I feel this chapter info dumpy, but don't worry as everything had to be introduced. Mu Chen's introduction has to be given a little. From next it will not be so info dump.
Chapter 3—Mu Chen.
Black Water State's Capital, Xi City, Core area, 72nd street.
Mu Family Courtyard.
In the inner garden, more than 50 servants— men and women combined stood anxiously under the rising sun.
A middle-aged man with a slender build in blue silk brocade robes gave off a cold temperament as he took out a paper document and assigned work for servants.
"Mu Zhen, clean the outer garden."
"Mu Lin, trim overgrown plants in the outer garden."
"Mu Bai, clean the first room in living quarters."
"…."
"…."
One by one, each servant was assigned work.
"Outer Garden cleaning, it is a tough one." Mu Zhen looked drained, hearing his work.
"First room cleaning, it's easy-peasy." Mu Bai looked happy hearing his work.
"Mu clansman living in the first room is a person who likes cleanliness. Due to this, his room is already spotless."
"Bai just needs to casually wipe the floor."
"He can finish his work in a few minutes and enjoy the day."
Many servants got jealous of Mu Bai, whereas Mu Bai had a smirk on his face.
"…"
"…"
Servants chit-chatted about their assigned work.
Soon it came to the final one.
"Mu Chen, clean all the washrooms and toilets, also make sure they are spotless and shine."
While giving the order, the middle-aged man had a cold grin.
"Hahaha, again cleaning the washroom and all toilets, at this point, he should be called Heavenly Toilet cleaner."
"Whoaaa!"
"Heavenly toilet cleaner! What a great name."
"Hahaha."
"…"
Many servants laughed wholeheartedly, while some servants mused 'What did Mu Chen do to make the third elder angry? Third elder always makes Mu Chen clean toilets.'
A skinny man with short black hair, brown crisp skin, 5.5 feet tall, with a crooked mouth, fat nose, and swollen eyes in the patched white linen robe stepped forward and said, "Yes, third elder, I'll clean them."
Mu Chen, once the most talented genius, has now fallen to a very low point, working together with servants just to survive.
Seeing that he didn't even question back and took the work like usual made some arrogant servants smirk as one of them said, "The great genius, now cleans toilets. Hahaha."
"Hahaha, what did you expect? He is no longer a genius."
"…"
".."
Servants who are jealous over identity of Mu Chen as the core descendent and who were assigned with the heavy work took their time to mock him and get their daily joy.
'Laugh while you can.' Mu Chen mused and calmly went to the washroom in the training grounds, not caring about those servants.
After years of cleaning toilets and mockery from others made his Dao-Heart akin to a stone.
"Enough, get to work." Third Elder scolded, seeing that Mu Chen went to work while others were still laughing over him.
'It's not my fault. Why did you make eldest young master Mu Yang angry?' Third Elder still remembered the moment Mu Chen stepped on Mu Yang in a fight ten years ago.
In washroom of training grounds, as soon as Mu Chen stepped in, he got hit by a stinking smell. He decided to start with the hardest one.
He tied his scarf to his face, covering his nose and mouth wore the patched cotton gloves.
He picked up the cleaning materials, broom, cleaning soaps, trash box and so on. He wiped the floor clean first with wet cloth attached to a stick.
While cleaning, he wondered how this ancient world already had a proper drainage system.
Unlike in his previous world in ancient times where everyone would take nature calls outside; this world already installed a proper flowing underground drainage system, and the drainage was used as material—the trash collected from the drainage is used as manure for plants despite being an ancient world, this world is highly developed.
After cleaning floor, he walked in individual compartments of washroom, to clean them.
The training ground washroom had fifty-five individual compartments each with its own toilet bowl.
Looking at the toilet bowls built in western style, he wondered whether someone from earth with OCD had been reincarnated into this world.
Some toilets were flooded with water, he had to fix them with plunger.
