The breeze carried the scent of flowers, blowing into the ward from outside the window, mixing with the smell of disinfectant to form a peculiar odor.
"If I had mortgaged my house in September and used the money to buy at the stock market bottom, I could have just laid flat!"
A voice of regret came from Jiang Chuan's mouth.
In a daze, Jiang Chuan opened his eyes.
A white ceiling, an LED light fixture covered in dust.
Jiang Chuan suddenly sat up and looked around.
A cyan floor, an old beige bedside table, and a pile of snacks placed on the bedside table.
"Wasn't Nandu First People's Hospital demolished six years ago?"
Jiang Chuan was slightly stunned, then raised his hand and looked at his bandaged left hand and arm, filled with surprise.
"I've been reborn! I've been reborn to the day I was hit by Lu Yi at the start of my first year of high school!"
On September 1st, the first day of high school, Jiang Chuan was hit by the red car driven by Lu Ping on his way to school.
Fortunately, because Lu Ping wasn't driving fast, Jiang Chuan only suffered a slight concussion and skin damage to his left arm and left leg.
However, due to concerns about internal organ damage, Lu Ping still arranged for Jiang Chuan to be hospitalized for treatment.
"Reborn at fifteen, this time I can definitely buy at the bottom of the A-shares!"
"My understanding of the stock market only came after graduating from university. Before graduation, I had no idea which stocks would surge."
"Do I have to wait seven years? No, I have to find other ways to make money and achieve 'laying flat' sooner."
"But how should I make money?"
Industries such as real estate, automobiles, chain stores, and live streaming floated one by one in Jiang Chuan's mind.
"Jiang Chuan, guess what I brought you?"
With a creak, the ward door opened, and a young man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a buzz cut, wearing a blue and white striped school uniform, walked quickly into the ward with a canvas backpack.
"Dongzi, thank you, thank your ancestors for eight generations! Thank you for bringing me the textbooks!" Jiang Chuan said irritably.
He clearly remembered that in his previous life, to make sure he, who was recovering, also tasted the bitterness of studying, Wei Dong, his best friend who lived in the same community and grew up with him since childhood...
Not only brought him the new textbooks issued at the start of school but also 'thoughtfully' gave him his notes and urged him to complete the homework assigned by the teacher.
Wei Dong threw the canvas bag beside Jiang Chuan, picked up the potato chips on the bedside table, and tore them open.
"Volume 1 of Great Sun God Art, 'Practical Coordination of Hot Weapons and Cultivators', and 'Contemporary Cultivator Training Manual' are all in the bag. Take them yourself."
Jiang Chuan: ???
Are you sure you're talking about high school courses?
"As for the elective books like 'Basic Array Formations', 'One Hundred Simple Talismans', and 'New Era Alchemy', if you want to take any electives, you can apply to the teacher yourself when you return to school."
After Wei Dong finished speaking, he tilted his head back and started pouring potato chips into his mouth.
"Dongzi, I was just hit by a car, not hit by a car and turned into an idiot."
Jiang Chuan raised his right hand and pointed to his head: "The required high school courses are Chinese, Math, and English, and the electives are History, Geography, and so on."
Wei Dong's eyes widened: "You've even forgotten what you're studying in high school, and you still dare to say you weren't hit and turned into an idiot?"
Then Wei Dong took out his phone, opened the browser, and put it in front of Jiang Chuan.
A man appeared on the phone screen. The man wore black armor, had sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, and his gaze was as brilliant as the stars.
Most striking was that seven long swords of different colors floated beside the man.
At the man's feet, there was also a gigantic beast, like a small mountain, shaped like a leopard, but with seven huge horns.
"You said before that the person you admired most was the Seven Sword Kings, and that you would definitely become a top expert in Great Xia like the Seven Sword Kings in the future, protecting the safety of Great Xia. Have you forgotten all that?"
Looking at the large headline 'Seven Sword Kings Slay Seventh Realm Demon King' at the top of the browser, a thought surfaced in Jiang Chuan's mind.
Jiang Chuan quickly picked up Wei Dong's phone and started looking.
"May 3rd, a giant beast about three thousand meters long, shaped like a whale, stirred up monstrous waves, destroying the port city of Osaka in the Fusang Kingdom, causing over 100,000 deaths and affecting over 600,000 people."
"June 18th, France dispatched 10,000 troops, expended one million-ton equivalent nuclear warhead, one hundred and twenty cruise missiles, lost twenty fighter jets, and cooperated with two hundred Cultivators to successfully kill a Blood Sea Divine Sect Elder who had sacrificed 100,000 people."
"August 27th, a giant beast known by netizens as the 'Golden Reaper', measuring a thousand meters long and resembling the Golden-Winged Great Peng bird from myths and legends, swept across the sky above Nandu. Fortunately, its aggressiveness was not strong, and after being resisted for five minutes by Nandu's strongest expert Sun Yanfeng, three hundred Cultivators, and a fighter jet Formation, it spread its wings and departed."
"......"
The more Jiang Chuan read, the more solemn his expression became. After a long while, he put down the phone and rubbed his temples.
"I wasn't reborn, but transmigrated! And I transmigrated to such a dangerous world!"
This world was very similar to the history, technology, and civilization before Jiang Chuan transmigrated, but decades ago, with the descent of immortal light, the Ancient Immortals awoke from their slumber, causing earth-shattering changes.
