Chapter 1: The Beginning of Transmigration

“Have you heard? A fortune teller has arrived in the eastern part of the city. It is said that his predictions are incredibly accurate. Many people have gathered there, waiting eagerly for him to cast a horoscope for them. I just tried to buy some things, but the crowd was so dense that there wasn’t even room to put down a foot.”
The speaker was a scholarly young man who looked refined. Holding a book in his hands, he shook his head as he spoke. “Do you really think he is so powerful that he can make so many people drop everything and wait there just for a fortune reading?”
“How is that possible? Let alone the fact that he only arrived yesterday; how could his predictions come true so quickly? Moreover, cultivators believe in defying the heavens and controlling their own fate. If those people go there just to peek into their destinies, wouldn’t that contradict the original intention of their cultivation?” Another person simply shook his head in disagreement.
“Oh? Then why are they going?” The scholar frowned.
The previous speaker’s expression changed slightly, as if he had thought of something. His eyes flickered for a moment. After a long while, he said in a somewhat strange tone, “It is said that the fortune teller is extremely handsome. Like—
an Immortal.”
“An Immortal?” The scholar was clearly stunned. He lowered the book he had been holding up and asked a rather baffling question, “What does an Immortal look like?”
The Yun Cang Continent was a world where cultivation was revered. Everyone on the continent wished to sever their earthly ties and ascend to the Immortal Realm. They all longed to become the Immortals who existed only in legends. However, from beginning to end, no matter how much effort countless people expended to gain some affinity with the Immortals, they still did not understand what an Immortal truly was.
To them, the concept of an Immortal was both familiar and distant.
“I don’t know either. Come to think of it, I had always doubted whether Immortals and the Immortal Realm truly existed. It was only when the young master of the Hua family was chosen by an Immortal, accepted as a disciple, and promised entry into the Immortal Realm soon, that I realized there was indeed another world above our continent.”
“That young master of the Hua family is truly lucky, entering the Immortal Realm so directly. If this hadn’t genuinely happened, I might never have imagined that there was such a way to become an Immortal.” The speaker’s tone shifted subtly again. “However, speaking of this young master of the Hua family, one cannot help but mention the young master of the Yang family in our city.”
There was a different意味 in his voice. If one listened carefully, one could detect a hint of mockery. “Isn’t Yang Fan engaged to the young master of the Hua family through a childhood betrothal?”
“That waste, Yang Fan. Sigh, the Hua family must not have expected that Yang Fan was incapable of cultivation. They certainly didn’t foresee that Young Master Hua Fan would reach such heights—first being accepted as a core disciple by the Xuan Yun Peak, the number one sect on the continent, and then being chosen by an Immortal, standing only one step away from ascension. Otherwise, given the vast difference in their statuses, the two of them wouldn’t even have had the possibility of meeting, let alone engaging in a marriage contract.”
“Young Master, are you alright?”
On the other side, away from these speakers, a chubby little boy was cautiously observing his young master’s expression while speaking softly.
The two of them stood in a remote corner, invisible to the people talking over there. Standing beside the chubby boy was a young man whose appearance could only be described as delicate and pretty. He had a tall and upright posture, standing exceptionally straight. Upon hearing the chubby boy’s words, the youth’s originally calm dark eyes suddenly flickered.
He was not actually very old, being in the vibrant stage of youth. Yet, he possessed an aura completely inconsistent with his age. To put it nicely, it was steadiness and composure; to put it bluntly, it was lifelessness.
Under the chubby boy’s anxious gaze, Yang Fan slowly shook his head. “I’m fine.”
His expression showed no fluctuation, and his voice carried no emotion. If Yang Fan’s right hand, hidden under his sleeve, hadn’t been clenched tightly, he would have revealed no clues at all. The chubby boy’s tense demeanor consequently relaxed.
But only Yang Fan knew what kind of mood he was in at that moment. He had heard these words countless times before. He had thought he would gradually become numb and stop caring, but these words still cut into Yang Fan like slices of a knife.
Although his father tried his best to conceal the situation and pretend that nothing had happened, the gloating expressions of the elders, who had always been at odds with his father, were enough to expose many things.
Yang Fan had overheard some servants talking. Hua Fan, who was betrothed to him, would visit the Yang family in the next few days. Hua Fan, who had never actively visited their home before, chose this particular time to pay a visit. Hua Fan’s intentions were obvious.
He was coming for the engagement contract.
And if Hua Fan, backed by the Xuan Yun Peak Sect and even an Immortal, proposed to break off the engagement, they would have no qualification to say no.
Both Yang Fan himself and his father would lose all face because of this matter.
He himself could endure it, but his father—
A dark shadow swiftly passed through his eyes. A drop of thick blood suddenly dripped from Yang Fan’s sleeve. Before the bright red blood hit the ground, it seemed to swallow the surface, creating a patch of dark red. But Yang Fan seemed unaware. He merely lowered his eyes, resembling a puppet.
“Young Master, the Clan Leader asks you to go to him.” Just then, an elderly man with white hair suddenly walked up to Yang Fan and spoke in a hoarse voice.
Yang Fan’s demeanor quickly returned to normal. He responded with a slight nod and followed behind the old man. “Grandpa Lin, do you know why Father is looking for me?”
The elder named Grandpa Lin did not hide anything. He soon replied in a gentle voice, “The Clan Leader has invited the fortune teller who came to our city yesterday. He wants the gentleman to examine your fate, Young Master, and—”
The sentence that followed made Yang Fan’s face stiffen slightly.
“To see if he can divine a method that would allow you to cultivate.”
…
[So this is the reason for your disguised identity. You want to attract the attention of the Yang family head so that he will seek you out主动ively. Do you want to help Yang Fan?]
[Mn.]
Hearing the cold mechanical voice ring in his mind, Fu Jia naturally responded within his thoughts.
Fu Jia was not from this world. Or, more accurately, the world he was currently in was a novel he had read in his previous life.
He knew clearly what this novel was about. To summarize it in one sentence: the male protagonist, Yang Fan, who was born unable to cultivate, accidentally embarked on the path of cultivation. Through a process of being looked down upon by others and subsequently proving them wrong, he reached the peak of this world.
The reason for Fu Jia’s transmigration was unknown; he had arrived in this world quite suddenly. The voice that had just spoken in his mind came from something calling itself a System.
Shortly after Fu Jia transmigrated to this world, the System approached him. The System told Fu Jia that because he did not belong to this world, he was an outlier rejected by the world. Therefore, the Heavenly Dao wanted to eliminate him. Soon, the Spirit Guiding Stone would record that whoever killed him would receive a reward from the Heavenly Dao and ascend to become a God.
The System sought out Fu Jia to strike a deal. It could delay the time when the Spirit Guiding Stone revealed his true identity. However, as a condition, if Fu Jia survived in a situation where everyone wanted to kill him to prove their Dao, Fu Jia would need to do one thing for the System.
Because of this, Fu Jia wanted to get close to the main characters appearing in the novel and find their weaknesses during this period.
[The head of the Yang family dotes on Yang Fan. He will not give up any possibility of changing Yang Fan’s current situation.]
The System paused for a moment before speaking again. [But you have still decided to break off the engagement?]
However, Fu Jia’s transmigration identity was somewhat special.
He was the young master of the Hua family, who had an engagement with the protagonist Yang Fan. In the novel, he was the former fiancé who successfully broke off the engagement, became the greatest motivation for the protagonist’s cultivation, and ultimately regretted it deeply.
[Mn.]