He cleaned everything, fixed the jammed toilets, and made the washroom spotless.
Soon the day passed, as moon rose in sky, illuminated the world with moonlight.
Mu Chen walked out after cleaning the last washroom, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar white shining moon made him remember his previous life—it does, always.
He died in his previous life by giving his heart to his best friend in a literal sense—he donated his heart to his best friend, Shreya.
He had a little crush on her. She was the top student of the university in both sports and studies.
She had a massive dream of becoming a scientist who created an artificial life, but seeing she had heart problems and was close to death when she had her third heart attack, he donated his heart as he was already bored with his life and he wasn't a person with high ambitions or dreams.
And there was no one to stop him as his parents died in an accident when he just entered university.
But he didn't expect that he would be born as a child of destiny in this cultivation world, much less in a world full of villains and villainous systems who are hunting destined ones.
'I wonder how she is living. Did she achieve her dreams?' Mu Chen remembered the cute smiling baby face of his friend as he walked to the treasury of Mu Clan, where third elder was paying wages to the servants for their work.
Servants walked in line, one by one, to the third elder for wages. Third elder sat on a smooth comfy chair, a table was placed in front of him. He wrote down wages, servant's name in a book as he paid to servant.
"Looks like Heavenly toilet cleaner is done with work and it stinks!" Everyone burst into laughter while closing their nose seeing Mu Chen walking over with stinking smell.
Splash!
Water was thrown on Mu Chen; his entire body was washed by water.
"Thanks for the wash, Mu Yang." Mu Chen gave a smile and thumbs up to a teen who was standing next to the third elder.
The teen was muscular built with short black hair, square face, slender nose, thick lips, standing at 5.10 feet tall, with evil and weird temperament. He could be said to be above average but not handsome.
'Act, I will see how long you can keep your act. Mu Chen. You are no longer that arrogant genius of clan.' Mu Yang mused with a grin, looking at the crooked smiling face of Mu Chen.
"Here is your wage." Third elder said, while handing Mu Chen over elixirs.
Mu Chen took the wages which were 120 rank one elixirs—Essence Elixir.
The currency in this world is Essence Elixir. They are the elixirs made from herbs and spirit stones with alchemy.
Unlike the traditional novels where spirit stones are used as currency, in this world it is not applicable as practitioners in this world consider spirit stones as impure spiritual energy.
Spiritual stones have many kinds of energies which are impurities for a practitioner, whereas essence elixir is purified energy and attributeless spiritual energy.
After taking the wage, he returned to his dwelling, which was on street number 73.
Standing in front of the small courtyard which had four rooms, one toilet, and washroom; he sighed glancing at the 'Mu Ming's house' words on the plaque hanging on top of courtyard gate.
Mu clan granted a small courtyard to his father when his father lost cultivation fighting for the clan.
That courtyard is the only thing left with his family. The clan stopped giving him money and cultivation resources for him and his father.
Mu Chen remembered how once things were so bright, filled with hope. All things crushed down in just a few years.
The fate of Child of destiny—is so cruel.
When Mu Chen reincarnated in this world, understanding that this was a cruel world of cultivation, he put in all his efforts.
Within just a year, he mastered and entered the mortal realm. But as a child of destiny, he gained a ring which had an ancient being.
The ring came from his mother. He lost all his cultivation within a few days, though his foundation remained. He couldn't break through to the next realm no matter how he trained.
He tried to remove the ring by force but it stuck to his finger, he tried his last option of chopping his ring finger off but an energy shield would pop up whenever he tried to cut his finger.
At that moment, a revelation passed down from heaven told him that this world was ruled by villains who hunt children of destiny, which made Mu Chen despair.
But the Heavenly Dao doesn't just give him warning. It also gave him a ability which functions as a cheat, which gave him hope.
Heavenly Dao technically didn't create something out of nothing. Every person has a unique ability within them. Once they reach the supernaturalrealm, they can awaken it, or people born with high level of talent can awaken it naturally without reaching high realm.
