Chapter 1: Crossing into Another World

  As the sunlight shines in for the first time, a groan echoes from within the old thatched hut.

  Xu Zhen had never felt so comfortable. The feeling of floating on air made him almost forget that he was in the woodshed, as if he had returned to his own bed in his previous life.

  Slowly opening his eyes. Xu Zhen sat up. He knew, he had succeeded! Now he has broken through the constraints of innate talent! Achieved the position of a Spiritual Master!

  Prodigy! This is a level that can be compared to a third-class warrior of the previous life! Thinking back, in order to break through the threshold of a third-class warrior, he didn't know how much suffering he had endured, and it wasn't until he was twenty years old that he successfully broke through.

  And now, at an age of less than eleven, he has already reached a level that his past life could only achieve!

  "It's indeed true that this world is more suitable for cultivation!"

  I carefully sensed the circulation of true energy in my meridians. The complex and messy postnatal true energy from before had disappeared. Replacing it was a kind of liquid-like true energy that was close to being pure in color.

  Through his perception of this liquid-like true energy, Xu Zhen knew that these pure true energies were actually the Hongmeng True Energies that transcended ordinary true energies!

  On the surface, the innate warriors who first entered the realm of Xiantian all had colorless spiritual energy. The only difference was in their pure nature, while other aspects were the same.

  Yesterday's narrow escape from death made Xu Zhen no longer take his cultivation lightly.

  The path of cultivation is to seize the changes of all things and steal the laws of heaven and earth! If you are slightly careless, no matter if you are a peerless genius or an ancient master, you will not be able to escape the fate of falling.

  "Unexpectedly, relying on the 'Hong Meng Zhuan Lun Jing' secret method, it's still so difficult to achieve pre-heavenly success. I really don't know how others break through."

  In fact, if it weren't for the sake of making a concerted effort to achieve the power of Hongmeng, according to the method in the "Hongmeng Zhuanlun Jing", Xu Zhen would not have suffered such great disasters and suffering.

  The primordial energy of Hongmeng is the original energy of chaos, and its level is even higher than the postnatal yin-yang energies. To think that one can revert to their ancestral origins and re-manifest the primordial energy of Hongmeng with these postnatal spiritual energies is absolutely going against heaven! Even if one possesses a treasure trove of scriptures, unless they have a fortuitous encounter that allows them to transcend, cultivating Xu Zhen's soul, or rather, an exceptionally powerful yuan-shen, ordinary people would not be able to use the merged energy of Hongmeng as a breakthrough for their pre-heavenly spiritual energies! Of course, Xu Zhen is unaware of this; he attributes everything to the power and mystery of the "Hongmeng Zhuanlun Jing".

  Where there is great suffering, there must be great achievement. The most direct benefit after breaking through is that the spiritual energy in the body has been transformed into Hongmeng energy.

  Even the initial Hongmeng Qi made Xu Zhen ecstatic, because these were like seeds, constantly absorbing Yin and Yang Qi, constantly merging into Hongmeng Qi. One day, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes! The primary Hongmeng Qi becomes intermediate, even advanced! Eventually, Xu Zhen can recreate the original Hongmeng Qi!

  After the excitement, he carefully felt his body and now had a completely different feeling. Every moment, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth rushed towards his body like crazy. The consolidation of his meridians allowed him to bear the circulation of these spiritual energies in his body without any worries. Xu Zhen knew that this was all thanks to the "Hong Meng Zhuan Lun Jing".

  Generally, a qigong method can only absorb the vast and refined heavenly energy between heaven and earth when it is in motion.

  For the five major sects' town temple methods, only in an environment with extremely strong spiritual energy density will the spiritual energy automatically surge towards the practitioner's body. However, even in such an environment, wanting to absorb spiritual energy like a whale inhaling water requires reaching a high level of cultivation. For example, Qingxia Sect's first method, "Seven Leafed Green Lotus Technique", each leaf represents a realm, and only after cultivating to the fourth leaf realm, that is, the Spiritual Master level, will one be able to absorb large amounts of spiritual energy in an environment with dense Hao Ran Zhi Qi without relying on their own operation.

  Yesterday evening, Xu Zhen broke through the pre-heavenly realm. After his physical body was tempered by the pre-heavenly energy, he also began to become powerful. The benefits brought by the baptism of Hongmeng's energy are absolutely not just this point. It's just that it hasn't been discovered yet.

  After feeling his own situation, Xu Zhen slowly got up.

  "It was really dangerous last night, if that last time hadn't succeeded, I might already be..."

  "Haha, anyway, the breakthrough is done. Although the process was a bit thrilling, I am now a congenital spiritual master! The divine abilities on the 'Hongmeng Zhuanlun Jing' can finally be cultivated!"

  "Nowadays in this world, although there are still many people who can see through my cultivation at a glance, they are all high and mighty existences, who would pay attention to me, a small role?"

