UGB Chapter 1 Innocence
Chapter 1 Innocence
"No, I didn't..."
"Stop talking!!"
On the bed, a thin boy suddenly sat up, panting heavily.
His gaze swept over the bare walls of the house, and it took him a long time to recover.
"Oh, it was just a nightmare."
Of course, for the transmigrator Xiao Ming, this was just a nightmare, but for the original owner of the body, it was a hellish day.
Five days have passed since he transmigrated here. In the past few days, fragments of memories have flashed through his mind from time to time, showing him the life experiences of this young man who also has the same name, Xiao Ming.
His parents were miners; his father died in the mouth of a monster, and his mother died from fire poison.
In order to survive in Wuyifang, Xiao Ming spent almost all of his parents' savings on improving his cultivation. However, his talent was one in a million, as he possessed five spiritual roots. Even though he cultivated very diligently, his cultivation level only remained at the second level of Qi Refining.
Fortunately, as a miner, such cultivation level was enough to barely survive in Wuyifang.
If he hadn't unexpectedly acquired that 500-year-old herb, and if he hadn't met that woman at the stall, things would never have turned out this way.
Wuyi Ward has rules; fighting and looting are prohibited among cultivators in the market.
However, this female cultivator named Yang Zhiyuan found a loophole in the rules. She first lured Xiao Ming to a secluded corner under the pretext of a private discussion.
Then the woman suddenly attacked and injured Xiao Ming. Before Xiao Ming could cry for help, she took the initiative and shouted loudly, attracting a large number of onlookers. She said that Xiao Ming had just tried to drug her and take liberties with her.
Heaven have mercy! I'm only fifteen years old, and just a lowly cultivator at the second level of Qi Refining. How dare I take liberties with a female cultivator at the mid-stage of Qi Refining?
Unfortunately, the woman's sneak attack injured his throat, leaving him unable to speak for a moment.
But the woman was adamant, saying that no woman would joke about her own innocence.
Thus, with the cooperation of this woman and a female cultivator from the enforcement team, Xiao Ming was brutally beaten, his herbs were stolen, he was fined spirit stones, and he was permanently banned from setting up a stall in the market.
Pain... resentment... anger...
Whenever he thinks about these things, these negative emotions rise up in Xiao Ming's heart involuntarily, as if the original owner wanted to imprint all his pain into Xiao Ming's soul before he died.
With a long sigh, Xiao Ming got out of bed and stretched his limbs, immediately feeling waves of pain throughout his body.
He rolled up his sleeves, revealing bruises and bluish-purple marks.
"Yang Zhiyuan, and Liu Di from the enforcement team..." Xiao Ming's voice was filled with intense hatred.
When he first transmigrated, these wounds almost made him faint from the pain several times. At night, he would tremble and curl up in a ball, unable to fall asleep at all.
For the past few days, Xiao Ming has been able to stay in bed and recover from his injuries.
Xiao Ming's stomach rumbled, and he opened the cupboard, only to find that the flatbread and steamed buns were all gone.
However, he didn't care. He walked into the yard, drew a bucket of water from the well, and then took out a funnel from the corner and filled it with water.
The next moment, a white light appeared in Xiao Ming's hand. This white light enveloped the funnel and plunged into Xiao Ming's abdomen.
After doing all this, Xiao Ming returned to his bed and began meditating and cultivating.
As the spiritual energy circulated within his body, Xiao Ming's spiritual consciousness also entered his dantian along with the spiritual energy.
Within this sea of qi, a white sphere of light floated above. When Xiao Ming's consciousness touched this sphere of light, a powerful suction force immediately pulled his consciousness in.
When Xiao Ming came to his senses, he found himself in a sea of qi, with a square acre of land beneath his feet.
The land was completely empty, except for three plants growing in front of Xiao Ming.
Two of the plants were about two feet tall, similar to a grown chili pepper sapling. One of them had several large pancakes hanging on it, while the other was covered with gold ingots.
This is the cheat code that Xiao Ming came with when he transmigrated – the omnipotent land!
This was originally a cheat module that Xiao Ming installed because he felt that playing a certain game was too grindy. He didn't expect to bring it with him when he transmigrated.
As the name suggests, a versatile land is land that can grow any material, just like planting cakes and getting cakes, or planting gold and getting gold.
The only drawback of this all-purpose land is that it cannot grow living things. You can't bury a cow and expect it to grow into ten cows. Of course, burying a piece of beef jerky and expecting it to grow into ten pounds of beef jerky is no problem.