In his case, the Heavenly Dao directly awakened it without increasing his talent or increasing his realm to the Supernatural realm.
This ability is called Accumulation, which increases his talent as he practices more and more techniques.
For the past 10 years, he practiced more than thousands of techniques, which increased his talent.
The ancient being in his ring wasn't too cold-hearted as he believed, as books would be thrown out when he mastered a technique, providing him with another new technique.
He hasn't seen the ancient being, but he believes it should be a grandma and a beautiful one at that, since it's a villain novel and all ring cheats would be women for villains to conquer.
He took a deep breath to calm himself, believing his good days will start.
He walked into the kitchen, which is on the right side in the courtyard after garden.
He picked up the utensils, started fire on fire stove, it is similar to one used in his previous life making him always believe that he is not the sole reincarnate.
Many instruments from previous life have been copied in this world, though they are run by spiritual power instead of electricity.
He began heating some water in a pan, then added herbs in order, then threw in five essence elixirs, and finally placed a lid on it.
It would take half an hour to turn into potion, in meantime he went to washroom, and took a bath. He already prepared a set of clothes-undies, shirt and finally linen patched robe which he wore.
He went to kitchen, took out the pan and poured it into the bowl. Potion looked like a dark blue coloured soup, he added honey for taste in it, and walked into his father's room.
The room was empty, except for a wooden bed which had no mattress and some clothes hanging on wall hook.
Mu Chen had sold everything for his father's treatment and his cultivation resources.
When his cultivation was lost, the clan elders and his father spent a lot of money to examine his body, but seeing there were no results, they gave up.
Holding the bowl, Mu Chen walked to the middle-aged man lying on the bed. He wasn't handsome looking. He was above average with his features similar to Mu Chen, but with proper face— no crooked mouth nor fat nose.
He pulled the blanket a little bit down and helped his father to make him sit upright.
Mu Ming—Mu Chen's father's legs were chopped off by an enemy. Even without legs, he could do supernatural feats and survive better than a ordinary human with his cultivation, but the enemy didn't just slice his legs - he also crippled him, making him lose all his cultivation.
The loss of cultivation in his life made him weaker than an old man. It was due to medical assistance that he was able to maintain his life.
Mu Chen slowly made his father drink the potion. Though it was made from essence elixir, it was not the healing elixir, due to this, Mu Ming could only maintain his life.
Mu Chen doesn't have enough money to properly cure his father.
After drinking the potion, his father weakly asked, "How was the day?"
Mu Chen replied, while wiping his father's face with the wet towel, "Fine, just day to day work, no incredible things happened with me."
"Don't give up, practice hard. I believe your problem won't be unsolvable. Once it's cured. You will be unstoppable." Mu Ming encouraged his son.
Mu Chen walked into his room after cleaning his father.
His room was empty with no furniture, just like everything in his house, with only clothes on the hook, a wooden bed with no mattress at the side, and a table with a small lamp for writing and reading.
He sat cross‑legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and said solemnly while placing his hands together in front of his chest, "I, Mu Chen would like to make a deal with you, Transcendent Dao; I exchange all my senses except for vision for one day in return for a hundredfold increase in my comprehension for a minute."
After Mu Chen made a vow, his body shone with a golden light for a second, and then he felt the change in his body—he couldn't hear, couldn't feel touch, can't smell, and lost every sensation except for vision, not even feeling the bed beneath him.
As he closed his eyes, darkness swept over him, but his comprehension increased a hundredfold, and for a minute he could think and understand things he couldn't before.
He quickly took out a shining orb from his sleeves and focused on sensing everything from the orb.
Time ticked by as the orb lost its brightness little by little.
Forty minutes passed by, forty‑six minutes passed by, and then the orb shattered into nothingness as some kind of energy began to spread from Mu Chen.
End of chapter. _________________________________
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