[The opening chapters are a slow burn + satisfying, smart progression + urban high martial arts + interstellar warfare + one heroine + a touch of sweetness]
In Year 114 of the Wanhua Era, Jiang Yan, a second-rank independent cultivator, burned up his source to possess a Dao-realm mutated beast. His soul shattered, and his life and cultivation came to an end.
When he opened his eyes again, he was back at eighteen, on the eve of his awakening.
Everyone believed that independent cultivators followed a good-for-nothing path: their energies clashed, advancement was difficult, and no one in all of history had broken through the seventh-rank bottleneck.
No one knew that the dying remnant soul from his previous life had returned against the flow of time, carrying the imprint of the ancient divine artifact, the Record of Myriad Transformations, and fused with the soul of his younger self.
The Myriad Transformations Return-to-Origin Art fully awakened.
His four internal energy types could be converted with no loss, while any attack from the outside world could be devoured, assimilated, and turned back into power for himself.
He would make up for every regret from his past life. He would protect the one he loved most in this life with his own life. Today, he would break the shackles that had bound independent cultivators for ages!
Warriors wield astral energy, mages wield spiritual power, mechanics wield machine force, and beast tamers wield beast spirit power. With mastery over all four, I am invincible among those of my rank!
Mutated beasts run rampant? Advance forces from another planet invade? The United Council watches us like a hawk?
The lands I could not defend in my past life, I will not yield an inch of in this one.
The realms I could not reach in my past life, I will conquer step by step in this one!
One day, when I have swept across the sea of stars and brought all transformations into one, I will stand supreme!
