Chapter 1 The Reborn Prodigal Son

Huaxia Country, Dancheng General Hospital.

In a very rudimentary hospital ward, the ceiling fan emitted a series of annoying creaking noises as it spun. Clearly old, it rotated slowly, not only failing to alleviate the summer heat, but its noisy operation also added to the agitation.

The floor of the ward was damp, obviously having just been mopped, carrying a mixed scent of mildew and disinfectant that irritated the nose unpleasantly. The ward housed three parallel hospital beds, each metal bed coated with a layer of white paint which, due to age, showed spots of rust where the paint had peeled off...

The four-person ward was depressingly empty, save for Ding Fan lying in the bed at the corner. The entire ward felt exceedingly gloomy.

Ding Fan leaned back on his bed, his eyes tightly closed.

Then his eyebrows slightly furrowed, followed by a slight tremble in his body.

"Hurry!"

Ding Fan suddenly opened his eyes, commanding in a potent, deep voice.

At this moment, a cup of water on the bedside table near Ding Fan burst forth like a fountain, then transformed into a stream of water that flew directly into Ding Fan's mouth.

However, just as the stream of water was about to enter Ding Fan's mouth, he suddenly started coughing violently, and the stream of water, losing its control, spilled onto the bed.

Ding Fan looked at the water stains on the sheets and let out a bitter laugh.

'This body really is exceptionally weak. Just repairing the internal organs has taken a full two days. Who knows how long it will take to cultivate up to the Nascent Soul Stage... But at least, a life has been saved.'

By this time, the Ding Fan lying on this hospital bed was no longer the original Ding Fan; he wasn't even from Earth. He was now a traveler who had crossed over from the Cultivation World to Earth.

His original world was vast with spectacular mountains and almost everyone practiced cultivation there, but only the truly powerful could dominate the world. It was a world where might makes right, a place ruled by the law of the jungle.

Back then, Ding Fan was an orphan with no parents. By a stroke of fate, he acquired Cultivation Techniques and, without the supply of Spiritual Grass and guidance from a famed teacher, he relied on his immense willpower and luck to cultivate as a Loose Cultivator up to the Late Golden Core Stage.

During an overseas experience, Ding Fan incredibly found a Grade Nine Spiritual Medicine, the Immortal Crossing Herb. It was said that this herb could even allow a Foundation Establishment Cultivator a ten percent chance to skip the Golden Core Stage and directly form a Nascent Soul.

This was truly a top-level Heavenly Material and Earth Treasure!

With it, Ding Fan's transformation from Golden Core to Nascent Soul was destined to succeed without fail.

Unfortunately, the wonders brought by the high-grade Spiritual Medicine soon attracted the covetous eyes of a stronger cultivator. Although Ding Fan was careful to conceal it, he was eventually cornered by a Nascent Soul Period Cultivator, who was one level higher than him. The opponent demanded that he kneel and surrender the Immortal Crossing Herb.

Ding Fan knew there was no escape. Despite the Nascent Soul Cultivator's promise to spare his life in exchange for the herb, he knew that to keep the secret, the cultivator would never let him go.

Under the overwhelming advantage of the Nascent Soul Stage, Ding Fan pretended to comply, and while his adversary was overjoyed, he used the Fire Dissolution Technique to ignite his Golden Core, clutching his opponent in a death grip. Both of them, along with the Immortal Crossing Herb, exploded into oblivion...

He awoke to find himself inhabiting this body on Earth, also named Ding Fan...

In the two days following his arrival, he learned about this world through memories. This was a planet of scientific civilization; his country was called Huaxia Country, a superpower in the Asia-Pacific region on Earth, ruled by a monarchy. However, the monarch only ruled symbolically and did not manage politics; the parliament was in charge of exercising the highest authority in the country, with the Prime Minister as the true political leader of the nation.

And the host with whom he shared a name was a scion of a second-tier family in Huaxia Country.

Twenty years ago, members of the Ding Family had held important positions in the Huaxia Country parliament. Additionally, traces of the Ding Family's business were scattered throughout the Sixteen Provinces in the north of Huaxia Country. Although not as influential as the Four Great Families, the Ding Family was a dominant force at that time.

Regrettably, although the Ding Family was powerful, the subsequent generations had few children, leading to Ding Fan being the only male of his generation.

This made Ding Chengyi the preeminent young member of the family.

Ding Fan's father, the current helmsman of the Ding Family, hence coddled Ding Fan from a young age, meeting his every demand. However, when Ding Fan grew up, Ding Chengyi could no longer control him as he became debauched, and could only watch as he caused trouble everywhere.

Chasing women, driving luxury cars, doing drugs... Ding Fan did whatever he wished.

In the past, riding on the Ding Family's background, they could still clean up after him. Regardless of the troubles caused by Ding Fan's indulgences, Ding Chengyi had either paid or pulled strings to clean them up.

