Tian Du Cheng was located within Nanyang Jun. Since it was a Zi Liu Cheng [1], there was no need to pay tax to the Commandery Administrator of Governor. Everything within the city was made and produced by the city’s residents.
The Former City Governor, Zi Che Xiong, was a High-Ranked Wu Jun. He could be viewed as the top-level wushu practitioner within the entire Nanyang Jun. At the same time, he was also a training nerd. When he was forced to marry someone to continue his family bloodline, he married a woman and then went back to training in seclusion and ignored everything that was happening outside of the training ground after the birth of his first child. Unfortunately, he lost control of his power and died while attempting to break through the boundary of Wu Jun to become a Wu Wang.
Now, the current City Governor was Chi Zhe Xiong’s only child, Zi Che Shu Bai, who had already been in control of Tian Du Cheng for eight years. Speaking of this new City Governor, to the city’s residents, he was quite the legendary figure to talk about.
Back then, the old City Governor made too many enemies because of his obsession with wushu. When the City Governor turned ten years old, the enemies kidnapped the child, but not a single person in the City Governor Palace noticed the kidnapping. Even after they had searched for days, they only found a few traces. Then, after ten days, when they were about to hold a funeral for the missing City Governor, the City Governor suddenly returned!
It was thanks to the City Governor’s wisdom, he’d secretly escaped when the kidnappers’ guard over him lapsed. One would have no clue of what danger he had encountered on the way back home. When he returned, his clothing was totally worn out and he lost a lot of weight. The security level at City Governor Palace had been raised by many levels ever since then. Maybe it was because the City Governor suffered pain from the kidnapping, he completely disposed of his lazy and clumsy personality. He started training very hard and he hardly saw or spoke to outsiders.
Surprisingly, the City Governor possessed the Hun Yuan Wu Ti. That was a top-class high-rank Wu Ti which allowed its owner to quickly and rapidly absorb Wu Qi [2]! After just one year, the City Governor broke through five rank boundaries and advanced straight into Wu Shi. Soon after, the City Governor continued breaking through boundaries in succession. When he was fourteen years old, he was already a low-rank Wu Jun! Low-rank Wu Jun! A Low-rank Wu Jun that was fourteen years old!!! It was only two levels weaker than the old City Governor!
How could the city residents not be proud of this leveling speed? The only unfortunate thing was that the City Governor was too low-profile. He wasn’t willing to celebrate at all, he even prohibited everyone from celebrating his breakthrough. The City Governor said that unless he advanced into Wu Wang, there would be nothing worth praising.
Alright then, since the young City Governor was this humble…
City Residents: We will endure it.
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However, while they continued holding their excitement, the old City Governor died when the young City Governor had also started training in seclusion. At that moment in time, the young City Governor, who was about to break through the boundary of low-level Wu Jun, was forced to stop his training to hold a funeral for the old City Governor and inherit the position of City Governor. The young City Governor dealt with every matter in an orderly and timely manner.
After that, the new City Governor used two years to completely redesign the rules for the entire Tian Du Cheng, including some of the city’s future developmental directions. Within a short period of time, the city’s atmosphere was completely changed.
Not only did the contractors who rented the lands outside of Tian Du Cheng have a clear and fixed taxation plan, the taxation plan for stores, street vendors, Qinglou [3], casinos, and any other businesses that made money were all redesigned. The new taxation plans were neither high or low, and they weren’t as complicated and troublesome as before.
And so, usuaries and savage wage deductions almost completely vanished. The living conditions for the city’s residents were getting better and better as days went by. How could the city citizens not adore the new City Governor? Unfortunately, after the young City Governor become the new City Governor and resolved the problems remaining in the city, he went back to training in seclusion again in Orz. There was basically no news from the new City Governor other than informing the city’s citizens about two of his boundary break-throughs.
