Radiant rays of the rising sun shone on the morning sky, enchanting once hope for a better future. With the light, the forest became livelier and the atmosphere beyond the wall beamed with vitality. Wind passed between the soft leaves of gigantic green trees with a slight whooshing sound and early birds began entertain the forest with their lively chirping, as if noticing to the world that a new day had begun.
In the small, but beautiful courtyard, a young man no more then twenty or so years old sat on the bamboo chair, happily looking at the morning sky. He had long, black hair and brown eyes with his overall average appearance.
"This is the best." He said and breathed deeply. Slightly cold air came into his body, refreshing his mind and soul. Then he looked before him in the small pool, where a small black fish was swimming slowly and continued: "What do you think, little Blackie, isn't life beautiful?"
No voice came from the other side and for a moment courtyard fell into silence.
"Hah… still pretending, aren't we? Ok… so be it." Man said as he leaned back on his chair in the comfortable position not even slightly embarrassed for the previous awkward silence. Then he looked at his left, at the small plum tree and continued with a more teasing tone: "What do you say, Xu'er? It's good to be alive, right?"
The plum tree had a thin body and was two or so meters tall, clearly indicated that it should have been planted no more than a few years ago. It was so small that even a low breeze in the courtyard was enough to shake the whole tree.
He waited patiently for some time, but the only response which he got was a slight whooshing sound, which leaves were making as the tree was shaking.
"You guys are just… Ok. Fine, do whatever you want." Unfazed, he stood up from the chair and moved towards the house at a slow pace.
If normal people would see this situation, that grown-ass man was talking with the tree and fish, they would think that he was a retard, beyond anyone's help. And though they wouldn't be wrong with that, they still wouldn't grasp the full picture here. Because this was a cultivation world, where talking trees and fishes, weren't that rare sight and, at the same time, he was a transmigrator.
Originally, he was a normal young man living on the small blue planet named Earth. One day, when he was taking the shower, he farted two times, but miraculously survived from them. Then he didn't notice and touched power outlet with his wet hand. Instantly, electrical energy assaulted his body. It was painful, but he survived.
Scared, he moved quickly and tried to leave the bath, but he was still wet. His foot slipped and he fell on the floor, hitting his head on the corner of bathtub in the process. Blood busted out from behind of his head. But he still survived.
Attempt to call an ambulance as soon as possible, he stood up and moved towards the first floor of his house, where he was charging his phone. From previous two encounter his body was in the weak state. He couldn't maintain his position and fell, while he was coming down on the stairs.
"Bang!" And yet again he was on the floor, laid in the awkward position, but now before the stairs. If not from previous incident now his neck was undoubtedly broken. But he still stood up.
This time he moved slowly, with understanding that this wasn't his luckiest day. His head was moving left and right as his neck didn't have any power to support it. Finally, he managed and got with the phone.
Tap… Tap… Tap…
He started to call ambulance, but in the next moment black gun tip came into his vision. Man, completely covered with black, stood on the other side of opened window and pointing his gun at him.
"Wha…" he wanted to say something, but before he could have done that voice of two gunshot echoed in the room. Two red marks appeared on his body and soon dark-red blood began to coming out from them. It was painful, but he endured it. Attacker wanted to shot again, but before attacker would manage to do that, he moved his body, swiftly rolled on the ground and sat behind of small table. Sadly, he sat on the wrong side of table, where previously he had casually dropped his lightsaber. Instantly when he sat, red light shone and lightsaber cut his left hand. It happened so quickly that lightsaber didn't even manage to burn the wound and left it open. Blood came out from his wound painted floor with deep red color. At this point he had already lost more then ten liters of blood, but he was eating well so it wasn't really a problem.
He didn't give himself to panic, with his legs he slowly teared his towel, which previously was covering his private parts and with the help of it manage to stop the bleeding. Then he slowly looked towards the window to see what attacker was doing. Surprisingly, he found out that person in the black had disappeared. Relieved by this, he looked back at his phone and tried to call ambulance, but before he would manage to do that floor tremble.
Cracks appeared on the wall and books began falling from the shelves. He wasn't even done thinking to what the fuck books were doing in his house, when with violent 'Boom' ceiling fell, leaving his figure under it.
Like this, his two-story building got destroyed by devastating earthquake, which with his house destroyed more then half of the town. He was in tight situation, but he still survived.
It didn't even take three hours for him to understood that reinforcement wasn't coming for him. So, he decided to survive on his own. It was painful, but after some time he manage to crawled out from remnants.
It was already midday and sun hung high into the sky, blessing earth with its hot rays. It was painfully uncomfortable to be out at this time and though he was tired beyond anyone's guess, he still moved his body towards hospital.
But right at that point, when he took a first step, from the corner of his eye he noticed beautiful bird. It was small bird, completely covered with red and dark-blue shining feathers. It was flying slowly; with every swing of the wing, it felt like bird was stopping the time. And despite the fact that he wasn't zoophile… well, at last not when incognito mode was off… bird was so beautiful that his heart couldn't withstand it and he died with heart-attack.
Completely necked body of young man, which was covered by blood from head to toe, had one hand cut and countless injuries on it beginning from minor scars to end with injuries from gunshot, fell on the hot asphalt with the smiling face of maniacal pervert, whom just now satisfied his most desired fantasies.
This was his last minutes on earth and after that he transmigrated here, in this small house located in God knows where. He didn't know, if he possessed body of similar looking person or he transmigrated with his body, but his new appearance wasn't any different from his previous one. He didn't get any memories from the body and relied himself and his newly gotten system to adapt in this world.
Yeas, like any other transmigrator he too got system. But his system was little weird. It wasn't ultimate cheat like check in system or RPG-kind of defeating this and that.
It was just teaching different forms of art to its host. Arts like cleaning, cutting, botanic and so on. System had tasks as well, tasks like repair well, cutting wood and similar kind.
It looked and was pretty useless system. If any other person had it, they would be really disappointed and pissed. To be honest, even he was little disappointed when he found himself in this situation. But he wasn't a normal person, he was a person who had big knowledge about cultivation novels and after some time he remember something.
'Wait… I transmigrated in the desolated old house and get a useless system… isn't it just like that trope in cultivation novels, where main character is big shot but doesn't know about that?' he thought and since then believed it.
He took system tasks more seriously and absorb any material that system would teach him with great interest. With this yard, which previously was covered by meter-long weed became like a small garden of well of family and old house, which had deep smell of dust and mold became normal to live in. Even that black fish and plum tree were once the system's tasks.
Despite the fact that system never reward him for those tasks, he still continued with the belief that one day he would become unparalleled master. This belief became stronger when one day new notification came, that system didn't have any task for the time being and that he should waited to the new update.
This was a sign, after that day he was immortal coolest master in this world. Year passed since then and nothing change in his mind.
"They are thinking that they can trick me… how fullish" he said as he got into house and closed the door. He knew that behind him in the yard, black fish which previously was slowly swimming became a gigantic black dragon and ascend into the heaven and small tree became a beautiful fey, like in the novels. But no matter what he would do and how he would cover himself, he never managed to saw this process.
"Hah…" he sighted deeply from regret and looked at Asian stile small rooms. There was no point to think much about it and he wasn't going to pointlessly do that. So, he firmly moved towards kitchen to make his breakfast.
At that time nothing, changed in the small yard. There was no celestial dragon, which was challenging the heaven and no breathtakingly beautiful fey. Only small black fish swimming slowly in the water and pitiful tree, which was on the brink of fall. Everything in the yard was froze into mediocrity.