Panxuan City.

  Inside a dilapidated hut, a man clutched his head. His knees fell to the ground. Cold sweat emerged from all over his body, causing his worn-out flaxen clothes to cling tightly.

  “Huff… It hurts…”

  The man could not do anything except to lay on the ground. Six hours later, he groggily stood up. His stomach rumbled as his vision began to clear up.

  “I actually transmigrated. Ye Xuan…”

  Ye Xuan could remember his life on Blue Star. He was a typical white-collar worker slaving for money. The only good thing about his 9-7 job was its retirement benefits. He planned on retiring once he found a wife and saved up enough money.

  Unfortunately, that thing never came to pass. He fainted repeatedly due to overwork.

  “That damned company..!”

  The reason behind their retirement benefits are simple.

  Nobody lived long enough to retire!

  Ye Xuan juggled through the memories of his ‘other self’. Upon death, he transmigrated as ‘Ye Xuan’ of Panxuan City. The most thrilling part of his memories wasn’t his death, but Immortals.

  Immortals exist in this world!

  The power to level seas and mountains with a single strike is not just a fantasy. Living at the end of the universe isn’t one, either. To Ye Xuan, who was overworked to the death, power became crucial. How could he slack over and live a good life without power?

  Fortunately…

  “Spirit Roots…”

  The sixteen-year-old Ye Xuan of this world possessed a low-grade spirit root. It is barely enough to cultivate to the late stage of Qi Refining Realm, the first stage of immortal cultivation.

  However, his progress is horrendously slow. He didn’t have any background and resources to support him. The best he can do is to work as a part-time spiritual farmer. Even then, Ye Xuan’s progress remained at the second stage of Qi Refining Realm. His progress since awakening his spirit roots six years ago amounted to this.

  It is a far cry to those with middle grade spirit roots. Reaching the ninth stage of Qi Refining Realm within their lifetimes is possible. Not to mention those with high grade, earth grade, or even the fabled heavenly grade spirit roots.

  The sense of weakness, helplessness, and the pathetic life Ye Xuan lived within two lifetimes turned into a huge burden.

  “I won’t accept it..!”

  He gritted his teeth as he pounded on a nearby wooden table.

  Bam-!

  Crash-!

  Stolen story; please report.

  The broken table brought him to senses.

  “Oh no…”

  Just then, Ye Xuan noticed two icons on his field of vision. He failed to notice it during his outrage.

  “What is this..?”

  The two icons turned into panels.

  [Quantity Modifier]

  Details: Modifies the number of quantities held by the character inside the inventory.

  [Favorability Modifier]

  Details: Modifies the favorability of the chosen target.

  (Favorability Ranges: 0 ~ 30 for Strangers, 31 ~ 50 for Good Friends, 51 ~ 70 for Loyal Friends, 71 ~ 80 for Lovers, 81 ~ 90 for Fated Lovers, 91 ~ 100 for Eternal Lovers.)

  Ye Xuan read the two panels for a while. His heart skipped a beat.

  “Cheat. This is a cheat. A golden finger…”

  He tested the [Quantity Modifier] immediately. He knelt to his bed and took out a hidden dilapidated iron box. Inside are ten glistening white crystals—spirit stones.

  The main currency of Panxuan City consisted of low grade spirit stones. It is the currency of Qi Refining cultivators.

  ‘Inventory.’

  One of the white crystals disappeared on his palm. Ye Xuan clicked on the [Quantity Modifier] icon and saw a symbol of a low-grade spirit stone. Its quantity remained as “one”. He opened the modifier and began to blast the “+” symbol.

  [Low Grade Spirit Stone]

  Quantity: 1 > 999,999,999,999,999,999

  Ye Xuan’s Adam's apple bobbed up and down. He blinked several times and saw the number he mashed remained. One, two, three…

  Only when the number of the spirit stones piled up in his box did he snap out of his reverie.

  “Ha… Calm down. Calm down. Calm do…yes..!”

  Ye Xuan did all sorts of movements to represent his excitement. Being twenty-five in his past life did not matter now. The quadrillions of low-grade spirit stones he possessed is akin to striking the grand lottery in his past life.

  “Fuck yes..!”

  Ye Xuan felt dizzy after dancing for a long time. He helplessly sat on the corner of his bed. A Qi Refining Realm has a stronger body compared to the strongest mortals. The hormones, blood circulation, and physical endurance he has outpaced the best athletes in Ye Xuan’s past life.

  The extreme excitement he felt made his entire body very hot. His skin is flushed due to the rapid flow of blood. It also made his ‘little brother’ stand up.

  “Huff… Huff…”

  Ye Xuan felt very uncomfortable in such a state. He went to the corner of his room, opened a bamboo barrel, and dipped his entire head inside.

  “Phew… With this kind of hot-bloodedness, it’s no wonder there are so many stupid young masters…”

  The Qi Refining Realm is the process of attracting spiritual energy to the dantian. The physical body becomes stronger due to it. Those without discipline will find themselves controlled by their bodily desires.

  After calming down, Ye Xuan noticed the [Quantity Modifier] icon turn gray. A hollow light circle appeared on it.

  “A cooldown? I wonder how long it will take? Also…”

  He turned his attention to the [Favorability Modifier]. He gulped down his saliva as he hid all of his spirit stones inside the inventory. He did the same with his gold taels as well as identification token.

  Stepping out, he was greeted by all sorts of noise. He even vaguely caught echoes of moans not far from his house.

  All in all, there is not much order.

  Panxuan City has three circles of influence—Outer Area, Inner Area, and Core Area. Ye Xuan’s residence is located at the edge of the Outer Area. City guards patrol here everyday, but they won’t care about anything else.

  In actuality, Ye Xuan could have lived a better life in other cities than Panxuan City. Only, Panxuan City is at the core territory of the Myriad Clouds Sect. Everyone who lived in the core territory cities are all immortal cultivators. Opportunities and troubles are hand-in-hand in Panxuan City. Ye Xuan’s counterpart traveled far to establish himself in this city.

  Unfortunately for him, he was left to die after a thorough beating.

  “This reminds me of them..!”

  A sense of crisis welled up in his heart.