In the outskirts of the Blackthorn Forest, the figure of a young man was lying on the ground with a large wound across his lower abdomen.
The man appeared to be around eighteen years old, with short black hair, blue eyes, and a handsome face with distinct, sharp facial features. However, if anyone were to take a closer look, they would discover that the young man wasn't breathing.
That was, until an almost undetectable light flashed in his blue eyes.
"What happened? Where am I?", a faint whisper came out of the young man's lips, before densely-packed memories burst into his mind.
Lu Yuan... Meteor City... Azure Cloud Academy... Cultivation...
As Lu Yuan absorbed these memories, he gradually understood. He was no longer on Earth, but had transmigrated to a completely different world.
Being an orphan and having no significant other, Lu Yuan didn't have any regrets about leaving Earth, but at the same time, he found it hard to be happy about his transmigration.
The world that he had transmigrated to was not only many times more vast than Earth, but was also a world where individuals could cultivate and obtain extraordinary powers such as superhuman strength, the ability to fly, or even create things out of thin air.
The cultivators he saw in the memories made Lu Yuan excited, but when he thought of his current situation, he smiled bitterly.
"Will I become the first person in history to die immediately after my transmigration?", he wondered and stared blankly at the various wounds all over his body.
"In fact, the previous owner of this body is also a cultivator and shouldn't have died like this. It's just that he encountered a monster and had his Dantian shattered, causing him to lose all his cultivation and become a mere mortal. "
Otherwise, even though Lu Yuan's injuries were serious, his life would not have been in danger.
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan couldn't help but chuckle. On one hand, he was lucky that his cultivation had been lost, or he wouldn't have been able to transmigrate into this body. On the other hand, the fact that he had become a mortal meant that he was destined to die.
To his surprise, Lu Yuan found that he didn't feel much fear towards his impending death.
He didn't know if this was because he was mentally tough or a side effect of his transmigration, but it was true.
Perhaps it was exactly because of this mindset that the moment Lu Yuan closed his eyes and began waiting for his death, a bright blue star flashed on the center of his forehead.
The same blue star also appeared in Lu Yuan's vision, and he felt the world around him spinning.
When he regained his senses, Lu Yuan discovered that the pain that had previously troubled him had disappeared, as if it had never been there. He opened his eyes in surprise and looked around, only to find that he was no longer lying on the ground in a forest but in a dark space.
Apart from himself, the only object in this space was a large stone tablet standing in front of him that was surrounded by countless shining tiny stars.
Lu Yuan focused on the tablet, but found that he had trouble making out its appearance as if it existed between reality and illusion. Formless and immaterial.
Just when Lu Yuan was planning to step closer, one of the stars that surrounded the stone tablet shone brightly, and before he could react, it flashed in front of him and entered his body.
Once again, the familiar sensation of the whole world spinning appeared, and his vision went dark.
The next second, the familiar sense of pain assaulted Lu Yuan's mind, making him feel as though thousands of ants were biting on his skin. But this time, Lu Yuan no longer had the time to pay attention.
His entire focus was on the information that he had just obtained from the mysterious stone tablet.
According to this information, the tablet he had just seen was called "Celestial Stele", and through a series of coincidences, he had become its master and obtained the Cultivation Technique that was hidden within it.
"Everchanging Inner Cosmos Art...", Lu Yuan couldn't help but whisper the technique's name subconsciously.