Chapter 1 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

“Absurd! This is just way too absurd! The noble clan leader of one of the five largest family clans in the Clear Jade Dynasty actually fought with someone else in the academy out of jealousy. He was knocked out in a fight over a woman! How can he make us wait for him here for ten hours? This is just too absurd.” In the Ren family’s massive conference hall, the third elder Ren Hanlin, who was rather short and stout and somewhat bald, was too enraged to remain seated when he heard the news. He stood up and paced back and forth in the conference hall.

His gaze repeatedly shifted towards the family head seat situated at the center of the conference hall and towered over them. The day was passing and the sky was turning dark, yet the seat remained vacant. The absurd family head still remained nowhere to be seen.

“Bam!” The fourth elder Ren Wenxu, who had a horse-like long face, bulged his eyes wide open in anger. “This is becoming more and more outrageous! Look at how he is treating the Elder Conference Day! He should have been back yesterday to prepare for it. But it turned out that he was fighting with someone in the academy instead. If word was to leak out, this would be the greatest joke ever.”

While the duo was expressing their frustrations, the youngster at the furthest end of the conference hall remained there silently instead, as though he was long accustomed to the whole situation.

It was only when those two elders of the Ren family mentioned the family head would a helpless, disdainful smile creep up his face. Is it true that when one is at the pinnacle of power, he is bound to suffer a fall? After twenty years of unprecedented glory under the management of the previous family head, is the Ren family really about to dwindle because it fell into the hands of this good-for-nothing family head? he thought to himself.

Although he was not a member of the Ren family, an uneasy feeling always evoked in his heart when those thoughts came into his mind. In the past year when Wan Hong represented the Sixth Elder in the elder meetings, those instances appeared so often that he was starting to become indifferent to the occurrences.

After the two vented their anger, their gaze collectively turned to the elderly man seated right next to the family head seat. He had a long beard and a grim expression was plastered on his face. That elderly man was no other than Ren Junyang, the current moderator of the elder meetings.

Ren Junyang was here all day too, yet all that awaited him was the news that the current family head of the prestigious Ren family fought in jealousy over a woman and had been knocked out by the opponent.

“Send an apothecary over immediately to find out exactly what happened. Dispatch the personal guards over too. If the family leader is fine and conscious, bring him back here immediately, without any delay. The elder meeting today must go on. We must also add some other agendas to the meeting.” Ren Junyang held a grim face, his beard almost swinging in the air due to the surging breaths bottled up inside him.

If he had not forcefully suppressed his anger, or if he did not have decades of experience appeasing his inner spirit, he would have blurted, “It would be great if he died. Nail him here as long as he is still alive.”

What was the Ren family? It was one of the five biggest founding family clans of the Clear Jade Dynasty. After thousands of years of successions, it was at the peak of its glory. No one expected such a thing to occur. The noble family head of the Ren family had actually…

“That’s right. It seems like we are pampering him too much. He must be back a day in advance for the future Elder Conference Days,” Ren Hanlin said while nodding repeatedly.

Ren Wenxu had a solemn look on his horse-like face. “Not only that, but we should also compress his daily expenses and the family head’s special cash advances even further. I’ll see how he can continue monkeying about without money. He is simply embarrassing the Ren family thoroughly,” he said.

“Haiz!” Wan Hong let out a secret sigh internally. He lifted the teacup and took a sip. Is it really true that after a generation of heroes follows a generation of wimps? Since the Ren family is at the pinnacle of power, is it really bound to suffer a fall? If this situation persists, the various disagreements will definitely erupt in the future, he thought to himself.

Sixth Lord, you did not participate in the Elder Conference Day so as to find some peace and quiet. Yet, you sent me here to suffer a living death. This is even more tormenting than a fatal injury suffered from battling in war. This is equivalent to watching the Ren family dwindle right before my very eyes. This feeling is really…

With the command given by the Second Elder, someone immediately jumped onto a horse and rushed out of the Ren family abode towards the Jade Imperial Academy, one of the top two academies in the Clear Jade Dynasty. It was also widely known as the academy which housed the good-for-nothings in the Clear Jade Dynasty.

“I’ve transmigrated. F*ck! Does this count as a double-transmigration?” Ren Jie touched his throbbing forehead. It had a swell the size of a chicken egg and felt as though he had grown a horn.

But that was no horn. It was a swell developed from a hard blow by an ironwood stool made from the sturdy hornbeam tree. It was at that moment when Ren Jie discovered he had unexpectedly transmigrated. Some information that did not belong to him continuously loaded in his mind.

At that point, Ren Jie felt as if his head was about to explode. That was because the information that gushed into his head was messy and chaotic. Exactly. Absolutely ridiculous, chaotic and useless information.

Pursuing girls, squandering money, fighting, gambling…

F*ck, what the hell was that!

This guy is also called Ren Jie. What were all his actions for?

Ren Jie was downright upset. It was not only because of the unicorn-like swell on his head but more so because of the transmigration. He used to think that the transmigrations in novels and films that he saw, where the protagonist experienced a unique adventure in the alternate universe, were very satisfying and enjoyable. Now that he was the one in that position, he was very, very upset.

