Chapter 1!

Chapter 1: The Reveal—I Am a Reincarnator!

In the year of Xin Chou, on the third day of the third lunar month in midwinter.

At the third quarter of the noon hour.

The daytime star appears!

In broad daylight, the sky suddenly darkened. The sun, still hanging in the sky, seemed veiled, its warmth utterly absent, replaced by a chilling cold.

Outside the window, stars twinkled; the temperature plummeted rapidly. The air was suddenly filled with a kaleidoscope of rainbows, and faintly, snowflakes could be seen drifting down.

Inside, a young man lay on his bed, fiddling with his phone. Suddenly, his gaze blurred; his hands relaxed instantly, and the phone slipped onto the bed with a soft thud.

Within mere breaths, his hair transformed from black to gray; white strands grew visibly by the second.

His smooth, delicate skin began to wrinkle.

Cheeks that had never known acne or freckles sank inward.

Across his forehead appeared ugly, crooked wrinkles resembling centipedes.

His muscles slackened.

Fat became loose and sagging.

In just fifteen minutes, as the starlight outside vanished, the young man disappeared, replaced by a frail old man with a head full of white hair, close to death.

Xiong Yan opened his eyes, gazing at the multicolored rainbow outside the window. He instinctively picked up his phone, checked the date, opened his friends’ and authors’ chat groups, and after a moment, confirmed one fact—he seemed to have been reincarnated!

But why did his body feel so heavy?

The distance from his bedroom to the bathroom was barely ten meters, a journey that usually took seconds. This time, it took a full minute.

Looking into the full-length mirror at the decrepit old man staring back, Xiong Yan rubbed his eyes repeatedly, checked the time on his phone again, and felt his heart struggling to endure the shock.

The good news: he was reincarnated!

The bad news: he was about to die!

Could this be the price of reincarnation?

Calm down!

Take a deep breath!

After a few seconds, Xiong Yan successfully entered a meditative state.

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Thoughts ceased, the mind became still like water; all distractions were shut out, unable to disturb him in the slightest.

His once heavy, bellows-like breathing gradually grew quiet and steady.

After several dozen seconds, Xiong Yan entered a deeper level of meditation. His body remained still, but his mind was free to think clearly and efficiently.

A few minutes later, he reached a stable state and began internal observation.

“Blood pressure is dropping, blood flow slowing, limbs growing cold, face pale, body temperature falling. If I hadn’t entered this stable state in time, I’d likely be losing consciousness or in shock, soon slipping into a coma, then death,” Xiong Yan thought calmly.

“Muscles are loose; bones show signs of necrosis. The movement system is on the verge of collapse—one intense exertion away from breaking down.”

“My left kidney has failed; the right one is near retirement. If both kidneys collapse, the urinary and reproductive systems will fail, and the other six major systems of the body will surely follow…”

After five minutes of internal scanning, Xiong Yan shook his head.

Fortunately, he was in a stable state, unaffected by fortune or misfortune; life and death could not shake his will. Otherwise, under normal circumstances, he would have already suffered a mental collapse leading to physical breakdown.

If he were still the deputy director of the Daxia Institute of Extraordinary Phenomena from his past life, his failing body would have countless remedies.

If the spiritual tide had already erupted, with greatly increased spiritual energy in the air, he could forcibly enter the unity of heaven and man, absorbing vast, high-quality spiritual energy to mend his deficiencies.

Though complicated and troublesome, he could endure.

But now, the spiritual energy was only just beginning to revive—there was nothing!

If he could hold on for seven days, that would be manageable. The first wave of the Void Realm would arrive then, offering countless opportunities.

But with his body on the brink of collapse, barely able to survive lying down for twelve hours, only one choice remained!

At this moment, only Daxia could gather enough newly born rare treasures from across the country to possibly save him. (Quantity compensates for quality.)

As for what would happen after revealing this truth, Xiong Yan was uncertain. But even in the worst case, how bad could it be?

After all, lying down now, he only had about twelve hours left.

Exhausted and broken, his physical decline was worse than being drained by a fox spirit or having his yang energy consumed by a ghost—that was his current fate!

However, revealing the truth had its protocols. Ideally, contacting the top officials of the Political Affairs Hall was best, but Xiong Yan had no way to reach them.

At a second thought, reaching out via high-ranking friends from his past life seemed plausible, but he realized most of them hadn’t risen to prominence yet.

Professor Jiang was still a doctoral student; Professor Bai was in graduate school; Professor Lu was still a university scholar; Professor Ji was busy courting a girlfriend; the master of dog food, Lou Cheng, was chasing a high school classmate; Saint Body Ye Fan had just broken up; the two saints of Phoenix Mountain were dating; and the peerless grandmaster Xu Guangling…

In short, though they would be outstanding in the future, none had made it yet—they were still ordinary people.

With that in mind, Xiong Yan began searching online for contact numbers of relevant departments.

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“I am Xiong Yan. My ID number is… My current location is…”

“You should have verified my identity by now. I have critical intelligence to report—more important than the 500,000 from the Mobile Unit, far more important!”

“I guarantee my words with my real name. I hope you will keep this confidential and notify your superiors as quickly as possible—the higher the level, the better.”

After hanging up, looking out at the blue sky and white clouds, at the silly friends in the chat group, and at couples on the nearby streets, embracing, kissing, teasing each other under the pretense of the strange phenomenon, Xiong Yan felt the world was quite wonderful.

At this moment, extraordinary powers had yet to emerge!

At this moment, social order still held!

At this moment, people did not have to leave a farewell note at home before going to work in the morning.

Though society was far from perfect, the presence of order was enough to make people cherish it forever.

Especially in the future, after the Void Realm arrives, the spiritual tide erupts, and disasters of beasts, strange phenomena, and demons descend, people would longingly recall today’s society, subconsciously overlooking its flaws.

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Half an hour later, the local chief of the relevant department and the staff member who answered the call arrived together.

“I seem to have been reincarnated!”

“Comrade Xiong Yan, is cosplay fun? Dressing up as an old man—is it amusing?”

“Do you even understand what you’re saying? Do you realize the nature of my department? This call is not to be made frivolously!”

“Your behavior, according to regulations, warrants ideological education, criticism, and then a written review and guarantee. That way, you’ll only get one day of administrative detention,” the officer said sternly.

Young people like Xiong Yan were a dime a dozen—always trying to make big news. But seldom had anyone been so bold as to prank call their department’s number. This was illegal!

“No, I’m not joking. I truly have been reincarnated!” Xiong Yan said earnestly.

“This is my ID. I stand by every word I say. If I’m lying, you can detain me for fifteen days. But what if I’m telling the truth?”

“As for whether I’m a reincarnator, even if you can’t judge now, just record everything. Someone will decide eventually. Your task isn’t to doubt me, but to document everything accurately and keep it confidential!”

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