Rebirth in the Immortal Realm (Revised Edition)

  Jiang He woke up again to find himself surrounded by darkness. He felt the softness of the bedding beneath him and realized he was lying on a bed.

  "What's going on? Didn't I die? Jiang He was stunned for a moment, and then all sorts of chaotic information flooded into his mind. Jiang He felt a sharp pain in his brain, like being stabbed by needles. He couldn't help but let out a loud cry."

  Right after that, a detestable voice rose up: "Jiang He, are you looking to die?" Jiang He seemed very afraid of this voice, and immediately fell silent. At this time, his head didn't hurt as much anymore, and Jiang He began to sort out the information in his mind.

  It turned out that I had traveled through time and space, and coincidentally, the person I had traveled into was also named Jiang He, which might be a coincidence.

  This world is vastly different from his own, it's actually a world of cultivators. In this world, there is no technology, only cultivation sects.

  Jiang He was an outer disciple of the Tianfeng Sect, one of the top ten immortal sects. He had already cultivated to the fifth layer of Qi Refining at 15 years old, which was not bad.

  For ordinary cultivators, the two most important things are innate talent and enlightenment. The best innate talent for a cultivator is to have a single spiritual root, as those with a single spiritual root cultivate extremely quickly and almost never encounter bottlenecks before the Nascent Soul stage. Apart from having a single spiritual root, having two or three spiritual roots also allows one to possibly break through to the Foundation Establishment stage before their lifespan runs out, thereby increasing their lifespan once more.

  The cultivator of the Four Spiritual Roots is also called a pseudo-spiritual root, and their cultivation speed is just mediocre. It's very likely that they will struggle to reach the tenth layer of the Qi Refining stage in their entire lifetime. As for those with Five Spiritual Roots, they are ordinary people without any innate talent for cultivation.

  While enlightenment refers to the ability to comprehend and grasp the essence of cultivation, the stronger one's comprehension, the easier it is to break through bottlenecks and achieve higher levels of cultivation.

  Originally, Jiang He was just a child from a poor family, and his home was so poor that they couldn't even afford to cook. It happened that the Tianfeng Sect was recruiting disciples at that time, and as a result, he was found to have three spiritual roots. The Tianfeng Sect then bought him out with some silver coins commonly used in the mortal world. From then on, he truly cut off all ties with his family. Once you enter the cultivation world, all worldly affairs are severed!

  The Tianfeng Sect recruits disciples every year, and those with single spiritual roots and double spiritual roots directly become inner sect disciples. Those with triple spiritual roots and quadruple spiritual roots are outer sect disciples. After studying in the outer sect for five years, there is an assessment. If they pass the assessment, they will be selected into the inner sect.

  The study of outer disciples is very simple, only the first step of opening the spiritual root, after the spiritual root is opened, you can start cultivating. Each outer disciple of Tianfeng Sect receives a set of exercises corresponding to their spiritual root and cultivates on their own.

  After the Linggen opened, the next five years were the fastest five years of cultivation. After these five years, future cultivation would slow down and require going out to find opportunities to boost cultivation speed. Five years of dry and tedious Gongfa cultivation had brought Jiang to the fifth layer of the Qi Refining stage.

  For outer sect disciples, every eight days there is a class taught by an elder. Outer sect disciples who have questions about their cultivation can ask the elder to answer them. These elders who teach classes not only answer the outer sect disciples' questions about their cultivation but also teach some simple spiritual symbol making techniques. The making of spiritual symbols requires the use of cinnabar and special silk paper.

  The assessment for selecting outer door disciples to enter the inner door is based on calculating points. The way to calculate points is to multiply the current level of cultivation by ten, and then add the score of the Ling symbol.

  Jiang He recalled that today was the day of the assessment. If he couldn't pass the assessment today, he would have to wait another ten years. Originally, Jiang He had been determined to pass the assessment and escape the bullying on the plateau.

  Due to the large number of outer sect disciples in Tianfeng Sect, each elder had to take care of fifty outer sect disciples. Among the fifty disciples under Jiang He's elder, Jiang He ranked second, and the first was Gao Yuan, who was already at the sixth layer of Qi Refining stage.

  The greatest pleasure of Gao Yuan was to bully Jiang He. Jiang He had poor nutrition in his early years and at the age of fifteen, he still looked like a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, very thin and weak, while Gao Yuan was very robust, looking like a small brown bear. In a simple physical confrontation, Jiang He was far inferior to Gao Yuan, and his cultivation was also weaker than Gao Yuan's by one level.

  After sorting out these memories, Jiang He could only secretly lament his misfortune. He had never thought that after crossing over, he would become such an unlucky devil. Recalling the scenes of being bullied by Gao Yuan in the past, Jiang He's anger ignited. However, he was not a child and knew the principle of "lying on thorns and tasting gall". Just thinking about Gao Yuan's humiliation made him worry that he wouldn't be able to endure it. Fortunately, today was the day of the assessment, and once it passed, he could shake off his current disadvantageous situation.

  The sky had just brightened, and the fellow disciples living in the same house all started getting up. Jiang He also got up to put on his clothes. Today was the day of the assessment, so he took out his best set of clothes, trying to leave a good impression on the elder who would be assessing him.

