Chapter 0001: Son of the Heavenly Emperor, Reborn

Ethan Grant felt as if his mind was a complete mess, like he was dreaming, yet it was far more real than any dream. Every inch of his skin, every bone in his body, ached unbearably.

“Am I dead? Am I suffering the torments of purgatory in hell?”

Ethan Grant's first instinct was that he had already died. However, the faint trace of life still lingering in his body seemed to remind him that he was still alive.

He didn’t know how long this feeling lasted. Suddenly, Ethan Grant forced his eyes open, only to find himself lying inside a coffin.

Lying in a coffin? Does that mean he really was dead? Ethan Grant was filled with sorrow.

“How laughable and pitiful. I, Ethan Grant, as the son of the Heavenly Emperor, was born with a Taiyin body, unable to cultivate martial arts. Even though my royal father refined the Sun and Moon Divine Pill for me, granting me a lifespan equal to the heavens, when the great tribulation of the heavenly way arrived, I became a burden to my father and could not escape the fate of death in the end...”

“Huh? What’s going on with my meridians? There’s actually true qi flowing! Although it’s very weak... Wait! This... this isn’t my body, this definitely isn’t my physical body! I was born with a Taiyin body, how could there possibly be true qi circulating inside me?”

“Moreover, if I were already dead, how could there be true qi moving within me?”

Lying in the coffin, Ethan Grant felt as if a current of electricity surged through his mind. At the same time, he realized that the body lying in the coffin was not his own.

“What... what exactly happened? Whose body is this?” This astonishing discovery left Ethan Grant both shocked and delighted.

Very soon, he began to read some residual memories from this body.

“The owner of this body is also called Ethan Grant? The son of a noble in Jianghan Prefecture of the Eastern Kingdom. The name is the same, but this is clearly not me! I, the dignified son of the Heavenly Emperor, how did I become the son of a noble in a mortal kingdom?”

Ethan Grant's mind was full of questions.

“Could it be that I really died in the great tribulation of the heavens? Is this the legendary reincarnation and possession? The heavens shattered, the cycle of reincarnation collapsed—by rights, after dying in the tribulation, I shouldn’t have been able to enter the cycle of reincarnation. So, have I truly been reborn?”

After reading the fragments of the previous Ethan Grant's consciousness, Ethan Grant finally confirmed this fact.

“To think that in my previous life, I was the noble son of the Heavenly Emperor, yet born with a Taiyin body and unable to cultivate. After reincarnation, I became the son of a noble in a mortal kingdom, but now I actually have the aptitude to cultivate. What a tremendous irony!”

“The heavens shattered, order collapsed... In my previous life, I, Ethan Grant, lived for a million years, my lifespan as long as the sun and moon, but when the tribulation came, I was of no help at all. With a Taiyin body, unable to cultivate, I could not control my own life or death. Fate was like drifting clouds and dust, scattered by the wind.”

Thinking of all he had experienced in his previous life, thinking of his father, the Heavenly Emperor, who spared no effort and divine power to refine the Sun and Moon Divine Pill for him, granting him the lifespan of the sun and moon in a mortal body, Ethan Grant couldn’t help but feel lost.

He knew that the separation between life and death in this and his previous life was likely a final farewell!

Even though he had lived a million years in his previous life, even though he possessed great wisdom, when he thought of the meticulous care of his Heavenly Emperor father, he couldn’t help but shed tears.

He knew that with the heavens shattered, even the exalted Heavenly Emperor would likely not survive the tribulation.

At this thought, Ethan Grant couldn’t help but feel a bit desolate.

However, the moment his soul touched the meridians, it was as if a bolt of lightning shot into the depths of his soul. Like a parched man encountering a trickle of sweet spring water!

The true qi slowly flowing through his meridians was so weak, so weak it was almost exhausted. Yet, it was precisely this faint trace of true qi that seemed to ignite the spark of his life, sweeping away all those gloomy and negative emotions.

“Cultivation! Haha, cultivation! Once, for someone like me born with a Taiyin body, what a luxury that concept was! In my previous life, I couldn’t cultivate, but I never yielded to fate. Now, having been reborn with the aptitude to cultivate, isn’t this a crack in the door of destiny opening for me?”

“I, as the son of the Heavenly Emperor, presided over the Tianlang Academy for a million years, read all the books of the heavens; there is no heavenly law I do not know. My skills in alchemy are renowned throughout the heavens. It’s just a pity that all my knowledge and theory in my previous life could never be put into practice. Now, with this chance at rebirth and the aptitude to cultivate, what do I, Ethan Grant, have to fear? What reason do I have to bow my head and admit defeat?”

At this thought, Ethan Grant immediately felt enlightened.

Those negative emotions gradually dissipated as well. He felt that this reincarnation might just be a turning point in his fate, a great blessing!

Yes, the so-called identity of the previous Ethan Grant as the son of a noble was, from the perspective and status of his previous life, truly insignificant and weak.

However, no matter how lowly or weak the status, there was one thing his previous life did not possess: the qualification to cultivate!