From a Shinobi to a Wastrel?

Eddie or Zhong Lei as he is now called was not having a great day, it had only been a few minutes since he had been reborn in this body and he was already hating it to the maximum,

The first thing that had happened was that he had received all of the memories of the previous owner of the body, and he was not amused,

This guy, Zhong Lei, was the perfect example of a wastrel, he was the second son of the emperor Zhong Zhen and one of the only two children the Emperor had, this was due to the fact that the Emperor did not have any harem and had only one wife, this combined with the fact that Zhong Lei was the younger of the two children, he was spoiled rotten by the royal couple, his mother, Cai Wuhan, was from another Tier 1 empire and had made sure to give Zhong Lei anything he asked for since he was young even going against the Emperor to help him in many of his deeds which she did not know were evil in nature,

his brother, Zhong Cai, on the other hand, was someone that was very righteous and did not like the way Zhong Lei lived, he was also the crown prince and had terrifying talent in terms of cultivation,

right, cultivation,

just like any other xianxia setting this world also had cultivation where a creature harnesses qi to become powerful,

the cultivation system of this world was divided into seven stages,

1.body refinement

2.qi refinement

3.ascendent stage

4.battle king

5.mortal sage

6.demigod

7.immortal

these stages we're also divided into three sub realms respectively, Zhong Zhen, the current Emperor, was in the primary stage of the immortal realm, his wife, Cai Wuhan, was in the late stage of demigod realm, the crown prince was in the battle king final stages, it was also due to this accomplishment that he was hailed as a once in a million years genius.

Unfortunately, the same could not be said for Zhong Lei, this guy had talent that was only slightly inferior to his brother yet he was stuck in qi refinement state for a long time, even though 90% of the population in the world would always be stuck in body refinement stage it could be considered that he was not bad but the same could not be said when his family lineage was taken into consideration.

The Zhong family was said to be descended from a peak immortal who had participated in the war against the demons thousands of years ago, as such, the members of the Zhong family were born with a physique that was ten times as powerful as that of a normal person had had extremely wide qi veins that were immune to all elements, meaning that they could cultivate any technique regardless of their elemental affinity, it was also due to this lineage that the Zhong family was ranked among the three great families on the Continent and ruled the Tier 1 Empire.

This was also one of the interesting things that Zhong Lei had learned after his rebirth, the kingdoms of this continent were divided into 6 levels based on the overall strength of their soldiers, the cultivation level of their guardian and the land they controlled.

A tier 6 empire had a guardian at the beginning levels of the ascendant stage with the average cultivation of their soldiers at body refinement initial stages,

A tier 5 empire had a guardian at the middle to the late stage of the ascendant stage with the average cultivation of soldiers at peak stage body refinement level,

a tier 4 empire had a guardian at initial stages of battle king stage with soldiers at qi refinement initial stages,

A tier 3 empire had a guardian at peak stage battle king level with soldiers at final stages of qi refinement,

A tier 2 empire had a guardian at peak mortal sage level and soldiers at ascendent level final stages,

A tier 1 empire had a guardian at peak immortal level with soldiers at battle king level,

in the final two tiers of an empire, the cultivation gap becomes so large that the other tiers simply have no way to surpass them, this applies true especially to tier 1 empires where the guardians were true immortals, on this continent, there existed only three tiers 1 empire,

The Heavenly Star Empire, ruled by the Zhong family

The Divine Thunder Empire, ruled by the Yun family

The Holy Ocean Empire, ruled by the Cai family

but that was not all, on this world there existed another two continents, the three continents did not have any names as such were simply called according to their inhabitants, the human continent which was where the empires were located, the beastmen continent where many different kinds of demi-humans lived, and finally, the demon continent where a race of creatures called demons lived,

Just as Zhong Lei was digesting more of the information from the previous owner, a sudden chime resounded in his head as a mechanical voice rang out

"system activated, superior gene located in the host's new body, activating body reconstruction"

Before Zhong Lei could even react his mind went blank in pain as he fainted once more