My name is Ling Chen. I’m eighteen, an unwanted orphan from Ning County, Jiangnan Province.
On the day I enrolled in the Ability Academy, all I wanted was to get through three years, collect the scholarship and subsidies, and live in peace. My talent test came back Grade C, the lowest score in the room. The crowd laughed, but I walked back to the end of the line without a change in expression. What was there to laugh about? I’d been through worse, like having my food stolen at the orphanage or getting cornered by my landlord at the apartment door.
Then one day, a spirit beast bit through my shoulder in a virtual space. As I hovered on the brink of death, a mechanical voice exploded in my mind: [Ding! All-Round Ability Comeback System successfully bound].
From that moment on, I hunted spirit beasts, broke through realms, made it to the provincial capital, and joined the national team. When the Spirit Clan princess was attacked, I tracked down the real culprit. When the alliance of the three races declared war, I took command. During the final battle, half of Blue Star was shattered. Looking at the corpses scattered everywhere, I exhausted all my transcendental power to reverse time.
The flames of war went out, my abilities vanished, and the Spirit Clan returned to their own star region. The five-hundred-year catastrophe came to an end.
On the last evening, two girls sat across from me in a street-side hot pot restaurant, while two children played nearby. Steam rose from the pot, and outside the window, Blue Star was whole again.
I went from a loafer to the ruler of the stars, then from the ruler of the stars back to an ordinary man.
The journey was worth it.
