Transmigrated with Only 36 Days Left, I Claim Saintesses and Refine Demon Kings - Chapter 1:

Chapter 1: The Supreme Celestial Sect Lecture Hall

At the Supreme Celestial Sect’s Lecture Hall, Zheng Buyi sat high upon the teaching altar, speaking with relish and pride about his own cultivation insights.

Suddenly, an utterly ill-timed snoring sound drifted up from below.

Everyone turned their heads. On a meditation cushion in the last row sat a disciple built like a mountain of flesh, his head drooping over his chest as he snored deeply in his sleep.

Zheng Buyi’s interest in lecturing vanished instantly. Irritated, he stood up and strode toward the back row.

“Haha, Dong Renqi got caught red-handed again. This is going to be fun.”

“That fatty Dong only knows how to eat and sleep. He’s been cultivating in the inner sect for nearly six years and is still at the 1st stage Qi Refining Realm. He’s a walking joke.”

“A useless five-spirit-root waste. If he didn’t have a good father, he wouldn’t even qualify to be an outer sect disciple of the Supreme Celestial Sect. Yet here he is, sitting openly with us inner sect disciples. It’s an insult.”

The disciples of the Supreme Celestial Sect whispered among themselves, some gloating, others muttering curses under their breath.

Very soon, Zheng Buyi arrived beside Dong Renqi and coughed heavily.

Though the cough did not contain much spiritual Qi, it was not insignificant either. It surged straight toward Dong Renqi’s ears.

Today, Zheng Buyi had no intention of holding back. He had decided to teach Dong Renqi a profound lesson.

The sound exploded in Dong Renqi’s ears like muffled thunder. Startled, he jerked his head up, eyes wide. Then his head tilted to the side and he collapsed directly onto the ground, making the floor tremble as though a mountain of meat had fallen.

“Haha, Dong Fatty got scared stiff!” someone burst into laughter.

Zheng Buyi frowned, kicked Dong Renqi with his foot, and said with open disgust, “Stop pretending to be dead. Get up at once!”

Dong Renqi did not respond at all. He lay there motionless.

Growing impatient, Zheng Buyi circulated his spiritual Qi, preparing to give him a heavier kick. Suddenly, he noticed Dong Renqi’s face had turned dark and there was no rise or fall in his chest.

He quickly crouched down and reached a hand under Dong Renqi’s nose, only to withdraw it as fast as lightning.

Dong Renqi was dead. Scared to death.

Zheng Buyi’s face changed drastically, panic flickering across it.

Dong Renqi had poor cultivation talent and was lazy and gluttonous. If such a disciple died of fright, it would not be much of a loss.

But his father was a senior elder of the Supreme Celestial Sect. That made this no small matter.

Although Dong Renqi was not favored by his father, if he had been scared to death alive and in public, would his father really let it go?

Just then, Dong Renqi, who had already stopped breathing, suddenly stretched lazily and opened his eyes.

“You little bastard, Dong Renqi! You dared to pretend to be dead. You almost scared me to death!” Zheng Buyi felt both joy and anger at once, a huge weight lifting from his heart.

Dong Renqi sat up, his narrow eyes half-open as he glanced around in confusion.

“Dong Renqi, you’ve cultivated for six years and are still at the 1st stage Qi Refining Realm. And you dare to sleep? Look at how you’re sitting. Sit properly for your master!” Zheng Buyi clasped his hands behind his back and scolded sternly.

Suddenly, the dazed Dong Renqi’s expression changed to one of sudden realization. He sprang to his feet and, without hesitation, flicked Zheng Buyi hard on the forehead.

Clang. The sound was crisp and clear, echoing through the hall.

Zheng Buyi froze on the spot. The other Supreme Celestial Sect disciples stood wide-eyed in shock. The entire hall fell silent.

“Pi Hou, that acting was pretty convincing! You really went all out, gathering so many people to put on a show. And you even dare call yourself my master in front of me? You itching for trouble?” Dong Renqi was not satisfied with one flick and even reached out to grab Zheng Buyi by the throat.

But when he saw that the arm he extended was thicker than another person’s leg, he froze in place.

At the same time, Zheng Buyi, now recovered from his shock and sporting a swelling on his forehead, did not even appear to move. He merely snorted heavily.

The fat body like a mountain of meat was sent flying backward through the air and slammed heavily onto the ground.

“My god. What is going on?”

After landing, Dong Renqi stared in shock. He suspected he was dreaming, yet the pain coursing through his body told him this was stark reality.

At the same time, a flood of memories that did not belong to him surged into his mind.

Before he could fully digest them, Zheng Buyi roared almost hysterically, “Dong Renqi, you dare commit such an act of disrespect toward your master and ancestors. This time, even your father cannot protect you!”

One day later, at the mountain gate of the Supreme Celestial Sect.

A fat figure stood there, holding a broom and dustpan, sweating profusely as he swept fallen leaves. It was Dong Renqi.

For striking his master Zheng Buyi on the head in public, Dong Renqi had been stripped of his inner sect disciple status and demoted to a menial disciple of the Supreme Celestial Sect.

If not for the sake of his father, he would not even have been allowed to remain as a menial disciple. He would have been expelled directly from the Supreme Celestial Sect.

After sweeping for the entire morning, Dong Renqi finally finished the task. He tossed aside the broom and leaned against a large green stone, lifting his head to gaze at the distant mountain peak rising into the clouds.

That was where the Supreme Celestial Sect’s main peak stood.

Yesterday, he had been an inner sect disciple on that very peak. Today, he was a menial disciple at the foot of the mountain.

