exists a mysterious energy called Origin qi and cultivation was the process of absorbing the Origin qi from heaven and earth into one's body.

There were various realms of cultivation in this world known as the Body tempering realm, Origin refining realm, Origin gathering realm, Origin condensation realm, Origin core realm, Spirit formation realm, Dao Foundation realm, Dao attainment realm, Martial king realm, Martial Emperor realm, and lastly the Martial saint realm. Each realm was further divided into nine layers.

An increase in cultivation also increases a cultivator's strength and lifespan. The strongest cultivator Ling Tian had ever seen in his life was only in the origin condensation realm, but even he was capable of destroying an entire city alone!

As for the cultivators of the martial saint realm, they existed only in legends, it is said that those in the martial saint realm were immortal and they could destroy an entire continent with just a single thought!

But although cultivators could live for thousands of years and had godlike abilities, not everyone was capable of becoming one.

As we know, you need to absorb the origin qi in order to cultivate but to be able to do that you need to awaken your spiritual veins first.

Everyone in this world had a total of 9 spiritual veins in their body. From low to high, the quality of spiritual veins was also divided into six grades known as, mortal veins, profound veins, earthly veins, heavenly veins, saint veins and divine veins.

Those with spiritual veins of higher grade were considered to be more talented because they could absorb the origin qi faster. That's why those with mortal veins had almost no hope of becoming a successful cultivator.

Although even those with mortals veins could cultivate to the highest realm, but their speed was too slow after all.

Thinking of this, Ling Tian smiled bitterly. His predecessor was the number one genius of one of the three biggest families in the Phoenix Cry city — the Ling family.

And he was not any ordinary genius either, because all nine of his spiritual veins were of earth grade! And that is why his cultivation speed was also way faster than his peers!

You have to know, vast majority of humans only possessed the spiritual veins of mortal grade while those with profound veins in his memory could be counted on his fingers.

And even they had only two or three profound veins at most, but Ling Tian had whopping nine Earth grade spiritual veins!

What kind of concept is that? Let alone the phoenix cry city, even in those big sects there might not be a genius who could rival Ling Tian!

That is why even with the low resources of the Phoenix Cry City he was still able to reach into the 2nd layer of Origin refining realm at a young age of 13.

This realm of cultivation already rivalled some of the weaker elders in his family!

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was the hope of entire Ling family with a bright future ahead of him.

But a few months ago something unexpected happened.

The Ling family's patriarch suddenly died due to some unknown reasons and giving rise to a sudden internal conflict in the family. As a result for the sake of maintaining the family's stability the elders decided to elect a new patriarch as soon as possible.

In the end, Ling Tian's father — Ling Xiao, and his uncle — Ling Shan both ended up competing for the position of the patriarch, but since both of them had equal strength and each of them was supported by an equal number of elders, it became almost impossible to determine the winner.

Finally, it was decided that the patriarch would be determined by a martial arts competition, in which Ling Tian would fight against his cousin — Ling Dong, who was the eldest son of his uncle, Ling Shan.

But Ling Tian was the number one genius of the Ling family while Ling Dong wasn't even in the top ten! Everyone thought that Ling Tian was destined to win the match, but after a few days, something unexpected happened. On his way back home from the pill shop, Ling Tian was ambushed by a black-clothed martial artist!

Ling Tian naturally tried his best to resist, but the enemy was already at the peak of origin refining realm so Long Tian was defeated in just a single hit!

Ling Tian only remembers that the enemy crippled his cultivation and spiritual veins before he lost his consciousness due to unbearable pain.

Even though Ling Tian wasn't very good at scheming, he could still guess that it must be Ling Shan who plotted against him.

"Ling Shan you damned dog! You're so vicious! For the position of the patriarch, you didn't hesitate to kill your own nephew!?" Ling Tian clenched his teeth in anger and cursed in hatred!

Even though he was a person who hated saying foul words but this he couldn't control his mouth at all.

But it cannot be blamed on his either.

The previous Ling Tian used to have a very good relationship with his uncle. Even though he was the number one genius of the family, he had always treated Ling Shan with respect! Ling Tian used to look up to both his uncle and his father. He hoped that one day he would become a strong cultivator like them, but he never expected to be betrayed by the same person whom he admired so much!

Above all this Bastard crippled his spiritual veins! Without his spiritual veins, there was no way Ling Tian would ever be able to cultivate!

"Damn it! If I can escape from this forest alive, I'll make your life a living hell!" Ling Tian roared in hatred but then his expression became helpless. He very much wanted to beat Ling Shan to death! But he knew it was impossible, not to mention returning to the Lin family, without any cultivation he wasn't even sure if he would be able to leave this forest alive!

Due to his overwhelming desire for survival, Ling Tian desperately tried to look for something which could help him escape this forest alive but in the end, he couldn't think of anything.

Just as Ling Tian was about to give up, it was as if he remembered something and his eyes lit up.

This new ray of hope caused Ling Tian's expression to become ecstatic and he tried asking the system for help "Hey! Origin! I know you can hear me! As you can see I can't cultivate right now, I'm too weak and I lack any ability to protect myself. if you don't do something right now then both of us are going to be burried in this forest!"

As expected, after a few seconds, the familiar voice of the system once again appeared in Ling Xian's mind.