Chapter 1: Reborn After Sixty Years

Blue sky, white clouds, a library.

Jiang Xincheng sat in the library, stunned, looking at everything around him. He felt an unreal sensation.

The familiar library, the familiar teaching building, the familiar school. Wasn’t this Tianhai University where he studied when he was eighteen?

He had actually been reborn from sixty years in the future, back to his first year in university. It was the second semester of his freshman year, a time when he was in his prime, but also the time when the suffering of his life began.

In the year 2040 AD, scientists from the Hua Nation discovered a new element, or it could be said, a new power. This power was called the Primordial Supreme Force, or Primordial Force for short.

The Primordial Force was mysterious and incredibly profound. It possessed the power to change the world. Most importantly, humans could absorb and utilize this power.

Hua Nation scientists spent three years, conducted countless experiments, and hundreds of thousands of people died before they finally created the first method for cultivating Primordial Force.

“Primordial Ultimate Art,” the first Primordial Force cultivation method on Earth, and also the beginning of humanity’s use of Primordial Force.

After creating the Primordial Ultimate Art, just as the Hua Nation was ambitiously preparing to use it to create a large number of powerful individuals to dominate the world, this secret was discovered by the strongest spy from the Star Nation.

The emergence of the Primordial Ultimate Art threw the world’s nations into unprecedented panic. To prevent the Hua Nation from dominating the world, countries around the globe jointly sent troops, forcing the Hua Nation to hand over the Primordial Ultimate Art.

The Fourth World War broke out because of this. The Hua Nation formed alliances and resisted the attacks from the world’s nations single-handedly.

This war lasted for two years. After two years, the Hua Nation’s economy was on the verge of collapse and could no longer sustain the fight. They had no choice but to agree to share the Primordial Ultimate Art.

However, this sharing was not among the world’s elites, but was announced to all humanity, allowing everyone to share the Primordial Ultimate Art.

The secret of the Primordial Ultimate Art thus spread throughout the entire world. All people on Earth could cultivate the Primordial Ultimate Art and set foot on the mysterious path to immortality.

This year was 2045, the final year of the Old Era, and also the first year of the New Era, abbreviated as Year 1 of the New Era.

This year, Jiang Xincheng had just turned 13 and was still in middle school, catching the best age for cultivating Primordial Force.

By the age of 18, Jiang Xincheng had been cultivating Primordial Force for five years. At this time, Earth entered Year 5 of the New Era.

Jiang Xincheng died in New Era Year 65. He was 78 years old at the time. The cultivation of Primordial Force had just entered the Golden Age. Unexpectedly, the first Divine Grade Top-Level technique, “Devouring the Cosmos,” appeared on Earth, which was also Earth’s first Divine Grade technique.

Jiang Xincheng died while protecting this Divine Grade Top-Level technique. With no way out, he jumped into a deep-sea vortex and was torn to pieces. But Jiang Xincheng never expected that not only did he not die, he instead was reborn back to when he was 18 years old, which was Year 5 of the New Era.

This year, the cultivation of Primordial Force on Earth was still in the foundational age. The strongest Primordial Force cultivation method was only Mortal Grade Medium Tier. But Jiang Xincheng possessed the first Divine Grade technique from sixty years in the future, “Devouring the Cosmos.”

This year, people on Earth still couldn’t use Yuan Stones for cultivation. They couldn’t absorb the impure Primordial Force inside the Yuan Stones. But Jiang Xincheng could use “Devouring the Cosmos” to devour the Level 8 and Level 9 Yuan Stones found everywhere on Earth.

This year, Primordial Force combat skills hadn’t appeared on Earth yet. But Jiang Xincheng’s memory contained a large number of Heaven Grade and Earth Grade Primordial Force combat skills.

This year, people on Earth didn’t know how to refine Primordial Force elixirs. But Jiang Xincheng was an Alchemy Master well-versed in many schools of thought.

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This year was later called the Enlightenment Age of Primordial Force cultivation on Earth, also known as the Preschool Age. Jiang Xincheng came from sixty years in the future, a time when Primordial Force cultivation on Earth had already reached the High School Age.

Jiang Xincheng’s mind wandered as he thought about everything that happened in the future. Suddenly, tears streamed down his face.

