C1 The Rebirth of Pill Monarch

The blazing sun was shining down from its position high in the sky. The scorching rays of the sun fell heavily on the sports field, nearly making the plastic runway burn and emit smoke.

"This guy isn’t strong enough. Though he put up a brave front of wanting to duel, in the end, his opponent defeated him with just a single punch. To rub salt to the wound, he even fainted. Such an embarrassment!"

"He deserves it. The fool actually dared to provoke Brother Xu."

"So this is what it means to not know your strength. He should take the time to get a good look in the mirror. He even dared to actually call himself Hsu Qing’s fiance. A man with his capabilities wanting to go beyond his means? He is not worthy of our sympathies even if he finds himself nearly beaten to death."

A group of students gathered around the sports field. They were mocking at Ye Tian who was lying unconsciously on the burning ground.

“Ning Yao, finish the kill!”

Right at that moment, the unconscious Ye Tian was revitalized, bouncing off the ground with renewed energy. On his face was a furious expression. While waving his hands around, he let out a sorrowful and cruel roar that echoed across the field.

Ye Tian’s sudden outburst caught the surrounding students by surprise, causing them to take an involuntary step back at the same time.

“Ye Tian, Brother Xu is already long gone. Stop with your act. Your fist technique is useless here.”

“With your skills, you have no fighting chance. We all saw how you were defeated by just one punch just now. Even killing a chicken would be extremely difficult for you.”

“A person like you must know their limits. Someone like you shouldn’t try and covet Hsu Qing. You should give up on trying to pursue her. Otherwise, you might really be beaten to death next time.”

Someone started to laugh first and then the entire crowd joined in, bursting into raucous laughter.

Ye Tian seemed to be deaf to their ridicule. He appeared to be having confusing thoughts.

“What’s happening to me? I’m Ye Tian from the Qingming Lucky Land in Square Inch Spirit Domain. I’m a great cultivator at the Uncut Jade stage. People refer to me as Pill Monarch. With my hundred years of cultivation, I refined a Pill Formula, the Class-nine Divine Phoenix Rejuvenating Pill, which was lost for ten thousand of years. Using the power of this pill, I raised my cultivation base to the level of Heavenly Palace Stage which no one in the Square Inch Spirit Domain could break through.”

“Yet it is known that the tallest tree in the forest will not go unaffected by the wind. Because of my actions, the other sects in the Square Inch Spirit Domain felt threatened by me. The day the Divine Pill was successfully refined, eight cultivators at the Uncut Jade Stage suddenly ambushed me. As a result, the Divine Pill was stolen from me. My partner, Ning Yao, in order to protect me, fought a ruthlessly bloody battle. Her Dharma Manifestation was destroyed during the fight and her life was placed in grave danger. In the end, Qingming Lucky Land wasn’t able to escape the bloodshed, turning into a sea of mangled flesh and blood. By the time this was over, countless people had died.”

“It was with great solemnity that I watched this scene unfold with my very own eyes. The violence and inferno turned my body into flames and the Phoenix Rejuvenating Pill that was about to be refined exploded. Everything that I knew and loved had been destroyed, but how is it possible that I’m still alive?”

“No, this couldn’t be right. Where am I?”

In the next instant, Ye Tian turned his head to see both unfamiliar and familiar faces watching him. The shock on his face then suddenly turned into disbelief.

“This is Earth. You are all students of the University of South China Sea. And you are Lee Fann?”

In an instant, the memories that were sealed in a deep part of his mind came flooding into his consciousness being replayed like that of a movie. Finally, Ye Tian had a grasp of where he was and what had just happened.

“Of course, this is Earth! Ye Tian, have you been beaten into a stupor? Why all this confusion?”

The boy who Ye Tian recognized curled his lips and said this teasingly.

“I’m here. I actually came back.”

Ye Tian said this, dumbfoundedly. The expression on his face was a mixture of joy and worry.

Originally, he was a second-year university student on Earth. The Ye family used to be a big family in the South Sea and at its peak, his parents were even able to arrange a marriage for him. His fiancee was the daughter of the Hsu family, Hsu Qing.

However, his parents were killed by their enemies and after that, the titles and family properties were all gone. Thus, the Hsu family decided to end his engagement with Hsu Qing.

Unfortunately, he was the fool who didn't see his situation clearly. He still harbored hope that Hsu Qing would still marry him. He also hoped to borrow the Hsu family’s power to find his parent’s murderer and avenge their deaths.

In the end, his intentions were spurned by Hsu Qing. She directly said that the engagement was no more. While they were arguing, Niu Xu, who had been pursuing Hsu Qing, rushed and knocked over Ye Tian to the ground with one punch.

After being knocked out, the world spun around him. When he regained consciousness, he was in a different world!

A fantastical and colorful Cultivation World, Square Inch Spirit Domain!

Later, he was saved by Ning Yao, and she led him into Qingming Lucky Land.

In Qingming Lucky Land, he demonstrated his Pill Tao talent that proved earth-shattering to the entire Square Inch Spirit Domain.

In just two hundred years, he became a great cultivator at the Uncut Jade Stage in Square Inch Spirit Domain with the title of Pill Monarch. He even became partners with Ning Yao, who had saved his life. Their two hundred-year love became a thing of envy for countless people.

However, because word had spread of his famous Divine Pill, he became renowned in all the land. In the end, it was because of the Divine Pill that the Qingming Lucky Land had been destroyed. Even Ning Yao was not spared, having lost her cultivation base and her life.

However, he never thought that punch of Niu Xu would land him in the Square Inch Spirit Domain. And now, because of the Phoenix Rejuvenating Pill and the events that had transpired, he returned to the very instant when he was knocked out by Niu Xu.

