Canglan Continent, East Continent, Lanyang County, Qing Shi City.
At the end of a wide avenue in the city center stood a majestic mansion.
On either side of the entrance were a pair of imposing stone lions, and two guards holding long spears continuously scanned the passing pedestrians with sharp gazes.
The words "Ye Family" were prominently written on the plaque above the main gate.
At this moment, the back hall of the Ye Family was enveloped in a solemn atmosphere mixed with sorrow.
In the center of the hall lay a middle-aged man on a jade bed three feet wide and six feet long, his eyes tightly shut, his breath faint as a thread, seemingly on the verge of death at any moment.
The Eight Great Elders of the Ye Family stood in eight directions, still channeling spiritual energy into him, maintaining his flickering breath.
A crowd knelt below, including men, women, old, and young; the oldest looked fifty or sixty, the youngest only three or five.
As for those older, they lacked Spiritual Roots and couldn't Cultivate, thus relegated to the collateral branches and not participating in major clan affairs.
Inside the hall, women and children couldn't hide their sorrow and began to sob softly, making the atmosphere in the hall even more oppressive.
"What's going on? Where am I? Did I transmigrate? Wasn't I looking at my phone when it exploded? Damn that fruit-brand phone," Ye Xuan muttered in his heart.
He was right; he had transmigrated.
He was originally an ordinary office worker on Blue Star, thirty years old without a girlfriend.
His parents were true country folk.
From graduation and starting work until now, he was still a 'three noes' person: no house, no car, no girlfriend.
He was blown over while scrolling on his phone in his rental room at night.
At the moment the original owner's breath dissipated, he seized the opportunity and transmigrated into the original owner's body.
Just as he was about to open his eyes to see the outside world, a flood of complex memories surged into his mind.
It turned out the original owner was also named Ye Xuan and was the current Clan Leader of the Ye Family.
This world was called the Canglan Continent.
The Canglan Continent was divided into five continents: East Continent, South Continent, West Continent, North Continent, and Central Continent.
The five continents were separated by an endless ocean.
In the depths of the ocean, fine, thread-like gale winds blew constantly, making it difficult for low-level Cultivators to pass.
If one was accidentally swept in, they would be cut into pieces and then fall to become snacks for sea beasts.
The Ye Family was located in the East Continent, Lanyang County, Qing Shi City, the easternmost part of the East Continent near the sea, where spiritual energy was thinnest.
Sea beasts would occasionally come ashore to harass the area.
The cultivation Realms on the Canglan Continent were divided into nine major stages: Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Violet Palace Realm, Nascent Soul, God Transformation Realm, Fa Xiang (Dharma Appearance), Life and Death, Combining Dao Realm, and Tribulation Transcendence.
Each Realm was further divided into one to nine layers.
Cultivators reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm could live up to two hundred years.
Violet Palace Realm Cultivators could live up to five hundred years.
Nascent Soul Realm Cultivators could live up to one thousand years.
God Transformation Realm Cultivators could live up to two thousand years.
Fa Xiang (Dharma Appearance) Realm Cultivators could live up to five thousand years.
Life and Death Realm Cultivators could live up to eight thousand years.
Combining Dao Realm Cultivators could live up to fifteen thousand years.
Tribulation Transcendence Realm Cultivators could live up to thirty thousand years.
Continental powers were divided into grades one to six, with grade six being the lowest and grade one the highest.
Below grade six were the unranked powers.
According to the memories, the overlord of the East Continent was the grade two power Xuan Yi Sect, which ruled the entire East Continent.
Below that was the grade three power Great Qin Dynasty, which governed thirty-six counties, including Lanyang County where the Ye Family was located.
Due to Lanyang County's remote location, it was controlled by a grade four power, the Star Picking Sect.
However, they had to hand over two-tenths of their resources to the Great Qin Dynasty every year.
