Chapter 1: Remnant Thunder Spiritual Root
“Ah! Xiao Li, you’re playing for real!”
Ning Fa groaned in pain, feeling as if the back of his head had been struck by a club.
After a long while, the intense pain slightly subsided, and Ning Fa laboriously opened his eyes.
Before him was an unfamiliar place.
Inside the ten-square-meter hall, everything was in disarray; tables, chairs, and other furniture lay scattered. In the center of the room, a yellow, two-eared bronze furnace had also toppled over, its lid wide open, with several pale yellow pills rolling nearby.
Ning Fa was completely bewildered.
Wasn’t he in his office playing games with his secretary? How did he suddenly end up in this ghostly place?
At this moment, a wave of dizziness and a throbbing head came over him. Ning Fa felt the world spin and couldn't help but fall to the ground.
After a while, this strange sensation disappeared, but Ning Fa's mind was suddenly filled with a lot of inexplicable information.
Ning Fa sat on the ground, his expression changing.
“Jiang Country, Yunzhou, Qianbo Lake, Ning Family, Cultivator Family…”
Ning Fa murmured softly, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He had Transmigrated!
Through the sudden influx of information in his mind, he finally understood that what lay before him was no longer his luxurious hundred-square-meter office in the magic city, nor even the familiar Blue Star. He had actually Transmigrated to a mysterious world of Cultivators!
The original owner was also named Ning Fa, a disciple of the Cultivator Family, the Ning Family. He had died from depression after repeatedly failing the Family Alchemist assessment, and Ning Fa had coincidentally Transmigrated into him.
Ning Fa remained dazed for a good while before finally accepting this reality. He never expected that the web novel trope he read would actually happen to him!
But he felt no disappointment; instead, he was even more excited than when he was playing games with his secretary!
This was a mysterious world where Cultivators possessed immense power, and high-level Cultivators could move mountains, overturn seas, pluck stars, and grasp the moon!
More importantly, high-level Cultivators possessed unimaginably long Lifespan. It was even possible to achieve eternal life and live as long as heaven and earth!
And the original owner, into whom Ning Fa Transmigrated, happened to be a Cultivator, which made Ning Fa incredibly excited.
His personality was inherently one of endless life and endless challenge.
Now that he had arrived in this mysterious world of Cultivators, a place where individual power could break through all obstacles, he felt his blood begin to boil.
Ning Fa calmed his emotions and began to digest the original owner's memories.
After all, as a Transmigrator, he needed to quickly familiarize himself with the former owner's memories and habits, lest he expose himself and be treated as an evil heretic, which would be undesirable.
Just then, an urgent knocking sound suddenly came.
Ning Fa opened his eyes, struggled to stand up, and secretly frowned. The former owner was a Cultivator after all, so why was his body so weak?
He looked in the direction of the knocking, a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
He had just Transmigrated, and although he had the original owner's memories, there was still an adaptation period. Meeting someone familiar with the original owner at this moment might expose him.
Ning Fa decided not to open the door and to fully digest the memories of the original owner first.
The urgent knocking finally stopped. Ning Fa breathed a sigh of relief, but then a sharp female voice faintly reached him.
“Is Ning Fa really here? You’re not tricking me, are you?”
Ning Fa’s heart involuntarily tightened.
Then another young male voice followed.
“Sister Xiao Huan, how dare I trick you? In my opinion, Ning Fa must be afraid to see you, which is why he isn’t opening the door.”
After a moment of silence, the female voice suddenly raised its volume.
“Hmph! Ning Fa, do you think hiding inside will let you escape the bet with Young Miss! If you don’t open the door within ten breaths, don’t blame me for smashing it open!”
Ning Fa cursed inwardly, hesitated for a moment, then got up and left the hall. After passing through a rather large courtyard, he arrived at the front door.
Looking at the door shaking from the pounding, he paused briefly, then unlatched the bolt and opened the door.
Standing before the door were a man and a woman. The woman appeared to be sixteen years old, dressed in a green dress, with a beautiful face.
She stood with her arms crossed, chin raised, looking down at Ning Fa with an arrogant sneer.
The other young man wore a blue robe, had slightly dark skin, and his eyes flickered incessantly as he stared at Ning Fa, his schadenfreude undisguised.
“Hmph! At least you’re sensible!”
The green-clad girl saw Ning Fa come out and snorted lightly, saying, “Ning Fa, you haven’t forgotten your bet with Young Miss, have you? According to the agreement, if you failed to become a Family Alchemist, you are to serve Young Miss for three months!”
What the girl said made even the “experienced” Ning Fa feel a bit strange.
But relevant information quickly surfaced in his mind, and his expression couldn't help but change slightly.
At this moment, the blue-robed man next to him showed even greater schadenfreude, mixed with envy and jealousy.
Ning Fa recalled the key information and couldn't help but wonder, “If I remember correctly, my bet with the Seventh Elder isn’t even effective for another month, is it?”
The green-clad girl pouted, “Still not giving up, dreaming of becoming a Family Alchemist within a month? You’re daydreaming!”
She paused, then snorted, “And watch your address! Young Miss is no longer the Seventh Elder. Three days ago, Young Miss officially advanced to become the Family Fifth Elder, and her Family status is only below a few Foundation Establishment Elders!”
The blue-robed man also chimed in, “Ning Fa, just accept your fate. You’re simply not cut out for Alchemy. To help you with Alchemy, your Family is almost bankrupt. Now that you have the favor of the Fifth Elder, you should be thinking about how to please him in the future.”
The green-clad girl scrutinized Ning Fa from head to toe, a look of disdain in her eyes.
“Look at your slovenly appearance, smelling of sweat, what a disgrace! Remember to take one of these fragrant dew pills every five days to expel the impurities from your body! If you’re still this sloppy a month from now, you’ll be in for a hard time!”
With that, the green-clad girl directly shoved a green brocade pouch into Ning Fa's arms and then twisted her waist and left.
The blue-robed man quickly followed, his eager voice coming, “Sister Xiao Huan, what about me? I’m strong and healthy, and I’ll soon achieve a Breakthrough to the Middle Stage of Qi Condensation. I wonder if I’ll be fortunate enough to serve the Fifth Elder!”
“You? Forget it. You’re too ugly. Young Miss won’t fancy you.”
“…”
Ning Fa subconsciously closed the door and, as if in a trance, walked to the courtyard and sat on a stone chair, his face showing a constipated expression.
Although he hadn't fully digested the original owner's memories, he already knew what the bet with the Fifth Elder was about.
After all, this bet was arguably the fuse for the former owner's death from depression, so the memory was naturally deeply ingrained.
Speaking of which, the original owner’s identity was not simple.
Because he was a Cultivator with a Thunder Spiritual Root.
But it was a Remnant Thunder Spiritual Root.