Chapter 1 Rebirth

  He was an orphan with no parents, no name, and from the age of four, he could scavenge for food in garbage dumps with stray cats and dogs, even though he was scratched and bitten until he was covered in scars, but still managed to survive.

  He hoped he could be like an immortal, flying in the sky and moving on land, overturning mountains and seas, all-powerful, changing his own destiny, so he named himself Xuan Yuan, because once, when begging, he had heard a blind fortune teller muttering to himself: "Xuan Yuan the Great Emperor, overpowering the eight wildernesses, the four barbarians surrendering, an emperor of a generation..."

  When he was five years old, an old beggar kindly took him to be a little beggar. The old beggar really pitied him and taught him many ways of survival. When Xuan Yuan was seven years old, the old beggar told him to go to school.

  "I'm old and close to death, but I won't let you follow me as a beggar for the rest of your life, being looked down upon and ruining your whole life. The only way out is through education. You're a clever kid, if you study hard, when you grow up and move to the big city, you can choose from many beautiful girls who will line up in front of you. No need to follow an old beggar like me and sneak peeks at Widow Zhao taking a bath..."

  On the first day of school, Xuan Yuan went to school crying while walking. This child is also smart, no matter it's Chinese, math, or English, he can understand almost everything at once. His grades were excellent, and he even skipped two levels, until high school, his academic performance was always the top in the city. The school knew about his situation, being a student from a poor family, so they exempted all his tuition fees and also provided him with many subsidies.

  Unfortunately, heaven was blind. When Xuan Yuan was able to earn some small money by reading books on his own and supporting the old beggar who had been dependent on him for many years, the old beggar froze to death in a particularly cold winter.

  Xuanyuan gritted his teeth, withstanding the bitter cold, and dragged the old beggar's corpse to a deserted place. He carried the pain, held back tears, and used his small hands to dig into the frozen hard earth, digging until his hands were covered in blood. Alone, he buried the old beggar, his eyes filled with tears, and sobbed:

  "Old beggar, you left alone, must be very lonely. You said good people will have good rewards! Why did you die?! Xuan Yuan was useless, Xuan Yuan couldn't let you live a good life, repay your kindness to Xuan Yuan, hope in the next life, you can live a stable and happy life, no need to wander around."

  As he spoke, Xuan Yuan suddenly burst into loud sobs.

  A fortune teller said that if a kind person with a bitter fate knocks their head one hundred times, then the person's fate in the next life will change for the better. So, the thin and weak figure, in the icy snow, stubbornly knocked his head on the ground, knocking over a hundred heads for an old beggar, just hoping that the old beggar would have warm meals and a stable happiness in the next life.

  The snow-covered ground in front of the old beggar's grave was stained with shallow red bloodstains. Xuan Yuan stood up, his forehead covered in blood, his eyes empty, and tears streaming down his face uncontrollably. His weak body swayed as he walked step by step through the vast snowy landscape. Xuan Yuan's heart was filled with sorrow, he didn't know how to go on from here. For so many years, he had relied on the old beggar for survival, wherever the old beggar went, that was home. Now that the old beggar was dead, Xuan Yuan felt like he had no home to return to, and his heart was filled with despair.

  The snow fell heavily, Xuan Yuan trudged through the snow one step at a time, his head spinning and his body numb with cold. He stumbled along without direction until he finally collapsed, buried in the merciless snow, leaving behind no mound or marker of any kind.

  A lone wisp of soul, drifting in a somber sky, was the very essence of Xuan Yuan, who had fallen unconscious on the icy ground, buried under snow and wind. Xuan Yuan felt his body floating lightly, as if everything was already beyond his control.

  "Where am I?"

  Looking down at the ground, this is a desolate burial mound, where thousands of corpses are quietly lying horizontally and vertically, with a gloomy atmosphere, without any signs of life. A large group of crows and vultures are pecking at the bodies that have already begun to rot.

  "How can there be so many dead people here? Am I already dead?" Xuan Yuan let out a miserable laugh, looking at his own hands, which were transparent enough for him to see the countless dead bodies below him. It seemed that he was indeed already dead.

  Just then, a lone wolf with a coat of silver-white fur suddenly rushed over, startling a large group of crows and vultures, which hastily flew up to the branches of a dead tree, cawing loudly as they faced off against the lone wolf.

  The lone wolf showed no signs of reason, but came to the side of a young boy, sniffed him a few times, sat down beside him, and let out a mournful howl. The group of crows and vultures suddenly fell silent.

  The youth beside the lone wolf had a pale face, a resolute expression, and many scars on his body. His clothes were tattered and worn out, but at his waist, he wore a black dagger with specks of rust, devoid of any sharpness. On the youth's body, there was no longer any vitality left.

  The lone wolf stood by the young man's side, looking up at the sky and howling mournfully, as if pleading with the heavens.

  Perhaps it was because of the lone wolf's plea that the heavens responded, and suddenly, the black dagger with rust on its blade at the young man's waist subtly trembled. Abruptly, a strange power stirred, an inexplicable suction force directly grasped Xuan Yuan's soul. Xuan Yuan was shocked, and before he could regain his composure, he felt his body sink, no longer having that light and airy feeling as before.

