Chapter 6

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The Ren family library pavilion was massive. It was larger than any other national libraries that Ren Jie had been to in his previous life. It was an architecture that was constructed without any land constraints. However, Ren Jie was not concerned about this anymore.

He strode towards the library pavilion. To successfully execute a job, one must first sharpen his tools. Ren Jie did not have any earth-shattering plans, but there was no way he was going to muddle along in life like the previous Ren Jie.

Otherwise, there might come a day when he was targeted by someone and had his head smashed, or he might be treated as a young emperor and be bullied again. Those were situations that Ren Jie definitely could not tolerate.

As he entered the library pavilion, he was astounded by the variety of books in the library. He quickly discovered a satisfying thing. It was different now that he was no longer an ordinary person. He did not have to spend much effort on finding anything. The moment he stepped in, a house manager assembled a team of more than a hundred servants in the library and welcomed him at the door.

Ren Jie entered a large, open and luxurious room. The room had a faint scent that rejuvenated the mind. The decorations in the room were also carefully chosen. Every type of drink and dessert was available.

He could simply voice out whatever book genres he wanted to read and there would be people streaming in with the books he needed in no time.

He ordered them to bring more than a hundred books of different genres all at once and told them to place them aside. He got everyone to leave afterward. If only there was a beautiful woman beside me now…

Thinking about beautiful women, the image of the beautiful naked body uncontrollably floated into his mind. However, when he recalled the pale and chubby fatty Gao Ren, he shook his head immediately.

No. I have to find a way to find out about this. What is going on exactly?

He calmed himself slightly. Afterward, Ren Jie picked up a book regarding the history of the Clear Jade Dynasty to find out who the current emperor was first. It was unbelievable how oblivious the original Ren Jie was about the current emperor given that he was the family head of one of the five largest aristocratic families. Somewhere deep within his memories, he seemed to recall that the emperor even attended his inauguration. How could he only know the word “emperor” and not the emperor’s name and title and other simple historical facts? He’s so f*cking impressive.

Ren Jie’s fixated his sight on the page for merely a few seconds, the time needed to read a line on the page in normal circumstances, before miraculously finding that he could remember everything on the page clearly.

Did I finish ten lines in one gaze? No, I was faster than that. It felt as though I had scanned the entire page. This is unbelievable. The thing was, he could still remember every word that he read in his brain. Ren Jie himself was surprised as well. Could the original Ren Jie have been a hidden genius?

Impossible. From my recollections, the original Ren Jie would turn sleepy every time he started reading. He could snooze before he finished two lines. He never read.

Moreover, I am an ordinary person too. I was never an extraordinary genius. Why is this happening now?

Ren Jie was shocked by his ability. He flipped through a few pages and took a quick look at each of them. Afterward, he closed the book and tried to recall what he saw. Eventually, he found that he could even clearly remember every single punctuation and every mark left by people who browsed through the book.

At that instant, Ren Jie had a delusion that his brain had transformed into a computer. Speaking of computers, Ren Jie’s divine sense twitched. He went into his mind to check on the computer there. Nothing had changed in his mind. His brain was not connected to the computer.

Ren Jie himself was confused, but he was internally slightly excited and thrilled because of how amazing that feeling was. He sped up his reading and could finish a thick book in less than twenty minutes. The further he progressed into the book, Ren Jie found that he could actually guess many of the content.

His mind had never been clearer than it was now. Ren Jie could figure out many of the subsequent events from the few records of the historical battles. Even if the line of events were different from what he had thought, he could come up with a range of possible changes that could occur.

At that moment, Ren Jie gradually discovered that his perspectives when reading or analyzing things had changed as his divine sense became stronger than normal.

He went to search up on books relating to cultivation, memory, understanding, and aptitudes. From the various sources, he found out that he was showcasing the traits of people with high aptitudes. His talent was out of the world and was similar to that of geniuses mentioned in the legends. Legends from the prehistoric times claimed that those who truly had high aptitudes could teach themselves how to ponder over the Heaven and Earth.

