Chapter 1 Ye Chen

  Changsheng Continent East State, a corner of the land near the East Sea belongs to the territory of Chu, King Chu established the country, although it is called Chu Di, but in fact it is the state of Chu. It governs nearly 100,000 miles of territory in Chu Di. However, for the vast Eastern State, it is just a small point on the map.

  East of Chu land, Lin City, a small city in Chu land with a population of several million. There are four major families: Zhao family, Duanmu family, Gou family and Ye family. The four major families control all the business trade and industry in Lin City.

  Ye family, in the entire Dongzhou, can only be considered a fourth-rate small family, and among the four major families in Lincheng, it can only rank in the middle to lower echelons.

  The most remote location of the Ye family's estate has two small courtyards, backed by a mountain, and is one mile away from the main courtyard of the family.

  In a small room within the courtyard, a young man lay on a wooden bed. Inside the house, a tall and robust man in his thirties sat at an octagonal table, with a clear and refined face, yet with sharp features that seemed to exude a fierce aura.

  By the wooden bed, a young girl of about ten years old, with a small ponytail, her hands propping up her chin, was staring unwaveringly at the unconscious youth on the bed.

  Suddenly, the young man's eyelids moved, and Xiaotou immediately exclaimed, "Master, Young Master is awake, Young Master is awake!"

  Ye Chen opened his eyes to see a pair of beautiful big eyes gazing at him with concern, long eyelashes, and delicate cheeks, with exquisite facial features, an absolute beauty.

  He stared blankly at everything in the house, his gaze moving from Xiaotou's face to the man sitting next to the Eight Immortals' table, his bewildered eyes suddenly becoming extremely brilliant, shocked, stunned, and unbelievable...

  The people or things in his eyes, Ye Chen was not unfamiliar. For many years, every night they appeared in his dreams, the man Ye Wen Tian was the father he had called for more than 20 years in his dreams, and the little girl Nan Er was his personal maid.

  Xian Ye Chen did not respond, dazed and distracted. Nan'er stretched out a soft and delicate small hand to gently touch his forehead, with some concern, saying "Young Master, you're awake, how do you feel? Is everything alright?"

  A tender and crisp voice like jade beads falling onto a plate.

  "I'm fine..."

  Ye Chen shook his head, he didn't understand, wasn't he unconscious, how did he wake up and end up here.

  "Chen Er, you're awake. Get some rest and come to the back mountain tomorrow morning. I'll be waiting for you there!" Ye Wentian glanced at Ye Chen and turned around to leave. He didn't say much more, but his eyes revealed a hint of doting affection.

  Watching Ye Wen Tian's back disappear at the door, Ye Chen's thoughts gradually drifted away, and those strange scenes that he couldn't understand floated in his mind.

  I remember when I was on Earth, that time the old monk asked him to go to Wushan to find something called 'blood-stained hem', it was also at that time, when Ye Chen finally got the 'blood-stained hem' after much difficulty, the sky and earth suddenly turned pitch black, nothing could be seen, vaguely only a huge white shadow descended from the sky, like a slender snow-white palm, and then he lost consciousness, when he woke up, he was in a stone coffin, the stone coffin was filled with half a coffin of fresh blood, but there was no bloody smell, instead it emitted a fragrance similar to a woman's perfume.

  He crawled out of the stone coffin full of blood, and found himself on top of a huge mountain peak, surrounded by eight other peaks, each with a giant stone coffin on top. The eight coffins were all facing the one he had just emerged from, and eight black iron chains connected the surrounding peaks to the central one, forming a strange and eerie scene.

  At that time, Ye Chen was stunned, feeling a chill all over his body. The scene was too strange and eerie, making him feel extremely uncomfortable.

  He looked up, and his eyes met a vast expanse of azure sky, with clouds steaming and misty, as clean as if washed by water. And in that moment, he vaguely felt that the place where he was no longer on Earth, or perhaps it was just a dream.

  Then he left the coffin, and in an instant, the wind and clouds changed, dark clouds pressed down, as if it were doomsday, bolts of lightning struck down from the sky, all locked onto him. Next, endless threads appeared, hanging down one by one, their target also being him.

  At that moment, the huge shadow of death enveloped him, and in the face of heavenly wrath, he felt smaller than an ant, about to be reduced to ashes in the next second. Looking at the divine lightning falling from the sky, he thought of two words: "Heavenly Tribulation".