“Life’s storms rise like waves upon the sea, fall down and rise again…”

Dong Renqi hummed softly the song Love Will Win If You Dare to Fight and could not help but curse inwardly.

He used to think that transmigration novels were just unrealistic fantasies written by mediocre authors slurping instant noodles.

Yet now, transmigration had truly happened to him.

A moment ago, he had been at his company’s fifth anniversary celebration, singing Love Will Win If You Dare to Fight with his childhood friend Pi Hou. Suddenly, his vision went black. He could not see anything. At that time, he was certain Pi Hou was pulling some prank.

The next moment, he arrived at the Supreme Celestial Sect and immediately gave Zheng Buyi a hard flick on the forehead.

Zheng Buyi. Truly not easy.

Still, it was not entirely his fault. The resemblance between Zheng Buyi and Pi Hou was at least eighty percent similar.

After finishing the song, Dong Renqi sighed, “Why is my fate so miserable? When others transmigrate, they become princes commanding mighty armies or powerful immortals who can change heaven and earth with a snap of their fingers. When I transmigrated, I became a useless five-spirit-root waste who only just qualified to cultivate, and on top of that, a super-sized waste weighing over 150 kilograms.”

“Thieving heavens, are you deliberately messing with me?”

Dong Renqi struggled to his feet, pointed at the sky, and shouted, “Fine, my background and looks are a mess. But you even gave me such an indecent system. Who are you trying to insult?”

At that moment, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky above his head, and thunder rolled.

Dong Renqi’s face turned pale. He hurriedly withdrew his pointing hand.

The lightning faded and the thunder ceased.

“My god. Was that really aimed at me?”

Still shaken, Dong Renqi carefully called out in his mind, “System.”

“I’m here.”

A sweet and crisp female voice immediately sounded in his heart.

Then, a panel resembling an LED screen appeared in his mind, lines of text displayed upon it:

Host: Dong Renqi

Gender: Male

Cultivation Aptitude: Terrible

Cultivation Level: 1st stage Qi Refining Realm

Lifespan: 0.1 year

Chaos Devouring Heaven Art: Not activated (Activation condition: Foundation Establishment Realm)

Potential Points: 0

Note: Potential Points can comprehensively enhance all grades and categories. Acquisition methods: Devouring (requires activation of Chaos Devouring Heaven Art), Dual Cultivation.

Dong Renqi stared at 0.1 year three times to make sure he was not seeing things. Then he asked angrily, “Even though gaining points through dual cultivation seriously violates my personal principles, I could grit my teeth and barely accept it. But this 0.1 year lifespan. Isn’t that going too far?”

He was still extremely far from the Foundation Establishment Realm and directly ignored the Chaos Devouring Heaven Art.

The sweet voice continued, “Master, the system’s dual cultivation setting is entirely tailored to your habits and preferences. Even your name was carefully selected. Dong Renqi sounds like ‘understands married women’…”

“Stop.”

Dong Renqi’s face turned red with embarrassment as he quickly interrupted, “We’re talking about lifespan. Don’t go off on useless tangents.”

“Master, your current body has suffered long-term depression, combined with binge eating and extremely irregular routines. You are at a disaster-level obesity, with a fatty liver index over 1000+. This body is severely overdrawn. 0.1 year of lifespan is already the highest value I could secure for you.”

At this point, the system even offered encouragement, “Although the conditions are harsh, as long as you do not abandon yourself or give up, there will eventually be a sliver of hope. I hope to accompany you for a longer time. Keep going.”

“Miss System, besides cheering me on, can you provide something practical? For example, a pill that increases lifespan, or just add 200 or 300 years directly?” Dong Renqi asked hopefully.

“Sorry, Master. The road is already beneath your feet. How to walk it depends on you,” the system replied without hesitation.

“Goodbye.”

Dong Renqi immediately cut off contact with the system.

“Damn it. 0.1 year is 36.5 days. Isn’t that basically being buried up to my ankles already?”

He patted his belly of at least 50 kilograms of fat and felt depressed from head to toe.

At present, there were several ways to increase lifespan, such as taking lifespan-enhancing pills or raising his cultivation realm.

But all of those were far beyond him.

He was now merely a menial disciple who could not even enter the Supreme Celestial Sect’s outer sect. The Dong family had already given up on him. Where would he find lifespan-enhancing pills?

Moreover, the original body had abandoned cultivation for three years. His meridians were nearly blocked. Coupled with his almost useless five spirit roots, hoping to break through to a higher realm within just over a month was nothing but a dream.

Of course, there was still one method: use the system’s potential points to defy fate. But since he could not activate the Chaos Devouring Heaven Art yet, he could only gain points through dual cultivation.

With his current condition, unless the female disciples of the Supreme Celestial Sect were blind, none would agree to dual cultivate with him.

Force them? Forget it.

With this body that left him panting after just two steps, who could he possibly overpower?

“Work out. Lose weight.”

After thinking it through, Dong Renqi decided this was the most reliable and feasible solution for now.

Although fitness and weight loss would treat only the symptoms and not the root cause, it would at least improve his physical condition somewhat and push back his time of death.

As for truly solving the problem, he could only take one step at a time and seek a path to survival within despair.

“The system is right. As long as I don’t abandon myself or give up, there will eventually be a sliver of hope.”

A fighting spirit ignited in Dong Renqi’s heart. “Since the heavens chose me, in this life I, Dong Renqi, will live a life so exhilarating it shakes heaven and earth, even more thrilling than the fantasy novels those mediocre authors write.

I’ll make it earth-shattering.”