novelraw Chapter 1 : Chapter 1
Chapter 1 : Chapter 1
Chapter 1: You Want to Steal My S-Rank Talent? The Great Sage Told Me to Clench My Fist!
Night.
Rain poured in torrents.
Inside the Li family villa's main hall.
"Stop! Please, stop hitting him!!"
Li Mu felt someone pressing herself over him, crying and screaming.
He snapped his eyes open.
A wave of agonizing pain swallowed him whole. Li Mu felt as though every bone in his body had been broken.
A middle-aged woman was clutching him tightly in her arms.
She was using her own back to endure the savage kicking and beating.
As Li Mu's memories slowly fused, his mind became clear.
There was no doubt about it.
He had transmigrated!
He had come from Earth to this high-martial world, where Abyss monsters ran rampant and martial artists had risen to power.
The person protecting him right now was the original owner's mother in this world.
As for the original owner's identity...
The word miserable did not even begin to cover it.
Yesterday, during the Awakening Ceremony at the age of eighteen, the previous owner of this body, Li Mu, had awakened the S-rank talent "Nine Heavens Thunderclap."
It had caused a huge sensation.
An S-rank talent had a probability of less than one in a hundred thousand.
Li Mu had returned home in excitement, only for the family to demand that he transfer his S-rank talent to one of his younger cousins.
They had even prepared the talent transfer elixir.
The drug was extremely expensive. It had originally been created for people who awakened powerful talents but did not dare to enter the Abyss and fight.
It allowed them to sell their talents.
But it required a signed voluntary agreement, and it only worked within twenty-four hours of awakening the talent.
After those twenty-four hours passed, the talent could no longer be changed.
Of course, Li Mu had refused.
After that, the Li family had forcibly made him sign the agreement.
Talent transfer had always been an extremely sensitive social issue.
If outsiders wanted to transfer a talent, it had to go through layers of registration and review.
Everything had to be kept within legal procedure.
But in this high-martial world, clans were a special class. Things like so-called "ancestral precepts" and "house law" were strictly off-limits to outside legal interference.
Those born into a clan enjoyed privilege from birth, and so they were expected to bear the fate that came with it.
This was one of the unwritten rules laid down by those great families that had rendered heaven-shaking merit back when the world had first "opened."
And as long as a clan did not infringe on the interests of outsiders, the law truly had no way to dig too deeply into its internal affairs.
Even so, after his talent had been transferred, Li Mu had still called the police.
There had not been enough evidence, and the matter had gone nowhere.
Who would have thought that the Li family would then resent him for calling the police and making the family lose face?
So they had punished him with house law right here, beating him half to death.
No, that was not right.
He should have been completely dead.
Otherwise, how could Li Mu have transmigrated into this body?
After receiving word of what had happened, his mother Yang Suying had rushed over, only to find Li Mu already covered in blood from head to toe.
Yang Suying had immediately cried out and thrown herself over Li Mu, shielding her son with her own body and begging the Li family to spare him.
"Stop!"
Seated high in the place of honor, Old Madam Ma, Li Mu's grandmother, struck her cane against the floor.
Only then did the servants stop and back away.
In the current Li family, Old Madam Ma was the one in charge.
And the person she favored most was Li Mu's cousin, Li Xiaohao.
It had been her "brilliant" decision to transfer Li Mu's S-rank talent to Li Xiaohao.
After all, Li Xiaohao had awakened an F-rank talent yesterday and cried.
The moment her precious grandson shed tears, the old lady's heart had nearly broken.
So she had immediately decided that Li Mu would "contribute" his S-rank talent.
Holding her son's dying body, Yang Suying sobbed so hard she could barely speak.
"When Qianfeng was alive, he rendered tremendous service to the Li family."
"Why? Why are your hearts so cruel?!"
To her surprise, Old Madam Ma let out a cold snort and looked even angrier than Yang Suying.
She slammed her cane down and stood up.
"And you still have the face to complain?!"
"All he had to do was contribute an S-rank talent, and yet he actually dared to call the police!"
"Now the whole city knows about it!"
"You and your son have made the Li family lose every bit of its face!"
Old Madam Ma trembled with rage as she pointed at Yang Suying and cursed wildly.
"Selfish, short-sighted wretch! If everyone in the Li family were like you, how would this family ever rise?"
"You do not have the slightest sense of the bigger picture!"
The other members of the Li family merely watched.
The expression seen most clearly on their faces was schadenfreude.
Meanwhile, Yang Suying seemed to sense that Li Mu's condition was getting worse and worse.
Suddenly, she turned toward Old Madam Ma and begged through her tears,
"Old Madam, I am begging you, please show mercy. Please let Xiao Mu receive treatment first, all right?"
"He is not going to make it. My son is dying!"
"I am begging you!!"
As she spoke, Yang Suying started to kowtow to Old Madam Ma.
Her son was about to die. At that moment, she no longer cared about anything else. As long as her son could live, nothing else mattered.
But just as she lowered her head halfway—
a bloodstained hand stopped her forehead.
Yang Suying looked over.
At that instant, thunder exploded across the sky, illuminating Li Mu's face.
His eyes were filled with defiance.
Using the very last of his strength, he had stopped her.
In an instant, tears poured from Yang Suying's eyes like a broken floodgate.
"I think your son is sturdy enough."