  "Ah." While putting on his clothes, Jiang He bumped into his waist and felt a sharp pain. He lowered his head to take a look and saw several gashes that looked quite frightening.

  Jiang He remembered that yesterday, when he was bullied by Gao Yuan, the owner of this body couldn't bear it and used a magical technique. As a result, he provoked Gao Yuan, who also used a magical technique and opened several bloody wounds on his waist.

  "This plateau is ruthless, next time I have a chance, I must ruthlessly humiliate him, it's also a way to make up for the original Jiang He."

  "Jiang He, after today you'll be an inner disciple, so take good care of us from now on." Qi Lei said with a sour tone while lying in bed. This Qi Lei always had a smiling face and was the most popular among everyone.

  Jiang He was secretly pleased, but still said: "Who knows if I can enter the inner circle or not."

  "Is that so? What makes this foolish kid worthy of entering the inner circle?" A loud and boisterous voice rang out, no need to look, Jiang He also knew it was Gao Yuan.

  "Laozi endures you, doesn't give you a lesson like a child." Jiang He didn't make a sound and quickly tidied up his clothes.

  Unexpectedly, Gao Yuan didn't let Jiang He off the hook either. Gao Yuan walked a few steps to Jiang He's front and directly pushed him, "It was you who was yelling like a ghost in the middle of the night, disturbing my sleep. How are you going to make up for it?"

  "What do you want?" Jiang He said angrily.

  "Hmph, you still dare to talk back? Do you think that after today, I won't be able to control you? Let me tell you, my older brother is now a professor and elder of the Tianfeng Sect. Even if you manage to enter the inner sect, you'll still be bullied by me. For this lifetime, as long as you're in the Tianfeng Sect, don't even think about turning things around!" Gao Yuan burst out laughing.

  Gao Yuan laughed and roughly messed up Jiang He's hair. Not stopping there, while Jiang He was fixing his hair, Gao Yuan grabbed Jiang He's shoulders and used force, resulting in a loud ripping sound. The clothes that Jiang He rarely wore were instantly torn apart.

  "Damn it, I've had enough of you!" Jiang, who was also a hot-tempered character in his past life, couldn't tolerate such humiliation. With a flick of his hand, a fierce fire talisman suddenly slapped onto Gaoyuan's body.

  Special silk paper for making talismans, each outer door disciple can only get two pieces per year. In the past five years, Jiang He has only accumulated ten pieces of silk paper, and with these ten pieces of silk paper, he successfully made only two first-class talismans, one is the Fire Talisman and the other is the Water Healing Talisman.

  A loud "whoosh" sound, a burst of flames suddenly ignited on Gao Yuan's body. Just then, a loud "bang" was heard, and the jade pendant that Gao Yuan carried with him exploded, a light shield starting from the jade pendant instantly enveloped Gao Yuan's entire body. The raging fire was driven away by the light shield and quickly extinguished.

  At this time, the highland's clothes were also burnt to tatters, and his face turned black. His eyes spewed out flames of anger, word by word: "Good, very good, Jiang, you have guts, today I'll make you useless."

  "Slap!" A loud slap, in an instant, sent Jiang He's frail body flying. A scorching sensation spread from his face, and a mouthful of blood was also spat out.

  Jiang lay on the ground, his anger hard to suppress. Just now when the fierce fire talisman was burning, he had indeed felt some fear and reluctance. Now that he thought about it, he really was a bit too foolishly kind.

  Right after that, Gao Yuan stepped forward and heavily trampled Jiang He's chest. "You little brat," he said sternly, "I'll cripple you today, let's see how you take the assessment then." "Little Liu, hand me those clothes over there." Gao Yuan's other foot was on Jiang He's face, suppressing whatever words he wanted to say, and took the clothes. Standing on Jiang He's face, he began putting them on.

  Jiang struggled and squirmed, but found himself unable to get up. The plateau had sealed his magical powers under his feet, firmly locking him in place.

  Overwhelming humiliation, anger, and indignation made Jiang's body tremble uncontrollably, a shame he had never experienced in his past life. This kind of personal insult and trampling of dignity could only be washed away with blood!

  "Haha, kid, you're quite reactive today, it's very satisfying for me. I'll let you off the hook for now, we'll play slowly later." Gaoyuan said while rubbing his foot on Jiang He's face! Before leaving, he stepped on Jiang He's waist again, and the original wound spurted out fresh blood once more.

  "Hey kid, hurry up! If you're late, you'll lose your qualification for the exam." Gaoyuan reminded him at the door.

  The house was quiet, with only Jiang and one other person present. The others had all gone to attend the gathering, and no one dared to watch the highland bully someone, let alone the person being bullied, who was also a fifth-level Qi-refining cultivator.

  Jiang He didn't speak, staring at the mirror where his hair was disheveled, a large footprint on his face, and bloodstains on the corner of his mouth. The youth instead burst out laughing, his bloody teeth making him look even more ferocious. Jiang He's whole body trembled as he vowed to the youth in the mirror: "Gao Yuan, today's humiliation I will one day return tenfold, a hundredfold upon your head!"