The small rock was drifting away on the turbulent space current.

The chaotic nature of this place was enough to kill any living being and those who were yet to become immortals.

But thankfully for Zhu Yuren, he was protected by an immortal spell. The small rock was covered by a faint light that separated the destructive force from the chaotic spatial movement.

Inside the mental space, Zhu Yuren was entranced, watching the small jade sword floating in front of his eyes. He couldn’t help averting his gaze.

He was in a trance, as if seeing the masterpiece painting of nature. It contained the soul of the painter embedded with various essences of the world.

Zhu Yuren, who didn’t know anything about Dao and nature, was like a dog gaining the crown of wisdom but lacking the ability to think.

Or like a frog eating swan meat while never having eaten a mosquito.

It’s enough to make others bleed from their seven orifices and puke a huge amount of blood just by learning how absurd it is.

As time passed, the ‘illiterate’ Zhu Yuren somehow gained inspiration that blessed his mental space.

From there, it expanded outward and enveloped his rock body.

The small rock, once a small part of a mountain but later destroyed in a battle between two immortals, was naturally exceptional.

Just like how ants suffer when two chickens fought, but behind this misfortune, the remains were tainted by the same power that destroyed it.

Right now, the small rock gave out a faint trace of dark lightning flickering and white light that emanated sharpness.

Dao is natural, and everything returns to the same origin. The violent nature of the dark lightning and the sharp white light were like yin and yang chasing each other's tails endlessly, causing cracks to appear on the rock’s surface.

The Dao rhyme stabilized the confrontation of the two forces and instead used it to refine the small rock into a heavenly material.

Zhu Yuren was still busy admiring the small jade sword and didn’t know what happened to his body.

But he wasn’t completely unaware. In his vision of nature, heaven, and earth, he saw dark lightning similar to a warm jumping excitedly in front of his eyes while a dot of white light flickered from time to time.

“What is this?” Zhu Yuren asked. He was watching a good show, and somehow these two foreign things appeared and destroyed his good time, just like unskippable ads when he was ready to watch a video.

Seeing how the two foreign things became more prudent in their actions to distract him, Zhu Yuren reached his limit and roared.

“I don’t know what you are, but since you are courting death, then don’t blame me!” Zhu Yuren said righteously as his mind filled with murderous intent.

One second. Two seconds. Five seconds.

Over one minute passed, and nothing changed.

Zhu Yuren, still showing a ferocious look, just stood on his spot without doing anything.

As if being knocked by his inner conscience, he made a wry smile.

When facing Dao, everything is false and everything is true. Monks will not only face the world but also themselves. To lie to oneself means to deny Dao.

Under this influence, Zhu Yuren, who had an intention but was unable to act on it, which contradicted his heart to act strong but was not strong enough, awakened and magnified this inner conflict.

Since he was not a stone-headed person, he calmly made peace with himself.

He let go of the hatred in his heart and put down the bad intention.

Only then did the inner conflict disappear.

Maybe it was pure luck or indeed his own reward. After he accepted the existence of two foreign things, he could see a new perspective.

The worm-like creature and the blinding dot had their own charm, albeit irritating people with OCD.

As time passed, Zhu Yuren began to understand the contrast of nature; the worm and the dot had created another masterpiece.

But this feeling was subjective. No one could tell which one was better, but they were indeed pieces of wonderful art.

On the outside, the rock that was being ground endlessly by two contradicting forces had already lost 90% of its original mass.

If it continued, the rock would meet its demise soon.

The protective spell only protected the rock from the external influence of the chaotic space current, so if it was being destroyed by the two forces, it could only be said that Zhu Yuren’s luck was not good.

The cultivation of immortality follows the world; if it was not destined, then it was not destined.

The two forces began to reconcile and seek middle ground. Since it was mainly destroyed by the dark lightning power, naturally its trace was heavier than the white sun sword energy.

Thus, in an attempt to create harmony, the dark lightning power let go of its power to match up with the white sun sword energy.

After some circulation of the two, the remaining 10% was refined further. The final result was a perfectly round jade with half black and half white.

On the dark part, a ferocious lightning dragon bared its fangs towards the white part. While on the white part, a white sun was enshrined, with its core being an ordinary sword without any adornment.

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As more time passed, the refined black and white jade found a chance to exit the chaotic space current.

In a forest, the moon hung high, and the trees slept silently.

In a small open area in the dense forest, the space rippled. Like a mirage, the space changed from a solid existence into a liquid object like a mirror made of water.

Plop. A small object was ejected from the center of the ripple and landed on the ground covered by grass.

Not long after, the faint protection light on its surface flickered and disappeared like snow under the sun.

Zhu Yuren could feel that his sense was no longer obstructed by darkness, so he reluctantly put down his current task and expanded his spiritual sense.

“Hm?!” Zhu Yuren could see a dark forest without any damage from human hands.

“Where is this?”

Just as Zhu Yuren wanted to ask more questions, he suddenly found out that the small rock was no longer there; instead, it was replaced by a refined black and white jade.

