The sun blazed in the sky, even more intense than usual.
A somewhat thin, youthful-looking black-haired boy strolled slowly towards a stone platform.
A century-old willow tree with countless outstretched branches shielded the stone platform from the scorching sun, casting a cool shade.
Around the platform, hundreds of figures sat quietly.
They were a group of somewhat inexperienced young men and women, their fingers interlaced, eyes closed. With each breath, they seemed to follow a certain rhythm, and faint specks of light, barely noticeable, swirled around them.
"Snore… snore…"
Suddenly, an out-of-place snoring sound broke the silence.
The young man's body stiffened slightly, and he glanced over at the snoring, his expression twitching.
"Brother Yuan..."
He saw a white-clad youth sleeping soundly against a hundred-year-old willow tree, with shameful drool trickling from the corner of his mouth.
It was hard to believe that while everyone was diligently cultivating, someone was sleeping nearby.
The white-clad youth's unusual snoring was so jarring that everyone couldn't help but open their eyes and look over.
When they saw who it was, everyone's expressions became extremely strange.
Brother Yuan, full name Mu Yuan.
He was the most famous lazybones in Northern Spirit Academy.
Others were cultivating desperately every day, striving to break through the Sense Stage and enter the Spirit Movement Stage.
But what about Mu Yuan?
He often looked as if he had no reason to live, sleeping whenever he had nothing to do. He still couldn't sense the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth.
If it weren't for his talented younger brother, Mu Chen, and the fact that his father was the domain lord of the Mu Domain, with a strong backing, he would have been kicked out of the Northern Spirit Academy long ago.
It seemed he sensed the gazes of the crowd, and Mu Yuan slowly opened his eyes.
After seeing Mu Chen, Mu Yuan spoke lazily, without a hint of embarrassment:
"Xiao Mu, you're here. It's getting hotter and hotter these days. I've found that it's cool under the big trees, a perfect place for sleeping. I'll take a nap, and you can wake me up when you break through the Spirit Movement Stage."
Hearing this, Mu Chen was slightly stunned:
"Brother Yuan, how did you know?"
The beginning of cultivation is the Sense Stage, where one senses the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth, followed by the Spirit Movement Stage, where one can absorb spiritual energy into the body.
Trapped in the Sense Stage for many days, Mu Chen only felt the opportunity to break through this morning.
Generally speaking, only those with cultivation levels several stages higher than oneself could detect fluctuations in one's spiritual power.
But Brother Yuan, who hadn't even entered the Sense Stage, knew just from a single glance. This truly piqued his curiosity.
Mu Chen knew that although Brother Yuan was lazy, he was undoubtedly extremely intelligent.
The Great Thousand World, where they resided, was vast and boundless, with myriad races standing side-by-side, connected to countless planes.
However, those planes could only be called lower planes.
Because this Great Thousand World is the center of countless planes.
But those lower planes are not without truly outstanding individuals.
They can break the shackles of their plane and come to this Great Thousand World.
The two most famous among them are Emperor Yan and Martial Ancestor.
Although they came from lower planes, Mu Chen knew that even in this Great Thousand World, they were considered true Sovereigns, objects of worship for countless people in the Great Thousand World.
Brother Yuan used the legends of Emperor Yan and Martial Ancestor as templates and wrote two stories, Battle Through the Heavens and Wu Dong Qian Kun, which were described as incredibly amazing.
Battle Through the Heavens and Wu Dong Qian Kun instantly became popular in the Northern Spirit Realm, with each new volume selling out immediately.
For this reason, Mu Domain even built several tourist attractions that recreated scenes from the stories.
Attracting countless tourists from around the Northern Spirit Realm, and even those outside the Northern Spirit Realm came to visit.
In just a few years, Mu Domain had become the most prosperous region in the Northern Spirit Realm.
Everyone in Mu Domain loved Brother Yuan.
But he was just a little too lazy.
Right now, Mu Yuan had already gone offline.
Because he had closed his eyes again and fallen asleep.
Many students at Northern Spirit Academy were also dissatisfied, but there were also many students and even teachers at Northern Spirit Academy who were die-hard fans of Battle Through the Heavens and Wu Dong Qian Kun.
Despite their dissatisfaction, they didn't dare to openly criticize, and could only turn a blind eye.
"..."
Mu Chen was speechless, then walked towards the stone platform, sat down cross-legged, and clasped his hands in front of him, entering a state of cultivation.
Not long after, a light visible to the naked eye bloomed around him.
That light was like a working vacuum cleaner, absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy into his body.
"As the protagonist of The Great Ruler, he's different…"
Mu Yuan sighed inwardly.
He and Emperor Yan were both transmigrators.
It was just that Xiao Yan transmigrated to the Battle Through the Heavens continent, while he transmigrated to the world of The Great Ruler, coming to the Great Thousand World, and even becoming Mu Chen's older brother.
"The plot of The Great Ruler is about to begin, and it's not even giving me a cheat. How am I supposed to play this game?"
Don't let his current identity fool you; he's Mu Chen's older brother.
The key is that Mu Chen hasn't grown up yet, and he can't even hold onto that thigh.
The Mu Domain, though a dominant power in the Northern Spirit Realm, is just a speck of dust in the entire Great Thousand World.
Even the Hundred Spirits Continent is just a remote, insignificant backwater.
After transmigrating to the Great Thousand World all these years, Mu Yuan knew from birth that he wasn't Mu Chen's biological brother.
He was the son of Mu Feng's sworn brother.
In his previous life, he had read nine hundred and ninety-nine transmigration novels and seen four hundred and ninety different kinds of cheat devices.
No peerless manuals, no old grandfathers, and no awesome divine veins…
Mu Yuan desperately craved a golden finger, but he didn't have any.
Being a salted fish all these years, he could only rely on his experience from reading novels in his previous life to improve the Mu Domain and make his life a little more comfortable.
But he knew that in the Great Thousand World, strength ultimately reigned supreme.
Without strength, everything was just empty talk.
Otherwise, one day he might accidentally offend some big shot while being a salted fish.
That would truly be a disaster.
Moreover, the Demonic Outsiders had always been eyeing the Great Thousand World with covetous eyes.
If he had a cheat, Mu Yuan could draw a dragon with his left hand and a rainbow with his right...
He could dominate all the geniuses in the Great Thousand World and compete with Emperor Yan and Martial Ancestor!
Even the Evil God of the Heavens wouldn't be a problem!
Too bad.
He'd waited for over a decade, and still nothing.
Forget it.
He'd just be a salted fish and keep sleeping!
Maybe, if he slept again, he'd go back.
Back then, he had fallen asleep while reading a novel in bed.
When he woke up again, he was already in the world of The Great Ruler.
Soon, the whispers of many young men could be heard.
"Just as Brother Yuan said, Mu Ge really succeeded in advancing to the Spirit Movement Stage. He truly deserves to be our Eastern Academy Earth Rank's number one."
They looked at Mu Chen, their faces filled with envy and admiration.
"Sigh!"
Mu Yuan felt a pang of sourness in his heart again.
The difference between a supporting character and the protagonist was just that big.
Even if he transmigrated as the protagonist's older brother, it wouldn't work without the protagonist's halo.
"Ding! The Great Ruler storyline officially begins. Congratulations to the host for activating the Check-in System!"
"Check-in System?!"
Boom!
As this sound echoed in Mu Yuan's mind.
His mouth opened wide, saliva drooling everywhere, before he finally snapped back to his senses.
So, it was a system-based story.
The experiences of nine hundred and ninety-nine transmigrated predecessors taught him a truth: the golden finger might be late, but it would never be absent!
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