Bab 2: Jia Xing Tian!
After carefully reading his will three times, Chen Guan fell into deep thought.
He couldn't be sure if these experiences were real or not, but deep down, he believed them about 80%.
It was because many of the descriptions did align with his personality.
All drowsiness was completely dispelled, and Chen Guan couldn't help but start considering that this will might be his "golden finger" after all. Although it didn't have some overwhelmingly powerful functions, it still provided him with a considerable amount of information about the future.
Of course, the specifics remained to be verified.
After much deliberation, Chen Guan decided to trust it for once and temporarily gave up on the extreme measures he had thought of to obtain cultivation techniques. He decided to quietly wait for the first key figure who could change his destiny.
Jia Xing Tian!
According to the will, Jia Xing Tian would first appear in Wutan City when Xiao Xun'er arrived, which was about half a month later.
Half a month's time—Chen Guan could wait!
Having made up his mind, Chen Guan carefully calculated how the information in the will could help him, seeing a glimmer of hope for becoming stronger. He was so excited that he didn't fall asleep until dawn.
Half a month later.
That day, Chen Guan, who had been surviving in his usual hiding spot, noticed a clear tension in the Xiao family's atmosphere. Feeling a stirring inside, he immediately moved closer to the front gate.
"You think this guest must have some extraordinary identity? Even the clan leader and elders went to greet them."
"Who knows? But it's definitely someone important. This isn't something we should concern ourselves with."
From a distance, Chen Guan eavesdropped for more than an hour, and finally, two members of the Xiao family mentioned what he wanted to know.
As expected, Xiao Xun'er had arrived!
With the information in hand, Chen Guan started looking forward to the next step, returning to wait patiently for Jia Xing Tian.
One day, two days...
Five days passed. Just when Chen Guan was starting to doubt, that night, as he closed his eyes to sleep, a shadowy figure appeared in front of him, like a ghost.
The figure had an aged face, but his eyes were sharp and not at all cloudy. He carried an intangible aura, giving Chen Guan the feeling of standing at the base of a towering mountain.
It's him! It's him! It has to be him!
Chen Guan was about 90% sure in his heart, but his face showed only appropriate shock.
"You..."
"Heh heh, child, would you like to have a full meal every day?" Jia Xing Tian looked down at him, stroking his beard as he asked.
He wasn't worried about rejection. The Jia Ma Empire's royal family often brought back homeless, struggling children from the lowest rungs of society during their travels, intending to train them as loyal bodyguards or death soldiers.
As a result, although these children came from simple backgrounds, a preliminary investigation was still done.
He was fully aware of Chen Guan's current situation. For a child, offering the simple temptation of food was far more effective than promising to make him a revered warrior.
As expected, the child in front of him nodded, his eyes filled with longing.
"Then, how about coming with me?"
Chen Guan 'nervously' stood up, answering with action.
"Child, what's your name?"
"Chen Guan."
The reply wasn't very smooth, but it was the best he could manage for now. Writing it down might have been easier.
Jia Xing Tian nodded slightly and said nothing more. He directly led Chen Guan to the City Lord's Mansion.
Here, Chen Guan found seven other children around his age—four boys and three girls—all blank slates who had not yet been introduced to cultivation.
Jia Xing Tian couldn't take them back to the capital himself; that task fell to the City Lord of Wutan City.
After giving brief instructions, Jia Xing Tian immediately departed.
The next day.
Eight children with bulging bellies squeezed into a carriage. This was the first full meal Chen Guan had eaten since arriving on the Dou Qi Continent! He was moved to tears.
The carriage was driven by a soldier who treated them with neither kindness nor disdain, simply performing his duty.
The children on the carriage were also very quiet. Over the course of the five-day journey, their total conversation didn't exceed five sentences.
They were all unfortunate souls; otherwise, they wouldn't have ended up here. Such children were bound to be shy and introverted, which was no surprise.
If one of them had turned out to be a chatterbox, that would have been strange.
Chen Guan wasn't in the mood to chat either. For once, he didn't have to worry about his next meal, giving him plenty of time to plan his future.
This was the Dou Qi Continent, where strength was everything.
Chen Guan was ambitious. He wanted to control his own destiny. If possible, he even wanted to rise to the Great Thousand World, or even higher. But to do that, he would need immense power.
His "golden finger" wasn't big. So far, it was just a will, providing him with very limited information about the future. Now that he had boarded the Jia Ma royal family's ship, that will had essentially become useless—it could no longer play a role.
As a result, if he wanted to reach the top of the Dou Qi Continent, his options were limited.
Thinking about it, Chen Guan envied those "peers" who were equipped with systems or simulators, effortlessly obtaining countless resources from beyond the heavens, even securing rare things like Origin Qi with ease. They had numerous paths to become Dou Di.
And him? He had only two options.
The first was the inheritance of the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe.
The second was the half-completed Emperor Pill.
Though it seemed like two options, the latter wasn't truly suitable for him.
He wasn't the Soul Heaven Emperor, capable of manipulating most of the Dou Qi Continent to fully refine the Emperor Pill.
Thus, the inheritance of the Ancient Emperor Tuoshe was his only hope!
Otherwise, he would just have to hang on until Xiao Yan became an Emperor and opened the path to the Great Thousand World.
"Flame Mantra! That's the key!"
Thinking of Yao Chen's power, Chen Guan couldn't help but sigh.
At this point in the timeline, Xiao Yan had just started cultivating, and it would still be a few years before his Dou Qi was absorbed by Yao Chen. But Chen Guan believed there was a high probability that Yao Chen was already conscious.
After all, Yao Chen had observed Xiao Yan for a long time before finally taking him as a disciple, though no one knew exactly how long.
Since it couldn't be determined, Chen Guan planned for the worst.
Deceiving Xiao Yan to get his ring? That was a dead end!
"I can only see if there's a chance to exchange for it later."
Chen Guan didn't have strong opinions about Xiao Yan; he just hoped they could get along peacefully.
He was sure that in the future, he would inevitably intercept some of Xiao Yan's opportunities. After all, the memories in his mind were his only advantage for now.
Cultivation battles were cruel, and Chen Guan wouldn't hesitate when it came to getting stronger.
But deliberately holding a grudge against Xiao Yan? That would be foolish and unnecessary.
Whether they would become enemies in the future depended on how fate unfolded.
As Chen Guan continued thinking about how to acquire the Flame Mantra, a month passed without him realizing it. Finally, the carriage arrived in the capital, and after a few rounds of handovers, they entered the royal palace of the Jia Ma Empire.
"We're here. Get out and line up."
(End of chapter.)
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