~ Tianyuan Sect, Outer Sect ~

Inside a dilapidated wooden hut, a pale-faced young man held a bronze mirror, gazing at his reflection. Despite his paleness, his strikingly handsome features were unmistakable.

"The Universal rules(clichés) of Transmigrating..."

-First, you become handsome...

-Second, your name remains the same...

-Third, both parents are deceased...

-Fourth, you have a supremely talented but unrelated sister...

-Fifth, you start off as a loser...

-Sixth…

"And to me, Chu Yuan, applies the first, second, fourth, and fifth of these rules... "

"So, it's confirmed. This isn't a dream, I've really transmigrated!"

This pale-faced young man was named Chu Yuan, a name he carried both before and after his transmigration.

Before transmigrating, he was a struggling author who had worked himself to death, writing fifty thousand words a day for a week straight.

After his death, he found himself in this new world.

After receiving and processing the memories of his new body, he realized he had been transported to a different world, one of fantasy and cultivation...

This world was vast, so vast that even the original owner of this body did not know its name.

From the memories, Chu Yuan learned that the powerful beings in this world were terrifyingly strong, capable of moving mountains, draining seas, plucking stars from the sky, and even shattering the void itself.

For true powerhouses, such feats were effortless.

The strong reigned supreme, holding the power of life and death over all living beings.

The weak, on the other hand, lived pitiful lives, their fates as fragile as grass, constantly at risk of untimely deaths.

Cultivation…

This was the path from weakness to strength.

The weak could become strong through cultivation.

But not everyone could succeed. While countless people cultivated, only a handful ever reached the pinnacle of power.

The original owner of this body had abysmal talent. After eight years of cultivation, he had only reached the fourth level of the 'Body Tempering Realm', the very first stage of cultivation.

Though he was a failure, he had one saving grace... his sister, Gu Qingxue.

Gu Qingxue was not related to him by blood. Rumor had it that she was left in the care of the Chu family by a passing powerhouse. She and the original Chu Yuan had grown up together as childhood friends.

While Chu Yuan was a failure, his sister was anything but...

Gu Qingxue possessed the 'Nine Heavens Frost Body', a constitution that surpassed spiritual bodies and rivaled divine ones.

Eight years ago, the Grand Elder of the Tianyuan Sect, while traveling, passed by the Chu family and discovered Gu Qingxue's extraordinary physique. Shocked, the Grand Elder insisted on taking her as a disciple.

Gu Qingxue agreed, but on one condition... That Chu Yuan had to be brought to the Tianyuan Sect along with her.

For the Grand Elder, this was a trivial request.

Moreover, gaining a disciple like Gu Qingxue was worth any price. Allowing the original Chu Yuan to join the sect was practically no cost at all.

Though it was apparent that Chu Yuan was a failure at glance, the Grand Elder readily agreed.

After entering the Tianyuan Sect, Gu Qingxue became the Grand Elder's personal disciple, while Chu Yuan remained in the outer sect. However, thanks to his connection with Gu Qingxue, no one in the outer sect dared to bully him. Even those with higher cultivation levels sought to curry favor with him.

Over the eight years, Gu Qingxue's cultivation had reached unfathomable heights, and she had become the Tianyuan Sect's Holy Maiden.

But half a year ago, Gu Qingxue ventured into the Hundred Broken Mountains, a forbidden zone within the Hengduan Mountain Range.

Since then, she had vanished without a trace.

The Sect Master and numerous elders, including several secluded Supreme Elders, had gone to the Hundred Broken Mountains to search for her, but they returned empty-handed.

Rumors then began to spread that Gu Qingxue had perished in the forbidden zone.

With her 'disappearance', the original Chu Yuan's status in the outer sect plummeted. Those who once flattered and fawned over him now scorned and mocked him. Even his cultivation resources were stolen.

Three days ago, Chu Yuan finally snapped. He fought with the outer sect disciples who claimed Gu Qingxue was dead and had stolen his resources. The outcome was predictable, the weak Chu Yuan was beaten half to death and driven out of his luxurious residence, ending up in this shabby hut.

Over the next three days, consumed by despair and grievously injured, the original Chu Yuan eventually died…

And Chu Yuan (transmigrator) took his place.

"This is so cliché, it's ridiculous!" After consolidating the memories of the previous host and understanding the situation, Chu Yuan couldn't help but complain.

*Cough* *Cough*

The excitement triggered a coughing fit, each cough aggravating his injuries and causing him to grimace in pain. Blood spilled from his lips.

"The guy was so badly injured, no wonder he died... Am I going to die too?"

The thought was unbearable.

Having just transmigrated and landed such a clichéd yet protagonist-like scenario, Chu Yuan refused to accept such an anticlimactic end.

"The original owner had many high-grade healing pills, but those damned outer sect disciples stole them all! All that's left are some low-grade pills, which are practically useless. Otherwise, he wouldn't have died..."

"What should I do?"

As Chu Yuan pondered, a sudden sound echoed in his mind.

[Ding!]

The mechanical, ethereal voice resonated deep within his soul.

[Detected that the host is in difficulty. System officially activated!]

[Binding to host…]

[Binding successful!]

[Welcome, host!]

"What is this…? A system!!!" Chu Yuan could not contain his excitement. As a transmigrator and a former struggling author, he was all too familiar with the concept of 'Golden Fingers' in the form of Systems, the ultimate cheat tool for turning one's fate around.

"Hahaha!! Heaven hasn't forsaken me! Just when I thought all hope was lost, a new path has opened!"

Chu Yuan laughed heartily. Moments ago, he had been worried about dying again, but now, with the system's arrival, survival seemed assured.

"System, explain your functions..."

After calming down slightly, Chu Yuan inquired about the system's capabilities.

[Ding!]

[This system is called the 'Ten Thousand-Fold Resource Enhancement System'. As the name suggests, it can enhance all of the host's resources by a fixed ten thousand times!]

"Enhancing all my resources by ten thousand times, and it's fixed?!"

Chu Yuan gasped in astonishment. He had heard of systems that returned resources at random multiples, sometimes ten or twenty times, with ten thousand being more of a theoretical maximum. But his system was on another level, a fixed ten thousand-fold enhancement every time!

In cultivation, resources were paramount. As the saying went, "Wealth, companionship, cultivation techniques, and land..." With wealth, that is resources, being the most crucial.

But what exactly did the system mean by 'resources'?