City Residents: Oi! City Governor, you like training in seclusion too much! Becoming stronger to protect us is our fortune, but we also worry that the City Governor cannot marry a wife, ah!
One knew the City Governor was turning twenty-three years old that year, the way he stayed at home and barely went outdoors was even worse than an unmarried lady. This was exactly why, whenever the City Governor left training, the streets were always crowded with residents waiting to see the City Governor. The city residents wanted to express their sincere concerns over the City Governor’s personal problems… the City Governor’s outstanding physical appearance was also one of the reasons why they were worried. Well then, what was Zhi Che Shu Bai, the new City Governor, beloved by the city citizens that were dying to see him every day, doing now?
There was a quiet, beautiful forest outside of Tian Du Cheng, and within the forest lay a spring. *burble, burble, pitter patter*, the water flowed gently, and together made the sight extremely breathtaking. Inside the spring, there was a lady who was completely soaked with water and her body twitched slightly as she hid her body beneath the water. The lady’s physical appearance was as beautiful as flowers and as elegant as the moon, she even had an attractive, charming temperament, if a normal man saw her, he’d definitely want to hold her gently in his arms. At the same time, she appeared to be so naive, her shiny eyes were filled with horror. She looked like a terrified fawn that drew people’s compassion.
A young man stood in front of the spring. He appeared extremely handsome and beautiful, as if he were a God of Snow, descended into the Human Realm from Heaven. He was so elegant, but stern and inviolable at the same time. However, his face was emotionless and stiff, as if he was a rock statue. But in reality, this “rock statue” was Osing [4] in his mind, “Fawn my ass! I didn’t go to the fucking lake yet, how the hell did I still encounter this life-threatening ghost, you gotta be kidding me!”. You guessed it right, the lady that appeared inside of the spring at this moment had an identity that made the “rock statue” afraid just by looking at her, she was the fiancée of the protagonist.
The young man in white clothing looked at the other party emotionlessly, his eyesight was unfocused. He was screaming like a mad dog in his mind, “Fuck it! Is this some kind of an ill-fate relationship?! You can’t even avoid this shit! I already kept a distance from all sorts of big and small lakes and yet, I still met this woman! Stupid God, what other bullshit are you going to give me!” Undoubtedly, this unfortunate, handsome guy was indeed the “Fake ● Zi Che Shu Bai ● Tall, Handsome Rich Guy ● New City Governor the City’s Citizens Worry About” or you could even call him “Real ● Unfortunate ● Transmigrated Otaku ● Gu Bai.” A poor guy who attempted to escape from the fate of becoming a cannon fodder but bumped into the cause that turned him into a cannon fodder.
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Then the Fawn Lady spoke, her voice was as pleasant to hear as the sound of a black-naped oriole, “You…”, before she could even finish her sentence, she heard a whooshing sound. And then…there was no one in her line of sight. The young man had run. Suddenly, the lady’s compassion-drawing expression changed to an angry and mad expression.
Gu Bai ran really fast, he didn’t dare stay in that lady’s line of sight, not even for one fucking minute. Who knew that he would encounter this death trigger when he was finally able to leave the city to relax a little, he even chose a place where people barely went! This was absolutely unreasonable! Maybe he should continue training in seclusion after all… He ran back to the seclusion room without stopping, leaving behind vague afterimages of a white figure. Within this city, he had successfully established another phenomenal legend of himself, again.
City Resident A: City Governor’s movement is so smooth and stylish!
City Resident B: Our City Governor is Dong Fang Bu Bai [5]! 【Hang on… this doesn’t sound right…】
City Resident C: Aaaaaaaaaaaa! I saw the City Governor’s back view! When I return home, I’m definitely going to show off!
However, the young City Governor, who was admired by the city’s citizens once again, was actually running back to the City Governor Palace at a splitting pace. Until he’d run into his secret seclusion room and set up countless protections, he collapsed onto the ground, breathing heavily.
