Chapter 00: Rebirth
“Cousin Hua! Are you okay?”
A girl asks worriedly to the boy next to her. The boy was full of sweat and clutching his head, as he felt like his head was about to explode. After a while, the pain receded, and the boy took a deep breath and looked around.
He realized that there were lots of little girls surrounding him, looking worriedly at him. Some even have tears coming out of it.
“Yeah, I’m fine. Sorry to worry you cousins.” The boy said and smiled, assuring the worried little girls while patting the crying ones.
“Is that so?” One of the little girls said and breathed a sigh of relief. The others also reacted the same way.
Suddenly, as if remembering something, the girl exclaimed, “Now it’s not the time. Cousin Hua! Let’s go to the Magic Testing Monument.”
Hearing what the girl exclaimed, everyone suddenly remembered what today’s event was and its importance. The group of girls runs towards the Magic Testing Monument and shouted to the boy to hurry.
‘It seems my soul was sleeping after crossing universe, causing my dormant soul to create a new consciousness. After I regained my consciousness, the new and old consciousness fused. It’s like having two personalities and they combined after both sides accept each other.’
He follows the group while in deep contemplation. He now understood the head-splitting pain is because his old and new consciousness fused, yet it still doesn’t really answer this situation.
Anyway, from the information he received, this body is Xiao Hua, and he is popular with the girls due to his looks.
‘Anyway, it seems today there is an important event. What was it again? Something-something Examination Day… I have finished my university and I still need to take an exam despite being on the different world.’
Xiao Hua sighed and lamented at his predicament. He wondered why heaven reincarnated him just for him to woke up on examination day.
He kept walking until he saw an obelisk monument and blankly scanned the whole area. Until he feels uneasy looking at a certain boy. He scanned his memories and what he found out was shocking.
‘Xiao Yan? No way, is he the child version of the man that will be the Flame Di, Xiao Yan?’
Afterwards, it finally clicked him. He has reincarnated in the world of Battle Through Heavens and today is the Dou Qi Examination Day.
Xiao Hua looked at Xiao Yan and scrunched his eyes to confirm if it was truly him. Some people may be excited about the prospect of reincarnated into Battle Through Heavens, but don’t forget, that it’s only strong prevails while weak being devoured.
The book of Battle Through Heavens only shows the main character, Xiao Yan, points of view. Of course, they also show some notable characters’ PoV due to certain events. However, what about the extras that have no relation to the story or events?
They will be the ones that die to show the perilous and danger the MC’s in, or the No-face character. Basically, even if they die, no one will be there to miss them nor will the author or reader care about them.
‘Still, from the looks of the situation and the child Xiao Yan, this is when he is still immature. Basically, before Xiao Yan loses his Dou Qi as Yao Lao will absorb it. Now then, what am I going to do?’
After calming down, Xiao Hua contemplates his situation and recounts the plots within Battle Through Heaven. However, as it has been a while since he read the novel and manhua, he forgets some part of it.
‘At least, I still remembered that the Hall of Souls and one of the Eight Ancient Clans, Hun Clan is the main antagonist of the series. Although it doesn’t really answer what I’m going to do.’
“Xiao Yan. Dou Disciple, 1-Star! Level: Low!” A shouted voice disrupted the thoughts of Xiao Hua, as he raised his head. He saw that a middle-aged man besides the obelisk monument announced the information on the table with a surprised tone.
Once people in the crowd processed the announcement, it caused quite an uproar in the crowded square.
“What the hell?! Did my ear hear it wrong or did he announce that our Young Master Xiao Yan is Dou Disciple, 1-Star?”
“I heard it too. Can someone pinch me to make sure I’m not dreaming?”
SLAP!
“OW! The hell are you doing?!”
“What? you tell me to do it…”
“Pinching, asshole! Not slapping!”
“Oops, my bad. Anyway, now we know that we aren’t dreaming.”
“Still, it hurts like hell. However, if I’m not mistaken but didn’t Young Master Xiao Yan started cultivating not too long ago?”
