Networking in a cultivation world

Our story starts in a womb, yup you read that right.

'The fuck?'

Floating in the womb liquid is our main protagonist: Peng Tian

'IT'S SO FUCKIN' EMPTY!'

You see, when he jumped down the reincarnation portal, he was steeling himself to wake up in a young body that had just died, or maybe he was gonna pop out as a baby or, etc.

'THERE'S NOTHING'

Well, it's not exactly nothing.

'I'M A FUCKING ZYGOTE!'

For anybody who doesn't know, a zygote is an egg that just has been fertilized.

THUM! THUM! THUM!

'AND WHY DOES IT SHAKES SO MUCH!'

The whole meaty womb was shaking, it was similar to the impact from a piston being inserted into a cylinder repeatedly.

'oh...oh..ohno.'

'STOP. FATHER. I'M HERE. YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! STOP!'

Unfortunately, his pleading was left unanswered as his consciousness started to merge fully with the zygote.

THUM! THUM! THUM! THUM! THUM! THUM! THUM! THUM! THUM!...

...

High sealand calendar, year 5237. Autumn.

Saint river Kingdom, Greenland County, within River Wind City.

Peng Tian woke up sharing the perspective of the woman whom he reckon is his mother in a living room with a doctor and a handful of men. The doctor was busy checking her pulse. Suddenly, the door burst open as an old man in a white daoist robe dashed in.

"An Na! Is it true?!" The old man hurriedly asked.

"Yes, yes, definitely pregnant." Said the doctor named An Na, still checking her pulse.

"HA HA HA! Yu'er! My precious treasure! My precious, precious daughter! I'm finally gonna have grandchildren...haa." His face was full of happiness.

Seeing this, one of the men can't help but say "Father, you only praise yu'er since we were young, now it isn't even something she had done, isn't this a bit unfair?"

"What was that?!" Rage immediately flashed across his face. "You dingbats haven't produced me a single heir, heck! Most of you haven't brought home a girl yet, how dare you call it unfair?!"

The old man was city lord Peng Fan, he had 7 children, with the last one being his most beloved daughter, Peng Biyu. Despite not looking a day over 60, he was already almost 80 years old, the pain of having to listen to his friends show off their grandchildren without having one himself weighs on his mind for years.

"Father, forget it, we're cultivators anyway, even you didn't have us until your forties." said Peng Tian's mother, Peng Biyu.

Peng Fan gaze grew warmer but still said "Look, look, yu'er is even defending dingbats, if only you guys were half as competent as she is, I wouldn't have had to worry about my lineage ending here. Haaaa."

"Now, now, Old Fan, we better prepare for the baby, yes?" Said An Na.

Peng Fan's eyes sparkled "Of course!" He then snapped his fingers "Li Jun!"

A silhouette jumped down from the ceiling "sir!"

"Immediately have the best carpenters to get started on the nursery, have the best tailors prepare sets of baby clothes, have the scholars brainstorm to make a list of auspicious names and An Na, call every helper you need, any requests shall be granted, lastly..." his gaze turn serious "Double the mansion's patrol guards and allocate forty yellow-winged soldiers to co-operate with the spy team as personal guards for yu'er and the baby."

Over the years, not only did he make connections, he also made a lot of enemies. If any of them want to strike now, the baby would be his greatest weakness.

'Hm! Let's see which one of you dares to make a move, I wouldn't mind wiping some of you out.' Killing intent filled his mind. 'Actually, you know what? I'll just go exterminate some of you right now. Bwahahahaha!'

"F-forty?!" Everyone's sweat drops.

The yellow-winged corps is a hand-picked elite force that had gone through a training regiment personally drafted by Peng Fan himself. This force is what solidified River Wind as the strongest city in the county, the number of its members never exceeding two-digits, forty soldiers is almost half of the greenland county's strongest force.

With Peng Fan orders, the entire River Wind City instantly began working to prepare for the city lord's new grandchild.

...

Inside the womb...

While watching the scene outside, Peng Tian also began working on his new body.

'Let's see... what did the manual say again?'

Before jumping in through the reincarnation portal, one of the things he got as a gift was a book.

[Cultivation manual for dummies]

Although the name sounded fishy, Peng Tian got to admit that the book itself is very broad on its subject, from basic cultivation knowledge to trivial stuff like farming and mining. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to bring the book with him through the rebirth process.

'Body creation...'

The subject of body creation itself is very broad, you could have monster body, elemental body, god body, immortal body, devil body, demon..etc. or you could even have a body that contains the traits of all the above if you really wanted too. The main limitation is in the birthing environment, or specifically, the mother's cultivation realm and body talent.

For the cultivation realm, The manual states that cultivation are divided into different realms, first is the Body refining stages then Qi Condescension realm, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Soul Severing and with each realm further divided into early, middle, late stages.

For the body talent though, normally, an extensive medical examination would be required to know which body talent someone has. Even then, there isn't one which came even close to being able to identify all of body talents in existence. But…

'Status'

{

[Status

Name: Pang Biyu (Host's mother)

Race: Human (99.99..7%human/ 0.00..3%peng)

Gender: female

Age: 22

Height: 171 cm

Weight: 49 kg

Disabilities: none

Unique abilities: Peng bloodline trace(suppressed)

-Body talent

Major Charm, Minor Water Affinity Innate Body, Minor Human body.

-Overall status

Body strength: Outstandingly weak

Soul strength: Exceptionally weak

Martial might: Extraordinarily weak

Cultivation level: Late Foundation Establishment]

}

Another one of the gifts he "received" was a broken off part of a system, the status panel. And yes, broken off.

