OEGTD Ch1

Chapter 1

Pain, heartbreaking pain, Li Zexuan felt that his bones in his body were all broken. He couldn't help but wonder: "Isn't just a little drink last night? As for the body, why is it so painful? I shouldn't drink anymore or I'll die."

Li Zexuan is an engineering graduate student at an ordinary university, majoring in precision instruments. He studied for three years and will graduate soon. The school is an ordinary one in the Capital and facing the army of job hunters after graduation and the housing price in Beijing, Li Zexuan was under huge pressure.

Before graduation, several buddies in the dormitory wanted to get together, have a casual meal, and with the confusion to what the future has in store and the disappointment of the campus life, Li Zexuan who never drank before, indulged this time, drinking two bottles of beer and staggered into unconsciousness.

At this time, Li Zexuan tried his best to open his eyes but the scene in front of him startled him. He laid in a bamboo house and through the small window beside the bed, there was a small bamboo forest outside; the sound of water flowed behind the house.

Lying through, shouldn't I be in the school dormitory? How did I get to this barren mountain?

Could someone take advantage of the fact that I was drunk, drove me to the mountains, and did something shameful?

My God, thinking of this, Li Zexuan tightened his chrysanthemum (1) and his eyes quickly swept over his body to see if he 

Huh, fortunately, not naked.

It's just that this dress is not like the one I wore before?

Hey, the air here is really good, a hundred times better than the air in the Capital city. Li Zexuan took a deep breath and felt that the 2.5 pm in his heart and lungs has been purified by a lot.

Being thirsty, Li Zexuan remembered to find some water to drink. Just wanting to hold himself with his arm, there was some pain in his arm and he couldn't help crying out: "Ao...!"  

Then he fell heavily on the bed and suffered a devastating impact all over his body.

Misfortune never comes alone. At this time, Li Zexuan also experienced a sharp sting in his mind with memories not his own experienced just like watching a movie. In the end, the physical and mental pain finally made Li Zexuan unable to endure and fainted.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Zexuan finally woke up in a good mood, only to realize that he had encountered the dog blood written in countless novels.

"What's so special? I read through novels every day but never did I expect that I would be the same. Li Zexuan couldn't help but mutter.

After sorting his memories, he discovered that this body had the same name as him. He was originally the son of a wealthy business in Chang'an. Since childhood, he was loved and spoiled by his parents but because of a congenital deficiency, he had always been weak and sick during his childhood. Many famous doctors asserted that Li Zexuan would die prematurely, not living up to eight years old. 

Father just birthed a son, how could he give up? Later, he asked multiple relations to invite an old lady from the Imperial Medical Department for treatment. The old woman doctor said that Li Zexuan's physical weakness is without a cure. But he is allowed to worship a Grandmaster as a teacher, he can replenish his body with internal strength or make up for his congenital deficiency.

Father Li is a businessman, how to recognize a true Jianghu master? It's nothing but a group of swindlers who ran out of family money. It is fine to look after the nursing home, but no one is really proficient in the sect's inner cultivation.

Seeing their only child's body worsen by the day, Father Li was anxious and Madam Li was washing her face with tears every day, breaking down with sadness numerous times.

When Li Zexuan was 6 years old, an old Daoist passed the Li Residence and asked a Li Residence servant for a bowl of water. Suddenly, he glanced at Li Zexuan who was playing in the courtyard, his lips red and white teeth, so cute, but he looked so pale, revealing a pathological condition in his eyebrows. The old Daoist felt a heart of affection.

Then he told Father Li that he was one of the great elders of Longhu Mountain Tianshi and that he was a virtual sacred person. At this point in the travel, meeting Li Zexuan was destiny. Seeing his congenital deficiency and wanted to accept him as a disciple and pass on his internal strength to be nursed back to health.

Although Father Li and Mother Li couldn't bear to let their son go to school at a distance, however Mt. Longshu experts are rarely seen. If they did not seize this opportunity, they are afraid that their son would not be able to survive.

Therefore, Father Li asked Li Zexuan to kowtow to worship the teacher, asking the old Daoist to teach him well.

Not knowing the time in the mountains, eight years have passed and Li Zexuan learned martial but his master was already old and the deadline was coming.

In the spring of the Emperor's first reign, Daoist Ling Xu sat down in Mt. Longhu. Reminiscing of the Master who has been his father and teacher for the past eight years, Li Zexuan wept bitter tears in front of his Master`s tomb.

Sitting on his knee for one day and one night, Li Zexuan bowed his head to pay respect to his Master and prepared to leave for Chang'an, visit his parents and then go to Jianghu (2), becoming an errant knight.

Passing Mt. Zhongshan, Li Zexuan heard the sounds of killing in the mountain road ahead so he concealed him and galloped away. He saw more than 20 masked men stabbing a dozen servant retainers with a carriage with pink curtains on the field. It was almost a one-sided battlefield and in a blink of an eye, several retainers died.

"Isn't this the Young Lady going out and encountering mountain bandits?"

Li Zexuan was too lazy to think about it, took a cloud step, pulled his sword from his waist, and stabbed the strong man who seemed to be the bandit leader.

When it was said, it was already too late; the sword was like a clap of thunder, reaching the bandit's neck. The bandit leader was also a master, feeling the strong wind behind him, he felt danger and hurriedly went sideways but it still left him with a bloodstain on his neck.

