"Two hundred ninety-nine." "Three hundred." "Three hundred and one." "Three hundred and two."...
The morning sun streamed through the window into the small room, where a handsome young man, bare-chested, was doing one-handed push-ups, sweating profusely.
He didn't stop until a knock came from the door.
"Xiao Yuan, Auntie is going to work, breakfast is on the table, remember to eat."
"Got it."
As the sound of the door closing faded.
Jiang Yuan placed his hands on the ground, used force in his abdomen, flipped up, and gently let out a breath of stale air.
He glanced at the wristband on his left hand and said, "Xiao Hei, how long have I been exercising?"
A cute black cat appeared on the wristband, standing on two feet, and emitted a cute sound, "Master exercised for 1 hour and seven minutes this morning, that's amazing, meow."
Jiang Yuan nodded slightly.
He had performed ten sets of basic martial arts drills, ten sets of sit-ups with 100 reps each, and three hundred one-handed push-ups with both his left and right hands, totaling one hour of exercise.
This pace was quite good.
"Open panel."
Jiang Yuan said softly.
[Character: Jiang Yuan]
[Race: Human.]
[Level: Unranked]
[Age: 17]
[Stamina: 14]
[Strength: 12+1]
[Speed: 11]
[Spirit: 15]
[Cultivation Methods: Basic Martial Arts, Basic Breathing Method, Basic Body Tempering Method]
[Evaluation: Weaker than an ant]
"Sigh, the attribute panel is as bad as ever."
Jiang Yuan sighed and looked at the time on his wristband.
"Is it this late already?"
"Oh no, today is the day of Awakening and job change.
I can't be late."
After a hurried three-minute shower, Jiang Yuan quickly finished breakfast and left the house to take the elevated train to school.
The elevated train was crowded in the morning, but Jiang Yuan was lucky enough to grab a seat.
"Ha…" Jiang Yuan yawned while sitting on the elevated train.
Suddenly, the view outside the window brightened; the elevated train had passed the towering terminal building.
Jiang Yuan leaned against the window, looking out at the transparent glass, and softly murmured, "No matter how many times I see it, it's still so shocking…"
The view before him was very wide, with the elevated train traveling a hundred meters above the ground.
Below was a suburban residential area, where the detached houses appeared very small, and directly in front stood towering buildings, like a steel forest composed of hundreds of meters tall structures.
Elevated train tracks wound through the City like a steel jungle, and various flying vehicles with streaking lights traversed the high altitudes of the City, presenting a highly futuristic scene.
In the City center stood a tall clock tower that was too high to see the top.
Looking further towards the horizon in the distance, one could vaguely see a towering steel City wall hidden in clouds and mist, the fact that it was visible indicating good weather.
"Welcome aboard the No. 51 elevated railcar, good morning to all passengers in Nanjiang City, today is another peaceful day."
The AI-synthesized voice sounded from the broadcast.
"Broadcasting today's morning news for you."
"Last night, a small-scale Beast Tide erupted in the A-grade Abyss in area 13 outside the City, and was suppressed within half an hour by the City Defense Commander Qin Zhan and his men, killing a Level 6 fierce beast."
"It is rumored that Principal Liu He of Nanjiang City First Martial Arts Middle School has broken through to become a Martial Practitioner (Seven-Rank) and is expected to compete for the next City Lord."
"Regarding the recent abnormal phenomena in the East Sea, an authoritative institution suspects that it is highly likely caused by a King-level fierce beast.
Sakura Country has sent an envoy to Great Xia to discuss relevant details."
"A new Level 7 Abyss has been discovered outside Beijiang City.
The local Martial Artist Association is organizing Martial Artists to go and clear it…"
"The annual Martial Arts College Entrance Examination will begin next month.
This is a grand event for Great Xia.
I wonder how many eye-catching prodigies and dark horses will emerge this year.
These students carry the earnest hopes of countless parents, having undergone arduous training day and night, just to get into their ideal Martial University.
Regardless of the outcome, here I want to say to them, work hard for another month, live up to your youth, live up to the Martial Way…"
Listening to the broadcast and looking out the window, Jiang Yuan's thoughts drifted.
As a transmigrator, he had been in this world for 17 years.
He couldn't tell if he had transmigrated to another world or arrived in the future of his original world.
According to what was written in the history books.
Three hundred years ago, up until 2024 AD, the course of history was exactly the same as in Jiang Yuan's original world, until 2025.
Everything changed.
That year, Abyss planes suddenly descended all over the world, and endless fierce beasts surged out from them.
Dragon-like creatures a thousand meters long built nests on the seabed, a hundred-thousand-meter-tall giant tree appeared on the northern side of the Moon, hundred-meter-tall demon wolves roared in the desolate continents, and wherever strange demon shadows passed, disasters were constant…
The human population was halved during the great catastrophe.
That year was also called the First Year of God Abandonment.
Fortunately, a full-system game called [Heaven's Dao] descended and merged with the real world!
The world expanded a hundredfold, and things from the game such as quests, dungeons, equipment, items, and potions appeared one after another.
Everyone gained a data-based game interface and could gain experience points and high-level Materials and equipment by cultivating and killing fierce beasts.
Some people who awakened super strong talents quickly became powerhouses of the Human Race, embarking on the path to godhood, achieving the evolution of life levels, and resisting the Abyss!
One hundred years after God Abandonment, powerful individuals emerged among humans, and people with various talents found their own professions.
At the same time, with the unity of all humanity, technology developed rapidly, establishing a Martial Way order that allowed even ordinary people to Cultivate and become stronger.
Two hundred years after God Abandonment, humanity gradually flourished, and powerful individuals successively stepped into the Demigod level, opening up some low-risk Abysses as training grounds, establishing Martial Artist Associations and Martial Universities at all levels to Cultivate powerhouses, and beginning to suppress the counterattacking Abyss…
And now, it is the 297th year of God Abandonment.
"Why are you so sleepy? Did you train all night?"
"Don't mention it, I secretly logged into the Star Territory with my dad's account last night and watched a few female streamers practicing martial arts.
Man, that figure, tsk tsk, unbeatable."
"Really that good?!"
"Nonsense, didn't you see my vitality dropped?"
…Two high school students in school uniforms nearby were chatting, excitedly discussing the suggestive female streamers.
Jiang Yuan wasn't interested; he was thinking about Awakening and changing jobs.
He was born into an ordinary family in this life.
His father, Jiang Damu, was a border guard, a Martial Practitioner (One-Rank), specializing as a warrior, stationed at the City wall year-round and rarely coming home.
His mother, Tao Chunru, awakened a healing talent and changed jobs to become a physician, working as a nurse at Beijiang City Third People's Hospital.
He currently lived at his aunt's house in Nanjiang City, living with his aunt's family, and his cousin was in the first year of high school.
It could be said that apart from his identity as a transmigrator and memories from the womb, Jiang Yuan was no different from the ordinary young people at the bottom of society; he had no Golden Finger from novels, no family background, nothing except a handsome face that was called the school hunk.
And in this dangerous, terrifying, yet magnificent era, only by Awakening powerful talents and professions could one be qualified to become a powerhouse and change their fate.
"Martial Arts Middle School station reached."