A story for another time.

The status panel can only display the status of the user and anything the user has soul-bonded. Needless to say, one's own mother is definitely soul-bonded.

'First of all though...'

To nurture a body, the most important thing would be Spiritual Qi. As the saying goes, a skillful wife will be hard pressed to cook without rice. It normally depends on the mother's cultivation realm and their qi reserve.

'This won't do.'

Not only will this set his entire life limitations, draining too much Spiritual Qi will be very harmful to his mother.

'There's that!'

Peng Tian suddenly remembered that there is a special type of body talent that can be fabricated even after birth.

'The Spiritual Qi Affinity Innate Body.'

Although it has the 'Innate' in its name, the Spiritual Qi Affinity Innate Body doesn't need to be created from birth, the only reason it's named that way is because no one knows how the creation process for it actually worked. Nevertheless, if he were to give his mother the Spiritual Qi Affinity Innate Body, the body's deficiency problem will be solved.

Peng Tian immediately got to work.

...

Inside a tavern...

"Hey hey! Have you heard that the Jade Fairy's pregnant?"

"What?!"

"No!"

"Is it true?!"

"Yeah, I have a friend who work as a guard in the city lord mansion, he says there has been an order to double the patrol guards, and there's even..." the man look around the tavern and lower his voice "..there's even a rumor that several dozens of the yellow-winged company has been deployed"

"T-the yellow-winged?!"

"D-dozens?!"

"Are you sure that it's not the whole Blood Eagle Alliance coming to attack us?"

The Blood Eagle Alliance.

Usually, a county will only be recognised by the Saint River Kingdom when there's a dominant force controlling over it, with the leader of the force pronounced as the governor of the county. Greenland county once had a Nascent Soul cultivator ruling over it, but that was a very long time ago.

Peng Fan himself doesn't actually care about the position, but many people still saw him as the biggest obstacle in their pursuit of power.

The Blood Eagle Alliance itself consisted of 21 cities, if they're really planning to attack, it will really be a big piece of news to the citizens.

"No, no, don't you remember the Jade Seal incident?"

"The Jade Seal incident?"

There was once a time where one of the young masters from another county came to visit River Wind City, the young master met Peng Biyu and instantly fell in love with her, he then tried to and even almost succeeded in taking her by force if not for Peng Tian's father, Lin Bu, coming to the rescue. Once Peng Fan heard of this, enraged, he instantly summoned the entire yellow-winged company to wipe out that young master's force. In the end, it was only after the governor of that force's county intervened did the matter truly end.

"Besides, the Blood Eagle Alliance is still busy tearing each other apart, they've got no time to pick a fight with us." The man jokingly said.

As an alliance formed from benefits, the Blood Eagle Alliance usually has conflicts between its members regularly, only when the Alliance is united would it truly be a threat.

"And haven't you realized it? The best craftsmans, scholars, and even the doctors in the city have been missing lately, what else would require such a workforce?"

"Now that you've said it..."

"It does sound likely..."

Naturally, some people aren't all too happy about this.

"Noooo~ my yu'er, I'm sorry I couldn't protect you~"

"Hey hey hey, even if you're drunk, watch what you're saying, if anybody from the city lord's mansion heard about this, you're gonna have to flee the county."

...Across the table...

Twitch.

Peng Tian's father, Lin Bu, was out with his friends to celebrate his wife's pregnancy, all of them are cultivators. Naturally, they've all heard it.

"The fuck?" Lin Bu turned his head to memorize the faces of that table.

"Hey, hey, calm down man, you know that Biyu's famed for her outstanding beauty even in the nearby counties, it's just how it is." One of his friends said, trying to calm him down.

"Nevermind that, you're gonna be a father now, ain't cha happy?" Another one asked.

"The Jade fairy and the White Demon child, huh, I wonder just what kind of monster will come out."

"Right, right" They nodded in unison.

"You guys..."

...

Far away in a constellation observatory...

A man wearing a daoist robe covered in dragon symbols was studying a crystal orb.

tinkle-Tinkle-TINKLE-

'Hm?'

Suddenly, the crystal orb began cracking.

Creak-Creak-Creak

The whole observatory shook, even the main observation len started to break. The protective formation was pushed to its full power.

Seeing this, the man hurriedly started chanting a poem.

"Truth, I see thy hallowed features,

Circled round with glory bright,

Too bright to dwell with sinful creatures,

Heaven, not earth, is thy-DE-LIGHT!!!"

A screen was projected into the air, showing a dark void. As he stared at it, he felt like he was being stared right back.

'What is this?'

Before he even knew what's going on, he was suddenly being sucked into the screen without any resistance.

Although he was an experienced seer, his mind was still thrown into confusion. Then, he sees a creature.

'A dragon? No, not only that.'

Many other creatures also started to appear.

'A phoenix?, a devil?, demon?, divine turtle?, emperor sparrow?, wait, is that a sword I'm seeing?'

As more and more creatures appeared, many with features he hadn't even heard of, he then started to realize something.

'They're...connected?

His eyes were already bleeding, but he continued to zoom out to get the bigger picture.

Then he saw 'it'

The 'creatures' was an interconnected network of souls, and in the middle of it all was...

A peng staring back into his eyes.

...

'That actually worked out.'

'I know right?'

When Peng Tian was going through the reincarnation process, the last step was to choose a portal for his soul, each portal will lead to different types of life. In the end, he chose...

"All of them."

By dividing his soul into hundreds of parts, he was able to have the best advantage anybody in life can have, cultivation world or not.

Connection.