Chapter 1 Rebirth

Li Long opened his eyes and was incredibly depressed to find himself back before the age of eighteen. Originally, being reborn was an exhilarating experience, more exciting than winning the lottery. However, what made Li Long depressed was that just as he was about to consummate his marriage on the night of their long-awaited union, he was still a virgin after twenty-nine years, and he had just been about to experience the ultimate moment with his wife, who was too weak to resist. He had been ready, with his senses at their peak, to fulfill his long-held fantasies of coupling with a woman. But just as he was about to fulfill his desires, he realized he had missed the mark. When he opened his eyes, he found himself back at the age of eighteen..

Li Long, in just a blue triangular briefs, surveyed the familiar room under the light of a 250-watt bulb. The walls, not yet whitewashed, showed patches of red bricks and cement mixed with yellow mud. The uneven gray cement floor was clearly visible. In front of the bed was a single red sofa chair that Li Long's aunt had given him when he moved into the new house, with a small stool beside it. About a meter and a half in front of the sofa was an old red desk with a 21-inch black-and-white TV and a new DVD player placed on it. This was the only entertainment appliance in the house, even after moving into the concrete house. As the only boy in the family, and with the severe preference for boys in rural areas, the desk was undoubtedly placed in Li Long's room. Beside it stood an old electronic clock.

On the left side of the wall opposite the desk was a wooden door painted white on the inside and red on the outside. To the left of the wall was a yellow long stool, behind which was a red wooden window with two floral glass panes. Through the half-open top glass pane, Li Long could see that it was just beginning to dawn. From the electronic clock, he knew it was only six-thirty in the morning. The local station on the TV, which he had left on last night, was showing a countdown. If Li Long had not been reborn, he would have eagerly waited for the radio broadcast to start.

Unfortunately, the Li Long who had returned with memories of 2012 was bombarded with information from the internet and no longer had the same enthusiasm for this old TV, which could only receive a few stations. The TV was no longer able to provide the high-definition images and hundreds of channels that Li Long was accustomed to in 2012. However, considering the current era and his family's financial situation, Li Long could only accept his fate. Originally, given his family's financial situation, it was impossible for them to move into a concrete house so quickly. The ability to move out of the old thatched house and into a concrete house was due to his father's serious injury in an accident half a year ago, when he was hit by a luxury car from another province. He received a compensation of 100,000 yuan, which allowed them to build the new house.

Sitting on the bed, Li Long thought of his deceased father. Li Long then remembered how, after his father, the family's pillar, passed away, they received a large sum of money that was a fortune at the time. Although this money helped with the education of the four children and Li Long's mother's relatively low income, and ensured that Li Long and his siblings did not have to live in a mud-walled house, the most important thing was that Li Long's family was the last to move out of the water source cave in the village. So, after being ridiculed by someone else's child, Li Long's mother, in a fit of anger, took fifty thousand yuan from the hundred thousand yuan her father had risked his life to earn and rebuilt a flat house.Unfortunately, good things don't last long. The remaining few thousand yuan were exhausted in less than a year after Li Long entered junior high school, due to his mother's low income of around 500 yuan per month, which could only cover the living expenses for the family of five. When Li Long and his three siblings entered junior high school, the combined tuition for the four of them amounted to over 10,000 yuan per semester.

To ensure his younger brother and sisters could continue their studies smoothly, the two elder sisters, who had just graduated from junior high school and moved into a mud-brick house, had to give up further education and go out to work to earn money to support the family. The two younger sisters, who continued their studies in the hometown..Thinking about how he had to start working after the junior high graduation and achieving decent results in the entrance exam, Li Long clenched his fists with great reluctance. Since fate had allowed him to relive the past and return to the age of eighteen with future memories, Li Long was determined that such a thing would not happen again. Among the most important things, one was just a fantasy in his past life, but now that he had returned to the age of eighteen, this fantasy could finally become a reality.

At this point, Li Long felt a surge of excitement in his heart. Bro, hurry up and open the door...Just as Li Long was thinking about how to fulfill the dreams from his previous life after being reborn, he heard Little Sister Li Xin's voice from outside the door, instantly motivating him.

"Oh! Wait... coming!" Putting on this year's hottest jeans, Li Long opened the door to see a petite beauty standing there, standing at one meter six. She was wearing a tight blue and white skirt, and her exposed arms had two small protrusions in the middle. Her flat stomach, perky buttocks, and long, full legs were visible in the air. She was wearing flat sandals. Seeing the familiar person, Li Long's eyes lit up.

When Li Long opened the door, his sister Li Xin ignored him and walked straight to the TV in the room, switched it to the provincial channel, and sat on the stool, watching it with great interest. Seeing that his sister didn't pay any attention to him, it naturally reminded him of his sister from his previous life, who had always followed him around. After his father's death, he had become somewhat self-destructive and had a rough personality.

When his feelings were bad, he would curse and bully his sister, which made her stop playing with him, and their relationship never got as good as it used to be. At this point, Li Long's first thought was to try to restore his relationship with his sister. Sis! You sit on that sofa-chair to watch TV! Brother feels a bit hot sitting here! By the way, sis, give me the key to the kitchen, I'll cook some breakfast!

"Oh! Here, give me one too!" The sister happily sat down on the sofa and handed the key to her brother. Seeing his sister smile at him, Li Long felt very excited, knowing that as long as he treated his sister well, he believed that restoring their previous relationship wouldn't be a problem. Today is Saturday, just three days after the senior high entrance exam. There's no school today, and in two days, I'll have to go back to school to collect my graduation certificate and then enter society.

