Modern-day creator Kaxia, a hugely popular influencer who promotes intangible cultural heritage, stayed up all night editing videos. Then he stepped on a bar of soap he’d made himself and slipped, dying on the spot?!
When he opened his eyes again, he’d been reborn as a child in the lower district of another world, with the exact same name.
His father had died from alcoholism and gambling. His beautiful mother was attracting unwanted attention. His baby sister was still in swaddling clothes, crying to be fed, and he himself was frail and sickly.
At just eight years old, good-for-nothing Kaxia had no choice but to roll up his sleeves and get to work!
His mother was a weaver, but no one was buying her tapestries. So he brought in modern-day sales promotions and cleared out her stall in a single afternoon!
The family was in debt? No problem. Give him a crochet hook! Modern textile crafts in a medieval-style fantasy world would be a complete technological mismatch!
Best of all, the three-story villa he’d spent a fortune on in his previous life had come with him to this world. It had even become a bound golden finger he could carry around, complete with electricity, running water, gas, and internet. With all that, getting rich in this backward world would be a piece of cake!
Thanks to his modern textile techniques, Kaxia earned his first fortune. He moved out of the lower district with his mother and sister, settled into the wealthy quarter, and even picked up a sweet, obedient childhood friend.
Just as Kaxia was dreaming about his wonderful future, he learned that this world was rigidly divided by class. Wealthy merchants oppressed commoners, the royal family and nobility stood above all, and they even controlled the divine right. Commoners were treated like ants, because nobles were born with magic, and the stronger their magic, the higher their status.
But remembering the chemical laboratory beneath his villa, Kaxia, a chemistry graduate from a top university, flashed an evil grin. “What other world? What noble classes? What magic? Take it up with my scientific truths!”
Yet before he could spread the truth of chemistry, Kaxia stared at the white flame burning in his hand and fell into thought. “So who said commoners aren’t allowed to have magic?!”
An eccentric mage armed with modern scientific truths makes “friends” with the nobles of another world in a friendly, peaceful way.
[Please note]
Reborn into another world from birth; both the younger and older Kaxia are the same person.
Both leads are each other’s only partner; the love interest has multiple incarnations, and may appear later in the story.
My preferences are pretty strange.
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The original self gets stronger by lying around x the hardworking clone who supports his beloved (an unconventional selfcest story)
1.
After a car accident, Zhai Yun transmigrates to a parallel Blue Star where spiritual qi has revived.
He opens his eyes to find himself a baby abandoned at the gate of an orphanage. His parents are unknown, and he’s off to a disastrous start.
The parallel world’s Blue Star has only just emerged from the upheaval of spiritual qi revival. The government is funding the construction of cultivation schools, and anyone with a spiritual root can cultivate immortality!
Before elementary school graduation, the school organizes its first spiritual root test. Zhai Yun doesn’t awaken one.
Before middle school graduation, the school organizes its second spiritual root test. Zhai Yun still doesn’t awaken one.
Since the spiritual qi revival, 70% of people around the world can awaken a spiritual root during middle school. Another 20% can awaken one before graduating high school, though theirs are of somewhat lower quality.
He has one last chance, and Zhai Yun refuses to give up. Even without the extra points awarded for having a spiritual root, he manages to get into the best high school in the city.
But then the orphanage’s funding dries up, and Zhai Yun is abandoned for a second time.
Faced with the steep tuition and living expenses at a cultivation high school, Zhai Yun has no choice but to attend classes by day and work at night.
He only hopes to awaken a spiritual root before graduating high school, so he can at least get into a decent university with a good program.
But during his senior year, his winter job lands him with a heartless boss who works him until he develops a high fever, then fires him without paying him a cent. After paying rent, his account is about to hit zero.
In his feverish haze, Zhai Yun has just one thought: “I need to figure out how to take that scumbag boss down with me!”
Just then, a cold mechanical voice sounds in his ear.
[Clone Development System bound]
[Host, complete missions to unlock the gacha pool and raise clones]
Zhai Yun: “?”
Zhai Yun: “!”
His long-overdue golden finger has finally arrived!
But why does it raise clones?
2.
Zhai Yun awakens a top-grade Heavenly Spirit Root. In his first month, he reaches the ninth level of body tempering; in his second, he completes Qi Refining; and in his third, he reaches the early Foundation Establishment stage?!
He suddenly lands in the top ten of Blue Star’s prodigy rankings, becoming a genius coveted by all the major cultivation factions.
Even the government places great hopes in him, expecting him to break through to late Foundation Establishment and travel to the vast worlds beyond to bring resources back to Blue Star.
But Zhai Yun knows full well that he only got his genius title by sitting back and reaping the rewards.
Clone No. 1 was sent to the vast worlds beyond to explore on the second day after he bound the System, and is now on the verge of becoming the Sword Sect’s top prodigy!
#There’s more than one clone. They have their own consciousness, but are all loyal to the original#
#The protagonist isn’t invincible, but his clones are#
#At heart, this is a feel-good power fantasy with no need to think too hard#
Theme: Climb higher and change your destiny!
Updated recently, slowly
This acquired feeling is more adapted to physical strength.