Yang Fan's soul travelled through space-time until he finally landed in someone's body, as expected, he also shared the name Yang Fan and was a young master of the Yang clan, where his father was the clan leader, his clan was one of the three great clans in CloudSoaring City, Yang, Lin and Feng, the three clans kept each other in balance but the commoners didn't receive that privilege, they were kept under their thumbs, however, if it was just those three families chaos would ensue, there was also the Heavenly Dragon sect in which all clans hoped to place their youths.
Yang Fan has a talent that is rarely seen in a hundred years, yes that's right, 'has' there isn't a clan that secretly destroyed his talent, why would such a backwater city have the methods to destroy someone's talent, instead the clan elders, who were aspiring for the clan leader position like all clan elders, planted a spy inside his guards and then killed him.
That was most of the information Yang Fan gained from devouring the original Yang Fan's soul that was meant to ascend to heaven, after all, if he managed to ascend, how would he know his situation? So Yang Fan then occupied the body and from what he gained he realised that he was in the CloudSoaring Mountain Range where mortals would definitely die and Qi Refining cultivators would suffer.
They dumped him here and they killed his father as well, Yang Fan wasn't bothered but the original was, his pent up feelings of anger were raging throughout his body and Yang Fan felt it was troublesome so... He just devoured all the originals emotions, he wasn't like those stupid mc's who would then try to destroy the clan, the clan elders didn't announce the betrayal as they would lose 'face.'
He used that to his advantage to enter the city in an arrogant manner then instantly hid himself, as he gazed around the vibrant and inviting structures and saw two moons in the sky, he once again bitterly concluded that he was in a different world.
He reminisced about his short time in this world but then thought in wonder, 'how on earth was I able to devour his soul and emotions!' he immediately thought of two words, 'golden finger!' he then calmed down and wished for it not to be a stupid system that would issue him ridiculous requests.
He felt a warm feeling flowing throughout his body, he searched for the source and was shocked to find that there was a ring on his finger with a piece of diamond from the Star of Sierra Leone! He thought it got destroyed during the travel? His thoughts then moved to the warm feeling, he was astonished to find that his cultivation increased from 6th level Qi Refining to 7th! He was only 14 years old this year so it was astonishing that he was already at the 6th level, then again he was near a bottleneck anyway.
He then thought back to his former actions, what does the ring even do? He then remembered that he devoured Yang Fan's soul and pent up emotions, this meant the ring gained energy from things he devoured! Yang Fan quickly looked through his memories of reading novels then suddenly cut his finger and dropped blood on the ring, it suddenly glowed and then he was amazed when he noticed there was a storage space inside.
The space was thousands of times larger than the highest quality storage ring in the Yang Clan, he wasn't really suprised as he would be concerned if it wasn't due to it's already extraordinary abilities, he wasn't scared that his family would notice that he was alive as the one who killed the original was a clan elder and if they actually sent someone to watch the gate that clan elder would be offended.
He used his Qi to check the inside of the ring and was suprised to find all the things he stole and his gear inside, he just blamed it on the profoundness of the ring, he suddenly had a great idea.
He took out a famous jade that he stole from the Chinese national museum and he...
Devoured it! Of course he wouldn't normally do something so thoughtless, but he felt a sense of longing towards the jade from the ring, so he devoured it, some may start laughing ecstatically but he was still expressionless.
If he started doing that rumours would spread that the young master of the Yang Clan was crazy, it wasn't that he cared about reputation, but his family would then be alarmed, and that would be his own end.
He wasn't worried that the clan would find out about him from his dramatic entrance either as that was how the original usually entered and the commoners had better things to do than gossip about the young masters, Yang Fan wasn't going to directly get revenge as he couldn't be bothered.
Instead, he planned to steal all the treasures of the 3 clans and maybe try his luck with the Heavenly Dragon sect, he quickly abandoned that thought as the grand elder of the sect, although half dead, was a half step core formation cultivator, this was also why the three clans were kept in check, after all, their ancestors were only at the 7th realm of Foundation building.
