Chapter 1 Here I Am, Jin Feichen
Rumble!
Rumble, rumble!
Lightning flashed, and eerie light frequently weaved through the thunderclouds, as rain poured down like a waterfall.
The swirling hurricane blew fine sand and loose stones around wildly, and the roadside weeds and flowers were almost pressed to the ground.
The sky was dim yellow, and rain fell in a torrent.
Great Xia, Second Tianwu High School, Jinling City, Dead Pool.
June 10th, afternoon.
Rain poured down, but even so, the sports field was still packed with thousands of students, shoulder to shoulder, their eyes trembling as they stared in horror at the scene before them.
“He… he killed someone…”
“Young Master Zhao… just died like that…”
“It must be fake…”
“Is he crazy?! In such plain sight! He actually dared to kill someone!!”
“Don’t forget, this is the Dead Pool, everyone signed a life-and-death waiver…”
“But even so…”
Rumble!!
Lightning flashed, and in the center of the dense crowd was an arena made of unknown Materials. At the edge of the arena stood a black stele, on which the bloody words “Dead Pool” were written…
What truly made thousands of students stop and stare in horror was the person standing above it.
Rain washed away the fresh red blood, revealing a male corpse lying there, his eyes wide open in death, his face filled with terror.
Beside the corpse, a young man stood ramrod straight, his nimble fingers constantly flipping a special silver-white card.
Facing the gazes of countless astonished eyes and the noisy discussions below the stage, the young man seemed indifferent. His expression was normal, his eyes calm, as if he was waiting for someone.
Rumble!!
A ray of light suddenly descended from the sky, glaring angrily, and a stern shout followed, “Boy, do you know who you killed?!”
“Young Master Zhao, Zhao Ming.”
The young man replied.
“Whose family are you from, what is your name! How dare you be so arrogant?!”
“A nobody.” The young man smiled, then suddenly recited: “A gentle breeze blows across the medicine table, a clear sun shines on the tea towel. My quiet interest is not yet exhausted, evening dust flies over the eastern city.”
He paused, then bowed slightly to the newcomer and said indifferently, “Here I am, Jin Feichen.”
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One day ago.
June summer day, scorching midday sun, the wind had not stopped, and white clouds remained.
On the asphalt road, the scorching light and faint warm breeze rustled through the green shade of old trees.
The cicadas outside the window played a symphony for their summer.
Great Xia, Shi Jiang Province, Jinling City.
Inside an old apartment building.
Clatter clatter.
Disordered keyboard sounds continuously echoed in the dim room, accompanied by the fluctuating roars coming from the computer.
“Clown, hey! Why aren’t you attacking?!”
“Ah, right, right, right, hit him, right, hey—beautiful!”
“Bro, you…”
Ding-a-ling—
Ding-a-ling—
An abrupt phone ring suddenly sounded in the seemingly anxious atmosphere.
The young man sitting in the chair turned down the game volume, and the boisterous noise gradually faded.
“Hello.”
“Jin Feichen, what are you doing? Didn’t we agree yesterday to go to the mountains together to burn incense and pray for an awesome Si Ming Heavenly Object Awakening tomorrow? Why didn’t you come?”
“I already burned it.”
“Huh?”
“Electronic incense burning.”
The swivel chair turned halfway, and a beam of sunlight leaked through the curtains, falling on Jin Feichen.
The young man leaned lazily in the chair, playing with a silver blank card in his hand. His face was as handsome as jade, his nose high and straight, his deep eyes like a secluded spring under the moon, his slightly curled dark hair fell over his forehead, and there was a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, making him almost exquisitely beautiful.
“You’re really something, you probably don’t know, but because of that incident, Zhao Ming has already declared that after the Awakening tomorrow, he wants to go to the Dead Pool with you.”
“Is that so.” Jin Feichen looked at the card in his hand and suddenly smiled, “That’s truly a sad thing.”
“You can still smile, hurry up and burn some incense, and pray that you can Awaken an Advanced combat Heavenly Object tomorrow. That Zhao Ming has already achieved a Breakthrough into the Destiny Realm with the medicine his family gave him. If you don’t hurry, the King of Hell will be in a hurry.”
“Dead Pool… if I refuse, will it have a big impact?”
“Sigh, every year, new students who Awaken will have PKs there. Most who are invited don’t refuse. If they refuse… it’s just embarrassing, nothing serious. Why, do you want to refuse?”
The person on the other end of the phone was a bit confused to hear Jin Feichen ask this.
“Then you say…” Jin Feichen paused, looking at the constantly pinging signal on the game screen on his computer, and suddenly said, “If I kill Zhao Ming today, won’t I have all these troubles tomorrow?”
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“Hello, you, you, what did you say?”
The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, then a broken, slightly trembling voice came through, sounding very flustered.
“Hahahaha.” Jin Feichen suddenly burst out laughing, “I’m just kidding, you didn’t actually believe it, did you, hahahaha.”
“You scared me to death, kid, you must have read too many novels. You really made my body tremble.”
The person on the other end let out a sigh of relief and said with a dry laugh.
“Alright, go burn your incense, I still have things to do, so that’s it.”
With that, Jin Feichen ignored the shouts from the other side and directly hung up the phone.
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“It’s already been eighteen years…”
Jin Feichen kicked the wall, and using the wheels under his chair, he moved backward.
Slumped in his chair, the silver card flipping deftly between his fingers, Jin Feichen looked up blankly at the ceiling, the past like a dream.
In professional terms, he was a Transmigrator, having come from the former Earth to this equally blue planet, which was many times larger than Earth, with a population as numerous as the stars.
Here, there was familiar technological civilization, and also unfamiliar Si Ming Heavenly Objects.
Thousands of years ago, dimensional rifts opened, alien races invaded, and Weird Beast rampaged.
They swept across the entire world with overwhelming force, technology was no longer omnipotent, and universal harmony was no longer the final Pandora.
And at the very last moment, it was as if the heavens had not seen enough of this Gu war, scattering Spiritual Qi and bestowing “Si Ming Heavenly Objects.”
Si Ming Heavenly Objects are the innate Heavenly Objects contained within every human body, governing a person’s five internal organs and countless meridians. They are powerful, sacred, and even more mysterious.
Humans were able to contend with them, until modern times. The old era has passed, and now is a new era.
Humans have contended with alien races and Weird Beast for thousands of years, and countless nations have become the burial objects of a fallen era.
And there were also nations that broke through the encirclement, forming the current New Era, redefining rules, and writing history.
In this world, everyone will Awaken their unique Si Ming Heavenly Object through a ritual in their 18th natural year after birth.
Through generations of evolution, Great Xia finally set this day on June 10th each year, which was the college entrance examination of the old era.
Soaring to the sky, the fall of a Genius, a fish leaping over the Dragon Gate—such things happen every year, abundantly.
The result of the Awakening represents a person’s future. A mere few tens of seconds can render all of a person’s efforts futile, or it can allow a lazy good-for-nothing to welcome spring with open arms.