  Opening his eyes, Xuan Yuan saw the gloomy sky, blurry and vague. Suddenly, he felt a wave of headaches, countless memories flashing through his mind, Xuan Yuan felt like his brain was about to explode.

  Right after that, looking around in all directions, countless corpses were lying down, the air was filled with a stench of rotting flesh, making Xuan Yuan feel like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and he suddenly jumped up!

  "What's going on? Didn't I already die? Whatever it is, let's get out of here first!"

  This was Xuan Yuan's first thought as he fled over countless corpses in the direction of a forest, feeling the stench of rotting flesh growing fainter and fainter. After numerous bodies faded from his line of sight, he arrived at the edge of a dark and eerie forest, whereupon Xuan Yuan suddenly discovered that his entire body felt like it was about to be torn apart by pain.

  He was too exhausted to run anymore, his legs went soft and he fell onto the ground with a thud, panting heavily. It was then that Xuan Yuan noticed a lone wolf, as big as a Tibetan Mastiff, following closely beside him, giving him a huge fright. Suddenly, in Xuan Yuan's memories, flashed the name of this lone wolf, as well as his life experiences with it. Earlier, he had also seen this lone wolf guarding a young boy's corpse.

  "Lone Star!"

  Hearing Xuan Yuan's call, the lone wolf's eyes became more and more spirited, and it let out a long howl in response to Xuan Yuan.

  Xuanyuan felt that his voice had become unfamiliar, and there were many more things in his mind that weren't his memories. But for now, the most important thing was to fill his stomach.

  "Lonely star, I'm hungry, I really can't move anymore, help me find something to eat." Xuan Yuan said with a hint of hope, his stomach growling in sync.

  The lone star seemed to understand Xuan Yuan's words and immediately ran towards the forest, Xuan Yuan was amazed at the lone star's spiritual nature, but this all conformed to his inexplicable memories.

  Xuanyuan decided to take advantage of Gu Xing's time searching for food to sort out his thoughts.

  "Could it be that I just directly possessed this dead boy's body and was reborn? What on earth is going on?"

  Behind me is a forest, in front of me is a chaotic burial mound.

  In his mind, scene after scene emerged, flashing by like a lantern slide, and he realized that this was not the world where he existed.

  Originally, the owner of this body was about fourteen years old and had been struggling to survive since childhood. He had no one to rely on, was alone, and suffered from bullying, but he didn't have a name. By chance, he picked up this dagger with a rusty blade at his waist, which looked dull but could cut through iron like mud, and seemed to contain an extremely mysterious power.

  In the depths of this forest, known as the Demon Beast Forest, countless ferocious demon beasts are hidden in the numerous great mountains. Even he only dares to hunt and kill these relatively wild beasts or lower-level demon beasts on the outskirts of the forest. Many wild beasts and demon beasts go to the Graveyard of Chaos to eat the corpses, so he seizes the opportunity to kill them and uses their hides to exchange for Fighter Coins in the Moon Desolate City.

  However, just a few days ago, he hunted and killed a demonic tiger with Gu Xing and Gu Yue. But in that battle, Gu Yue was bitten by the demonic tiger and suffered severe injuries. He anxiously dissected the demonic tiger to obtain its fur and exchange it for some medicine to save Gu Yue, unexpectedly obtaining an inner elixir.

  The inner elixir is extremely precious. Sometimes killing a hundred demon beasts may not even yield one inner elixir, in his view, this was simply a lifesaving straw.

  In a state of shock, he left Gu Xing to guard Gu Yue and rushed alone to the Moon Barren City to sell his inner elixir, which would allow him to buy better medicine to save Gu Yue. However, the demonic tiger's aura in the inner elixir startled the horse driven by Yue Jue, the young master of the Yue family. Yue Jue was delighted with the quality of the demonic tiger's inner elixir and used the excuse that he had collided with his carriage to have him beaten into a severe injury by the evil slaves of the Yue family. Even the demonic tiger's inner elixir on his body was snatched away by Yue Jue, who played with it before abandoning him in a daze at the chaotic burial mound!

  "How dare this lowly commoner startle my precious horse! Don't kill him, just beat him half to death and then throw him into the paupers' cemetery. Let those beasts eat him alive. Only that can alleviate the hatred in my heart."

  Under the protection of the lone star, his body was not eaten alive, but he died from lack of treatment. Even after his death, the lone star did not abandon its guard over his corpse.

  Having learned all this, Xuan Yuan burst out laughing. What kind of world is this? Is there no justice or law? This Moon Absolute is so cruel. Xuan Yuan's anger filled his chest, and he let out a fierce roar:

  "Whatever, we're both lonely and helpless people. I've taken over your body, I am you, you are me. We've come to this inexplicable world, with no turning back. This moon is doomed, I will absolutely not let him go, sooner or later, one day, I want to become an existence like the Xuan Yuan Emperor, ruling the world, dragons fighting in the wild, their blood is dark yellow. From today on, in the name of Xuan Yuan, I will eliminate all obstacles in front of me!"

  At this moment, it was unclear whether Xuan Yuan's luck was bad, but he felt the ground shaking violently.

  Boom! Boom! Boom...

  Turning to look, a three-meter-tall demon bear rushed over from the right side, with a ferocious face and sharp fangs, biting towards Xuan Yuan!

  Xuanyuan was greatly shocked, his body hair standing on end, a chill running straight up to his forehead.