Chapter 1

Ancheng, Heyuan Neighborhood.

Ye Nan looked out the window, his face showing a look of utter despair.

Warriors, ferocious beasts...

It had been more than a year since he had been transported to this world. Although he was now an orphan, his parents, who were warriors, had left him some inheritance, allowing him to live a decent life.

However, this world was not Earth. It was called Blue Star, a world with numerous underground caverns.

The underground caverns were filled with countless ferocious beasts!

Three hundred years ago, Blue Star was also in the age of firearms, but after the appearance of ferocious beasts, humans discovered that bullets and shells were completely ineffective against them.

Although nuclear weapons could kill ferocious beasts, some of the most resilient beasts, after being exposed to nuclear radiation, mutated and became even more powerful. Over the course of three hundred years, Blue Star transitioned from the age of firearms to the age of cold weapons.

In the process of resisting the ferocious beasts, humans discovered a peculiar gas, known as Primordial Energy!

Some humans, after absorbing Primordial Energy, could become powerful superhumans. These superhumans could tear apart ferocious beasts, with their strength, speed, and defense far surpassing those of ordinary people.

To absorb Primordial Energy, one needed cultivation talent!

On Blue Star, children as young as six could be tested for cultivation talent. Those who were found to have cultivation talent would be sent to martial arts schools across Blue Star for training.

With the emergence of many powerful warriors, humans finally managed to resist the attacks of the ferocious beasts, and a large number of them eventually retreated to the underground caverns.

The powerful warriors chose to enter the underground caverns, guarding the passages to prevent the ferocious beasts from easily reaching the surface of Blue Star.

However, there were too many unknown underground caverns on Blue Star, and many of these passages were not guarded by warriors, so the surface of Blue Star still had many ferocious beasts.

"Why don't I have cultivation talent?"

Ye Nan sighed.

Ancheng was not a base city. Although it had warriors and the military, their numbers were not large. If ferocious beasts appeared, they would not be able to resist them.

When he first arrived in this world, he thought he would gain a golden finger and become a powerful warrior, suppressing the land and slaying ferocious beasts.

Reality, however, was often cruel!

Not to mention becoming a powerful warrior, he didn't even have cultivation talent.

If he had been a native of Blue Star, it would have been one thing, but he was a穿越者 (穿越者 means "穿越者" in Chinese, which translates to "穿越者" in English, but in this context, it means "transmigrator" or "穿越者").

Transmigrators should have a golden finger, right?

This question had crossed Ye Nan's mind many times.

"Beep! Binding the Billionfold Critical Strike Recycling System."

"What is this..."

Ye Nan was startled!

"Beep! Binding of the Billionfold Critical Strike Recycling System complete."

"System!!!"

Ye Nan was stunned.

He was very clear that he was not hallucinating.

His golden finger had finally arrived?

"Beep! Activating tenfold critical strike recycling: Recycled items will receive a tenfold critical strike reward, and the rewards obtained from recycling cannot be recycled again."

The system's voice appeared in Ye Nan's mind once more.

"Recycling, critical strike?"

Ye Nan noticed that a set of data had suddenly appeared on his retina.

"Item: Ordinary wooden bed."

"Recyclable."

"Tenfold critical strike."

Try it!

Ye Nan chose to recycle, his excitement building up.

"Beep! Recycling successful."

"Received zero recycling reward."

Ah...

Ye Nan realized that he had lost both the bed and the reward.

Perhaps he needed something better to obtain a recycling reward?

He did have something good...

After his parents died in battle, they left him not only a large sum of Alliance Coins but also a feather from a ferocious beast.

He opened the cabinet in his room, and a pitch-black feather came into view. The black feather emitted an indescribable aura, which made Ye Nan's body shudder involuntarily.

The Black-Crowned Eagle was a powerful ferocious beast equivalent to an Eighth-Rank Elite Warrior, with a massive body that had slaughtered many humans.

"Item: Black-Crowned Eagle Feather."

"Recyclable."

"Tenfold critical strike."

