Luo Xie slumped over his desk , forty hours of working on spreadsheets and scattered coffee stains stinging his eyes . At 37 , he was just another office drone in J city's corporate hive, chasing promotions that never came , a home that is rented 80 sq m , good enough for a single old guy ,who is constantly chased by relatives for blind dates and urged by family to marry every time they talk over phone. He almost had it enough, who can understand, when burden of Life is overwhelming enough for one person, where would he get the energy,time and money to talk about love , to raise children and all that responsibility.
For 15 years he had been living a life of beast of burden,from office to rented apartment and to office again, socializing wearing a hypocritical smile all day , getting scolded by boss but still had to smile. A sigh escaped his lips. With dark circles under his eyes ,he closed his eyes briefly and opened them again.
"One more report",he muttered ,fingers stabbing keys of the keyboard. With that, he straightened his back and started working again.
Pain. He felt his head pounding and fatigue overwhelming his body. Unfamiliar memories crashed into his brain like headless enraged beasts with no pattern whatsoever. It felt like a decade but also like only a fleeting moment. All the pain receded like tide.
Luo Xie felt the smell of freedom for the first time.The memories in his mind belonged to a child named Luo Xie from Luo clan. The world he transmigrated to is a wonderful cultivation world where strength reigns supreme. Although Clan based cultivation is popular in Jade Leviathan sea as this endless sea area has various Big and small islands. And he was happier because the body he gained is only 8 years old . It might seem cold blooded, but his transmigration was not something he controlled nor was he one who killed the child to take over the body.
In fact the young Luo Xie died of qi deviation.
He had just been tested to possess Grass spiritual root, although it's not a trash spiritual root, but it's almost the same. The child eager for quick success wanted to become immortal in one go and paid the price for his reckless actions.
The spiritual roots in this world are different from the novels he read in previous life. There are elemental types of all natural elements, there are soul types and even mutated types. And most importantly, the spiritual roots are not like ginseng type root thing described in novels, but actual manifestation in the dantain . He couldn't help but be surprised at the grass like thing upon sensing his dantain.
Wow!.
He couldn't help but exclaim.
"Who the heck said it's a useless spiritual root?!" ,he couldn't help but mutter.
And more than that he was surprised or can say shocked. Because his spiritual root told him the name . No , he heard a whisper looking at the spiritual root.
[Mutated grass spiritual root]
That's right. Whisper. Damn !
Why would he not be excited when he was ready to accept the outcome and go for grassroots rise trope when he was told he wasn't a genius but he definitely wasn't a trash that he himself deemed himself to be.
And having a cheat to a transmigrator is like adding wings to a tiger.
He couldn't help but be happy.
Looking at the environment, he was in a wooden house, a faint scent lingered in the house, peculiar one . There were bloodstains on the clothes he was wearing, probably the backlash of reckless cultivation. He got up from the futon and went to the pool next room to wash up.
When he threw his clothes aside and lay down in the pool, his Short arms resting on the poolside did he had the liesure to think calmly. Gazing at his Short arms and legs, he saw his reflection in the pool. " handsome", he muttered.
Now that he got the chance to live again, in such a wonderful world at that. He had to cherish it. To say missing his old life, who would want to live like a beast of burden if they can live like a human. His family, he had been away far too long from his family and the relationship wasn't pleasant to begin with. Would they be sad? He wondered.
" Phew~ "
Let's live. Longevity....is a good goal.
The childish face held a smile but his eyes held indifference.
Changing his clothes, he walked to the door and took his first step towards this new world.