“Something’s wrong. Since I’m back here on Earth, will Ning Yao, who has a stronger cultivation base than me, be allowed to be reborn as well?”

At that moment, a thought that made him so overjoyed entered Ye Tian’s mind.

Without delving into it too much, Ye Tian closed both of his eyes. He was going to use the Divine Sense to search for Ning Yao’s Qi.

But Ye Tian opened his eyes the next moment, completely empty-handed. There had been no fluctuation of the Immortal Essence in his body. It had come up void.

“Immortal Essence, Divine Ability, Spiritual Treasure, could it be that these things are no longer valid here? Could it be that my cultivation is just a fleeting thing after two hundred years of honing it?”

Ye Tian tightly clenched his fists, his face a mass of sorrow as he muttered to himself. In the next second, he shook his head heavily side to side and enunciated.

“No! Right now, my Pill Tao talent is unaltered. I will keep the cultivation technique in my heart and not forget it! As long as I can refine the Pill and slowly increase my strength day by day, Ning Yao will not be lost to me. I will be able to find her one day!”

The current Ye Tian was a changed person from the ignorant youth he was previously. Knowing that even a warrior at the Nascent Soul Stage from the Square Inch Spirit Domain could be fearless on Earth, this renewed his goal to find Ning Yao. With just a dash of Divine Sense, not a spot on this entire planet will go uncovered and soon his search will turn up something fruitful.

“In my previous lifetime, I was a person with zero power. I was helpless when my parents were killed and when my family property was taken from me. I couldn’t even find out my enemy’s identity. I lived a muddle-headed existence and even depended on a woman for validity.”

“Since the heavens have brought me back, this time, I will live my life without regrets! To those who killed my parents, those who bullied and harmed me, I will never let you get away with this. Who would’ve thought that I would’ve turned out to be the reincarnation of Pill Monarch, right?”

The light cast in Ye Tian’s previously gloomy eyes shone with a brighter light, like that of a rising sun. This inner light seemed to shine for a thousand miles, bravely moving the darkness out of its path!

The classmates surrounding him looked at Ye Tian’s shifting emotions and suddenly felt that Ye Tian had completely transformed into a different person. But what the exact change was, they couldn’t put a finger on it at that very moment.

“Ye Tian, so you’re alive! I thought such a weakling like you wouldn’t be able to get up after one punch! I’m warning you, don’t ever try to get close to Hsu Qing again. Otherwise, don’t blame me if I really beat you to death one day.”

A moment later, the crowd parted to reveal a tall and burly young man with long hair. He walked up to Ye Tian and said coldly with a serious face.

This person happened to be none other than Niu Xu, the young master of the Niu family in the South Sea, and also another one of Hsu Qing’s suitors!

At the sight of Niu Xu, Ye Tian’s eyes immediately turned into two frosty points.

In his previous life, after Ye Tian’s family had fallen on hard times, Niu Xu constantly bullied him. In order to win Hsu Qing over, Niu Xu treated him no better than a dog.

One instant stood out to him clearly. Ye Tian was at the door of the class when Niu Xu punched him to the ground in front of all the students, then kicked him a few more times for good measure. All his classmates mocked him for being so weak, and this sort of ridicule towards him continued for half a month.

“I have no problem with never seeing Hsu Qing again!” On Ye Tian’s face was a faint smile. He looked at Niu Xu and said lightly, “Niu Xu, you just landed a punch on me. Do you dare let me rest for three minutes and retaliate? If you’re not afraid, let’s discuss this later!”

At that point, Hsu Qing was no longer of any importance to Ye Tian. How could she compare to a strand of hair on Ning Yao's head?

However, just like a tree needed water and sunlight to survive, a person needed integrity in order to flourish.

Cultivate? If he just swallowed all the insults and didn’t dare to seek out revenge, then what would be the point of cultivating?

“What did Ye Tian just say? Could he be joking? He wants to punch Brother Xu?”

“Has he really been knocked on the head too many times?”

“A soft persimmon wants to advance into a hard iron block today? Looking at his strength, he’ll never make it.”

Seeing as how Ye Tian wasn’t going to back down, the surrounding crowd went speechless.

From their point of view, Ye Tian came from a fallen family, was weak, and did not know where he stood. No one thought he had it in him to say such words after being beaten up by Niu Xu and knocked unconscious for some time.

“Three minutes? That's all you need? For a pile of mud like yourself, I will give you a hundred minutes, but you will still be a pile of mud by the time I get through with you. Okay, rest for now. When your break is over, I will turn you into a pile of mud or my surname won’t be Niu. It will be Ye instead!”

After having said that, Niu Xu raised his head and laughed maniacally. His eyes while looking at Ye Tian were filled with great disdain.

“Alright then!”

Cold pinpoints of light flashed in Ye Tian's eyes at that moment. With no hesitation, he harnessed the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth with both hands.

But found the Spiritual Energy was too weak!

From the moment he called upon the Spiritual Energy, Ye Tian could immediately feel that the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth on Earth was nothing compared to the Spiritual Energy in the Square Inch Spirit Domain. The Spiritual Energy on Earth he was able to summon proved to be only a few thin strands of power.

But even if that were so, it was just enough Spiritual Energy for Ye Tian to use to deal with the insufferable Niu Xu!

“There’s something different about him!”

The moment the Spiritual Energy was being collected in Ye Tian’s body, the surrounding students immediately recognized that this Ye Tian was a different Ye Tian from before.

Although a thin figure still stood before them, an additional spurt to his aura gave the impression that he was like a sharp sword about to be unsheathed!