His eldest uncle gave a cold laugh.
"According to the house law, even if we beat him to death, outsiders would have no right to interfere. But today, I will let him keep his life."
As he spoke, his eldest uncle took out another agreement.
"Sign it, and from now on, none of the Li family's businesses or assets will have anything to do with you and your son."
"After that, we will issue a statement and expel Li Mu from the Li family genealogy. You may keep his life."
"From this day forward, he will have nothing more to do with the Li family."
As he spoke, the eldest uncle tossed the agreement and the pen in front of Yang Suying.
If they beat Li Mu to death outright, the Li family would inevitably face even greater public criticism, and it might truly become troublesome.
After all, the matter of the Li family stealing Li Mu's talent had already become the talk of the entire city.
But Li Mu still possessed lawful property rights within the Li family.
With Li Xiaohao now holding an S-rank talent, the Li family was on the verge of rising powerfully and soaring straight to the top.
They had no intention of letting Li Mu and his mother share in that glory.
Expelling them from the family was the best possible choice.
"I'll sign!"
Yang Suying did not hesitate in the slightest.
She picked up the pen and signed the contract at once.
Then she took Li Mu's bloodied hand and, trembling, pressed it onto the agreement.
There was nothing for her to consider.
Right now, the most important thing was saving her son.
She only wanted to get away from the Li family immediately and take him for emergency treatment.
And there was no point in staying with the Li family any longer.
Nothing good would ever come of it.
So there was no need for hesitation.
Although Li Mu had regained consciousness, his injuries were too severe for him to speak.
He could only laugh bitterly to himself. The instant he transmigrated here,
he had been forced to sign two contracts.
The only difference was that the meaning of those two contracts could not have been more different...
After signing, Yang Suying said nothing. She wiped away her tears fiercely,
grabbed Li Mu by the arm, and hoisted him onto her back.
Li Mu could clearly feel her legs go weak.
She was also a low-rank martial artist, and she had taken plenty of blows just now as well.
Yang Suying gritted her teeth and strode out of the Li family gates with Li Mu on her back.
The torrential rain instantly slammed into Li Mu, soaking his clothes through.
With every step Yang Suying took, her heavy feet splashed up sheets of water.
"Son, hold on!"
"Talk to Mom!"
By now, the sky was fully dark. Aside from passing vehicles, the streets were bleak and nearly empty.
As Yang Suying hurried toward a nearby clinic, she forced back her tears and kept talking to Li Mu.
She was terrified that he would lose consciousness.
Li Mu could not speak. He only felt an itch in his right palm.
He pried his fingers open slightly and glanced at it.
A single golden hair was twitching in his palm.
Li Mu's eyes lit up.
Before transmigrating, he had been playing that Chinese AAA Black Monkey game. He had just been rammed to death by a Boss before losing consciousness.
The next time he opened his eyes, he had already transmigrated here.
Could it be...
A thought flashed through Li Mu's mind, and he slowly clenched his right fist.
The golden hair immediately dissolved into specks of golden light and drilled into his palm.
【Child, do not be afraid. If you are wandering alone and meet with hardship, then all you need to do is clench your fist for this old Sun and fight them to your heart's content!!】
【Battle Triumph System activated. Defeating or killing otherworldly creatures of the same level or higher grants Triumph Points.】
【Triumph Points can be used to unlock and upgrade divine abilities, refine spirit treasures, and more.】
【Starter gift pack issued: 100 Triumph Points, Divine Weapon Art, Unranked Heavenly Immortal Art, Listen Close.】
The system's voice rang out in Li Mu's mind. He was wildly excited, though not particularly surprised.
There was only one reason.
The flavor was exactly right.
The moment the Unranked Heavenly Immortal Art replaced Li Mu's basic internal cultivation method,
he felt an incomparably powerful energy erupt within his body. It surged out from his dantian sea and frantically broadened and toughened his meridians.
It was as though every limb and bone in his body had been completely renewed!
【Divine Weapon Art: Grants weight to a weapon. Current weight: 0 jin.】
【Unranked Heavenly Immortal Art: Deepens understanding of cultivated techniques with the equivalent of fifty years of insight, broadens the dantian sea, strengthens the meridians, and allows any technique to be used more freely.】
【Listen Close: Stores a divine weapon within the Sumeru space of the ear and grants constant cultivation insight. Speed is 1% of normal cultivation speed.】
Strong!
Li Mu could not think of any other word.
Li Mu opened the list of still-locked divine abilities farther down the system and took a look.
Immobilization Art, Body-Protecting Method, Seventy-Two Transformations, Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze, Mountain-Bearing Art, Wine-Borrowed Might, Alchemy Art, Field of Blessings Art, Bronze Head and Iron Arms, External Incarnation, Water-Avoidance Art, Fire-Avoidance Art, and many more.
He could even see Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation at the very end.
So it really was the Battle Triumph System...
It was just that the farther down the list he looked, the more outrageous the prices became. And Heaven-and-Earth Manifestation was absurdly expensive.
By then, Yang Suying had already reached the first clinic.
Unfortunately, it was already closed.
Yang Suying pounded on the door for quite a while, but it did not move in the slightest.
Left with no choice, she continued onward, planning to find a second clinic.
Then her son's voice reached her ears.
"Mom, let's go home..."