Death and Transmigration
Life was a fragile thing. It didn't matter whether soone was the smartest being alive or a random beggar on the street. Everything was equally worthless in the face of the indifferent universe. No matter how precious or dear soone's life was to you, in front of the cruel and unforgiving world, it could be taken away without any warning.
And that was what happened to Xue Bai on the eve of his 10th birthday.
"I'm sorry to say this, Mr. and Mrs. Xue, but your son has ALS and may not walk again." And with those words, Xue Bai's childhood life ended.
From that day onward, Xue Bai lived in his hospital room, which was great at first. After all, he was only 10 when he first heard it. So the first thought that ca to mind was, "no more school," However, the novelty quickly wore out.
Boredom quickly set in as he was in his bed all day, every day.
So, to sate his boredom, Xue Bai asked his parents to buy him different electronics.
The world he was born in was cruel to him, so he tried to find an escape from others.
And after getting his first tablet, Xue Bai started his deep dive into the world of fantasy.
Xue Bai then spent the rest of his ti delving into different fantasy works. It didn't matter what they were either, as he soaked up anything. Magic, supernatural, fantasy, the genre didn't matter, and neither did the type of entertainnt, as Xue Bai loved both tv shows and novels alike.
Anything else that was full of unrealistic feats perford by superhuman characters brought enjoynt to his boring life.
And for the next three years, Xue Bai's life was spent doing just that. Reading every book that his parents bought him and watching every new show he found that piqued his interest. Other than his physical handicap, nothing was constant during his ti in the hospital.
Even his room had changed slightly over the years. Now, it had gained more liveliness than when he first was admitted, as there were books, manga, and CDs of his favorite fantasy works throughout the room.
Ti passed quickly, and on a random Monday morning that seed like it was going to be a typical day, his parents barged into his room with confusingly broad smiles. His dad was carrying a box as he and his mother stood beside him, seemingly giddy with excitent.
While confused, Xue Bai waited for his parents to explain what was in the box.
This didn't take long, as before his curiosity took over and Xue Bai asked first, his mother ca to his side and explained what Mr. Xue was carrying.
Mrs. Xue Bai explained that In the box was sothing called a VR(Virtual Reality) helt, which the doctors had recomnded. Apparently, the doctors had said while the chances were slim, it could theoretically help him walk again.
And since Xue Bai was his parent's entire world, it went without question that they wanted any opportunity they could get for their son to walk again, so while the chance was slim, they still bought a VR helt and an accompanying ga for Xue Bai to play.
The Xue couple was rather rich, and one asly VR helt wouldn't hurt them financially, so even if it didn't do as advertised, the couple knew their son would enjoy the gas nonetheless.
And since they knew their son well, the ga his parents bought was of his favorite genre, Eastern Fantasy.
The ntions of immortality, flying, and fighting blood-boiling battles gave the young ALS patient enjoynt like no other.
The ga his parents bought him was the most recent popular Eastern Fantasy ga called "Children of the Plane," which, as advertised, had a new take on the over-saturated cultivation ga genre.
This ga, like many others in the genre, required you to create a character and choose a starting point before fully jumping into a well-choreographed and beautiful cultivation world where your dreams could co true.
However, unlike in most cultivation genre gas, where you were the only protagonist, this ga was much different.
In "Children of the Plane," besides the character you create, there were five other 'protagonists.' However, to separate you and your five competitors from the rest of the world, you were all given a blessing from the plane itself and were given the title called "Child of the Plane."
This would be a blessing that affected every aspect of your life in an extrely beneficial way.
The title ant that you were blessed by fate. Having extrely good luck that would allow you to find great treasures anywhere or having great charisma that would give you an easier ti creating allies.
There were also many other inclusive traits, but they all boiled down to what the main character of a standard cultivation novel would have.
Whether they were good or bad.
Another new concept in the ga was that, depending on how you played the ga, the other 5 Children of the Plane could be your sworn brothers, spouses, or mortal enemies.
aning that there were no set ways on how to play the ga. The world was your sandbox, and every ti you wanted to start a new world, you could even choose different allies or enemies to make your journey fresh every ti.
And no matter how fast you cultivated, the other Children of the Plane had a feature that allowed them to keep up with your cultivation base and cultivation speed, raising the difficulty by giving you constant pressure.
This way that no matter how good you were at the ga or how well you were at using 'online references,' you'd always have people on your heels.
Finally, and most importantly, every single Child of the Plane, besides you, was based on a standard cultivation novel troupe.
Ring Grandma, Regression, Reincarnation, the top 5 most oversaturated and overused cultivation novel troupes, were being used in the ga.
Enticed by the description, Xue Bai didn't even wait for his parents to leave before he put on the helt and started his first playthrough of the ga.
Instantly he quickly fell in love with the ga.
And over the next two years, Xue Bai would spend most of his ti playing "Children of the Plane,"
While he had finished the main story since there was a sequel on the way, he decided to explore everything the first ga had to offer fully. Also, since the ga was so realistic, Xue Bai constantly felt like he was doing all these heaven-defying acts himself, making him never want to remove the helt.
After waiting a month, Xue Bai finally received the next ga, "Children of the Heavens."
Reading the description, Xue Bai quickly learned that it took place in the Immortal World, a higher plane. But in order to reach the Immortal Realm, you first had to ascend from the Baishen Plane, the place where "Children of the Plane" took place.
But in order to ascend, there were two prerequisites. One was to have a cultivation base that was at least in the Immortal Origin realm, while the other was to pass a final Heavenly Tribulation.
Thankfully, across his two years of playing, Xue Bai had long cultivated to the peak of the mortal plane, the 13th stage of the Immortal Ascension Realm.
However, while he was waiting for his Heavenly Tribulation, Xue Bai suddenly felt short of breath.
