The Villain Plundered the Children of Destiny’s Luck - Chapter 1:
Chapter 1: Transmigrated into an Old Man
-Tianyang Prefecture, Xuanfeng Mansion, Lingfeng City.
In the Qin family’s back courtyard training room, a scream suddenly echoed.
“Ah!”
Qin Xiao was torn awake by excruciating pain, the sensation piercing straight into his mind like thousands of needles stabbing all at once. After what felt like forever, he finally forced his eyes open.
What met his sight was a dark chamber. The walls and ceiling were all built of solid granite. It was clean, yet simple, with only a bed, a table, a chair, and a bookshelf inside.
“Huff… huff… huff…” Qin Xiao exhaled three deep breaths before calming down. The pain had been so intense that his spirit nearly broke.
As a modern man working endless 996 shifts, he had never experienced such torment. He muttered inwardly, “Where am I? Could it be I was kidnapped? Damn, this hurts so much!”
The thought of being kidnapped jolted him. He hurriedly tried to get up, but the moment he exerted strength, the pain exploded once again.
“Shit! Not again!”
The agony knocked him flat back on the bed. His head throbbed like it was being split open. Cold sweat drenched his back, and his lips turned pale.
After a long while, fragments of foreign memories surged into his mind. This body’s original owner was also called Qin Xiao. He had been the old patriarch of the Qin family, already 87 years old.
Half an hour later, Qin Xiao’s eyes opened again, dull and lifeless.
His face collapsed in despair. He cursed, “Damn heavens! I was a handsome young man in my twenties, full of vigor, yet you made me transmigrate into an old man nearly at death’s door!”
Yes, Qin Xiao had transmigrated, but there was no joy. This body was too old, already past its prime. On top of that, after a failed attempt to break through the Innate Realm, it suffered severe injuries. He probably didn’t have many years left to live.
From a young man to an old man on the verge of death, how could anyone accept this?
This world was dominated by martial arts, and cultivating was considered the greatest honor. The martial path was divided into twelve great realms: Body Tempering Realm, Postnatal Realm, Innate Realm, Spiritual Power Realm, Yin-Yang Realm, Unity Realm, Heaven-Human Realm, Half-Saint Realm, Saint Realm, Great Saint Realm, Quasi-Emperor Realm, and Emperor Realm. Each realm was split into nine stages: 1st to 3rd stage was early, 4th to 6th stage was mid, and 7th to 9th stage was late.
The original Qin Xiao had reached the 9th stage Postnatal Realm. He had entered seclusion to break through to the 1st stage Innate Realm. But his aged and frail body, withering qi and blood, couldn’t withstand the strain. He failed and died. That was when Qin Xiao transmigrated into him.
“Am I supposed to just lie here waiting for death?” Qin Xiao’s heart sank into despair. He couldn’t even sit up from bed, and this training room was specially built to only open from the inside. Unless someone forcefully broke in, no one could enter. The people outside had no idea of his condition. His face twisted bitterly.
“I don’t want to die here! Why do others transmigrate into young geniuses with extraordinary talent, surrounded by beauties, with luck overflowing? Why am I the one stuck in the body of a dying old man?”
“My golden finger? My cheat? At least give me something! Heavens, you’re cruel!”
Qin Xiao roared with resentment, voice filled with anger and unwillingness.
[Ding! System has detected the host’s deep resentment toward the Heavenly Dao. Fortune Plundering System has awakened.]
[Congratulations, you have received a novice gift pack: one Innate Pill. Please check.]
“What the hell!!” Qin Xiao blurted out, then shouted again, “What the hell!! What the hell!!” His voice trembled with excitement.
“I knew it! I knew it! The system may be late, but it never fails to appear! A transmigrator without a system is incomplete!” Tears welled up in his eyes. “Thank you, heavens! Thank you, system!”
The transparent panel appeared in front of him as he silently willed the system open.
Name: Qin Xiao
Martial Realm: 9th stage Postnatal Realm (severely injured)
Cultivation Method: Great Flame Heart Sutra (Yellow Rank, Supreme Grade, Mastery)
Martial Skills: Great Flame Blade (Yellow Rank, Supreme Grade, Mastery), Fierce Tiger Fist (Yellow Rank, High Grade), Step-on-Waves Movement (Yellow Rank, Low Grade, Mastery)
Fortune Point: 125
Note: Fortune Point can increase cultivation, improve skill proficiency, or be used in the system shop.
Qin Xiao asked, “System, how do I gain Fortune Point?”
[Fortune Point can only be obtained from Children of Destiny.]
“Then how do I know who the Children of Destiny are?”
[The host can spend 50 Fortune Point to search for them within 1,000 kilometers.]
“So expensive?” Qin Xiao frowned. He only had 125 points, enough to search twice.
But the urgent matter now was the novice gift pack. He asked, “System, can this Innate Pill help me break through to the Innate Realm?”
[The Innate Pill from the novice gift pack is a supreme-grade pill, guaranteeing a breakthrough to the 1st stage Innate Realm. However, since the host is currently severely injured, the success rate is 70%. The host can spend 70 Fortune Point to heal first, then consume the pill.]
“I see…”
Qin Xiao understood. In this world, pills were divided into six ranks: Yellow, Profound, Earth, Heaven, Saint, and Emperor. Each rank had low, mid, high, and supreme grades.
Ordinary martial artists could only ever touch Yellow rank pills. Profound rank pills were rare and usually crafted by great powers. His body’s original owner had only once glimpsed a Profound rank low-grade Qi Boosting Pill at an auction, which was sold for 120,000 taels of silver!
As for Earth and Heaven rank pills, they were even rarer, enough to spark bloodshed whenever they appeared. Only top-tier forces could afford them. Saint rank pills had never appeared in their Great Wei Empire.
Qin Xiao gritted his teeth, “System, spend 70 Fortune Point to heal me first!”
[Confirmed.]
At once, a warm current flowed through his meridians, spreading across his entire body, mending his wounds. It was so soothing that he felt as if he were soaking in a hot spring.
By the time a stick of incense had burned, Qin Xiao slowly sat up. The injuries from his failed breakthrough had fully healed. He looked at his wrinkled, bark-like hands and touched his face full of creases. No wonder his predecessor had been desperate to break through. With that body, he wouldn’t have lived much longer.
“System, use the Innate Pill!”
The moment he willed it, warmth surged in his abdomen, carrying immense energy. Wherever it flowed, his cells became alive with vigor.
The stream first entered his heart, then spread through his meridians. Suddenly, sharp pain exploded within, spreading all over his body. He felt like he was about to melt into nothingness.
After an hour, the pain faded.
BOOM!
A wave of surging qi burst out from Qin Xiao’s body. His aura blazed like a scorching sun, radiating terrifying heat as if it would burn everything around him.
“Ha! Finally, I broke through to the Innate Realm!”
Qin Xiao’s eyes brightened with joy. The decayed aura of old age had vanished, his blood and qi surged powerfully, and his wrinkled skin became smoother. He looked twenty years younger in an instant.
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20 years younger? Still 67 lol.