bookbashuk 1. Awakening
1. Awakening
Void, the existence of non-existence, the realm where nothing exists.
In the void, a strange fluctuation occurred, and an unexpected entity appeared.
A consciousness awakened.
"this……"
I realized that only my consciousness had awakened.
I can't see, hear, or feel myself.
It felt like being in the deepest abyss.
"What...did I just die?"
He suddenly remembered that he had been working late into the night coding, and when he stood up to relieve himself, his head suddenly went blank...
Although being debt-free brings a sense of freedom, it doesn't mean vanishing into nothingness...
But being trapped in this "infernal prison," I feel that I might go insane soon.
suddenly.
Suddenly, a jarring fluctuation struck my consciousness, and streams of memories that did not belong to my consciousness surged forth.
"This is……"
The emerging memories do not belong to the original reality of consciousness; these memories belong to a demon named "Teng Xielang".
This demon belongs to the "Otherworld Demon Realm" and is a character from the "Pili Puppet Show" that Consciousness really likes.
"So it was time travel?"
His consciousness recalled that this otherworldly demon realm was a super villainous organization in the world of Pili, which had caused great harm to the righteous path in the Central Plains as soon as it appeared.
And this Teng Xielang is one of the vanguard generals of the Otherworld Demon Realm.
"So what's the situation now? It's not that Teng Xielang is also dead, and you're going to be in jail with him, right?"
Another world of demons.
The Otherworldly Demon Lord, Yama Hanba, has a triangular head and a dragon claw on his right arm. He is the supreme ruler of the demon realm, arrogant and domineering yet profound. Just sitting quietly on his throne, he exudes unparalleled demonic power.
He is also the most arrogant, domineering, and powerful super demon in the martial arts world today.
However, the righteous path is always one step ahead of the wicked. The righteous path in the Central Plains is not easy to deal with. Yama, the drought demon, launched a fierce offensive against the Central Plains. Although it caused damage to the righteous path, it also paid a considerable price.
"The child who was granted amnesty."
"Your subordinate is here."
Shesheng Tongzi has white hair, a flame mark on his forehead, and his eyes are bound with mysterious runes. He is a very young demon, but he is the number one killer of Yama Hanba and one of the most valiant and skilled warriors in the entire demon realm.
"This is the energy collected during this period; we'll use it to revive Teng Xielang and the other two."
"Yes."
The Child of Pardon was taciturn. He accepted the bottle of demonic energy thrown by the Demon Lord, bowed, and turned to leave, but a slight tremor ran through his heart.
The Demon Realm's campaign against the Central Plains has not been smooth sailing. The Central Plains is full of talented people, and although the Demon Realm's vanguard generals have repeatedly made meritorious contributions, two of them have already been lost.
Although the demon race considers dying in battle the highest honor, Shesheng Tongzi's heart was still filled with resentment. He believed that he was not strong enough, and if he were stronger, his comrades would not have sacrificed themselves.
He wanted to become stronger, he had to become stronger, he didn't want more comrades to sacrifice themselves, especially Teng Xielang.
The Demon Palace, within the sealed chamber.
The people of the Central Plains believe that the Otherworld is extremely powerful, but the people of the Demon Realm know that the current situation is not only not vastly different from the Demon Realm's heyday, but also incomparable.
Long ago, when the Otherworld was conquering the Dao Realm among the four realms of "Suffering, Origin, Cessation, and Path," a sudden change occurred. The entire Demon Realm was struck by a bolt of heavenly lightning, severing it. The rift isolated the most powerful of the three races of "Demon, Evil, and Ghost"—the Ghost Race—as well as most of the Evil Race, behind the rift. Overnight, the Demon Realm went from an overwhelming advantage to a disadvantageous situation.
This led to the Otherworld being jointly sealed by the strongest Taoist organization in the Dao Realm, "Xuanzong," and the Buddhist sect of the Bitter Realm, "Wanshengyan," until recently when it was finally unsealed.
During the hundreds of years that it was sealed away, the Demon Realm's resources were depleted, and many warriors fell into a deep slumber, barely maintaining their lifespan.
This includes Teng Xielang.
Void.
"...There's a 99% chance that Teng Xielang hasn't been unsealed yet. Thank goodness."
After his consciousness reviewed all of Teng Xielang's memories, he discovered that 99% of them were not familiar to him.
He was relieved, which meant that the story he was familiar with had not yet begun.
He can still be saved.
Not only will Teng Xielang be able to wake up at some unknown time, but Teng Xielang's fate may also be rewritten because of his arrival.
In his memory, there were five vanguard generals in the Otherworld, and Teng Xielang was the most despicable of them all.
All the other vanguard generals had their own shining moments, but Teng Xielang, despite his impressive appearance, was actually just a bystander with no notable achievements. In the end, he was even killed in one blow by a second-rate general, making him a disgrace to the vanguard and a complete idiot.
So, if a real-life office worker were to transmigrate into the body of Teng Xielang, would his fate be changed?
"...As expected, they've all transmigrated; how could they not have cheated?"
Just as his consciousness had fully digested and absorbed Teng Xielang's memories, a strange fluctuation suddenly occurred in his mind.
[The five senses—sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch—are the end of consciousness, while consciousness is the root of the five senses. Only by severing the five senses can one see the root of the mind. You have already embarked on the path of awakening consciousness...]
This is Teng Xielang's cheat code; it's a cultivation method from a pixel-style indie game he created before his transmigration.
Its name is "Severing Consciousness Practice", which means that he can block his five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch), or five senses, so that he can perceive and recognize his consciousness more clearly.
Consciousness, as the "sixth sense," can grant extraordinary power if it is activated.
Yes, he's actually paying homage to the concept of "cosmos" in Saint Seiya.
This cultivation method, or rather, this cheat code, actually has the effect that every time he severs a sense, it can accelerate his awakening of the sixth sense and speed up his cultivation of other techniques.
"It's a pity that none of the other cultivation techniques have been compiled yet..."
He couldn't help but feel a little regretful; he hadn't even had time to make it up before he had already transmigrated.
If they brought over some world-destroying, creation-of-the-world, or even creation-of-the-world techniques, wouldn't that be incredibly awesome?
However...
There are no cultivation techniques to practice, and he can't even sense his own body, so he can't practice his original cultivation techniques and martial arts.
But he also has a sixth sense that he can awaken... although he didn't specify in detail what kind of abilities would be awakened when his sixth sense was activated.
"Since I'm just idling around anyway... how do I start it?"
With a thought, Teng Xielang suddenly had a strange feeling. He was in a state of severing his five senses and he was awakening his 'consciousness'. Only then could he awaken from a void. This void was the 'self' he wanted to see clearly, the 'root of the heart' and the 'source of intention' he wanted to perceive.
In some mysterious and inexplicable way, his consciousness became more acutely aware of the surrounding nothingness and gradually merged into it.
It wasn't a succumb to darkness, but rather an indescribable feeling, as if he clearly sensed that he was in a deep sleep, his consciousness growing ever clearer, his spirit ever more abundant...
After an unknown amount of time, Teng Xielang forgot about time, forgot about himself, forgot about everything. He had merged into the void; he had become the void itself.
A sudden ripple in the completely still mind illuminates a glimmer of light.
Then a great light shone forth, illuminating the entire void.
The light of consciousness pierced through the void.
He woke up.