Chengdu Branch of Southwestern United Cultivation University, inside Chat Group No. 2.
The high school freshmen, finally entering college after three years of suppression, were all excited to see so many peers of the same age.
They compared their past and present school lives, talked about anime, games, and the cultivation techniques they’d chosen.
A bunch of people were debating and comparing, chatting heatedly.
But just then, an obviously out-of-place picture suddenly appeared in the group chat.
Lin Jiaxin: [Image] (A selfie with a mask on, head slightly tilted, only half an eye showing)
Lin Jiaxin: Oh crap, I accidentally slipped and sent my selfie to the group (facepalm with tears and laughter)
Lin Jiaxin: A lot of people think I’m the type to play the field, but I’m actually single. Where do I even go to argue my case?
…
Silence. A long silence. The scene instantly went quiet.
Lin Jiaxin: Hahaha, why is no one talking in the group?
“Lin Jiaxin” invited “ELK” to the group.
ELK: Sis, you’re actually kinda pretty, wow.
Yang Mo: …
Zheng Hang: …
Li Xiaomin: …What the hell is this guy?
Li Ruican: Classmate, are you serious? You’re kinda… funny. The infirmary is right next to Cafeteria No. 2. I’d suggest you go check it out.
Chen Zebin: Haha, actually, mine isn’t bad either.
Chen Zebin: [Image] (Topless, showing off a single large abdominal muscle)
Lin Jiaxin watched the barrage of mockery and intentional imitation posts popping up on her phone.
Her toes involuntarily began spiraling three hundred and sixty degrees into the floor, trying to dig out a three-bedroom apartment to hide in like a turtle shell.
Tsk, that was quite the bold move.
But as the group gradually got heated over her sudden cringe-worthy behavior,
Lin Jiaxin felt even more embarrassed, yet at the same time, a faint, barely noticeable warm current inexplicably rose from her dantian, gradually spreading through all her meridians.
—
Lin Jiaxin wasn’t actually from this world.
Or rather, her previous life wasn’t.
In her last life, she was just an ordinary ordinary person.
She went to kindergarten normally.
Went to elementary school normally.
Got into middle school and high school normally, and finally became an ordinary office worker.
Just when ordinary him was ready to continue living an ordinary life, accepting an arranged marriage, getting married and having kids normally…
On his way to his first blind date, he tried to save a child who was running wildly into the street about to be hit by a car—and this time, he died abnormally.
The child was fine, not even a scratch.
But it wasn’t because he saved him; the driver was actually about to stop for a red light and braked in time.
He himself slipped.
Couldn’t stop, and ended up smashing his head directly into the side of a large cargo truck waiting at the red light, killing himself.
Then… who knows how long passed, when he woke up again, he had become a newborn baby in this world.
Still an ordinary birth, ordinary slow growth.
The only difference from her previous life might be that this time, there was no little guy or penguin QQ between her legs.
Her name also changed from Lin Jiaran to Lin Jiaxin.
The first time it seemed like her biological father was changing her diaper, Lin Jiaxin stared at her empty crotch and fell silent.
‘Damn it, you f*cking transmigrated me wrong!’
‘Where’s my stuff!? My brand new, never-used treasure! Give it back to me!!!’
Lin Jiaran couldn’t talk, couldn’t curse out loud, so he could only vent his pent-up frustration through wild baby howling and crying.
Making his poor father think he’d done something wrong, so he opened and repackaged the diaper several times.
—
Just when Lin Jiaxin, gradually accepting all this, thought she would live an ordinary life like in her previous life,
She saw her mother, who had just given birth to her only two days ago, lying in bed watching some video.
Not only did she smoothly get out of bed, but she also stood normally in front of the gas stove, which seemed to have a dead battery,
And using the flame ignited at the tip of her finger, she lit the gas stove to start cooking rice oil for her.
???!
She was completely stunned!
‘Dude, where the hell did I end up?’
‘Isn’t this a parallel universe?’
‘Phones, Wi-Fi, computers, TVs, washing machines, even cars, air conditioners, and big refrigerators—all of them exist.’
‘Technology everywhere. Isn’t this a modern society?’
‘What the heck is finger igniting a fire?!’
But since Lin Jiaxin was still in baby form, she couldn’t ask, so she could only bury all her confusion and shock deep in her heart.
As she grew up, she gradually learned about this world through her parents and books.
—
At first, the development of this world was indeed similar to that of her previous life.
From cavemen to agricultural civilization, then to feudal dynasties—no difference.
