"Ah! Xiao Li, you're serious!"
Ning Fa let out a pained grunt, feeling as if someone had struck the back of his head with a club.
After a long while, the intense pain subsided slightly, and Ning Fa forced his eyes open.
He was in an unfamiliar place.
The hall, spanning over ten square meters, was a mess. Furniture like tables and chairs were overturned, and in the center of the room, a yellow, double-eared bronze furnace lay on its side. Its lid was wide open, and several pale yellow pills had rolled out beside it.
Ning Fa was completely bewildered.
Wasn't he just playing some little games with his secretary in his office? How did he suddenly end up in this godforsaken place?
Just then, a wave of dizziness washed over him. Ning Fa felt the world spinning and couldn't help but collapse to the ground.
After a while, the strange sensation finally disappeared, but a flood of inexplicable information suddenly appeared in Ning Fa's mind.
Ning Fa sat on the ground, his expression shifting.
"Jiang Kingdom, Yun Prefecture, Thousand Wave Lake, Ning Family, cultivation family..."
Ning Fa muttered under his breath, his eyes filled with disbelief.
He had actually transmigrated!
Through the sudden influx of information in his mind, he finally understood that he was no longer in his luxurious office of over a hundred square meters in Magic City, nor was he even on the familiar Earth. He had transmigrated to a mysterious cultivation world!
The original host was also named Ning Fa, a disciple of the Ning Family, a cultivation family. He had died from internal frustration after failing the family's Alchemist examination multiple times, and Ning Fa had coincidentally transmigrated into his body.
Ning Fa stood there in a daze for a long time before finally accepting this reality. He never thought that the plot from the web novels he read would actually happen to him!
But he felt no disappointment at all. Instead, he was more excited than he had been playing games with his secretary!
This was a world where cultivators possessed immense power, and high-level cultivators could move mountains, drain seas, and pluck stars from the sky!
Even more importantly, high-level cultivators had unimaginably long lifespans, making it not impossible to achieve eternal life and longevity equal to heaven and earth!
And the original host Ning Fa had transmigrated into happened to be a cultivator, which made Ning Fa incredibly excited.
His personality was such that as long as he was alive, he would never stop challenging himself.
Now that he had arrived in this mysterious cultivation world, a place where individual power could break through all obstacles, he felt his blood begin to boil.
Ning Fa calmed his emotions and began to process the original host's memories.
After all, he was a transmigrator. He needed to quickly familiarize himself with the previous body's memories and habits, lest he reveal himself and be mistaken for a demon or heretic, which would be quite troublesome.
Just then, a rapid knocking sound suddenly came from the door.
Ning Fa opened his eyes and managed to stand up, inwardly frowning. The original host was a cultivator, so why was his body so weak?
He looked in the direction of the knocking, a hint of hesitation in his eyes.
After all, he had only just transmigrated. Although he had the original host's memories, he still needed time to adapt. Seeing someone familiar to the original host at this moment might lead to him being exposed.
Ning Fa decided not to open the door and to first thoroughly digest the memories of the original host.
The rapid knocking finally stopped, and Ning Fa breathed a sigh of relief. But then, a sharp, high-pitched female voice could be faintly heard.
"Is Ning Fa's home really here? You're not tricking me, are you?"
Ning Fa's heart skipped a beat.
Then, another young male voice followed.
"Sister Xiao Huan, how would I dare to trick you? From what I see, Ning Fa definitely doesn't dare to see you, which is why he's not opening the door."
After a moment of silence, the female voice suddenly raised in volume.
"Hmph! Ning Fa, do you think you can escape the bet with Miss just by hiding inside? If you don't open the door within ten breaths, don't blame me for smashing it down!"
Ning Fa cursed inwardly. After a moment of hesitation, he still got up and left the hall. After passing through a courtyard of considerable size, he arrived at the front door.
Looking at the door, which was shaking from the repeated pounding, he hesitated for a moment before releasing the latch and opening the door.
A man and a woman stood outside. The woman appeared to be around sixteen years old, dressed in a green dress, with a beautiful appearance.
She had her arms crossed, her chin held high, and she looked at Ning Fa disdainfully.
The other young man, dressed in a blue long gown, had slightly darker skin. His eyes darted around, constantly staring at Ning Fa, his schadenfreude unconcealed.
"Hmph! You know what's good for you!"
The green-dressed girl snorted when she saw Ning Fa come out and said, "Ning Fa, you haven't forgotten your bet with Miss, right? According to the agreement, since you failed to become a family Alchemist, you have to serve Miss for three months!"
What this girl said made even the "experienced" Ning Fa feel a bit strange.
But relevant information quickly surfaced in his mind, and his expression changed slightly.
At this moment, the schadenfreude in the eyes of the blue-robed man beside her intensified, mixed with envy and jealousy.
Ning Fa recalled the key information and asked with surprise, "If I remember correctly, my bet with the Seventh Elder isn't supposed to take effect for another month."
The green-dressed girl pouted, "Still not giving up? Dreaming of becoming a family Alchemist within a month? You're daydreaming!"
She paused, then let out a delicate snort, "And watch your address! Miss is no longer the Seventh Elder. Three days ago, she was officially promoted to the Fifth Elder of the family. Her status in the family is only below that of the few Foundation Establishment elders!"
The blue-robed man also chimed in, "Ning Fa, just accept your fate. You're simply not cut out for alchemy. To help you with alchemy, your family has almost gone bankrupt. Now that you've caught the eye of the Fifth Elder, shouldn't you be thinking about how to please her in the future?"
The young lady in the green dress sized Ning Fa up, a look of disdain in her eyes.
"Look at your slovenly appearance, you reek like what! Remember to take one of these Fragrant Dew Pills every five days to cleanse the impurities in your body! If you're still this messy after a month, you'll have hell to pay!"
With that, the green-clad young lady shoved a green brocade pouch into Ning Fa's arms and walked away, swaying her hips.
The man in the blue shirt hurried to follow her, his eager voice carrying back, "Sister Xiao Huan, what do you think of me? I'm strong and healthy, about to break through to the middle stage of Qi Condensation. I wonder if I'll be fortunate enough to serve the Fifth Elder!"
"You can forget it. You're too ugly; the young lady won't fancy you."
"..."
Ning Fa subconsciously closed the door and, as if in a daze, walked into the courtyard, sitting on a stone chair with a constipated expression.
Although he hadn't fully digested the memories of the original body, he already understood the situation regarding the bet with the Fifth Elder.
After all, this bet could be considered the fuse that led to the original body's death from pent-up frustration, so the memory was naturally profound.
Speaking of which, the original body's identity was not simple.
Because he was a cultivator with a Lightning Spiritual Root.
But it was a flawed Lightning Spiritual Root.