At first, he thought that it was a sneak attack, but since he already had soone to watch over him, Xue Bai ignored it and continued trying to calm himself.
Heavenly Tribulations were no joke, and even the slightest change in ntality could result in his death and losing everything.
But minutes quickly passed, and the feeling only got worse. Soon he couldn't even breathe. Now scared, he thought his companion had been killed, and he was next, so he hurriedly checked his surroundings.
However, even after he used his Spiritual Sense, Xue Bai sensed nothing around him within miles.
Even his companion was perfectly fine a few miles away, lazily lying down on a rock.
Seeing her so nonchalant made Xue Bai realize sothing. The feeling wasn't coming from inside the ga but was instead coming from his actual body.
While he'd had attacks like these before, this one felt different, and almost instantly, Xue Bai knew it was severe. So before he inevitably passed out, Xue Bai paused the ga, took off his VR helt, and pressed the help button.
But even as he was waiting for help to reach him, Xue Bai could feel himself hyperventilating harder than ever.
It was getting harder and harder to breathe, and his vision was blanking.
Feeling an ominous feeling building up inside him, Xue Bai quickly beca scared. But what could he really do? He couldn't do anything to help himself, so as he worried about death, he could only stay in his bed and wait for help.
The help arrived quickly, and it only took just over 20 seconds for the door to swing open, and doctors stord inside.
But even as he saw the doctors barge in, sothing in Xue Bai made him know that they were too late. And just before passing out, Xue Bai got one more good look at the panicked looks on the doctors' faces.
'They look so worried.'
And after an unknown amount of ti, Xue Bai finally woke up.
But as he opened his eyes, the mories of why he passed out ran through his mind, and without even thinking, he sprung up from his bed to look around his room. Yet right after his back moved, shock filled his face, and he realized what he had just done.
He had moved!
Xue Bai hadn't been able to sit up for almost a year, so doing it now with practically no effort shocked him.
Still, his shock wasn't over, as what surprised Xue Bai more than his body listening to him was his 'hospital room.'
Not only had his tiny hospital bed transford into an ancient Chinese bed that was big enough to fit an entire small family. It even had the cliche thin curtains that blocked the view from the outside.
With his mind still reeling from the current situation, Xue Bai knew he had to investigate his surroundings.
Not only did he find himself in an archaic room, but he also suddenly regained his mobility. Sothing was definitely off about his current situation, and he needed to find out before sothing bad happened.
Climbing out of bed was simple, but as he went to move the curtains, he noticed the last anomaly, his body.
When Xue Bai went to grab the curtains, he saw his hands were too small for a 15-year-old, no matter how weak his body was.
Horrified, Xue Bai looked at the rest of his body, only to see that he was only a child, maybe 6 or 7 years old.
Seeing his shrunken body, Xue Bai tried to think about what had happened to get here. It certainly wasn't a kidnapping because no matter how good the kidnappers were, they wouldn't be able to swap his body.
Thinking supernaturally, Xue Bai soon thought up the only plausible scenarios. He had either transmigrated or reincarnated. However, as he thought a little deeper, he rembered that for either to happen, Xue Bai had to die.
'I died?' Xue Bai thought the worst.
Instantly, he rembered everything in his life. His parent's sweet smiles, the kind doctors who were always helping him, and even the novels that he hadn't finished reading all the sweet parts of his life ca to him.
All the good nostalgic mories and the contradicting fact that they were all gone now made Xue Bai suddenly feel sick to his stomach. He had died. No matter how bad his life was, there were still many good things, and even if there weren't, it was still his. So finding out that he had died made him feel nauseous.
Holding his mouth and trying to suppress his vomit for a few seconds, Xue Bai jumped out of bed to puke whatever al the previous host had eaten. Quickly scanning the room in hopes of finding a nearby bin to use, he spotted sothing resembling a trash can.
Without checking to see what it actually was, Xue Bai ran over to it and vomited into it until his stomach felt empty, and he started dry heaving.
After vomiting, Xue Bai began to calm himself down by taking a few deep breaths.
Seconds quickly passed, and after taking in a few huge breaths, he soon regained his composure.
Though he still didn't accept his new situation, Xue Bai knew that his opinion did not matter much in the grand sche of things.
Sothing had happened, and now he was in a new environnt.
So now filled with curiosity, Xue Bai stood up from the bin and finally started looking around his new room.
And seeing it for the first ti, he had very few complaints. While it was an ancient ti-thed room, everything looked rich and fancy to the point where he, a future-era person, could tell.
From the gold-clothed linings on the blanket or the cicada wing thin curtain around his bed, not a single thing in the room looked cheap. Hell, even the trash can he threw up into was created from what looked like shiny silver tal.
As he finished evaluating his room, Xue Bai spotted a mirror next to a desk and decided to take a look at his new body. However, as he walked to the mirror, he soon found out he was too short to look at it standing normally, so after getting a stool that he found nearby, Xue Bai stood on it to see his new appearance.
But like everything else that happened in the last two minutes, once he looked in the mirror, he was shocked.
Looking back at him from inside the mirror was a Chinese toddler.
This wasn't very odd since Xue Bai himself was Chinese before transmigration, but once he looked at its, or rather his face, he was captivated.
The skin of the toddler was fair and white, while its face seed so delicate and pale that it looked almost like a porcelain doll.
Going down slightly, Xue Bai had his attention caught on the oddly colored eyes, which were an odd purple and black hue. And while the color sche was certainly quirky, it still was an excellent match to the black-colored hair cascading down his neck and back.
However, while Xue Bai was certainly shocked at his new cute appearance, after a quick glance over, he lost interest. Now, the only thing he could think about was one phrase that he yelled out.
"FUCK AM I A GIRL?"
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