In an endless dark space filled with nothing but emptiness.
The only light source in this endless space is billions of white lights heading in a certain direction in an organized manner.
These white lights are the souls of the dead. The brighter the light means that the person has done a lot of good deeds and will likely have a prosperous future in their next life.
The souls are all heading towards the reincarnation gate to get their souls purified before being born in different worlds.
Purifying souls means that any possible memories of their past life or resentment will be removed.
Amidst the billions of souls, a certain soul shines the brightest, and this soul is Chen Fen, a 34-year-old virgin man who led a boring life yet was filled with kindness and loved by everyone for his hardworking nature. He is always happy and never complains.
Well, that's what he thought until he realized that people were taking his kindness for granted and only using him for personal gains; no one met him unless they needed his help, and even his boss made him work overtime without extra pay.
This made him become an otaku, quitting his job and disconnecting himself from everyone.
And now he suddenly finds himself here.
"Huh? Where am I? Wait! Why can't I see anything or feel anything at all? My thinking feels slow. "
"Have I gone blind?" "No, that's not right, or maybe I am kidnapped and at the back of a truck, all tied up, with a blindfold over my face."
"No, this can't be right either. If I was kidnapped, I would still feel things around me right now, but I feel nothing. The last thing I remembered was laying on my bed before falling asleep after playing one of the best online MMORPG anime games in the world. Man, I whooped those guys' butts".
Even in this state, he felt strangely calm, and because his thoughts were now extremely slow, it was then he realized.
"Craap, am I dead?! Well, this explains everything. " For a moment, he felt like panicking but remained calm when a golden light was shining upon his soul. He felt at ease and comfortable.
The queue for the reincarnation gate was long, but it only took a few hours to get to Chen Fen's turn, which felt like ages since he was dying of boredom.
Chen Fen's soul floated into the reincarnation gate and a sudden flash of white light shone upon him. This was the purifying process. The golden light that comforted him earlier was also protecting him from the purifying light.
"What happened? Just now, I suddenly felt like something was trying to be taken away from me forcefully while making me feel sleepy".
The space in the reincarnation gate got distorted, twisting the space in circles and forming something similar to that of a vortex, ready to teleport Chen Fen's soul away, oblivious that Chen Fen's soul wasn't purified.
Chen Fen's soul got wrapped around it and sucked in.
"Waaaa," the little soul screamed.
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It's been twelve years now since Chen Fen was reincarnated into this world, the world of cultivators.
He was born as a little child and named after his previous life name, coincidentally.
Chen Fen had decided to forget about his past life and focus on his new life ever since he discovered that this is a cultivation era world, where people can cultivate and become immortals, capable of flipping mountains like pancakes and splitting the ocean into two as if it's paper. He too wanted to be a cultivator to survive in this world.
When he was seven, his village perished in a mighty monster tide, and his parents sacrificed their lives to make him escape. Ever since then, he has been moved from street to street just to survive.
"Now that I am twelve years of age, I can finally join a sect." He said, standing in front of a huge gate with the words, "Heavenly Way Sect."
The clothing he wore was ragged. He wore a torn glove, exposing his five fingers, and a brown cape that had stitches of different patterns on it. He wore no footwear. His appearance was not different from that of a beggar, which made him stand out in the crowd.
"Seeing this crowd, it's a good thing I wore my best outfit today," he said happily.
Within a few minutes, more people began to gather, wanting to join the sect also.
Everyone stood in front of the Heavenly Way Sect gate waiting for it to be opened.
"Wow, I cannot believe that lots of people want to join the sect," Chen Fen said, as he noticed that the crowd had become larger and rowdier.
"Wow, I can't believe that the heavenly way sect gate will finally be opened."
"Yeah, I heard that they are accepting disciples today."
"Surely this young master doesn't want to miss this rare opportunity."
A lot of people began to murmur among themselves.
"Fool, make way for this young master," a man who was dressed elegantly said as he stood in front of Chen Fen.
"Huh?" Chen Fen decided to play dumb. This was not his first time finding himself in such a situation.
Judging from the boy's outfit and the guards behind him, he is probably from a third-rate family clan.
"Are you deaf, peasant?" the boy asked.
"Oh no, is that not the Zhou family clan?"
"Wait, you mean the clan that rose from nothing and suddenly became a third-rate clan?"
"Poor boy, what did he do in his past life to meet Zhou Long?"
"Those clans are known to bully the weak." the crowd began to discuss as they watched the drama that is about to happen.
"Oh, it's the young master of the Zhou clan, but pardon me for saying young master, but this isn't your clan territory, so don't act rashly," Chen Fen said.
"It seems that your mother didn't teach you how to spell the word death." Zhou Long said angrily, tensing his fist at Chen Fen.
"Young master, please calm down." "If you cause a commotion in front of the heavenly way front gate, you might anger the sect patriarch," the guard behind him quickly bowed and reminded Zhou long before he allowed his anger to take over him.
"Hmph, this bastard didn't give me any face, but for the heavenly way sect, I will allow this to slide, but if he dares," Zhou Long said with a clear hidden threat in his tone.
"Well, at least the dog in your family is reasonable," Chen Fen said, mocking him.
The guard was trying his best not to kill Chen Fen right this very moment, but Zhou Long was already been pissed off.
"Courting death!" Zhou Long yelled. He was already in the air with his fist raised high, ready to hit Chen Fen's face.
Zhou Long was irritated.
"This kid is all mouth, no action."
"He is a frog in the well. He doesn't know how vast the world is.
"Poor kid, he can't probably survive this."
The crowd had already predicted Chen Fen's outcome.
"Enough!" A loud voice could be heard that contained an unfathomable aura.
Everyone cowered in fear. Zhou Long, whose fist was about to hit Chen Fen, had to pause mid-way, suffering a few backlashes from the aura that sent him crashing to the ground.
Chen Fen thought 'Phew, finally, if this man was any later or my prediction was wrong, I would not probably survive this guy's attack,' Chen Fen thought, feeling relieved.
Let's begin the disciple's trial!! The elderly man shouted, his voice sounding across the crowd.