That changed three days ago when Ding Fan caused an enormous mess, foolishly provoking Ye Ningbing, the prized daughter of one of the Huaxia Country's Four Great Families, the Ye Family?

Nowadays, the Ding Family was nothing compared to the stature of the Four Great Families. In the aftermath, Ding Fan ended up beaten within an inch of his life and then thrown into police custody. To get Ding Fan out, the Ding Family had to expend a significant amount of resources, but the Ye Family was utterly unyielding.

After Ding Fan had sorted out all his thoughts, he sighed. The outcome that followed was that the Ding Family, in order to smooth over Ding Fan's incident, fell into the traps of several rival families. The prominent roots of the Ding Family were dug up overnight. Several of the Ding Family's companies went bankrupt, and a few Ding Family members active in politics were implicated and removed from their positions. The helmsman of the Ding Family, Ding Chengyi, even died mysteriously in a car accident.

In the end, Ding Fan, beaten like a dead dog, was finally thrown into the street by someone from the police station after he had lost his usefulness and before being taken to the hospital...

The Ding Family had fallen.

It could be said that the overnight downfall of the once famous Ding Family was solely because of Ding Fan alone.

"A pitiful fool used by others to bring ruin upon his family..." Ding Fan was left speechless.

During this time, Ding Fan had roughly gotten to know the situation of his new body.

Due to long-term indulgence in sensual pleasures, the host's body had been hollowed out, his heart nearly failing. Based on Ding Fan's experience, the host's heart had likely received fatal damage at the police station, which led to his release and allowed Ding Fan to cross over while the host's spirit was wandering.

However, what left Ding Fan speechless was that Earth's spiritual energy was incredibly scarce, so sparse in the air that it was almost impossible to absorb.

During his two days in the hospital, Ding Fan had used the spiritual energy he brought with him from his crossing to cleanse the host's internal organs, barely managing to reach the First Level of Qi Cultivation, an effort that had been effortless in his past life.

Fortunately, having had the experience of cultivating to the Late Golden Core Stage, Ding Fan believed that if he had to start over, he would certainly take many fewer wrong turns.

Nothing in the world is perfect; lacking the best cultivation environment, but having more experience and an additional life evens out. The path of cultivation continued to be arduous, but it was far from hopeless.

What Ding Fan was most concerned about at the moment was waiting to be discharged from the hospital, to see more places on Earth. Perhaps some areas would have richer spiritual energy, but that was uncertain.

For a Loose Cultivator capable of finding top-level Spiritual Medicine, Ding Fan's patience was definitely greater than anyone else's.

Creak...

The door of the hospital room, its paint already chipped, was slowly pushed open, and a beautiful woman entered.

With a tall waist and long, straight legs, her rounded buttocks, though wrapped in simple jeans, could not hide her graceful figure.

Just her figure alone could classify this woman among the finest, as even in his original world of Cultivation this tall, aesthetic body type would've made many female cultivators envious.

Unfortunately, Ding Fan knew that this woman had a long and deep scar on her face, which made people avert their gaze.

The woman, Zhou Ruoran, briskly placed a combined lunch box on the nightstand next to the bed. She opened it in an orderly manner, laying out a box of rice, a box of stir-fried vegetables, and boiled tofu in front of Ding Fan. Throughout the whole process, she hadn't said a single word to Ding Fan.

This woman was Zhou Ruoran, Ding Fan's fiancée in name, who had been taking care of him these past few days. Zhou Ruoran usually brought meals around noon and evening; after Ding Fan finished eating, she would tidy up the hospital room and then hurriedly leave.

During this whole process, the two hadn't spoken at all for several days.

Throughout this time, Ding Fan had been integrating the host's memories, and even though he had some questions, he didn't want to appear abrupt, so he let Zhou Ruoran do her things without trying to initiate conversation.

In his host's memory, Zhou Ruoran had lost her parents under mysterious circumstances when she was very young. As Ding Chengyi was friends with Zhou Ruoran's parents, he took Zhou Ruoran in to raise as a child bride.

As for the scar on Zhou Ruoran's face, it was inflicted by herself when a drunk Ding Fan tried to force himself on the increasingly beautiful Zhou Ruoran.

Zhou Ruoran ignored Ding Fan's scrutinizing gaze, opened a pair of sanitary chopsticks, and stuck them in the white rice.

The fact that a man who had been written off with a death certificate had miraculously survived seemed like a total neglect by heaven, in Zhou Ruoran's view.

The year Zhou Ruoran's parents mysteriously disappeared, had it not been for Ding Chengyi, Ding Fan's father, adopting her, she might not even be in this world anymore. It could be said that Ding Chengyi was her second parents.

But such a good man had a son like Ding Fan, who ultimately brought about his demise.

And this wastrel, who had caused the downfall of the Ding Family overnight and disfigured her beauty, had unexpectedly survived...

Truly, the good die young, and disasters live for a thousand years!

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