NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1 - Rebirth as a Terrestrial Spirit, Gifted with Unparalleled Comprehension
Chapter 1: Rebirth as a Terrestrial Spirit, Gifted with Unparalleled Comprehension
The world flickered into the folds of Doro silk, as though glimpsing the boundless ages of the primordial wilderness.
Ever since the battle between Dao and Demon, and the defeat of Luohou, the western earth veins had shattered entirely. Countless leagues of mountains and rivers were tainted by demonic energy, turning into barren wastelands.
Yet far beyond Mount Sumeru, the ancestral vein of the West, in a nameless mountain valley—
Perhaps due to the innate great formation shrouding this place, the valley had not fallen into desolation like the rest of the western lands. On the contrary, it teemed with vitality and boundless atmospheric wonders.
Within the valley rose seven small peaks, aligned with the Big Dipper; beneath them flowed nine hidden streams, echoing the ninefold arrangement of the earth.
Starlight bathed the landscape, and boundless terrestrial energy converged here, making the place exceptionally refined and brimming with spiritual elegance.
All around, myriad laws of nature intertwined and descended. The Great Dao manifested in divine splendour. The essence of the heavens and earth, spanning billions of leagues, condensed into the purest life force and gathered at the heart of the valley.
Suddenly, a consciousness stirred from the depths of the earth.
“Where… am I?”
“No—where are my hands? My body? I…”
After a wave of confusion swept over it, no one knew how long had passed before the consciousness gradually regained composure.
Some time later, a face formed of spiritual energy emerged in the void.
It wore a bitter smile. Its eyes swept across the surroundings, brimming with complicated emotions.
“I’ve actually transmigrated.”
His name was Zhong Yue. He had been taking an afternoon nap at home, only to wake up and find himself here.
As he sifted through the memories in his mind, he quickly grasped his current situation.
“A battle between Dao and Demon, the fall of Luohou… This is the Great Desolate World?”
After a brief moment of adjustment, Zhong Yue had already accepted this reality.
“Very well. From this day forth, I am but the Terrestrial Spirit Zhong Yue. The human Zhong Yue of my past life no longer exists.”
As these words left his mouth, the sky rumbled with thunder, as if a bolt had struck from a clear sky. A wave of comfort surged through Zhong Yue’s entire being, and the awkward unfamiliarity he had felt toward his own body vanished.
Zhong Yue understood—this was the Dao recognising him. From now on, he was a true native of the Great Desolation. No matter who tried to divine his origins, this would be the truth.
Moments later, having calmed down, Zhong Yue began contemplating his path forward.
As he browsed through the wondrous and magnificent scenes in his inherited memories, he couldn’t help but click his tongue in awe. The sheer grandeur of the Great Desolate World had truly opened his eyes.
He had merged with a Terrestrial Spirit—though he hadn’t moved, he had apparently existed here since ancient times, with origins ancient enough to inspire dread.
However, Zhong Yue soon wore a bitter smile again.
He realised that no matter how ancient his origins were, it didn’t help—he couldn’t move at all.
Moreover, because this place wasn’t a famed mountain or sacred river, his lineage, though old, was only average—merely that of a common innate deity.
In the Great Desolation, one’s origins were of utmost importance. There were five ranks in total:
Primal Chaos Gods and Demons
Innate Divine Saints
Innate Deities
Innate Living Beings
Acquired Living Beings
Among these, the Primal Chaos beings were unseen. Most had been slain during Pangu’s act of creation; the rare survivors had long since hidden away in unreachable realms.
Thus, the highest visible tier among them was the Innate Divine Saints, followed by Innate Deities, and then the more common Innate Living Beings.
As for Acquired Living Beings, they didn’t yet exist in the Great Desolation—everything here was formed innately.
In general, Zhong Yue’s origins were middling—neither top-tier nor entirely weak.
Just as he was struggling with this dilemma, a sudden message appeared in his mind:
“You have successfully transmigrated. Activating your previous world’s gift: Unique Talent – Heaven-defying Comprehension.”
Zhong Yue blinked in surprise. He had just been fretting over what to do next, and here his golden finger had awakened.
“Excellent! Transmigration always comes with a golden finger—my online novels didn’t lie to me after all!”
He burst into laughter, then calmed his mind and began examining what exactly this so-called heaven-defying comprehension was.
Yet the moment he entered meditation, Zhong Yue was dumbfounded.
In his mind, memories of cultivation, Dao techniques, and divine powers began surfacing—everything he had absorbed moments ago. More astonishingly, he found them all incredibly easy to understand.
It was almost miraculous. After all, Zhong Yue was from the modern world and had no idea about cultivation, yet now he had mastered it all in a flash.
As these cultivation methods fused within him, he even sensed the ability to refine and evolve them—to meld various techniques and create even stronger ones.
Realising how powerful this golden finger truly was, Zhong Yue was overjoyed.
With this in hand, he suddenly felt that his average origins were no longer such a major shackle.
Moments later, Zhong Yue gradually settled down.
“The most urgent task right now is to attain a physical form. Only through transformation can I walk the Great Desolation and compete for fortune—without it, everything else is mere empty talk.”
Zhong Yue let out a light sigh. At once, his thoughts stirred, and he began to absorb the essence of heaven and earth according to the method imprinted in his memory.
However, after only a brief moment, Zhong Yue stopped what he was doing.
He had realised that this method of absorption was terribly inefficient. At his current rate, it would take at least several million years to see any hope of success.
But in this current era, time was equivalent to life itself—several million years was simply far too long.
And with his heaven-defying comprehension, he soon perceived the shortcomings of the inherited breathing technique.
It wasn’t that the cultivation method was flawed, but that it was far too average—at best, it would allow him to form a standard physical body, devoid of any uniqueness.
With his current foundation, even if he succeeded in transforming, he would at most become a Profound Immortal, still far from the realm of a Golden Immortal.
With such weak cultivation, not to mention venturing across the Great Desolation, he might not even dare to step outside this very valley—his strength was far too lacking.
With that thought, Zhong Yue calmed his mind. He was no longer fixated on transformation. Instead, he turned inward to examine himself, choosing to first strengthen and complete his inner foundation.
In the next moment, deep within the earth’s meridians, a stream of radiant light rose and coalesced into a phantom figure suspended in mid-air above the valley.
The phantom sat cross-legged, observing the sun, moon, and stars, contemplating the forms of all living beings, and resonating with the qi of all phenomena in the cosmos.
At the same time, countless sparks of inspiration erupted within his mind. Empowered by his extraordinary comprehension, his spirit grew ever more lucid as he began the work of remodelling his own being.
Time flowed onward; it was unclear how long had passed.
One day, within the valley, that statue-like phantom who had sat motionless suddenly stirred.
“My path is complete—hahaha!”
As the words fell, boundless immortal light burst forth from the ground beneath him, and a flood of information surged into Zhong Yue’s mind.
Eventually, all this knowledge converged and condensed into a single volume, forming an Immortal Scripture within his sea of consciousness.
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At the very top of the scripture, four grand characters appeared:
The Dao Manifests the Primordial.