Lanyang County was vast and boundless, governing sixty-four cities and various mountains, rivers, and lakes, comparable to a large continent on Blue Star.
Below the Star Picking Sect were eight grade five powers located in various corners of Lanyang County.
The Great Desolation Sect was one of them, and its sphere of influence included Qing Shi City.
As he slowly absorbed the memories, Ye Xuan roughly understood the world he was in.
This was a fantasy world where cultivation to a certain level allowed flight, and high-level Cultivators could even move mountains and fill seas.
"Cultivators, sword flight... Novels didn't lie to me! I also want to dominate the ages once!" Ye Xuan thought happily in his heart.
Then he gave up on the idea.
Transmigrating into someone who was heavily injured and near death, whether he could even survive was an unknown.
He searched the original owner's memories for the cause of the injury.
It turned out the original owner, Ye Xuan, was besieged by several Violet Palace Realm families while vying for a precious spiritual fruit, the Scarlet Blood Fruit.
Ultimately, his Dao foundation was shattered, his Meridians severed.
He used the last bit of spiritual energy in his body to painstakingly return to the Family, and it had been seven days now.
At this moment, the Great Elder by the jade bed scanned the seven other Elders around him, slowly shook his head, and withdrew his hands that were channeling spiritual energy.
Seeing the Elders' expressions and actions, the hall was filled with rising and falling sobs and cries, calling out,
"Clan Leader!" "Clan Leader!"
Ye Xuan was the most talented clansman of the Ye Family in the past hundred years.
Even in the East Continent, he was a peerless Genius appearing once in a century.
Many Sects and dynasties had invited him, but he had no intention of joining, unable to abandon the Ye Family that had given birth to and raised him.
He reached the Violet Palace Realm at twenty-five, and at thirty-two, he was already at Violet Palace Realm, eighth layer, and was also a Sword Cultivator.
The Ye Family primarily focused on the path of the sword.
Ye Xuan had brought the Ye Family to its current height single-handedly, even helping the Eight Great Elders advance to the Violet Palace Realm.
They were a true grade six Family power, becoming the overlords of Qing Shi City.
It could be said that the Ye Family was the absolute authority in Qing Shi City.
If Ye Xuan, this great tree, truly fell, the Ye Family would be suppressed, destroyed, and divided by the surrounding grade six powers.
After all, when a wall falls, everyone pushes it.
Because when Ye Xuan rose, he had offended many surrounding powers.
It was simply because Ye Xuan's rise was too fast.
Among them, several powers also saw him as a threat and believed he couldn't be allowed to live, wanting to join forces to kill him.
However, each had their own intentions and didn't deploy their strongest forces, causing that plan to fail.
After Ye Xuan escaped, he became even more vigilant, rarely appearing before others, leaving them with no way to act.
After Ye Xuan grew up, he became unpredictable, defeating them one by one, suppressing them so they couldn't raise their heads.
Various large and small powers around held grudges against Ye Xuan and the Ye Family, simply because Ye Xuan alone suppressed everyone.
The crying in the hall grew louder and louder, and even the few Elders standing nearby had tears in their eyes.
Ye Xuan heard the surrounding sounds and felt the warm current in his body dissipating, making his heavily damaged body even weaker.
He wanted to open his eyes, but couldn't.
He wanted to open his mouth to speak, but that was even more impossible.
He could only receive external information.
Anxiously, he shouted inwardly: "No! Don't give up! I can still be saved! Save me! I just transmigrated a few minutes ago, haven't done anything, and I'm going to die again?
Isn't this playing with me?
Golden Finger, right, Golden Finger! System, are you there?"
No response.
"Grandpa Ring!"
No response.
"What's going on? Isn't a Golden Finger a must for Transmigration?"
"System!" "System!"
Just as Ye Xuan was calling for a Golden Finger, the Great Elder in the hall suppressed his grief, raised his hands, and pressed them down.
Instantly, the hall quieted down, leaving only scattered sobs.
