Paul opened his eyes he wasn't sure what was going on. The last thing he remembers is meeting a bear out in a forest. He still had the unpleasant memories of being eaten alive.

So logically speaking he shouldn't be alive, he should be dead. The thought about being saved didn't even cross his mind. He clearly remembered that the bear ate him, no hospital could save someone from that situation. He still remembered the pain clearly, those traumatizing memories surfaced in his mind again amd he quickly tried thinking about something else.

He opened his eyes and found himself in an empty street. Now he was totally confused, he could still accept if he woke up in a forest or in a hospital. But what was this about being in an empty street, did someone save him and dropped him in an empty street?

But then he quickly noticed that something was wrong. His body looked to young, he was  42 years old, but now his body looked like that of a 15 year old. Of course he couldn't tell clearly he didn't have a mirror, but when looking at his hands he knew for sure this weren't his hands.

But at this moment a wave of memories hit him. It turned out he had reincarnated into the body of a boy named yang xiao. That boys life was really unfortunate, his entire village had sacrificed everything in order to obtain a incomplete cultivation technique, thanks to that technique he and some over youngsters in the village managed to reach the qi gathering stage at the age of 15.

The village was extremely happy about that yang xiao was even their biggest genius he managed to reach the qi gathering stage 2. They thought they were blessed with a one in a million genius. They sent him to join a famous sect in a nearby city. They thought with his talent joining it would be extremely easy.

But it turned out the villagers underestimated the cultivation world. If you wanted to join the sect at 15 years old you had to be atleast at the 8 stage of the qi gathering realm. He didn't even have the qualifications to get tested. This sects name was the "iron mountain sect". He didn't know much about this sect but in the city he learned it was a sect focused on defensive techniques.

But it got worse after being rejected from the sect yang xiao was extremely depressed. All his villages help had gone to waste and his dream of being a cultivator was shattered. Wanting to be alone he entered an empty dark street. This was when his luck truly started to become worse. A robber appeared and threatened him with a knife.

He wanted to fight back but when the robber revealed his cultivation of the qi gathering stage 4 he knew it was hopeless. He told the robber he had no valuables, but before he could react he was already stabbed in the heart. The last thing he remembers is his body being searched by the robber and the robber cursing about how little valuables he found.

After obtaining all these memories paul finally understood. He was reincarnated in the body of this yang xiao. He decided to forget about his identity as paul for now and life as yang xiao. Especially since he was extremely excited inside. This world had cultivation!!

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He wasn't really a person that got along with others. In his old life as paul he barely interacted with others he stayed all day at home and read books, especially xianxia books that was his favorite genre. To be honest he hadn't talked to his parents or friends in years. He just wanted to stay home and read books.

But now he could experience the real deal a real cultivation world. Since he had nothing left of value in his old life he could fully enjoy this life. He had spent 40 years living alone just reading, this time he would change his life. In this cultivation world he would become someone great. The only thing he was scared off was that this all would turn out to be a dream.

But at this moment a notification sound came. Yang xiao having read hundreds of xianxia novels had half expected that. A notification screen appeared in front of him.

"congrats host on acquiring the Supreme Title System"

"checking for titles"

"this may take a while"

He was confused, what was a title system? He expected something domineering like dragon slaying system or immortal sword system. But what he got was an title system,welp having a system was better then having no system he definitely wouldn't complain.

"scan for titles complete, host has obtained the following titles"

"Reincarnator

Reward: high affinity with the laws of death, high affinity with the laws of life, high affinity with the laws of reincarnation."

"Beginner cultivator

Reward: One free draw for a beginner level cultivation technique and one free draw for a fighting technique"

"Eaten alive

Reward: from now on the host will unconsciously release a really bad taste when others try to eat the host. Making beasts hesitate about eating the host"

"Loner

Reward: 100 years extra lifespan, since those 100 years are a system reward they can't be stolen by techniques that absorb life span and similar techniques.

Additional reward: higher chance to have enlightenments when in seclusion."

He finally understood the system,it was like in a game where you could obtain titles that give you benefits. Similarly the system would give him titles for certain things he achieved. Those titles would make him more powerful or allow him to get draws from the systems lottery.

He immediately opened the system lottery, he understood that he was currently to weak, he couldn’t even face a normal robber not to mention powerful cultivators. What appeared in front of him were 2 tickets, one was for the cultivation technique and the other for the fighting technique. He opened both of them and received 2 techniques.

"wooden body technique"

"11 stone shattering kicks"

He was happy about the techniques especially about the wooden body technique. This world had 3 types of cultivation, qi cultivation, body cultivation and lastly the most difficult soul cultivation.

The wooden body technique was a technique that was both a qi cultivation technique and a body cultivation technique. It nurtures the body while also allowing the cultivator to train his qi. But the good news didn't end there after receiving the techniques memories of the technique entered his mind and he learned both immediately to perfection. If he met the robber now, he would be confident to fight back.

He stood up and decided to go back to the village. He had no plans to join that sect, he wasn't dumb he had read enough novels to know how the plot would progress if he joined that sect. He would end up offending a young master, the young master would nake trouble for him. He would end up killing the young master or defeating him. The higher ups would be unhappy about that and punish him.

Why join a sect when he had a system especially since his cultivation techniques where good enough to help atleast till the foundation establishment stage and would still be useful even after that. So it was time to go back to the village, there he would cultivate in seclusion and find out how to obtain more titles.