Chapter 1
: The Era of Gods' Abandonment, Everyone Changes Jobs!
"Two hundred and ninety-nine."
"three hundred."
"Three hundred and one."
"Three hundred and two."
……
As the morning sun streamed through the window into the small room, a handsome young man, shirtless, was doing one-handed push-ups, sweating profusely.
He only stopped when there was a knock at the door.
"Xiaoyuan, Auntie has gone to work. Remember to eat the breakfast that's on the table."
"understood."
The door slammed shut.
Jiang Yuan braced himself with his hands on the ground, exerted force in his abdomen, rolled over and sat up, gently exhaling a breath of stale air.
He glanced at the watch on his left wrist and asked, "Little Black, how long have I been training?"
A cute black cat appeared on the watch, standing on two legs and making adorable sounds.
"Master exercised for 1 hour and 7 minutes this morning, that's amazing, meow."
Jiang Yuan nodded slightly.
In the morning, I practiced basic martial arts techniques ten times, did ten sets of 100 sit-ups each, and did 300 push-ups with each hand, which took a total of one hour.
This speed is acceptable.
"Open the panel," Jiang Yuan said softly.
[Person: Jiang Yuan]
Race: Human.
[Level - Not yet Ranked]
Age: 17
[Stamina: 14]
Strength: 12+1
【Speed: 11】
【Spirit: 15】
[Cultivation Techniques: Basic Martial Arts, Basic Breathing Techniques, Basic Body Tempering Techniques]
[Evaluation: Weaker than an ant]
"Sigh, the attribute panel is still as bad as ever."
Jiang Yuan sighed.
I glanced at the time on my watch.
"It's so late?"
"Oh no, today is the day for awakening and job change. I can't be late."
Jiang Yuan quickly took a three-minute shower, finished his breakfast, and went out to take the sky train to school.
The SkyTrain was crowded in the morning, and Jiang Yuan was lucky enough to snag a seat.
"ha……"
Jiang Yuan, sitting on the skyrail, yawned.
Suddenly, my view outside the window brightened as the sky train passed the towering airport terminal.
Jiang Yuan leaned against the window, gazing out through the transparent pane, and murmured softly, "No matter how many times I see it, it's still breathtaking..."
The view in front of you is very wide, and the skyrail is traveling hundreds of meters above the ground.
Below is a suburban residential area where detached houses appear very small. Directly in front, towering buildings stand tall, resembling a steel forest composed of skyscrapers hundreds of meters high. Skyrail tracks traverse the city, which resembles a steel jungle, and various aircraft, trailing streaks of light, shuttle through the city's high-altitude skies, creating a highly sci-fi scene.
In the city center stands a towering clock tower whose top is invisible.
Looking further into the distance, one can vaguely see a towering steel wall shrouded in clouds and mist; if you can see it, it means the weather is good.
"Welcome aboard Skyrail Line 51. Good morning, passengers of Nanjiang City. Today is another peaceful day," an AI-synthesized voice announced over the loudspeaker.
"Here's today's morning news."
"Last night, a small-scale ferocious beast tide broke out in the A-level abyss of area 13 outside the city. It was suppressed within half an hour by the city's commander, Qin Zhan, and his men, and one level 6 ferocious beast was killed."
"There are reports that Liu He, the principal of Nanjiang No. 1 Martial Arts Middle School, has broken through to the seventh level of martial arts and is expected to run for the next city lord."
"Regarding the recent unusual phenomena in the East China Sea, an authoritative organization suspects that it is highly likely to be caused by a King-level ferocious beast. The Sakura Kingdom has dispatched an envoy to Great Xia to discuss the relevant details."
"A new level 7 abyss has been discovered outside Beijiang City, and the local martial arts association is organizing martial artists to explore it..."
"The annual martial arts college entrance examination will begin next month. This is a grand event in the Great Xia Kingdom. I wonder how many extraordinary talents and dark horses will emerge this year. These students carry the earnest expectations of countless parents and have trained hard day and night, all for the sake of getting into their ideal martial arts university. No matter the outcome, I would like to say to them: Strive for another month, live up to your youth, and live up to the path of martial arts..."
Listening to the radio and looking out the window, Jiang Yuan's thoughts drifted.
As a time traveler, I have been in this world for 17 years.
He couldn't tell whether he had traveled to another world or arrived in the future of his original world.
According to what is written in history books.
Three hundred years ago, until 2024 AD, everything in history followed the same trajectory as the world Jiang Yuan originally lived in, until 2025.
Everything has changed.
That year, abyssal planes suddenly appeared all over the world, from which countless ferocious beasts emerged.
Dragon-like creatures, thousands of meters long, nested on the seabed; giant trees, hundreds of thousands of meters tall, appeared on the northern surface of the moon; wolves hundreds of meters tall howled across the desolate continent; and calamities raged wherever eerie shadows passed... The human population was reduced by half during the cataclysm.
That year was also known as the first year of the Gods' Abandonment.
Fortunately, a game called "Heavenly Path" has arrived, merging with the real world!
The world expands a hundredfold, and in-game items such as quests, dungeons, equipment, props, and potions appear one after another.
Everyone received a data-driven game interface, where they could gain experience points and high-level materials and equipment by cultivating and killing ferocious beasts. Some people who awakened extraordinary talents quickly became human powerhouses, embarked on the path to godhood, achieved evolution at the level of life, and fought against the abyss!
For a hundred years, the gods abandoned humanity, and many powerful individuals emerged. People with various talents found their own professions, and with the unity of all mankind, technology developed rapidly, establishing a martial arts order that allowed ordinary people to cultivate and become stronger.
Two hundred years after the gods abandoned humanity, humankind gradually prospered, with powerful individuals successively reaching the demigod level. They opened up some abysses with low danger coefficients as training grounds, established martial arts associations and martial arts universities at various levels to cultivate powerful individuals, and began to suppress the abysses that were fighting back...
Now, it has been 297 years since God abandoned us.
"Why are you so sleepy? Did you stay up all night training last night?"
"Don't even mention it. Last night I secretly logged into Star Domain using my dad's account and watched a few female streamers practicing martial arts. Wow, their figures are amazing, unbeatable."
"Really that awesome?!"
"Nonsense, can't you see my blood and energy have plummeted?"
……
Two high school students in school uniforms were chatting nearby, talking enthusiastically about a female live streamer who was involved in a sexually suggestive situation.
Jiang Yuan wasn't interested; all he could think about right now was awakening and changing jobs.
In this life, he was born into an ordinary family. His father, Jiang Damu, was a border sentry, a first-level martial artist, and a full-time soldier who was stationed on the city wall year-round and never returned home. His mother, Tao Chunru, had awakened a healing talent and became a physician, working as a nurse at the Third People's Hospital of Beijiang City.
He is currently staying at his aunt's house in Nanjiang City, living with his aunt's family. His cousin is in her first year of high school.
Aside from his identity as a transmigrator and his memories from the womb, Jiang Yuan was no different from any other ordinary teenager at the bottom of society. He had no cheat codes or family background, and had nothing except for his handsome face that made him the school heartthrob.
In this dangerous, terrifying, and magnificent era, only those who awaken powerful talents and professions are qualified to become strong and change their destiny.
"We've arrived at Wudao Middle School."