TDG: Divine Library

Fresh start and wishes

Yang An was talking while having tea together with an old man, he died a few hours earlier and met this old man, the old man introduced himself as a God of Reincarnation and told him that he could go to the world of his choice and that he would grant him a single wish and background in this world, since then Yang An was thinking about what to do.

In his life on earth he was an orphan, he lived his life as a nobody, but he didn't feel sad about it now that he died.

He had a hobby and that was reading novels, his favorite novel was Tales of Demons and Gods, so he chooses to be reborn there.

He then started to think again for some time and finally decided on his only wish.

But before announcing his wish, he first chose his background, stood up, and said to the god, "I want to be reborn in Tales of demons and gods as the nephew of Yang Xin of Glory City four years before Canon. The world is Nie Li's first life, and he will not regain his memories of the future.

"Very well, that's done. Is this your choice of background in that world, now for your wishes?" God looked calmly at the soul in front of him and nodded.

"I want an internal library with all the knowledge of that world in my language. Alchemy, formations, inscriptions, etc..."

"It will be done, you will receive the library as soon as you open your eyes in your new world, see you in the next life, I hope it's not too soon young man."

Suddenly, Yang An lost consciousness and his soul began to disappear from the place it was previously.

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 {Cordillera St. Ancestor - Glory City. Association of Alchemists.}

"BAM!"

With an explosion sound, a small, immature body suddenly flew up, slamming its back against the sturdy walls of the pill room.

"Ought!" The young man let out a grunt of pain, before brushing a long lock of blue hair from his face. The youth was dressed beautifully in a Novice Alchemist's robe, but his beauty was overshadowed by his black face smeared with coal dust.

As he opened his eyes, a different glow floated through his pupils before an excited smile appeared on his lips. However, at this moment, Yang An felt his entire body heat up, as if he were in the mouth of a volcano.

Along with that, severe pain hit his mind.

Yang An only seemed to feel a side hammer hitting his head hard. The excruciating pain made him almost cry out, but he held it in because of his strength of will. He probably couldn't stand it if he was in his previous life, but he did after having his willpower enhanced by the fusion of two souls.

After a quarter of an hour of constant pain, the pain of having his soul merge with another finally ceased. Yang An also opened his eyes, and slowly began to check the foreign memories in his mind.

At this time, Yang An found that there was a lot of knowledge that suddenly appeared in his mind, many mysterious and complicated things suddenly appeared in his mind, alchemy, cultivation, demonic spiritualists, all kinds of flashes of memories of his life appeared successively(…)

Looking over his memoirs, Yang An discovered more or less the life story of his predecessor that, like him, his name was also Yang An. 

Yang An began to learn alchemy knowledge from Yang Xin from the age of six. His parents died fighting the demonic beasts that were trying to invade the city, so he was adopted by his aunt and started living with her in the alchemists' association.

Three years had passed, and he slowly revealed a genius as he learned the theoretical knowledge of alchemy even faster than many professional alchemists. This immediately shocked all the alchemists in the association, making Gu Yan jump for joy at having a genius graduate from his association.

Unfortunately, in the test for his talent to become a demonic spiritualist, it was revealed that he was trash with an orange soul realm. Furthermore, their soul power channels were incredibly narrow and could gather very little soul power at a time.

This immediately made the hopes of a renaissance for the hall alchemists hall fall back into obscurity.

Even though Yang An is still seen as a genius for his theoretical knowledge of alchemy, everyone knew that he was garbage that he couldn't cultivate. Fortunately, being a close relative of the association's director, Yang An didn't experience many difficulties.

No matter how much effort Yang An put into his cultivation last year, his soul strength didn't exceed 12 points, even though he was given several pills.

At this rate, it would take at least another ten years just to enter the first level of the demon spiritualist, the Bronze rank. This was something he didn't want to accept. Also, just to reach bronze rank would require a huge expenditure on resources that could be used to train someone with better talent. 

So, to prove himself, as soon as he found a chance for the pill refinement hall, Yang An tried to refine a low-level pill based on the little soul power in his body. He wanted to do this to prove that even if he was slower in his cultivation, he was still an alchemy genius.

Unfortunately, it was also at this time that Yang An (Mc) had his soul merge with his . Not only did this destabilize his concentration, it also made the cauldron of pills explodes in his face.

"This... How can someone so unlucky be born into this world ?" Yang An didn't know whether he should laugh or cry at his story. However, he knew that this streak of bad luck had come to an end today.

With his soul occupying this body, not only would he become the greatest Alchemist in the world, he would also elevate the alchemist's association to a new level. A level never imagined by any of them.