Maybe just some subtle changes in certain details.
But around fifty years ago, the Spiritual Energy Resurgence happened.
At that time, the air gradually filled with strange substances.
Animals and plants absorbed these substances and mutated massively, with some individuals becoming huge and towering.
Some ordinary domestic cats could grow to the size of tigers, and when a certain dog awakened, it could only be controlled by several people working together.
Among them, some even gradually appeared with intelligence comparable to humans.
In short: they became sapient.
But it didn’t do much good.
Under the gentle persuasion of 7.62mm Large Pellets, those that were meant to be pets still became pets, and those destined to enter human stomachs to help them get big bellies still couldn’t escape.
Similar things happened among humans.
In the year Spiritual Energy first appeared, almost everyone’s body changed, becoming healthy and strong.
Among them, a small number even gained special enhancements.
The most famous early case was a worker from the Midwest who, while trying to save a fellow villager, subconsciously reached out and stopped a rolling steel coil.
From then on, steel coils retired from their role as civilian two-dimensional destructors and gradually became training props for muscle-bound men with sharp heads who always talked about what was right or wrong.
And the Spiritual Scientists.
This new profession, formed by top scientists who switched fields from various disciplines, began researching and trying to decipher the origin of these mysterious existences.
But in the end, even with the world’s collective wisdom and resources, they couldn’t figure out much.
So that generation chose to trust the wisdom of future generations, gave up deeper research, and instead split by nationality, turning their attention to the ancient texts left behind in their own countries.
They firmly believed that the legends about immortal cultivation or magic couldn’t be completely groundless.
More importantly, the Spiritual Energy Resurgence brought not only biological changes but also new crises.
After the Resurgence, many strange rifts gradually appeared around the world, all leading to the same vast, boundless realm.
Everywhere was filled with traces of war. The air was breathable, but thick with the smell of blood, like some kind of Ancient Battlefield.
There were creatures there, all kinds of bizarre creatures.
Among them, some humanoid beings existed, commanding those strange creatures as they stepped out of the rifts, killing everyone they saw and then devouring them.
Even 7.62mm couldn’t easily pacify them.
Finally, a major power had no choice but to dispatch a steel tide, blocking the rift with war machines and pouring ammunition at it, barely forcing them back.
Yes, not elimination, just barely driving them back—and these were just some low-level minions being controlled.
After extensive post-battle data evaluation,
Even if all the world’s Nuclear Weapons were gathered… the final effect probably wouldn’t be great, and might instead fully provoke those higher beings, leading to a full-scale invasion.
Therefore, the excavation of suspected ancient cultivation texts became crucial.
Since Spiritual Energy existed, the legendary immortal cultivation and magic couldn’t be baseless.
Sure enough, with massive resources and manpower invested, some special ancient texts were quickly unearthed.
After philologists restored and practiced the characters recorded on them, they actually managed to strengthen various aspects of human physiology.
They even allowed people to do some unexpected things.
Like… generating flames out of thin air!
Of course, not everyone had such high talent.
The MRI Machine, modified by Spiritual Scientists, could now image the Human Meridians.
Through it, Spiritual Scientists discovered that the bodies of those who quickly gained special abilities were different from ordinary people—their meridians were many times stronger.
The stronger one’s meridians were, the faster and more Spiritual Energy they could absorb.
The weaker the meridians, naturally, the slower and less Spiritual Energy they could absorb.
Of course, nothing was absolute. Some people had differences due to special constitutions.
Perhaps this was the origin of the rumored Spiritual Root and Dao Body.
But the strength of meridians and differences in constitution only affected the speed of cultivation and the development of special abilities, nothing more.
As long as one was human, they had meridians and could cultivate!
Thus… after excavating and testing a certain number of techniques and special scriptures, the authorities announced the news of the Spiritual Energy Resurgence and the threat of external enemies.
Of course, during that time, ordinary people had already guessed roughly seven or eight out of ten through those incredible news reports and bizarre events happening around them.
So they weren’t too shocked.
The second announcement released by the authorities right after was the real highlight.
[Universities across the region will merge locally to jointly establish the United Cultivation University. High school physical education will be fully included in the college entrance exam list, while the number of academic courses remains unchanged.]
Cultivation doesn’t care about age, only meridians and constitution!
And Lin Jiaxin, after twelve years of hard study and training, finally got into university and became a freshman.
Now… she was enrolled in the Chengdu Branch of Southwestern United Cultivation University!
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