Xiao Ming didn't even glance at the gold ingot plant. Instead, he walked up to the pancake plant, picked off a pancake, and smelled it. He immediately smelled a fresh fragrance, just like it was fresh out of the oven.
He picked all the flatbreads, then stroked the plant, and immediately received a response.
[Name]: Pancake
[Growth Status]: Fruiting stage (100%)
Current Status: Water Shortage!
This is information from the plants.
So Xiao Ming picked up the funnel next to him and started watering.
As he watered the plants, he hummed a little tune. If any of his fellow villagers were there, they would recognize the tune he was humming.
I have a beautiful wish
When it grows up, it can plant the sun.
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Ahhh, planting the sun...
As soon as he finished humming the tune, the plant immediately lit up with tiny specks of light.
The plant's negative condition had completely disappeared, and it produced several small, flatbread-like fruits at a speed visible to the naked eye.
[Pancake] (1% ripeness)
[Pancake] (1% ripeness)
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I believe it won't be long before the new pancakes are ready to be harvested again.
Xiao Ming turned around and looked at the golden ingot plant again.
[Name]: Gold Ingot
[Growth Status]: Fruiting stage (100%)
Current Status: Water Shortage!
He picked up a gold ingot, played with it in his hand, and then put it in his mouth and took a bite. After confirming that it was indeed a real gold ingot, he lost interest.
If an ordinary person possessed this golden ingot plant, they would probably go mad with excitement.
However, as a cultivator, Xiao Ming was not particularly attracted to gold ingots. Even though his strength was weak, a cultivator was still a cultivator, and a spirit stone was worth more than a thousand taels of gold.
I've only ever heard of cultivators being unable to afford fasting pills, never of cultivators starving to death in slums. He only ate flatbread for a few days because he didn't want to go out.
The purpose of planting this golden ingot plant is also to conduct experimental verification.
Besides these two plants, Xiao Ming was really concerned about the third plant, which was only about a foot tall and had not yet entered the fruiting stage.
Based on Xiao Ming's observations over the past few days, he divided the all-powerful plant into three stages: the first stage of budding, the second stage of growth, and the third stage of fruiting.
This plant is currently in its second growth stage.
Xiao Ming reached out and gently stroked the plant, and immediately a message came through.
[Name]: Fire-Avoiding Talisman
[Growth Status]: Growing stage (20%)
[Current Status]: Water shortage! Lack of spiritual energy!
Water shortage was not a problem, but the second requirement made Xiao Ming frown slightly.
From the moment it entered the second stage, this plant began to provide this feedback: because its demands were not being met, although it was still growing, its growth rate had slowed considerably.
The reason this plant needs spiritual nourishment is because it is not planted from any ordinary item; its seed is a talisman.
"It seems that planting items related to cultivation requires more spiritual energy to nourish them."
Xiao Ming pondered for a moment, and then his figure disappeared from this space.
The next moment, his figure reappeared, but this time he had a small bag of spirit sand in his hand.
Spirit sand is the scrap material from mining spirit stone veins. Although its quality does not meet the requirements for cultivators to replenish their mana, its abundant spiritual energy can still be used for many purposes. Therefore, it is collected, refined, and made into spirit sand.
One spirit stone can be exchanged for one pound of spirit sand, which is equivalent to the loose silver used in mortal trade.
Looking at the small bag of spirit sand, Xiao Ming felt a pang of heartache.
This was his last bit of savings. He was so poor that he could barely afford to pay his rent. If he didn't pay, he would be evicted from the market.
However, now that things have come to this, it's time to take a gamble.
Xiao Ming opened the bag and sprinkled the powder around the plant's roots. After he had sprinkled most of the powder, the plant began to glow slightly.
With all its requirements met, the plant swayed its branches and began to grow vigorously again.
I believe he will be able to reap the rewards soon this time.
After tending to the three plants, Xiao Ming did not leave. Instead, he walked to a small mound of earth, gently parted it with his hand, and found a sparkling, spiritually radiant stone inside.
It was indeed a spirit stone.
After learning about the power of the Omnipotent Earth, Xiao Ming immediately buried the only spirit stone he possessed.
However, several days have passed, and while the other plants have all grown, this spirit stone shows no sign of sprouting at all.
"Is it that the all-powerful soil can't grow spirit stones, or is it...?"
Xiao Ming picked up the small half of the spirit stone and sprinkled the crushed powder on it.
After doing all this, Xiao Ming paused for a while before regretfully leaving the space.
Just then, a faint light emanated from the mound.
A crystal-clear seedling broke through the soil.
[Name]: Spirit Stone
[Growth Status]: Budding stage (1%)
[Current Status]: Lacking spiritual energy nourishment