GASP!

I woke up with a start. Where am I? Is this the afterlife? I clearly remembered being run over by a truck. Even the stinging pain still lingered in my soul. As I rubbed at the dull pain throbbing in my head, I looked about my surroundings. I was in a room. It seemed familiar, yet unfamiliar at the same time.

I flung away the covers and leaped out of the soft bed…the really soft bed. I looked around, trying to get a sense of myself. Why does everything look so big? Then, something appeared at the corner of my right eye. I turned around and was stunned.

There, before me, was a child no older than ten. No, this was me! What I was seeing was my reflection! What’s going on? Did I go back in time? No, this child was someone else. It only looked slightly like what my ten-year old self should look like.

Suddenly, another flash of pain coursed through my head, various images flooded my brain. These…they’re memories of this body. My name is still Lin Tian, but instead of ‘land cultivation’ Tian, it is ‘heavenly sky’ Tian.

I am the third son of the seventh elder of the prominent Lin Family. I have a father and a mother, as well as two older brothers, an older sister, as well as a younger sister. What a wonderful, caring family!

More images appeared. This world was the Bright Valley Realm, a planet that was a thousand times larger than Earth. I am living in the Vale Kingdom of Moonsong Country. I am currently ten years old.

This world was a cultivation world, something like the ones in the novels I used to read online! Judging by the technical terms, it seemed to be more like a fusion of fantasy and xianxia rather than purely fantasy or purely xianxia.

I just had my cultivation talent examined? What am I? Lower medium talent – yellow rank…that seemed pretty good. Actually, scratch that, it seemed to be trash according to the Lin Family. Wait, we get blessings from the gods and goddesses of this world? Tier 1 blessing! Don’t tell me even here, I am cursed with misfortune? Will I be like some MCs in xianxia novels and be kicked out of the family for having trashy talent?

No, calm down…calm down. In either case, I need to know what kind of blessing I have. I closed my eyes and began to concentrate. If I recall correctly, by focusing on my Inner Space, I would be able to discern what my blessing was.

After a couple of minutes, I began to see the blessing faintly. It read – Random Mystery Box: Important decisions, skills, weapons, and items will be mostly determined by fate and chosen by the gods and goddesses that exist in the various realms.

What the fuck? What the absolute fuck!