What should I change? Unfortunately, only Li Long and his sister are at home; his mother is not there. She works at a small toy factory ten kilometers away, cooking for the workers, and she can only come back once a week for less than half a day before she has to return to the factory to cook for others. After finishing breakfast with his sister, Li Long was pleased to see that she was no longer ignoring him.

However, as he thought about how he was about to leave society penniless and face all kinds of hardships, a thought suddenly popped into his head, making his face light up with excitement. He realized that in his previous life, his family had been economically struggling and had been forced to lease the mountain passed down by their ancestors to the fruit farmers in the nearby village. One day, while the fruit farmers were planting trees, one of them accidentally fell into a deep cave that had appeared beneath his feet.

After the farmer curiously entered the cave, no one knew what he had discovered inside. Two days later, the area around Li Long's mountain for ten miles was sealed off by a battalion of soldiers, preventing the neighboring villagers from entering. In the end, his family only received ten thousand yuan and another mountain as compensation, and what was most puzzling to Li Long was that the farmer and his family were never seen again.

Although I didn't know what was on my family's mountain in the previous life, with my past life's experience, I thought that my family's mountain might be hiding a treasure that could shock the world. Thinking of this, Li Long could no longer control his excited feelings, so he said to his sister who was watching TV,

"Little Sister, I am going out today. If I don't come back by noon, don't wait for me. You can eat lunch first!"

"Ah!" The little sister only acknowledged and then ignored Li Long, who continued to watch the TV with a heart full of joy. Tidying up the tools he could use, Li Long rode the old bicycle from his house—luckily, this year Li Long had grown to 1.7 meters, otherwise, the reborn Li Long would not dare to ride such a bike to the back mountain.

On the way out, seeing one familiar face and house after another, although he very much wanted to stop and say hello to them, the treasures hidden in the ancestral mountain passed down in his family occupied Li Long's mind..Half an hour later, drenched in sweat, Li Long arrived at his own mountain ridge beneath a continuous range of hills. If it weren't that his family's mountain was too far from home in his previous life, and most of the paths were small and required good cycling skills to navigate, it would have been difficult to develop the economy. This was also why in his previous life, the Li family chose to lease their mountain to others. Otherwise, Li Long in his previous life wouldn't have known about the treasures hidden in his ancestral mountain.

But now! Li Long had been reborn. If there were really treasures in his ancestral mountain, it would be a significant boost after rebirth. Thinking of this, Li Long's mood was even more excited.Holding the tools, he climbed to the top of the hill. Following the spot where the fruit farmer had found the cave according to his memory, he put down the tools and looked around in the glaring sunlight.

He checked his electronic watch; it was just 9:20. Without hesitation, he began digging in the soil beneath his feet using the tools he had..."Damn, I'm exhausted, how can I not find it, fuck..."After digging for the whole noon, Li Long had checked every spot around, except for a one-square-meter rock that remained untouched. He had turned the area around it upside down, but still found no cave. Sitting on the large rock, Li Long wiped the sweat continuously dripping from his forehead, his lips cracked and his stomach protesting. Thinking about how he had worked in vain for so long without finding anything, he grew increasingly frustrated. In a fit of anger, he picked up the shovel, now covered in yellow mud, and struck the protruding corner of the large stone with force.

The large stone beneath Li Long's buttocks trembled and sank, revealing a one-meter-wide exit came out. Li Long didn't have time to dodge; as the light in front of him dimmed, he fell into the cave that appeared.

"Oh my God, it hurts..."

Li Long, who had fallen into the cave, touched the part of his head that had collided with the ground when he fell, and found himself in a space fifty cubic meters in size. In front of him, on the opposite stone wall, was a stone door. On either side of the door were two door guardians, and in the palms of their heads were fist-sized night pearls emitting soft light. This left Li Long momentarily stunned. However, after regaining his composure, although the treasure was right in front of him, his first thought was to look at the entrance from which he had fallen.

He followed a ten-meter long, thirty-degree slope to reach the cave entrance. The large stone block in front of him now reminded him that when he had fallen in, it seemed he had accidentally hit that large stone block with his hoe, and after that, the stone block had moved on its own, causing him to fall. After he fell in, the stone block in front automatically closed again.Think of it, looking at the large stone in front, Li Long thought of a mechanism and searched around. Finally, he found a stone at the right corner of the large stone that seemed to be a switch. Recalling it, he placed his hand on it and pressed it hard. Instantly, the stone mechanism beneath his hand sank, and the large stone blocking the exit moved, revealing a one-meter-wide opening, with sunlight pouring in.

Seeing the exposed exit, Li Long was delighted. After leaving the cave, he carefully looked around and found no one nearby. However, after thinking about it, he realized that generally, there wouldn't be many people around at this time. The worry in his heart was thus put to rest.

Thinking of the night pearl inside, after he could control it in the face of the machine for verification, Li Long couldn't hold back his excitement and, after re-entering, pressed the mechanism he had accidentally touched outside the large stone block, revealing a cave. He carefully entered the cave's space, finally arriving at the two night pearls on the stone door beast, trembling as he reached out to touch the night pearl on the left door beast, feeling the smooth and warm surface.

He squeezed his face, relieved that it was real, not a dream. Li Long's mood was instantly filled with excitement. Knowing from his past life that just these two fist-sized night pearls, no one knew how crazy people outside would be. It couldn't be measured by worldly money. Feeling the night pearl in his hand, the impulsive devil made Li Long unable to resist the urge to take the night pearl in his hand, so he exerted force on the night pearl in his hands, but instead of pulling it out, it sank into his hands. The stone door, which he didn't know how to open, slowly opened in front of him as Li Long watched in amazement.