In the middle of the night, Zhu Yuren stayed up late in his bed, lying on his back and holding his smartphone close to his face.

"Finally finished farming the diamonds," Zhu Yuren reassured himself after reaching his goal. He was at his limit for staying up, and his eyelids were heavy, as if elephants were squatting there.

Letting out a yawn, he shook his head to regain focus. Tapping a few times on the touchscreen, he arrived in the gacha section of the game. Pulling his index finger from the top of the screen and dragging it down, Zhu Yuren saw that there were only three minutes left before midnight.

"Tonight is the last day of this Annerate pick-up summon. If I don't get her tonight, then I will need to wait for her in the future banner, which is a long time and unpredictable."

Seeing a gorgeous lady in a heavy dress with a rabbit doll in her arm, Zhu Yuren felt the time he spent farming was worth it.

"Come on, give me the rainbow!" Zhu Yuren hardened his heart and tapped the 10-pull option. The screen blackened for a moment, and the gacha animation started to play. A long river brought ten baskets with its flow and stopped. Five were ordinary baskets, two were silver baskets, and finally, there were actually three rainbow baskets!

Seeing three guaranteed SSR units from the three rainbow baskets, Zhu Yuren felt like he was dreaming.

"Is this real? Is my luck really that good? Three SSR units in one ten-pull?"

"I must be dreaming," Zhu Yuren shook his head, trying to sober up, only to find that he was indeed awake. Without any hesitation, he tapped the screen and waited for the revelation of units contained within the ten baskets.

As regular units were revealed one after another, Zhu Yuren could feel his heart racing in anticipation. As he finally reached the exact order presented from the basket before, it was the turn for the SSR unit from the rainbow basket.

Flash.

"Hey! How dare you look at me!"

A catch-line that used to determine a unit flashed for a moment. Zhu Yuren's heart reached its limit as he saw the unit that he wanted successfully arrive. But he felt that his breathing felt a bit unnatural, and at the same time, pain began to spread on his body's left side. The hands that were holding the phone lost their support, and the phone fell down.

"Huff... hufffff..." Zhu Yuren breathed heavily as his forehead filled with sweat. Finally, he had an idea of what was happening to him right now; he was living with his parents and family. So he wanted to shout for help, but it was too late as his vision began to blur, and darkness embraced him.

...

When Zhu Yuren regained consciousness, he found he was trapped in a dark place. His body was being compressed from all directions, making him uncomfortable.

"Where am I?" Zhu Yuren wondered. He tried to move his head, but it was impossible. Even his vision only captured darkness. Creeped out by this strange situation, Zhu Yuren couldn't help but scream at the top of his lungs. But no sound came out. It only freaked him out even more, making him scream even louder. No changes happened, only silence and darkness accompanied him till the end.

Helpless, he could only accept his situation for now and began to observe his body, checking if he could move around or not, making him realize a horrifying truth. He didn't have any hands or legs, or even a physical body.

"But..." Zhu Yuren tried his best to explore more about his condition. After some testing, he found that his consciousness was trapped in a new body.

"Is this the legendary reincarnation? Is it actually real? Damn, I hope I was reincarnated in some Japanese isekai."

To calm his nerves, Zhu Yuren joked about his current situation. Since he couldn't receive external stimuli, he felt lonely in this expanse of darkness and silence.

"Is this... am I actually still in my mother's womb?"

Zhu Yuren couldn't help but wonder if this was the case, as a baby inside the mother's womb shouldn't be able to feel anything. Or so he thought. As time passed, Zhu Yuren could only watch how lonely he was.

It was not until he found some connection with his body. On the outside world, a small mountain was trembling slightly. The mountain was filled with green grass and trees. The birds were chirping, and the insects became restless.

The darkness that accompanied Zhu Yuren began to blur, and his consciousness expanded. He could feel something, but it was not in line with his former five senses. At the same time, he easily recognized his new body after reincarnation: a small mountain in the middle of nowhere.

Filled with greenery, it was a product of nature.

"After dying from a heart attack due to shock from successfully pulling an SSR unit. I reincarnated as a mountain?" Zhu Yuren doubtfully asked himself. At the same time, he couldn't help but think that the sentence he just said became the title of an isekai story.