“Yeah, he is four years old and started to cultivate not too long ago. Yet, he’s already 1-Star Dou Disciple.”
“For Young Master Xiao Yan to be able to cultivate quickly, seems like we have a talented Young Master to serve. It seems like our Xiao Family will have another genius that will be famous in Wu Tan City!”
“Hahaha! I said it before about how handsome our Young Master Xiao Yan is and would definitely show his talent in the future! Seems I might have a knack for future reading.”
“Come on! I already knew our Third Young Master is extremely talented, ever since our old clan chief set up that marriage contract for him couple of years ago. He will definitely inherit the position of Clan Head in the future, so it’s better to not get involved in the fight between the elders and Clan Head Xiao Zhan in the future.”
“Why saying the obvious? With our Young Master Xiao Yan’s talent, I bet even those elders couldn’t wait to please him.”
Hearing the boast and pleasant praises coming from the surroundings, the immature Xiao Yan raised his head and smiled and raised his chest proudly.
‘If I remember it correctly, it’s stated that the reason for his quick growth is due to the fact that that he was reincarnated making his spirit quite strong meaning that he can absorb Dou Qi quickly and in a vast amount. Meaning that this very logic applies to me as well.’ Xiao Hua stated indifferently and looked toward Xiao Yan, who was greeted by a group of children as if he was a superstar.
Xiao Hua didn’t take the initiative to please Xiao Yan, not because of the internal power struggle within the Xiao Clan. The power struggle was divided into two factions; The Elder’s Faction, led by Elder Head and Second Elder, and Patriarch Faction, led by Clan Head Xiao Zhan.
He didn’t take the initiative due to the fact that he and Xiao Yan is a reincarnator. Unlike Xiao Yan, who was reincarnated into being the third son of Clan Head Xiao Zhan, Xiao Hua was reincarnated and been orphaned since his parents have died, fulfilling their duty.
Fortunately, Xiao Clan is not a heartless clan and there are rules and regulations that provided help to the orphaned children whose parents have died, especially for people like Xiao Hua whose parent died fighting for the clan.
Thanks to these rules and regulations, Xiao Hua was able to grow up unharmed instead of rotting somewhere in the streets. For this very reason, as a reincarnator, he still has a great sense of care for the Xiao Clan.
However, he would still not willing to lick the boots of other reincarnator when he himself was one. After all, he can sense the Dou Qi within his body is more than what 1-Star Dou Disciple, meaning that he’s more talented than Xiao Yan.
‘From what I can sense, I’m on 3-Star Dou Qi. Probably because I was crossing dimensions, my soul perception is even stronger than Xiao Yan. Somehow, my foundation seems to be stabilized and becoming extremely firm. Makes me wonder why…’
According to the memories, Xiao Hua once disturbed the servant that took care of the orphans, including him, and taught him the cultivation method. He cultivated until he was a 3-Star Disciple, without any bottlenecks.
Although it will be to cultivate later on, he calculated that if he ignored everything and just keeps on cultivating, he can reach the next realm, Dou Practitioner, within two years.
After some contemplation, he decided to hide his cultivation talent and only expose it when it’s time. While Xiao Clan may be huge, Wu Tan City still has two other clans that were not inferior to the current Xiao Clan.
‘I will expose it later on and go straight to Jia Nan Academy to further my cultivation. Xiao Yan, you have your story and I have mine.’ Xiao Hua clenches his fist while looking up in the sky.
He turned around and silently walked outside. As he continues walking, he suddenly envies the reincarnators and transmigrators that have System to back themselves.
Endless storage space, hiding their cultivation level using the system, freely takes out the Elixir Pills at will and bless by the goddess of luck. At least Xiao Yan has his protagonist plot armor.
‘Is it just me, or am I just a pitiful reincarnator slash transmigrator?’ Xiao Hua thought.
[Ding! Auto-Cultivation System is on.]
“Eh?” Xiao Hua let out a stupid voice as he was dumbfounded by the sudden notification.