Not mentioning the immense pain in his head, he also discovered that there were no abnormalities with his body. He did not gain any benefits and had to leave the Earth which had a technological civilization he was familiar with. From the massive and chaotic memory he had absorbed, he realized that he was in a completely different universe from the Earth.

The swell on his head, the information transmitted, the unsettling feelings he experienced after the transmigration; all these factors gave him a headache.

“F*ck!” Ren Jie punched the wall in anger. That resulted in his hand trembling the very next second. Although the wall quivered as well, the pain that shot through him still made him grimace.

What the f*ck was that? I am just an ordinary student who was reinstalling my laptop operating system. All I did was to borrow portable hard disks that stored abundant pornographic materials from male students in the nearby faculties to copy. All of a sudden, my surroundings turned pitch black and I was here in this unfamiliar universe.

“Argh… It hurts!” The bulging swell on his head hurt, but the messy and chaotic information that gushed into his mind made his head hurt even more. The pain was too much for Ren Jie to handle. He shut his eyes swiftly, hoping that he could enter his mind to control the pain at the back of his mind.

“Boom…” All of a sudden, Ren Jie felt that his consciousness left his body in a split second. No, it did not leave his body, but rather, it went into his mind.

For a split second, it felt as though his mind had exploded. The next moment, balls of lights kept amalgamating and assembling.

This is…? Ren Jie looked in awe at the changing lights before his eyes.

From a minute fraction of the chaotic memory that he barely absorbed, Ren Jie discovered that he had entered his mind through his divine sense. Cultivators possessed divine sense once they had reached a certain threshold in their cultivation.

Slowly, those lights began to cluster and amalgamate…

What is that? Looking at the object the amalgamated lights formed, Ren Jie was completely stunned.

Laptop. Yes, that’s the laptop that I was installing the operating system for before I transmigrated; the one which was copying the huge volumes of pornography.

Is this a joke or a dream? It’s depressing enough not being given any form of divine tools or magical treasures after I transmigrated. Yet, somehow, I’m made to bring this laptop over and what’s more, it exists in this light-like state in my mind. This is simply too ridiculous.

A person with a pockmarked face is not called a pockmarked face, but instead a pit-man. This is a deception1!

Moreover, from the chaotic memory of the original owner of the body, I know that this is definitely not the Earth in my memory. Furthermore, what use is there for a laptop with a bare metal server?

Looking at the laptop which resembled a photon computer from science fiction films, it took Ren Jie some time to calm his agitated emotions. There was nothing he could do other than to regain his composure. The situation had already evolved into this phase.

Ren Jie discovered that the divine sense was much more miraculous than his eyes. With a flicker of his thoughts, his divine sense had closed in on the laptop to observe it. He found out that other than the original material of the laptop that had transformed into balls of lights, nothing else about the laptop had changed. While Ren Jie was deliberating how he was to operate and control this thing in his mind, his divine sense twitched and the “My Computer” feature on the display had opened in the very next moment.

“F*ck, this is incredible.” Ren Jie himself had a shock too. After that, his divine sense manipulated the laptop again and a hidden folder popped open. It contained the classic tapes that he had painstakingly chosen.

However, at that moment, Ren Jie felt an urge to tear up. He did not have the mood to watch these classics at all.

Ren Jie had transmigrated and the laptop had followed by disassembling and integrating into his mind. It existed similar to the form of a photon computer. In the end, other than the newly transferred clips, the computer almost had a bare metal server. Although he was still uncertain about the situation outside, Ren Jie figured from the snippets that gushed into his brain that the situation was not good for him. That was because the last memory of the original owner of the body showed that he was beaten to death by a blow on the head using a stool.

“Huh?” Suddenly, Ren Jie looked at the bottom right corner of the laptop that was formed completely from the special lights in his mind in shock. Wireless… wireless… signal! There was actually a wireless signal. Although the signal was weak, he was certain that it existed.

At that point, Ren Jie felt as though he was struck by currents of lightning. What’s that!

Did God make me transmigrate while allowing me to source the Internet and connect to Earth?

This place is no technological civilization. How am I going to connect!

Ren Jie’s divine sense twitched and a web-page opened immediately. He could key in any website and open it just with his divine sense. However, the result that followed left Ren Jie utterly disappointed. There was no reaction.

Following that, Ren Jie tried experimenting with all sorts of communication tools, Internet audio, and verbal calls, as well as chatting tools. The result did not change.

“Haiz!”

At that moment, Ren Jie felt bitter. It seemed like the state of the laptop had coincided with the state it was in before the transmigration. The signal displayed was some random wireless connection near his dormitory. At that point, Ren Jie’s brain continued adding and absorbing new memories. Although the process was slow, that made him realize presently that this place was definitely not the Earth. It was also not a place with a technological civilization. Hence, it was certainly impossible for Wi-Fi signals to be present.

The joy from the previous discovery was merely a flash in the pan. That ignited a strong sense of disappointment and bewilderment in Ren Jie. He used to find watching others enter a completely new universe in novels and films interesting and enjoyable. But when it came to him, feelings such as unfamiliarity, bewilderment and uneasiness about the unknown were too overwhelming that it made him unaccustomed for a while.