Before he could think more, he felt dizzy. The dizziness drowned him and began to consume his consciousness. It was like being drowned alive, but more horrifying. Zhu Yuren felt like he was being killed alive into oblivion, not into death. His mind began to lose its identity. In fear, he tried his best to retract his consciousness.

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It took a lot of effort, but he succeeded. Back in the same darkness and silence, Zhu Yuren was thoughtful. He began to ponder and analyze what just happened. After sorting out many possibilities, he came up with a plausible reason.

"My body is a mountain, a dead thing. In a sense, it is impossible for me to be alive with such a body. So when my consciousness and body merged, the weak consciousness was being consumed at a rapid speed, just like filling a bottomless bottle."

"Then what do I do now?" Focusing his mind, Zhu Yuren slowly adapted to his new life. Connecting to his new body was out of the question, for now, he could only find a way to cope with his current situation.

"Can I fall asleep?" Zhu Yuren thought of a simple question. Since he couldn't do anything, it would be better to fall asleep instead. At least while sleeping, he wouldn't be overwhelmed with endless darkness and silence.

Thus, he symbolically closed his eyes and calmed his mind. Letting go of all worries and doubts, Zhu Yuren finally felt at ease for the first time. While he was at it, he felt something refreshing entering his body.

At first, he didn't care about it since it was too little; he just wanted to sleep right now. But as time passed, this refreshing feeling only increased, making him enjoy himself and unable to fall asleep. In frustration, he opened his eyes and found the same darkness.

"What is it?!" Zhu Yuren roared angrily. When he "woke up," he found the refreshing feeling disappeared as if it wasn't there in the first place.

Confused, Zhu Yuren tried to replicate what he just did and closed his eyes. As his mind began to relax, the refreshing feeling came back.

"Well... since I can't fall asleep and can only be in this meditative state. Then so be it." Zhu Yuren wasn't angry anymore since he felt like he was in heaven right now.

At one time, he felt like he was soaked in a hot spring, and at another time, he felt like he was floating in cold water. Very comfortable. Just like that, time passed. Zhu Yuren didn't bother to wake up from his meditative state and continued to enjoy the refreshing feeling.

The sun fell, and the moon rose. The exchange of day and night continued as time moved forward. The small mountain that became the body of Zhu Yuren also began to change. The spiritual energy around it began to increase, and plants and animals that resided on it could feel it and couldn't help but feel happy.

One day, Zhu Yuren, who was enjoying himself, was forcefully awakened when he felt pain in his body. Yes, a mountain could feel pain. He was confused, although a long time had passed, and Zhu Yuren never used his brain for a single moment; it didn't lag behind in thinking. He looked left and right and found the same darkness.

"What happened?"

"Wait, how could I feel pain? I am a mountain, you know!"

He wanted to connect with his body but chose not to. But the next moment, a pang of pain slapped him on the face. Zhu Yuren shouted in agony and couldn't help but curse. "What the heck? Did someone use my body as target practice for some kind of military-grade weapon?"

Reluctantly, Zhu Yuren merged his consciousness with his body. But when he synchronized with his body, he was shocked. From a small mountain, he was, now he became a rock. The surroundings were flattened beyond recognition. The fact that he was still able to survive as a rock from a mountain was a miracle.

Just as Zhu Yuren realized he could "see" the outside world, he was stunned and shocked. In the sky, lightning flashed like fireworks, like an angry dragon determined to destroy the world, releasing many thunder strikes. Then on the opposite of the angry lightning dragon was a brilliant sun that formed many swords, filled with a majestic and oppressive feeling, fighting with the thunder strikes head-on.

"What is this? Lightning dragon vs. sun sword?"

When Zhu Yuren squinted his eyes, he found that it was not some kind of monster who was fighting; instead, it was two people. One was a female in a black robe, her figure enchanting, and a black dragon made of lightning coiled around her shoulder like a ribbon. On the other side was a handsome man with a neat and clean white robe, a slender sword hanging on his waist without any sheath, and on his hand was a sword without any decoration but filled with treasure light.

Without holding back, the two people launched their attacks on each other.

"Mysterious Calamity Release!"

"Sun Sword True Light."

The sky filled with thunder converged, and a huge dragon head peeked out from the thick dark clouds, its two eyes fixed on the white-robed man. The white-robed man held his back in front of him, and the two sword fingers slowly caressed the sword body. Step by step, his two sword fingers moved forward.