Aptitude. Clear mind. Ren Jie suddenly understood something. The real change that happened to him was a result of the fifteen minutes spent in his computer after he experienced a rebirth in this body. Before then, he found that absorbing the original Ren Jie’s memory was an excruciating and slow process that gave him a throbbing headache. After that fifteen minutes, he found that he could complete the absorption in a split second and his brain became clearer than it had ever been before.

When he had the outburst in the conference hall, the reason why he was able to make the elders speechless and afraid to quarrel with him despite the limited information he had was that he could clearly summarize the necessary information in his brain.

The Clear Jade Dynasty had been established for more than ten centuries. However, it was not truly considered an ancient country. History was immensely extensive; solely the written records had been around for more than a hundred centuries. The period of time a hundred centuries before was known as the Pre-Jade times. The records about then were scattered and incomplete. After thousands of years of chaos, many things were missing. All that was known about the Pre-Jade times was that there was only one dynasty that existed in the legends. It was the biggest dynasty ever established. Many historical remains that could be found now were related to that dynasty.

Although the Clear Jade Dynasty was only established for a short seventeen centuries, there was a powerful emperor from the Lee family because of how powerful the ancestors in the five biggest family clans were. In the recent twenty years, Ren Tianxing expanded the national territory by three folds. The current Clear Jade Dynasty was already very influential. Amongst the surrounding countries of various sizes, only the Snow Fields Tribe Union and the Heavenly Seas Empire could confront it head-on. The other smaller nations remained neutral and served as the buffer or third-party proxies for the three influential countries.

Cultivation. Do immortals really exist? The records actually state that immortals really exist.

Cultivation was separated by different stages. The Body Refinement Realm strengthened one’s physique and refined one’s body. It was split into nine levels. After the ninth level was the Great Perfection. Once the cultivator had reached the Great Perfection, he could produce Qi energy and enter the True Qi Realm.

The True Qi Realm was the real beginning to cultivation when one’s combat abilities increased tremendously. Once the cultivator reached the sixth level of the True Qi Realm, he would be considered an ordinary, skilled cultivator. If he were to reach the ninth level or even perfected the True Qi Realm, he could be undefeated in some of the smaller places.

Above the True Qi Realm was the Divine Power Realm, which signified the perfect integration of Qi energy and the body to attain divine powers. Those who possessed divine powers were considered powerful figures. They were the true powerful figures because they could cast Dharma spells once they entered the Divine Power Realm.

Above the Divine Power Realm were the Yin Yang Realm and the Tai Chi Realm, which were only briefly mentioned in ordinary books. That was due to the fact that those who reached those stages were powerful existences who could then really be considered Qi cultivators.

However, the books did mention that once someone reached the Yin Yang Realm and condensed their yin soul, their lifespan would be extended by a hundred years.

If they managed to condense their yang soul, they could add another hundred years to their lifespan. If one reached the Tai Chi Realm, he could live for five hundred years.

An ordinary person in the Clear Jade Dynasty had a lifespan of about seventy or eighty years. If they maintained good health and managed to reach the Divine Power Realm, it was normal for them to live a hundred years. Assuming one was able to live for a hundred years, he could live for two hundred years through condensing the yin soul in the Yin Yang Realm and he could live up to three hundred years if he managed to condense the yang soul. The Tai Chi Realm was even more frightening. It meant a lifespan of five hundred years.

Ren Jie suddenly recalled a saying on Earth—those living in the riches aimed for longevity while those who became emperors wanted immortality. Ordinary people were worried about making ends meet. However, the lifespan of humans was always too short. People would do anything to continue living, but those in this universe could actually attain longevity through practicing cultivation. Although no one had seen the actual immortals mentioned in the legends, his father Ren Tianxing seemed to have reached the Yin Yang Realm a long time ago.