His previous life had been too bitter. He had prayed to the heavens countless times, hoping for a chance to start over, to make up for all those regrets. But even he knew that was just a dream.

But he never imagined that after his desperate death, he would actually realize that impossible dream and return sixty years into the past, to the time when all the regrets of his life began.

In his previous life, to protect him, his parents had their necks slashed by a young master from a powerful family.

In his previous life, his sister was captured, humiliated, suffered a lifetime of torment, and finally died under the siege of hundreds of experts, blown to pieces.

In his previous life, to save him, the woman he loved was pierced by ten thousand arrows, and his only confidante married an eighty-year-old man in despair.

In his previous life, a group of brothers were implicated by him, their families ruined and destroyed. Two entire families were wiped out because of him.

In his previous life…

Regret after regret, loved ones lost one by one, haunted him like nightmares, making his previous life full of suffering until he finally died alone.

Remembering the pain and regrets of his previous life, looking at the familiar surroundings now, Jiang Xincheng cried. He wept loudly, tears streaming down his face, but the deepest hatred and anger burned in his eyes.

Ma Jinyuan, who injured his meridians, causing his Primordial Force cultivation talent to drop from medium-high to medium-low, preventing him from reaching the peak in his lifetime; Ximen Changkong, the young master of the Ximen Family, who captured and humiliated his sister, killed his parents; Peng Shuige, who hanged his group of brothers and took away his confidante…

Each and every one of you, wash your necks and wait. I will pluck your heads off one by one and throw them into the wilderness to feed the dogs.

Jiang Xincheng cried with a grimace, completely ignoring the many strange looks from those around him.

“What’s wrong with that guy? Why is he crying so sadly all of a sudden? Did his girlfriend dump him?”

“Another coward. A real man shouldn’t cry like that. Is he even a man? Don’t make us women look down on you.”

“I know him. He’s a coward from the College of Computer Science. I saw his girlfriend with another man a couple of days ago. But I heard his grades are pretty good. It’s a pity it’s the era of Primordial Force now, good grades aren’t very useful.”

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A man does not easily shed tears, only when he is truly heartbroken. Who knew the bitterness Jiang Xincheng carried?

Jiang Xincheng paid no mind to the remarks from the people around him, but these comments reminded him of an event that happened a few days later in his previous life.

In his previous life, a few nights later, Jiang Xincheng went out drinking with his dorm brothers. Unexpectedly, they ran into Jiang Xincheng’s girlfriend, Li Haiying.

At that time, Li Haiying was intimately hugging and clinging to Liu Ping, the rich and handsome guy from the College of Computer Science. The two were lovey-dovey, deep in the throes of a passionate affair.

Seeing Li Haiying two-timing and secretly cheating on Jiang Xincheng, he and his dorm brothers were furious. They surrounded Liu Ping, ready to beat him up.

But at that moment, Li Haiying grabbed the unprepared Jiang Xincheng and threatened his dorm brothers to let Liu Ping go, or she would kill Jiang Xincheng.

Jiang Xincheng never imagined that his beloved girlfriend not only had feelings for someone else but, to save Liu Ping, used him to threaten his brothers.

Jiang Xincheng was disheartened and utterly hopeless. He let Li Haiying and Liu Ping go, watching helplessly as the despicable pair left, all lovey-dovey.

This incident was a huge blow to Jiang Xincheng in his previous life. For a long time afterward, he had no heart for cultivation or studying. He wasted several years, effectively making his university education useless.

The narrow-minded Liu Ping harbored a deep hatred for Jiang Xincheng because of this incident. Later, he retaliated against Jiang Xincheng many times. Facing the wealthy and powerful Liu Ping, Jiang Xincheng was the one who suffered every time, enduring countless humiliations at Liu Ping’s hands in his previous life.

Now that he was reborn, everything should change. Those shallow women should be discarded when it’s time. Those who humiliated him should be beaten when it’s time.

If someone respects me a foot, I will respect them a yard. If someone cuts me once, I will cut off their head.

In this life, he absolutely would not be mediocre and useless like in his previous life, a coward for his entire life.

So next, he should use the gains from his previous life to start rapidly improving his strength.