Chapter 1: Why Did I Bring a Rolling Pin with Me When I Time Travelled?

When Liang Yi opened his eyes by the riverbank, he sat up with a blank expression on his face.

"I was just cooking, wasn't I? Where is this? Have I been kidnapped?"

Looking around at the extremely unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar forest surroundings, he scratched his head, deep in thought.

Beforehand, he was supposed to be in the Little Bamboo House kitchen practicing his chef skills, planning to log off, grab something to eat, and then return. How did it become that the moment he closed and opened his eyes after clicking [Log Out], he ended up here?

His name is Liang Yi, with Liang meaning kind and Yi meaning comfortable, indicating just how harmless a creature he is by name alone.

Though he's a professional gamer, he hasn't made a single enemy in the game over several years.

"Moreover, I was using a newly created alt account, nobody knew it was my alternate character."

As Liang Yi was pondering, he suddenly felt something in his hand that felt off, prompting him to look down.

"Damn! Isn't this the rolling pin from my game?!"

Liang Yi started to panic a little. Could it be that he'd traveled to another world?

To confirm his suspicion, he silently commanded in his mind: Character Panel.

Name: Liang Yi

Gender: Male

Template: NPC

Race: Human Race

Level: 0

Cultivation Technique: None

Life Value: 100/100

Attributes: Strength 10, Agility 10, Endurance 10, Intelligence 10, Insight 10, Charm 10, Luck 10

Free Attribute Points: 0

Experience: 0/500

Skills: None

Equipment: Ordinary Rolling Pin

"Shocking! I really did transmigrate, and isn't this the attribute of my god-tier alt account?" Liang Yi reviewed the character panel in his mind.

His main account, due to the constraints of innate attributes, had already reached its limit with no room for advancement. Troubled, Liang Yi had casually created an alt for fun, not expecting to end up with a god-tier alt with full initial attributes.

Particularly, the insight, charm, and luck, which were all maxed out from the start.

Playing Mystical Mechanism for so many years, he had never heard of anyone starting with luck over 1, or charm and insight over 5.

"Is this the luck I got in exchange for my life?"

A true whale gamer.

And upon a closer look, he discovered an additional note below the attribute panel:

"Your handsomeness has caught the constant attention of the Goddess of Fortune."

Liang Yi wanted to cry but had no tears; in his previous life, his parents had both passed away, leaving him with a car, a house, and both a cat and a dog.

He really didn't want to transmigrate! Smelly little sister, let me go back!

Liang Yi also noticed his template was NPC, not player—could it be that there were other player templates?

Giving up on thinking too much, the situation was what it was—overthinking was futile. He casually put the ordinary rolling pin into his backpack.

Standing up, Liang Yi decided to first find a way out. After all, he wasn't Bear Grylls, able to survive being tossed anywhere.

Observing the surroundings of the forest, Liang Yi finally understood where that fleeting and familiar feeling came from—this was a death zone in the game:

The Ten Thousand Miles Mountain, territory of the Demon Clan.

Liang Yi shivered abruptly and quickly found a place to hide; he definitely didn't dare to wander around blindly in the forest now.

In the past life, "Mystical Mechanism" was an Xianxia virtual online game with a level cap of 70, which is the Great Perfection of the Sixth Realm according to the NPCs. At that time, the peak level of the game's NPCs was 79, standing at the pinnacle of the Seventh Realm.

However, some players speculated that the top female demon in the world was probably level 80, with the power of Great Perfection of the Seventh Realm.

Just before Liang Yi's transmigration, the game was about to undergo a major update to open higher levels.

None of the NPCs above level 70 were without a BOSS template. Facing them with "quantity over quality" was a joke; the typical zerg tactic of players would see half of them wiped out by a single Daoist Skill.

Now, the area where Liang Yi was located belonged to the territory of the Seventh Realm pinnacle leader of the Demon Clan.

The Demon Clan and the Human Race did not engage in life-and-death struggles upon every encounter; in fact, they often interacted and had close dealings.

But inside these mountains, there weren't just members of the Demon Clan, there were also demonic beasts.

Once encountered, these beasts didn't care how nice you looked. With Liang Yi's current Equipment level, a defeat was guaranteed with much laughter and fun, until he awaited the Goddess of Fortune to let him transmigrate again.

Liang Yi couldn't fathom why, with his full luck, he ended up in such a place upon transmigration. After all, a level 0 newbie coming to the Ten Thousand Miles Mountain, even if it's just the peripherals, was like lighting a lamp in a toilet - utterly pointless.

"Maybe the Goddess of Fortune doesn't care about transmigration," he thought gloomily.

Thanks to his maximal Innate Strength and Endurance, Liang Yi was able to huff and puff his way up a tall tree.

First, he hid his body within the dense foliage, then stealthily poked his head out to try to observe which part of the Ten Thousand Miles Mountain he was in.

After a long observation, all Liang Yi could see was green. It was impossible to distinguish any directions; there were simply too many trees.

Giving up on observing from above, he returned to the ground and took out a rolling pin from his backpack, marking one end before casually tossing it into the air.

When the rolling pin landed, Liang Yi checked the direction the mark pointed in.

"Guess I'll head this way then," Liang Yi said, picking up the rolling pin and proceeding cautiously.

Full luck value, also known as the protagonist's halo, Child of Heavenly Destiny, peerless luck emperor, the detestable European, and the son who causes prices to rise whenever his mother goes shopping.

Liang Yi wasn't foolish; when left to the mercy of fate, his full value of luck played its biggest role.

After all, he didn't know where else to go.

Liang Yi groped his way forward bit by bit; he had just checked the sun and deduced it was morning. The sunlight filtering through the dense leaves illuminated the forest, giving Liang Yi a clear view of his surroundings.

The forest was silent, with noise only arising when Liang Yi accidentally stepped on a branch.

What Liang Yi did not know was that a gaze had locked onto his back, watching intently from some unknown time.

After roughly two hours of walking, even with his Endurance at 10 points, Liang Yi felt a faint exhaustion, and under the sunlight, his lips were getting dry.

"This won't do; I must find a water source first, or else I might die of thirst before ever getting out of here."

Liang Yi pricked up his ears to carefully listen to the sounds around him.

"Rustle..."

"Got it!" Liang Yi excitedly looked towards his right front. There was the faint sound of flowing water.

But he didn't rush over. Instead, he became even more cautious, concealing his form; with a water source nearby, who knew if any demonic beast was drinking water there.

Liang Yi quietly peered out from behind a thick tree, discreetly and carefully surveying the stream ahead.

Luckily, there were no demonic beasts nearby.

Approaching carefully, Liang Yi checked the riverbank from a distance and saw some messy hoofprints that seemed old, evidence that a demonic beast had come to drink before.

He picked up some twigs and pebbles and tossed them into the clear river before him.

The twigs floated on the water's surface and drifted downstream, while the pebbles caused a bubble before sinking to the bottom.

"Phew, the water seems safe," Liang Yi sighed in relief. He didn't dare drink the water directly without testing it first; that was equivalent to seeking death.

Just as Liang Yi was about to bend down to drink, a fierce gust of wind struck from behind.

The speed was so fast that he didn't have time to turn around. Millions of battles in the game had honed his instincts, and the intense death warning made his heart pound like a drum, squeezing every ounce of potential from his body.

Acting on instinct, he performed a roll to dodge, barely avoiding a fatal blow.

But sharp claws still grazed his back, and Liang Yi reached behind to feel:

"It's over, I'm losing a lot of blood!"