The bandit leader stabilized his body and looked at the sneak attacker. It turns to be 14 years old baby doll. He suddenly screamed: "Where did this little doll come from? Second and Third Brother, accommodate me and chop this little rabbit!"

In an instant, the battlefield changed as two mountain bandits turned their heads around to attack Li Zexuan. However, Li Zexuan was trained by Daoist Ling Xu for eight years learning the authentic Daoist heart method "Great Profound Scripture. How can these bandits compare?

After a while, twenty bandits had fallen, he did not take their lives; he just wounded them badly.

The reason for his chivalric actions reached, Li Zexuan was slightly satisfied in his heart and was about to leave but suddenly heard a pleasant female voice: "Young hero, be careful!"

It turns out that during the fight when the outside situation of the battlefield, someone came to the rescue. The girl in the carriage lifted the curtain and secretly watched.

Seeing that the outside battlefield situation has been fixed, she was about to get off to thank the Young Hero. She then caught a glimpse of the severely wounded bandit boss on the ground suddenly soared and slapped Li Zexuan's back. The girl was so scared that she hurriedly reminded him.

Li Zexuan was in a hurry and was sent flying to the side of the road by the bandit leader. However, the side of the mountain is a very steep hill, about 100 meters. Li Zexuan was shot down when he entered Jianghu and when he was seriously injured and dying, he was taken advantage of by a passer-by.

Li Zexuan rubbed his head in pain, remembering his parents and girlfriend of his past life. He never thought that he would be separated from them by thousands of years just from drink after a meal. He couldn't go back anymore and his heart could not help but feel sad for a while.

"Hey, this body is quite unlucky. It was originally should have been a protagonist's life but I didn't expect to practice martial arts and be hanged right after I entered Jianghu; not enough experience, ah. The hero saves the beauty but instead on his own; not even seeing the woman's beauty. Tsk tsk, you said you are not wronged."

Well, for this body's predecessor, Li Zexian would say that this child experienced enough twists and turns and a protagonist's aura. Originally, a great achievement would be made, maybe he would be famous in Jianghu but he still lacks experience.

Thinking this way, Li Zexuan found a little comfort in his heart, and anyway, he was reborn again. This buddy is gone for martial arts and chivalric values, much worse than himself.

At this time, there were sounds of footsteps outside the house. After a while, an old man with white hair and a robe appeared in front of Li Zexuan.

"Hey, Young Lord, you finally woke up. First, don't move first. Your injury in your body is still not good, this Poor Daoist will feel your pulse first."

At first glance at the Daoist priest, Li Zexuan couldn't but a feel a sense of intimacy. Perhaps it is because of the body's master was a Daoist priest, Li Zexuan had a natural feeling with the Dao.

Li Zexuan quickly prepped his body up and clenched up his fist: "Youngster Li Zexuan thanks Your Grace for this life-saving grace. He had not yet consulted the Daoist title of Your Grace, where could it be?"

"Here is Mt. Zhongshan, and the temporary abode of this Poor Daoist. This Poor Daoist had found you at the foot of the mountain five days ago. Back then, you were seriously injured and in coma so when this Poor Daoist saw that you were still breathing, he bring you back here. Young Lord, what have you encountered to suffer such injuries?"

The Daoist leisurely went to the wooden basin in front of the door to clean his hands, turned back and said: "Poor Daoist Sun Simiao, where does Young Lord lives? How can anyone come in this deep wild forest alone?"

"Sun Simiao? The one who've met fourteen emperors, saved countless lives and lived 141 years, that medicine king Sun Simiao? I rely on, I've just met this man after I crossed over. This is good luck. Do I also have a protagonist's halo?" Li Zexuan was shocked.

Stunned for a long while, he was abnormally respectful to Sun Simiao: "It turns out to be Divine Doctor Sun. This youngster had long revered Doctor Sun for a long time, who've saved countless lives. Thank you, Daoist, for this life-saving grace. If you have a mission in the future, this youngster will not dare to disobey." 

I was weak in my childhood and I went to Mt. Longhu with Master. Then I wanted to go home and went down but I accidently fell to the cliffs. He told Sun Simiao. (3)

Sun Simiao listened, he did not expect this Young Lord to have experienced such a twist and have a chivalrous heart. Looking towards Li Zexuan, his eyes showed some appreciation: (3)

"I didn't expect Young Lord's life to be so rough. This Poor Daoist has felt you seemed congenitally deficient. Fortunately, you have cultivated internal strength. Young Lord, you will need to stay here for some time, there are still some rice in the house. This Poor Daoist was called by His Majesty yesterday, today, I am going to Chang'an City. Young Lord can leave after you've recovered."

"Despite the peace of mind, this youngster is more than half-hearted and can take care of himself. In the future, Zexuan will repay the new life." (3)

"Hahaha, it's no effort, Young Lord doesn't need to worry. This Poor Daoist will go first." Sun Simiao smiled and turned to carry the medicine, and went out.

 

1: In Chinese idiom, it is often regarded as a substitute for the anus, also it's more poetic?

2: Literally translated to Rivers and Lake, Jianghu is more described as the underworld, the community of martial artists, assassins, and wanderers.

3: Not sure how to translate this. The raw could not be found so I could only work with the MTL pre-set words here so the meaning is quite vague and subpar to the rest of the chapter here.