Just as he wanted to execute his powerful attack, he felt a weak spiritual sense on his body. A frown appeared on his face. Without any problem, the white-robed man found the source of the spiritual sense that was spying on him. A small rock on flat land that was inconspicuous to its surroundings.

He couldn't help but be surprised when he found this, but the huge dragon head portured from the dark cloud wasn't waiting for him to mesmerize on this finding. The huge dragon head opened its mouth, and a loud yet soundless roar spread; the space between heaven and earth was cleaned by it. Then a huge black lightning shot out from its mouth like a pillar that connected heaven and earth.

Naturally, the woman on the other side captured the sense of being spied upon; so she also knew about the small rock with spirituality. But she didn't care about it, since she came here to fight with the white-robed man.

The white-robed man felt hopeless against this attack and continued to push his two sword fingers forward. Brilliant light bloomed from his sword and escaped into the air. It turned into a small sword with mysterious patterns on its body and collided with the thick black lightning pillar head-on.

Surprisingly, the black lightning pillar was split by the small light sword like a sharp knife against butter. The woman snorted when she saw this, with her command the thick black lightning pillar transformed into a dragon. The branched head turned into two dragon heads and continued to advance towards the white-robed man.

The white-robed man didn't concern himself with it, as his small light sword began to expand like a miniature sun that burned the thick black lightning pillar from within.

Zhu Yuren was flabbergasted when he saw this scene, and he instinctively realized what kind of world he was in.

"This... I actually reincarnated into a cultivation world?"

From the clothing style of the two people who were fighting, he was sure about this conjecture. He felt happy for a moment since it meant he had a chance to become a cultivator and pursue immortality. But his happiness was short-lived as he felt impending danger approaching.

He saw the thick black dragon pillar roar, and its body expanded as a small sun melted its body. 

Boom! Without any indication, an explosion occurred, and Zhu Yuren couldn't see anything. He felt like he was in a turbulent sea that was tossed left and right by the big waves. Although he couldn't see anything right now, he could hear someone speaking to him.

"Alas, I picked this place because it was inhabited and desolate. But who knew that there is a spirit creature here being nurtured. It is my hindsight to let you suffer. Since I created this karma, then I will help you to cultivate immortality."

"Yun Jiantu!" Then another angry female voice resounded in Zhu Yuren's mind. "Hmph, since you acknowledge it was your fault, then I won't be stingy to this rock. Since it already gives birth to spirituality, it means it and I already tainted with karma. So I will give it a chance to continue its cultivation path."

A light suddenly appeared in Zhu Yuren's darkness. It was a round pill with the pattern of clouds and mist on it. It was very refreshing when Zhu Yuren thought about this pill.

"Divine Body Reconstruction Pill? Lei Tun, are you actually willing to part with this precious treasure?" the man's voice fluctuated with surprise and a teasing feeling.

"It's just a small thing; since I destroyed its body, naturally I will help it to rebuild its body." The arrogant female voice said it as a matter of fact. 

"Then, since you already gave it a chance to rebuild its body, then I will help it to protect its path."

Zhu Yuren didn't know what was happening, but from what he heard, he felt like a god giving him a free lottery; naturally, he felt happy inside. Then another thing appeared in front of him. A small sword made of white jade, looking at it Zhu Yuren could feel insight bloomed in his mind.

Zhu Yuren heard the female voice gasping in surprise and said, "Old Thief Jian, are you actually willing to part with this Sun-Melting Flying Sword?"

As the female voice continued to speak, her tone transformed from shocked into mocking.

"Since you gave it a precious pill like the Divine Body Reconstruction Pill, naturally, I couldn't give less to it. At least with this gift, the karma between us will be completed, and we will owe nothing to each other. Didn't you also do this to end the karma?"

The female voice snorted and then left the chat.

Zhu Yuren, the small rock, didn't become blind; instead, it was thrown into a chaotic space current that opened from the collision of two powerful attacks.

Due to his low cultivation level, his spiritual sense was unable to sense anything in this chaotic space current.

But the white-robed man didn't leave immediately like the woman; he cast a few spells on Zhu Yuren's rock body to protect him on his journey until he could exit the chaotic space current.

Zhu Yuren, unaware of his precarious situation, was busy studying the small jade sword in front of him.