Note: The first recycling of a useful item will grant an additional recycling reward.

Ye Nan chose to recycle.

"Beep! Recycling successful."

"Medium cultivation talent."

"10 Primordial Stones: Can be refined into Primordial Energy. The amount of Primordial Energy obtained from refining depends on the level of cultivation talent."

"2 Cultivation Talent Stones: Used for upgrading cultivation talent."

"2 Ability Talent Stones: Used for upgrading ability talent."

"Low-level Strength Talent: Threefold enhancement."

Sigh...

Ye Nan drew a sharp breath. The recycling reward was too good!

Medium cultivation talent!

This meant he could become a warrior!

And the low-level strength talent with a threefold enhancement effect!

Moreover, there were Primordial Stones, Cultivation Talent Stones, and Ability Talent Stones. Although he had never heard of these things before, their descriptions had made it clear to him.

On Blue Star, cultivation talent was divided into levels:

Weak, Inferior, Low, Medium, High, Top, Super, Ultimate, Divine!

On Blue Star, most warriors were either low-level or medium-level. Those with high-level cultivation talent were considered geniuses.

The level of cultivation talent not only represented the speed of absorbing Primordial Energy but also the efficiency of refining it.

Weak cultivation talent allowed for the absorption of Primordial Energy, but the ability to refine it within the body was pitifully weak. Therefore, those with weak cultivation talent could never break through to the Elite Warrior rank in their lifetime.

Talents were divided into cultivation talent and ability talent. Strength talent was a type of ability talent that awakened later in life.

Ability talent did not have as many levels as cultivation talent, only low, medium, and high levels.

Ye Nan fused the medium cultivation talent, 10 Primordial Stones, and low-level strength talent into his body.

"First-Rank Warrior."

"Am I..." Ye Nan looked at his trembling hands, "now a warrior?"

Human warriors on Blue Star now had a clear hierarchy:

Warrior, Elite Warrior, Great Warrior, Master, Grandmaster, War General, War King, Primordial War Venerable, Primordial War Saint, Primordial War Emperor, Primordial War God!

Each rank was further divided into nine levels.

"If my cultivation talent were higher, the 10 Primordial Stones would have allowed me to break through to a higher rank."

Ye Nan muttered.

Warrior was the initial rank. The higher the rank, the more Primordial Energy was required. After fusing the 10 Primordial Stones, he didn't need to spend time refining them; instead, they were directly refined into the corresponding amount of Primordial Energy based on his cultivation talent.

Moreover, this was just a single feather from a Black-Crowned Eagle. What about a complete Black-Crowned Eagle?

Tenfold critical strike...

The system's name was "Billionfold Critical Strike"!

If it were a hundredfold, a thousandfold, or even a billionfold critical strike, what kind of rewards would he receive?

Ye Nan felt that this system was too powerful!

He then used the 2 Cultivation Talent Stones and 2 Ability Talent Stones.

The medium cultivation talent and low-level strength talent did not improve.

Clearly, to upgrade cultivation talent and ability talent, a large number of talent stones were required.

Without further thought, Ye Nan left his room and went to the Heyuan Neighborhood to test his combat power.

Heyuan Neighborhood was a residential area for the families of warriors. Since his parents had died in battle, he could live in Heyuan Neighborhood and receive a substantial monthly allowance.

He approached a combat power testing machine!

Bang!

1230!

After delivering a powerful punch, the combat power testing machine displayed a number.

This was his current combat power.

What if he used the low-level strength talent with a threefold enhancement?

Bang!

Onefold!

2460!

Twofold!

3690!

Threefold!

4920!

With the threefold strength enhancement, Ye Nan's combat power reached 4920.

4920 combat power was equivalent to that of a Fourth-Rank Warrior.

"Is this my combat power?"

Ye Nan was extremely excited.

After calming down, Ye Nan knew that although he had 4920 combat power, he didn't think he could defeat a Fourth-Rank Warrior.

Because his speed and mental reaction were still those of a First-Rank Warrior!