  It's been almost half a year since I came to this world, and Xu Zhen's activity range is limited to the kitchen and the surrounding area of the thatched cottage where he works. The farthest place he has gone is to the edge of the forest stream.

  "As long as I've saved up enough money, I can go out and travel with a clear conscience."

  "Hmm..."

  A loud rumbling sound came from Xu Zhen's stomach.

  "It seems that the breakthrough last night consumed a lot of physical energy, and it's not like the Introspection Technique can be successfully cultivated in a short time. I'll fill my stomach first and then cultivate slowly!"

  Because there are only a few days left before the assessment, all chores were cancelled half a month before the big exam. This allows disciples to make a final sprint in the last half of the month and stand out in the final assessment.

  Xu Zhen stood up and brushed off the dust on his clothes. He pushed open the door, and the firewood placed outside was suddenly pushed far away, scattered all over the place.

  He gazed at the mess with a bitter smile and sighed.

  "It seems that I'm too bad at controlling my body now, and I completely can't grasp the strength. If I go out like this, even if I've cultivated the Introspection Fist, others will still know that I have a problem."

  Shaking his head, Xu Zhen walked into the kitchen like this.

  At the time of sunrise, the righteous energy between heaven and earth is most dense. Therefore, at this time, most disciples are working hard to perceive the yang energy in space, hoping to absorb the spiritual energy one step earlier and break through the pre-heavenly state.

  Xu Zhen arrived at the kitchen. At this time, apart from a few cooks responsible for cooking, there was not a single disciple.

  "It seems that everyone is taking this assessment very seriously. That's right, this assessment will affect our future achievements, and it would be strange if we didn't work hard!"

  In this world, a good teacher is crucial to one's future development and achievements. After all, the more prestigious the teacher, the more resources they can allocate, and the higher the achievement will naturally be.

  But these are nothing compared to Xu Zhen's, the contents of "Hong Meng Zhuan Lun Jing" are terrifying, and there are countless techniques.

  His own absorption of spiritual energy is so fast that it doesn't necessarily mean he has to be in a place where spiritual energy gathers to improve his cultivation.

  No longer constrained by the environment and kung fu. For him, it also means that having a good teacher is not a big deal. He only needs a quiet and stable cultivation environment.

  In the disdainful eyes of the kitchen staff, Xu Zhen quickly picked up a few steamed buns and was about to leave. But because he used uneven force, the steamed buns were suddenly crushed in his hands.

  The surrounding eyes were even more unpleasant, but at this time, Xu Zhen couldn't care about those gazes anymore. He slightly controlled his strength, quickly picked up a few buns and hurriedly left the kitchen.

  "Trash is trash, can't even control a bit of true energy, what hope is there for this kind of garbage in the future? Leaving it in our sect would be a shame to Qingxia Sect!"

  After entering the Innate Realm, Xu Zhen's senses in all aspects were greatly enhanced. So for these cooks' curses, he could naturally hear them too.

  But he didn't refute anything, nor did he even get angry.

  This is not because he has a good temper, nor is it to say that he is weak. It's just that in Xu Zhen's eyes, these people are fundamentally not on the same level as himself in the future. When looking at these people, he always looks down on them with condescension. Just like a group of ants chattering around one person, would this person care?

  It won't be, as long as these ants aren't too excessive, people generally don't bother to notice them, it's not that they can't, but rather they disdain to.

  Xu Zhen hurriedly walked away, afraid of revealing something, but didn't hear a soft "hmm" coming from within the kitchen partition.

  After Wei Zhen's back disappeared from people's sight, an old man walked out of the compartment. With white hair on his shoulders and a long beard hanging down to his chest, he looked like a wise and venerable elder with a strong aura of immortality. However, at this moment, one pig trotter in his left hand, one chicken leg in his right hand, and some vegetable leaves stuck to the corner of his mouth completely ruined this impression.

  "Mr. Li, have you finished eating?"

  The several cooks in the kitchen were enthusiastically greeting him, although they didn't know what status the old man had, and they felt that the old man also didn't have any extraordinary aura, but the several head chefs didn't dare to show a hint of disrespect, after all, someone who could hold a protective talisman was not someone that these few outer mountain cooks in charge of cooking meals could afford to offend.

  "What was that kid just now? Why didn't he go practice at this hour and instead ran over to eat?" The old man asked the cooks with a puzzled face.

  "Li Lao, that young whippersnapper who just came up the mountain is a disciple of this generation, but his innate talent is mediocre. He seems to be a collateral descendant of the Cang family from the Yan Tian Empire. I reckon he's also aware that he has no hope left and has given up on cultivation altogether. Take a look at him - he's only made slight progress in the Ling Shi stage and still can't control his body. Such trash is an insult to our Qingxia Sect...and..."

  Although he hadn't said enough, he didn't dare offend the old man. The cook swallowed his saliva and looked at the old man in confusion.

  At this time, the old man was just staring at the direction where Xu Zhen left, with deep thinking in his eyes.