"Did you hear? That Yang Sheng, whom Elder Zhang brought back a few years ago, has an extremely fast cultivation speed. Recently, he was found to possess a rare Fire Spirit Body and was directly taken in as a personal disciple by the Purple Sun Peak Master, becoming the youngest true disciple of the Taiyi Holy Land!"
"Who doesn't know this news? It's all over the entire Holy Land!"
"Yeah, I'm so envious. Why don't I have such talent?"
Two people wearing the outer disciple uniforms of the Taiyi Holy Land walked and talked, making no attempt to conceal their voices. Every word fell into Xu Chuan's ears.
"Hmm? Yang Sheng? Fire Spirit Body? True disciple?"
Xu Chuan, who was walking on the road, suddenly heard this news and was somewhat surprised and envious.
Having been in the outer sect for so many years, Xu Chuan knew very well what the title of true disciple meant.
It was the goal he had been pursuing his entire life, yet it was so impossibly out of reach.
"True disciple!"
Xu Chuan couldn't help but sigh.
He wasn't originally from this world. Eighteen years ago, he was still a university student on Earth. During an action to save a drowning child, he was entangled by aquatic plants at the bottom and unfortunately died.
Just when Xu Chuan thought his life would end there, his soul unexpectedly transmigrated to this world and was reborn.
In his youth, with the combined efforts of his parents in this world, he joined the Taiyi Holy Land and became an ordinary outer disciple.
This was a world called the Profound Heaven Continent.
This world was vast, divided into five regions: East, West, South, North, and Central. Each region had numerous sects and holy lands, each ruling a territory.
There were also many martial dynasties that ruled over the populace.
And there were cultivators whose personal strength was so great they could pluck stars from the sky and traverse the void.
The principle of the jungle prevailed.
The strong were aloof, looking down upon all beings, while the weak were like ants, easily killed.
The Eastern Region, where the Taiyi Holy Land was located, was even more so.
Having transmigrated, Xu Chuan naturally did not want to live a life of obscurity. He often fantasized about soaring to the heavens, reaching the pinnacle, and becoming a revered powerhouse.
However, ideals were beautiful, but reality was brutally cruel.
Xu Chuan could join the Taiyi Holy Land, so his talent was not bad. But talent alone, without corresponding cultivation resources, made it difficult to become a martial powerhouse.
His parents had already exhausted their family fortune to send him to the Taiyi Holy Land and could no longer provide him with further cultivation resources.
He had been in the Holy Land for nearly eight years. His daily cultivation could only rely on the resources provided by the Holy Land to each outer disciple.
After all these years, he had only managed to cultivate to the sixth level of the Body Tempering Realm. This was the limit he could reach without resource assistance.
As for those disciples with backgrounds and family support, they had already opened a huge gap between themselves and him!
Some disciples had even passed the outer sect assessment and become inner disciples of the Taiyi Holy Land!
"According to the Holy Land's regulations, those who have been in the sect for more than eight years cannot pass the outer sect assessment. If they fail to enter the inner sect, they will be demoted to handyman disciples."
"I have now been in the sect for seven years and eleven months, with only one month left. However, my cultivation is only at the sixth level of the Body Tempering Realm, making it impossible to pass the assessment."
There were only a few ways to become an inner disciple of the Taiyi Holy Land: first, pass the outer sect assessment and enter the inner sect by strength; second, possess peerless talent and be noticed by an inner sect elder, directly promoted to the inner sect; third, render great service to the Holy Land and exchange for an inner disciple status with merit.
But none of these paths were available to Xu Chuan.
"Am I destined to be demoted to a handyman disciple?"
Xu Chuan's heart was filled with despair at this moment.
Handyman disciples of the Taiyi Holy Land, while called disciples in name, were essentially servants who did odd jobs!
All the dirty and arduous tasks had to be done by handyman disciples. High-risk jobs were also assigned to them.
This was practically a high-risk profession, and one could die at any moment!
Xu Chuan was naturally unwilling to become a handyman disciple.
His face was bitter, but he could not think of any solution for the moment.
Even if he had sufficient cultivation resources, it would still take time to digest them.
It would take at least a year or two to achieve enough martial cultivation to pass the outer sect assessment.
Not to mention he had no cultivation resources at all!
This caused a hint of resentment to arise in Xu Chuan's heart.
Other transmigrators, even if not blessed with supreme talent, at least had a golden finger, and opportunities would come their way with just a few steps. Elders would appear out of nowhere to bestow favors.
Why was it that for him, nothing good ever happened?
Unlucky!
Just as Xu Chuan was wallowing in self-pity, a faint, ethereal voice echoed in his mind.
[System binding in progress...]
[Congratulations Host, you have successfully bound the Script Viewing System!]
Xu Chuan froze, confused by the situation.
But he quickly reacted, a look of ecstasy appearing on his face.
A system!?
Is this my golden finger?
I knew it, how could a transmigrator not have a golden finger?
See, the system is late, but it's here!
He had waited for this moment for eighteen years, heaven help him!
With the system, not to mention becoming a supreme powerhouse immediately, it would at least give him hope, the hope of not being demoted to a handyman disciple!
He just didn't know what functions the system had.
After calming down slightly, Xu Chuan immediately began to check the system's functions.
Once he understood the basic usage of the system, Xu Chuan began to experiment with its functions on himself.
With a thought, lines of information immediately appeared before Xu Chuan.
[Name: Xu Chuan]
[Realm: Body Tempering Realm Sixth Level]
[Talent: Once in a Thousand Years]
[Destiny: Plagued by Bad Luck (White)]
[Life Script: Passerby Extra Script]
[Opportunity: After being demoted to a handyman, go to the back mountain to clean up a废弃 (fèiqì - abandoned) cave dwelling and discover a Body Tempering Liquid formula left by a predecessor.]
[Plagued by Bad Luck: Failed to enter the inner sect within the stipulated time and was demoted to a handyman disciple. He was bullied by outer disciple Sun Gan, who also snatched the Body Tempering Liquid formula. Sun Gan then used his connections to assign Xu Chuan to the dangerous Myriad Beast Hall to clean up demon beast excrement. He suddenly encountered a demon beast riot and was stomped to death by a demon beast with divine abilities, at the age of twenty!]
...
All the information was clear and concise.
Even intangible things like destiny and opportunities were displayed by the system.
As he had predicted, his talent was not bad, reaching the "Once in a Thousand Years" level.
Upon seeing the "Opportunity," Xu Chuan's heart rejoiced.
But when he saw "Destiny" and "Life Script," his expression immediately sank.
He only had a white destiny of "Plagued by Bad Luck" and a "Passerby Extra Script."
Just by looking at the description, Xu Chuan knew this was not a good thing!
He was going to die at only twenty years old? And in such a humiliating way?
This was too tragic!
He had never seen a transmigrator die so quickly!