  He didn't die under the divine lightning, because at the same time, countless patterns emerged on the nine-mouthed stone coffin, forming a hundred-foot pattern to resist the divine lightning and the falling patterns of several days, resolving his fatal destiny. However, he was struck by one strand of the Nine Heavens' falling patterns, and then the pattern fell down, enveloping him, after which he fainted.

  It was all like a dream, overturning Ye Chen's thinking and cognition, and when he woke up again, he came to this place, the world in his dreams, the East State of Changsheng Continent, the small courtyard behind the Ye family house, where he had lived for many years in his dreams.

  Ye Chen shook his head vigorously, all of this was too unbelievable. He had arrived in the world he dreamed about every night, a world where he had a family and a father named Ye Wentian. After going through a series of events that defied logic, Ye Chen also gained immunity. However, he couldn't understand why he was struck by the heavenly threads on that mountain peak, yet ended up here instead.

  "Am I dreaming?" Ye Chen muttered to himself, pinching himself hard, the sharp pain told him that everything was real, not in a dream!

  "What are you doing, Master?" Nannuo looked at Ye Chen's strange movements with a worried expression and waved her hand in front of him.

  "Nothing... nothing." Ye Chen came back to his senses.

  Ye Chen couldn't calm down completely, and he came to the Ye family in Dongzhou, Changsheng Continent, which appeared in his dreams every night. For someone who lived on Earth in the 21st century and received a scientific education, it was impossible to fully understand in a short period of time.

  Ye Chen thought of a sentence that the old monk had once said, "Young man, this world is not as you see it, this is just the surface. If one day you see things beyond reason and can't understand them, it's not you dreaming, it must be reality."

  A person suddenly appeared in this almost completely strange world, making Ye Chen feel lonely and unable to adapt, his heart involuntarily thinking of Old Master. Old Master was the one who raised him as a master, Ye Chen always thought that Old Master was very shameless, but he was good to him, teaching him a set of skills that could strengthen his body, refine his internal energy, and make him possess impressive martial arts skills.

  "Hey, young master, what are you thinking about?" Nang'er stretched out her small white hand in front of Ye Chen again, waving it back and forth. Seeing that Ye Chen didn't react, she muttered to herself: "Oh dear, could he have gotten his brain burned?"

  "You're the one who's gone crazy." Ye Chen was speechless, looking at Nan Er's worried face, and it seemed that this little girl really thought he had a problem with his brain. Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh inwardly, having treated her like a little sister after being with her in his dreams for many years. He reached out and tapped her on the head.

  "You're bullying me, Master!" Nang'er's small mouth pouted high. Her big, innocent eyes sparkled with tears as she stared at Ye Chen.

  "I didn't bully you, who told you to curse me? I'm just punishing you." Ye Chen suppressed the ups and downs of his emotions and smiled.

  "You... but you can't knock on people's heads either... or you'll be knocked silly." Nannuo protested in a low voice.

  "Oh..." Ye Chen suddenly understood something, his voice dragging on, playful and smiling, said: "Nan'er will grow up to be married one day, from now on I won't knock Nan'er's head, if I knock her silly, this little girl won't be able to get married in the future."

  "Who said Nang'er is going to get married?" Nang'er sat up with a puffed out cheek, saying: "Nang'er won't get married, Nang'er wants to be the young master's maid for her whole life."

  Although Xiao Yatou looked puffed up with anger, she became even more adorable. However, regarding Nang'er's words, Ye Chen was somewhat taken aback: "Nang'er has grown up and will be getting married soon. I'll give you your freedom; don't waste the prime of your life on me."

  "I don't want to get married, I want to stay by Master's side, and not let the Eldest Young Master or Second Young Master bully you, they are all bad people."

  Nan'er's big eyes misted over, her lower lip tightly bitten, and a pair of small white fists clenched tightly.

  "Don't worry about me, Nang'er, they can't bully me." Ye Chen was touched in his heart. This girl thought of everything for him. This was the difference between this world and Earth. People in this world were prone to being obsessed with their beliefs and emotions, while people on Earth found it difficult to do so. And the two young masters she mentioned, Da Shaoye and Er Shaoye, were Ye Chen's two cousins in this world who often took pleasure in humiliating him.