It was through this information that he was also sure that he was in a backwater clan and that there were probably some geniuses on the other side of the Qinglong continent who were already at foundation building at his age, but unlike others, he wasn't going to follow the generic plot.
He had tested his stealth skills in this world and was pleasantly suprised to find that even 9th stage Qi refining cultivators were oblivious to his presence, as for why he didn't do that to the city guard, was because they were foundation building cultivators, after all, it wouldn't make sense to put weak people at the wall, when the fate of the people inside depend on it.
He gained a little more confidence in his plan but focused on devouring the piece of jade, it only took around five seconds, he was even more confident in his plan as his skills seemed to improve every time he gained more cultivation, he obviously didn't step into the 8th level as it would be too overpowered.
He went from the initial stage of the 7th level and jumped a stage to reach the late stage, he only had around twenty pieces of treasure at the rarity of the jade, and only 5 that were even rarer, he had many miscellaneous pieces of treasure that he could use as normal cultivation resources, and all he needed were martial skills.
Each Clan had their own signature martial skills, for the Yang Clam they had the Roaring Tiger Fist, the Lin Clan has the Flowing Ice Palm and the Feng Clan has the Finger of heaven and earth, of course, they had a myriad of martial skills, like movement skills and cultivation scriptures but those were the mainstream ones, he would be sure to 'borrow' some from them as well.
The skills he used from his old life could be classified as such, if they were used in conjunction with the Qi of heaven and earth, that also explains why his original skills become stronger as he does because he exhibits purer Qi when he becomes stronger.
The Qi that he receives from the ring is much more purer than even that old fogey, his ancestor who he has only seen once, this also explains why he can hide from higher leveled cultivators, he found an inconspicuous Inn and silently made his way out of the deserted alley and towards the Inn.
He heard some interesting news from the commoners about how, Lin Fan, the original trash young master of the Lin Clan, seemed to turn around overnight, he no longer abused and raped women and even crippled his cousin Lin Feiyue when he tried to sell his maid to the brothel.
They also exclaimed that the Lin Clan came up with a new pill that was making them prosper much more than the other two clans, they were making much more revenue through the Qi Gathering pill, at first, Yang Fan thought he also came from earth or a different planet.
When he heard the new pill nonsense by a mysterious alchemist, he knew that Lin Fan probably came back from the past and knew a lot of juicy things, this greatly enticed him as he made plans to devour his soul when he was still weak.
He then worriedly thought that Lin Fan would know about his arrival but all of a sudden the ring sent a wave of information to his brain, he was greatly relieved when he found that he came from a different space-time continuum and Lin Fan had no knowledge about him.
From what he knew Lin Feiyue was trash at cultivation as he was only at the 2nd level of Qi Refining when he was already 15, although he was pretty useless, he was the son of a clan elder and had abundant resources, however, he still lost to Lin Fan who was only a mortal? Yang Fan estimated his strength and thought he could beat him.
He wouldn't underestimate him though, but he could already guess that Lin Feiyue's father would seek revenge, not openly, but through others, after all, Lin Fan was only a mortal, and he was a clan elder, it would be a huge loss of face if he were to try something.
Yang Fan felt Lin Fan was probably the protagonist and it would be troublesome to leave him alive, so he made the decision to devour him, he entered the Inn with a disguise and glanced at the beautiful clerk.
He wasn't fazed however and asked in a deep voice, "How much for a room and for some dinner?" she glanced at him and sweetly replied, "Twenty copper for a room and 5 for some breakfast." When Yang Fan awakened, he had no money as the elder scavenged his body so he had to pickpocket a few commoners on the way here. He had some dinner then fell asleep, exhausted for what he had to go through.
While sleeping he still wasn't idle and planned out countless scenarios that could take place in tomorrow's escapade, he already had a genius plan and was going to act on it.