The immortal light brought extraordinary factors, which Cultivators called spiritual energy.
Under the nourishment of the extraordinary factors, the original wild beasts continuously mutated, becoming the Demon Beasts that Cultivators spoke of.
Powerful Demon Beasts could not only withstand missiles but even tear apart aircraft carriers and destroy a small country!
At the same time, some Demon Immortals who had awakened from slumber viewed human lives as worthless and wantonly slaughtered civilians for cultivation.
Under the double blow, the population of Earth Star sharply decreased.
The population of Great Xia was directly reduced by half, and small countries like Nanyue were almost annihilated.
Fortunately, humans gained the cultivation methods of Ancient Immortals by exploring Ancient Immortal ruins and with the help of some Ancient Immortals friendly to humans, stepping onto the path of cultivation.
Coupled with the vigorous investment in weapons and technology research by various countries, humanity was not exterminated by Demon Beasts and Demon Immortals.
"I'm just an ordinary person who wanted to lie flat, live a life of just eating and waiting to die, carefree and without worries. How did I transmigrate to such a world?!"
"Can I please go back!"
"Baldy Brother! Old Taoist Brother! I beg you to show your divine power! Send me back!"
Jiang Chuan screamed wildly in his heart, but no gods or buddhas responded to him.
"Alas!"
After a moment, Jiang Chuan sighed deeply, opened Wei Dong's canvas backpack, and took out the three books from inside.
Wei Dong, who had eaten five bags of snacks, patted his belly and picked up his backpack.
"Jiang Chuan, I'm going home for dinner."
After saying that, Wei Dong got up and left the ward.
When he reached the entrance of Nandu First Hospital, Wei Dong suddenly remembered.
"I forgot to give Jiang Chuan the notes, but with the hidden language in the cultivation method, if he checks online a bit, he should understand the meaning."
The cultivation methods and Taoist scriptures of the Ancient Immortals were all written using hidden language, such as 'Heaven's Gate' meaning the nose, and 'Earth's Door' meaning the mouth.
Without understanding the hidden language, one couldn't even grasp the true meaning of the cultivation methods and Taoist scriptures, let alone Cultivate them successfully.
"Extract the essence of Dari (Great Sun), store it within oneself, and transform it for one's own use..."
Jiang Chuan casually picked up an apple from the cabinet, and while eating it, he flipped through Volume 1 of Great Sun God Art.
Great Sun God Art is one of the best cultivation methods Great Xia obtained from the Ancient Immortals. Because it's easy to start, and one can switch to other cultivation methods before achieving great success, it was ultimately promoted throughout Great Xia.
The sun set in the west, and the afterglow of the setting sun spilled in from the window, illuminating Jiang Chuan's well-defined features.
Throwing the banana peel in his hand into the trash can, Jiang Chuan swallowed the banana in his mouth, his eyes filled with excitement.
"Extracting the essence of Dari (Great Sun) and bringing it into my body to transform it into my own magic power, this Great Sun God Art is truly too powerful!"
"Once I Cultivate Great Sun God Art, I will definitely be able to survive in this dangerous world!"
As soon as Jiang Chuan thought about the possibility of Demon Beasts attacking or Demon Immortals coming to take his life at any moment, he couldn't wait to start cultivating Great Sun God Art.
"Perceive the essence of Dari (Great Sun) with one's mind, and then devour the essence of Dari (Great Sun)..."
Jiang Chuan closed his eyes tightly, calming his mind and concentrating on perceiving the essence of Dari (Great Sun) in the air.
Light spots of various colors like red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, like a dazzling starry sky, appeared in Jiang Chuan's mind.
"Dari (Great Sun) is the most rigid and most yang. These golden light spots should be the essence of Dari (Great Sun), or rather, the extraordinary factors born from the combination of Dari (Great Sun) energy and immortal light."
While thinking, Jiang Chuan circulated Great Sun God Art, absorbing the golden extraordinary factors.
In an instant, Jiang Chuan felt as if he was soaking in a warm hot spring, feeling warm all over.
Wisps of warm current followed his pores, Drill into his body, continuously moving and circulating within his body.
The scabs on his wounds began to peel off, revealing smooth skin.
As time passed, when all the scabs on Jiang Chuan's body had peeled off, the warm currents in his body gathered into a stream as thick as a baby's arm, flowing into his Dantian.
Opening his eyes, Jiang Chuan removed the bandage and looked at his smooth left hand, sighing: "Is this cultivation? It's truly amazing!"
"Not only have my injuries healed, but I also feel much stronger."
"Great Sun God Art truly lives up to its name of 'Slaying Gods'. It's so miraculous even at the initial stage of cultivation. How powerful will I be when I Cultivate it to great success?"
Creak!
Just then, the ward door opened again, and a nurse wearing a white coat and a mask walked into the ward.
"My urinary System wasn't damaged, you don't need to take me for an examination."
Jiang Chuan felt that wasting several hours on a urinary System examination, just like before he transmigrated, was less worthwhile than continuing to Cultivate.
"Since that collision didn't kill you, this sacrifice, I will personally send you on your way and offer you to the great Blood Sea Demon Immortal!"
The nurse took out a dagger from her pocket, her eyes flashing with cold light, and pounced on Jiang Chuan like a leopard.