Gu Bai: God damn it, if this happens one more time, I’m definitely going to lose ten years off my lifespan!
Once he was no longer breathing heavily, Gu Bai was finally able to relax a little. And as for the protagonist’s fiancée, it was still better if she could be kept as far away from him as possible… How had he recognized her? It was because she was the first female character that appeared in the story, in order to attract the attention of certain special readers back then, he solemnly wrote the description of the lady’s physical appearance. Especially when there was an instantly recognizable feature. For example, the phrase: Below that delicate chest bone, a dark blue charm butterfly was spreading its wings, wanting to fly. The dream-like tail wings silently landed onto a snowy, white spot…” This ambiguous and non-philistine style of writing had taken him a lot of time to think about and adjust. He’d put all his efforts into allowing readers to be able to easily imagine a lady whose physical appearance was as beautiful as the Fairy of the Lake, he had been trying to increase the fiancée’s temptation meter.
But when Gu Bai saw the real-life version of the “Fairy of the Lake”, his first reaction wasn’t one of enjoying the sight, the charming butterfly gave the real Chi Zhe Shu Bai a dream-like feeling, but for him, it was terrifying. After he’d squeezed his face with great force, his face was still emotionless…
It had been thirteen years after he’d consumed the Blood Essence Lingzhi Mushroom to fix the defects of his Wu Ti. Within those thirteen years, he trained endlessly in the first five years, maybe it was because he had successfully consumed the Blood Essence Lingzhi Mushroom and his bone age was also quite young, his progression speed was faster than what was written in the novel. And this Hun Yuan Wu Ti didn’t fail his settings, you could almost use “advancing a thousand miles a day” to describe his power.
Gu Bai was really happy when he found out about this. Now, he felt like there was a whip striking his back, which caused him not to be foolhardy enough to rest and relax, not even for one second. It wasn’t until he finally reached the boundary of Wu Jun like the real Zhi Che Shu Bai when he appeared in the novel that he realized he was only fourteen years old. And without knowing, his name of being a genius had already spread throughout the entire city.
In this world, which valued wushu above other things, of course, it was better for a reputation that had connections with wushu to snowball as much as possible. Because Gu Bai wanted to manage Tian Du Cheng better and more easily in the future, he had let the news spread without any intervention. But why hadn’t he intervened in his father’s fate of losing control of his power?
To be honest, except for that one time he met his father after transmigrating when he’d returned to the City Governor Palace, the only other other time he saw his father was when he gave him a copy of the《Heirloom of Family’s Wushu Movements · Complete Edition》 when he successfully broke through into the boundary of Wu Shi, and then his father went back to train in seclusion again. And then, there was no more.
Actually, he was his father’s late-coming child, according to the settings, although wushu practitioners had high status, they only had one hundred years of lifespan, just like ordinary people. Even if they could extend their lifespan, they could only extend it by no more than ten years, there was absolutely no way they could exceed the limit. However, once one became a Wu Wang, they would have two hundred years of lifespan and their lifespan would increase by one hundred years each time they advanced into a higher boundary.
Zi Che Xiong got married at eighty years old, and his wife became pregnant with Zhi Che Shu Bai three years after the marriage. Zhi Che Shu Bai’s mother died from obstructed labor, even if his father hadn’t trained in seclusion, he’d only had one year of lifespan remaining when Zhi Che Shu Bai turned fifteen anyway. If, at this point in time, Gu Bai had told his father that “Dad, you are going to die from losing control of your power”… would this be a curse, or a curse; or a curse? If this was the case, then why doesn’t he just let his father try for the last time in his life, at least in the last stages of his life, he would be full of hopes and dreams.
So, in the end, Zhi Che Xiong followed the original pattern. He exploded when Zhi Che Shu Bai turned fifteen. After he’d buried his father together with his mother, he took over the position of City Governor and began establishing his dignity. And his at-all-times emotionless face was the product of him forcing himself during that period of time.