  Suddenly, Ye Chen's gaze froze on his own hand, and he was shocked on the spot. He spread out his palm and clenched his fist again, watching repeatedly, and the more he looked, the more fearful he became.

  "Nan'er, bring me a mirror." Ye Chen's voice was trembling slightly.

  "What are you going to do, Master?" Nang'er was puzzled, Ye Chen's reaction seemed too strange in her eyes, but she still went to fetch a mirror.

  Ye Chen flipped over the bed, took the mirror from Nang's hand, and looked inside. "Ah" exclaimed in surprise, filled with terror, and sat on the ground with a thud. It was a white and beautiful face, with perfect features, but somewhat immature. At this time, due to great fear, it had become somewhat distorted.

  "How could this be, my face, my hands!" Ye Chen discovered an unacceptable fact, touching his own face and looking at the outline of his facial features in the mirror. He was completely stunned, and after a long time, he finally looked down at his body, becoming more and more horrified as he looked, until he let out a tragic howl: "Heavens, I've regressed to my childhood, damn it! I've turned into a little kid!"

  Nothing could have shocked Ye Chen more, filling him with terror, as if he had been struck by lightning. He was completely stunned. A 27-year-old man had suddenly turned into a young boy of no more than thirteen years old.

  "Master...are you alright?"

  Nan'er was frightened by Ye Chen's reaction, her voice trembling with tears. She thought that her young master had suddenly gone mad.

  Ye Chen took a few deep breaths. In the past, when he was on Earth, he would dream of this world every night, dreaming of the Ye family, and in his dreams, he was only thirteen years old, just like now.

  "It's not a dream, but the real world. I've come here and become 13 years old..." Ye Chen muttered weakly in his heart, everything had already become a reality, although it was strange and incomprehensible, but it was hard to change. Since he had come to this world and become a young boy, then he would start anew on his own path in life.

  "Master, what's wrong with you? Don't scare Nannan, okay?" Nannan hugged Ye Chen's arm, her small face had lost all its color, and tears were welling up in her eyes, she was on the verge of bursting into tears.

  "It's okay, did I scare you just now?" Ye Chen smiled and said, "Actually, I was just teasing you on purpose."

  "Master, what are you doing? You're scaring me half to death..." Nang'er stomped her foot.

  Thirteen years old, what a naive age it is. Ye Chen sighed in his heart, but he had the mind of a twenty-seven-year-old and possessed true energy, with exceptional martial skills.

  In his past life's memories, in this world, he was a useless body that couldn't cultivate, looked down upon, ridiculed, and bullied. Even his peers in the family took pleasure in humiliating him. But now that he has truly arrived in this world, arrived at the Ye family, everything will change. The name of the useless Ye Chen will never be mentioned again in the Ye family or Lin City.

  "What? No way!" Ye Chen's face turned pale, and his white complexion instantly darkened. Under the influence of bad luck, he suddenly discovered that the true energy in his meridians could not enter his dantian, which was equivalent to rendering all his true energy useless.

  "Master, what's wrong with you again?" Seeing Ye Chen's dark face, Nan'er asked worriedly. Ye Chen was shocked and frightened, and the little girl was about to collapse.

  "It's nothing." Feng Li shook his head, took a deep breath, and his face relaxed a lot, but his heart sank to the bottom of the valley. All the meridians and dantian connecting points were blocked, and the entire dantian was as hard as divine iron. How could he cultivate from now on?

  Ye Chen thought of the last strand of thread that had entered his body.

  "I only tried to circulate my true energy when I crawled out of the stone coffin, and everything was fine. Now... it must be that one strand of spiritual connection, it must be..."

  From the moment he crawled out of that coffin, the heavens changed color and thunderbolts and lightning descended. Those scenes that used to only appear on TV or in movies actually appeared before his eyes, and they were all coming for him.

  "Heaven's calamity, heaven's divine punishment." Ye Chen silently recited in his heart, "Does this world not tolerate me? If it weren't for those nine stone coffins, I'm afraid I would have already turned to ashes."

  He was originally a free-spirited person who didn't like to be bound, but now he's being rejected by the heavens and the earth. The power of heavenly punishment has entered his body, and his dantian is as hard as divine iron. He can no longer cultivate true energy, but he refuses to give up!

  He was furious, indescribably furious!