That meant that cultivation was truly a method to longevity that was at the grasp of his hands. It would be fake if anyone said that they were not tempted by that.

However, exactly because of the information he read, he was clear about the situation and that made him dejected. Not only did Ren Jie had such a good environment to cultivate, but he was also the family head. However, the original Ren Jie was only at the fifth level of the Body Refinement Realm. What was this guy thinking?

Leaving longevity aside, from what Ren Jie understood, it was obvious that those who had higher combat abilities were more respected in this universe. It was no wonder that those elders went overboard when he had succeeded the position as the family head. Others did not respect him as well. He was even bullied in school. How tragic was that?

It felt incredible being a good-for-nothing, but he needed to find a stronger footing since he was solely relying on Ren Tianxing’s remaining influence to maintain his position as the family head. He could not help but recall what Ren Tianxing said before he left. Ren Jie looked at the ring on his finger. Before leaving, Ren Tianxing told him that he could access the ring once he reached the True Qi Realm and utilize the things he left the ring once he reached the True Qi Realm and utilize the things he left in it.

Ren Jie had plunged into the pile of books and was engrossed in reading. As he recalled the various information Ren Tianxing told him when he hurriedly returned and passed the family head position over to him, he suddenly remembered something. He took a very special flat jade case out of his robe. That was given to him then by Ren Tianxing, who said that he found it in a historical remains site. According to historical records, that place originally stood a nation that managed to gain control over the entire world and was powerful enough to compete against the immortals. The case contained a cultivation technique that sadly only those below the Divine Power Realm could use.

“Crrr… Crack…” As Ren Jie took the jade case out, he found that the case shattered immediately and he hurriedly placed it on the table.

He found that there were four thumb-sized, square-shaped spiritual jade pieces arranged neatly within the jade case. Spiritual jades were treasures that were truly necessary for cultivation. Most people in the world used jade coins for cultivation. The jade coins were made from scraps discovered in the process of sourcing for spiritual jades. For instance, in a huge jade mine, there could probably be only one piece of spiritual jade. The scraps found would then be used to produce jade coins or some expensive and extravagant decorations. Spiritual jades were the most precious thing.

A low-quality spiritual jade the size of an adult’s thumb would cost a hundred jade coins. Meanwhile, ten pieces of inferior-grade spiritual jade were needed to exchange for a middle-grade one, while a hundred pieces of middle-grade spiritual jade were needed for a superior-grade one. Exceptional-grade spiritual jades only existed in legends and could not be exchanged using ordinary jade coins.

There were ten pieces of middle-grade spiritual jade in his jade case. Ren Jie wanted to pick it up, but the jade shattered completely the moment his hand touched it.

What’s this?

Ren Jie suddenly recalled something that happened earlier. The second time he tried to open the video pop-up window in his mind using his divine sense, the tides of warm currents seemed to have originated from within the jade case. Could it be…

F*ck. Ten pieces of middle-grade spiritual jade barely sustained for a few seconds. Moreover, other than using those ten middle-grade spiritual jades, those few seconds seemed to have also used the power from the jade case. Did that mean that I was relying on the power that was generated from the transmigration during the fifteen minutes when I was in that state of contemplation? Otherwise, how many spiritual jades would be needed to sustain for that long?

Ren Jie did not dare to let his thoughts run wild. At the same time, he was a little excited as he finally discovered a way to open that video even though that thought sounded scary.

Other than those ten pieces of middle-grade spiritual jade, Ren Jie also discovered a jade tablet within the case. That jade tablet was different from spiritual jades which could be used for cultivation. It was a memory bank that stored information. That should be a record of the mysterious cultivation technique which Ren Tianxing said he found in the historical remains of the mighty dynasty that was suddenly destroyed ten thousand years ago but was unable to use. Unfortunately, after Ren Jie heard it was a cultivation technique, he had brought it along with him but was disinterested to open it. Otherwise, if he knew that there were ten spiritual jades in the case, he would have spent it all given his personality.