Ding ding ding, ding ding ding.
The alarm clock rang, and Ye Die Die reflexively turned it off, then sternly told herself to sleep for another five minutes. But when she opened her eyes again, half an hour had already passed...
Realizing she was about to be late for work, Ye Die Die quickly washed her face and brushed her teeth within a minute, then hopped on her electric scooter and rushed out.
The morning rush hour was no joke, with the crowd bustling about. Parents sending their children to school, people jaywalking and running red lights.
Seeing that the green light was about to end and remembering her imminent lateness, Ye Die Die accelerated to the maximum speed, just crossing the middle of the road.
Suddenly, the entire sky turned dark. She turned her head and saw a massive truck charging towards her...
Ye Die Die was one of the thousands of ordinary people. Her high school grades were always at the bottom of the class, and even after making an effort in the last half year, she could only attend a vocational college.
She didn't achieve anything remarkable in college either. After three years, she could only find a job in a factory.
She bought a small house in this stress-free small city and aimlessly drifted through the past twenty years.
"It seems like I'm going to die. Well, this mediocre life isn't really meaningful anyway, it's just that my mother..."
That was Ye Die Die's final thought before she felt herself losing consciousness.
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A thousand miles of clear sky, the sunshine radiant. Spring's arrival made even the sun squint.
The tender green leaves, the thin mist and light fog of the fields, resembled her clothing.
With the rhythm of her spring steps, the green grass emerged from the soil, almost standing on its tiptoes.
Colorful flowers bloomed one after another. Within the petals of one flower, a transparent butterfly lay perched.
This transparent butterfly, in order to protect itself from being discovered by other creatures, struggled to conceal its form.
The butterfly on the flower opened its eyes and looked around, revealing a human-like confusion in its gaze.
"Hmm?"
"I'm not dead? Where am I? Why are the flowers so big?"
"Huh? Where are my hands?"
After a while of adjusting, Ye Die Die realized that she hadn't died, but had somehow transformed into a butterfly.
"So, I've traveled through time? Since the heavens have given me a chance at a new life, I must live it well. I can't remain as mediocre as I was in my previous life."
Ye Die Die encouraged herself silently. After a moment of adaptation, she looked around and found herself on a large flower.
"I wonder if this world is the same as my previous one," Ye Die Die pondered.
Suddenly, a large rat scurried past from underneath the flower. Ye Die Die looked down carefully.
The rat was truly huge, she wasn't sure if she had become smaller or if the rat was genuinely enormous.
The rat exposed its large front teeth and bit towards a side of the flower, trying to create a path.
"Thank goodness it's not biting the side I'm on, or else I'd be done for," Ye Die Die thought.
Watching the scene, Ye Die Die realized that she had just arrived after the time travel and hadn't figured out her situation yet. She hadn't even adapted to her new body, so she couldn't fly.
"Hurry, hurry! It's rare to come across a Hundred-Year Devouring Golden Rat spirit beast. I've been keeping an eye on it for a long time, waiting for it to comprehend devouring."
"The young master's martial soul happens to be a beast martial soul of the rodent type. This spirit beast can be his first spirit ring. Quick, chase after it."
Shortly after the large rat left, a group of people ran after its tracks while talking.
Among this group were four men and a young boy. They protected the young boy, and each of these men had several spirit rings surrounding them.
Ye Die Die observed these people cautiously. The visible spirit rings were all yellow. Besides the young boy, each man had two yellow spirit rings around them.
They didn't stay long with Ye Die Die and followed the trail of the Golden Rat.
However, certain words from their conversation lingered in Ye Die Die's mind.
"Hundred-Year spirit beast? Beast martial soul? Spirit ring?"
"Have I traveled to a fantasy world? Or is it a world with martial souls? Could it be the world of Douluo Continent?"
Ye Die Die muttered to herself. She was familiar with the book "Douluo Continent."
During its peak popularity, she had read and been deeply captivated by it.
Ye Die Die not only finished reading the first installment of Douluo Continent but also read the second one. However, she hadn't continued reading the later volumes.
At that time, she was busy with the struggles of life and naturally didn't have time to read. However, she still had a general memory of the book in her mind.
For Ye Die Die, the most captivating characters in the book were not the protagonist Tang San, but Xiao Wu, Ah Yin, Bibi Dong, Qian Renxue, and others.
Back then, it felt like she saw her own life reflected in the novel. These characters captivated her, making her eager to meet them.
However, life ultimately defeated her, and it all remained a fantasy. She never expected to have crossed over into the world of Douluo Continent.
After understanding her situation, Ye Die Die made even greater efforts to disguise herself.
Upon careful thought, although she treated the novel as a source of entertainment, she only realized how dangerous this world could be once she actually found herself in it.
The soul beast she had transformed into after crossing over was the Illusion Butterfly. The only soul skill she could sense herself using was Disguise, concealing her own form to avoid being discovered by others.
For Ye Die Die, this was undoubtedly a surprise and a shock.
With her Disguise soul skill, as long as she didn't encounter soul beasts or soul masters significantly stronger than her, no one could detect her. This brought her convenience for survival.
However, this soul skill was also a double-edged sword. Since crossing over, she had finally understood her inherited memories.
From her inherited memories, she learned that her race was on the verge of extinction. The Illusion Butterfly had weak reproductive abilities but possessed the disguise soul skill.
For butterfly-type martial souls or spiritual-type martial souls, this soul skill was a perfect match. Almost every butterfly-type martial soul owner would seek an Illusion Butterfly as their soul skill.
Now she happened to possess this soul skill, so she must not be discovered, or a large number of soul masters would come after her.
Ye Die Die could only say that this world was too dangerous. She not only had to prevent herself from being discovered and killed by soul masters to become spirit rings, but she also had to worry about not becoming a meal for any random soul beast.
"Indeed, the world in the novel is different from the real world," Ye Die Die sighed.
(End of Chapter)