“Hey, what happened to my rock body? First, it was a mountain, then a rock, and now a jade?”

Zhu Yuren found it funny that in a short amount of time, his body changed from one to another. “Am I actually a pokemon?”

He joked to himself.

He observed the new jade body and found it was very handsome. Since he was a male, naturally, he needed to use the word "handsome" when appreciating himself.

“Even if it is only jade, it is undoubtedly a handsome one.”

“I have seen many depictions of immortal cultivators, and many of them were pretty men. How could I, Zhu Yuren, want to be a pretty man? I want to be a handsome man with a buffed body!”

“My muscles should be like the contour lines of heaven and earth!”

Then Zhu Yuren coughed; he felt a bit overdone in his words.

Then he started to observe his surroundings once again.

He couldn’t help but feel dissatisfied; he felt like he became a fish that went from a large ocean into a small pool.

He felt suffocated in this place.

“Bah! What is happening here? Even when I don’t have a mouth right now, it feels like swallowing a mouthful of sand.”

No matter what Zhu Yuren tried to do, he couldn’t do anything to relieve the uncomfortable feeling from his body.

His spirit trembled from time to time as thousands of ants crawled on it.

“Damn it! Is there really nothing I can do to escape this miserable state?” Zhu Yuren hugged himself and tried to calm down the shaking.

In his mental space, he could only see two objects. One was a round pill, and the other one was a small sword.

“If I am not wrong, this pill was called Divine Body Reconstruction Pill.” Zhu Yuren touched his chin and pondered the use of this pill.

“Although the name is a bit precise, I can’t be sure if it really is what I have in mind…”

His spirit body shook once again from the discomfort; gritting his teeth, he approached the pill.

“Desperate times need desperate measures! Give it to me!” Zhu Yuren shouted and bravely stuffed the pill into his mouth. But before he could put it into his mouth, the pill melted the moment he touched it.

“Huh?”

A big question mark appeared above his head.

“What?”

The change shocked him to the core, denying any reasonable possibilities.

But just as he wanted to express his anger and frustration, his mental space trembled greatly.

A divine light suddenly appeared, and its reach expanded before turning the dark mental space into a sea of light.

The black and white jade trembled slightly, the dark dragon’s eyes lit up with radiance, and the white sun sword showed its sharpness.

The calm forest suddenly underwent a drastic change as violent wind howled and spiritual energy of heaven and earth began to converge into the black and white jade.

The black and white jade slowly floated above the ground and was baptized by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Zhu Yuren, who was blinded by the light, could feel his physical body directly now and it was under transformation.

Under the help of the divine pill, Zhu Yuren’s mind became more agile so that he could visualize the body that he wanted.

Naturally, without any hesitation, he wanted to be a handsome evil young man.

With tall stature, sharp eyes, a handsome face, and buffed muscles. And last but not least, a powerful machine below there.

“Since it is a cultivation world, how can I, as the transmigration, not have the biggest gun? There will be an endless line of jade beauty waiting for me to take them into my harem.” Zhu Yuren thought to himself.

While nodding and smiling, Zhu Yuren waited for the transformation to finish.

Ten minutes passed, and Zhu Yuren was confident in waiting.

Half an hour later, he found that it seemed rather slow.

Then, as if being enlightened, he found the answer. “The spiritual energy in this place is so sparse that to transform my jade body into a human body with a heaven-defying constitution would take more than hundreds of years!”

Now Zhu Yuren was presented with two choices from the divine pill.

One was for him to consume the medicinal property of the divine to compensate for the lack of spiritual energy of heaven and earth to complete the transformation.

The other one was to postpone the transformation.

The first one sounds like a quick easy route, but the drawback was too severe. “If I take this route, then it will be impossible for me to have a heaven-defying constitution.”

Zhu Yuren did not even hesitate for a moment to pick the solution for his current situation. “I choose number two!”

By postponing his transformation, Zhu Yuren would save the medicinal property of Divine Body Reconstruction Pill for later.

But for now, the divine pill will help him turn into a human.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth underwent a second chance that it rushed towards the black and white jade like a black hole, sucking everything.

Swoosh.

A brilliant light flashed in the place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered, and with a gush of wind, everything returned to normal.

Step.

A figure landed on the ground.

Zhu Yuren looked down and opened his hands; he turned around to check more parts of his body.

Then he picked the hair on top of his head.

“The lack of spiritual energy of heaven and earth is so severe that I can’t return to my old appearance. Looking at my body, I should still be a kid around fifteen years old.”

Thinking of being a kid, Zhu Yuren unknowingly turned his head down. “Damn….”

He was speechless because only that part became an adult.

“…..” Then Zhu Yuren pondered to himself. “Maybe it was because among everything else, I have a strong desire for this aspect, thus the divine pill gives my boy the highest priority over everything.”

“Face? Nope, height? Nope, talent? …. Nope.”

Zhu Yuren’s heart was crying, but no tears were coming out from his eyes.

He sighed and accepted the cruel truth.

“Let’s check this forest first,” after some consideration. “Also, let's find some clothes to cover my adulthood.”