《Transmigrated to Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4 (A fanfiction)》 Chapter 1 - A New Anomaly ¡°Hey¡­ where am I?¡±, I asked even though I visibly was in some sort of an¡­ office?! ¡°Hello. My name is ??????. You can call me Bob. I specialize in brokering and trading with dreams.¡± ¡°A dream, huh? I thought that it can¡¯t be a truck. After all, that is one thing I am safe against. There is no way one could crash into the building I am in, squeeze itself through two corridors and then start the engine again just to get to me!¡± ¡°Well¡­ you are wrong here. Trucks are capable of many feats an ordinary person would find unnatural and unlikely.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°You know, we met, because there is an¡­ instability. The internet is saturated with immensely good novels which the authors never get paid for, while a lot of inappropriate content run by certain individuals hoards a lot of it.¡± ¡°But there must be some laws, right? The universe will balance it for everyone in the end and so on¡­¡± ¡°Normally that would be the case. But you know, this goes on for years. And then it gets complicated for everyone involved. When it comes to the novels, one website for fanfictions has even in its terms of service that it can sublicense your novel to their affiliates. Some people repost the novels of others even while using the excuse ¡®it¡¯s hard to tell what the original site for it was¡¯, and other things. I can¡¯t take it no more. So I am doing an experiment.¡± ¡°Wow. Nice. Will you give me some cheats?¡± ¡°You are stupid.¡± ¡°Ah, ok, but will you give me few cheats?¡± ¡°No, I mean¡­ you will be a stupid MC. That is your cheat. Plot armor and above average talent in exchange for a much lowered wisdom and intelligence.¡± ¡°So¡­ what world will I be in?¡± ¡°Any world you like. Something like Harry Potter, or like Star Wars¡­¡± ¡°Ah! Get me into Harry Potter then! That one is safe even when you are stupid.¡± ¡°Sorry. I said LIKE Harry Potter. You can¡¯t enter the original worlds. No, you need to enter a fanfiction.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Just¡­ just get me into a random fanfiction then.¡± ¡°You will be transfered into Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4 in five¡­ four¡­ three¡­ two¡­ one....¡± --- Next time I knew, I felt really cool. What a nice sky, huh. When the memories rushed into me, it felt like binging a novel in one go. The important point now is, I am a part of the Cloudless Sect. I don¡¯t know the history as much, but we must be a really ancient sect, because there are clouds in the sky. So we were created before they were there. See, I am really clever. There is no way my intelligence was lowered. And since I still have my memories, I know I must sort out my priorities first. Food. Future wife. Traning. Personal excellence of a main character. In this very order. ¡°Hey sister, do you know where the hall of dining is? I am quite confused today.¡± ¡°Yeah¡­ so only for the 242th time or something, you can arrive to the hall by going in this direction and then to the GREEN building.¡± ¡°Yes, green building.¡± And so I went. Man, life is really simple here. I got a bit distracted by seeing a blue building, but then remembered it is the green one. ¡°Hey guyyssss! Nice seeing you there!¡± It is always better to be friendly. No matter what, be friendly. ¡°Hi¡­¡± ¡°Yeah¡­¡± ¡°You managed to come here without getting lost, huh¡­¡±Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. Obviously, these guys know me pretty well. I bet we will create a superbly famous group of destroyers or something in the future. If you were in a Xianxia world like me, you would know that cultivators prefer a balanced diet. So I took a little bit of everything. One piece of every kind of meat and vegetables, one spoon, one fork¡­ and both the brown wood chair and the gray chair. I will sit on both, so it will be a perfect balance. While eating, I was eyeing all the female disciples. None of them eyed me back, obviously being too shy, but I am patient. It is inevitable that one of them will need a man to rescue her in the future. Of that, I am certain. --- After I finished the dinner, I went out to take my ¡®Lucky encounter stroll¡¯. It is a routine the owner of the previous body has developed, and it brings consistent results. But you must be special like me in order to be able to do that. An ordinary guy won¡¯t make the cut. The first stage of the stroll consists of ¡®getting immensely lost¡¯. Since when you pursue something too much and feel frustrated or you are even grieving, the fate can¡¯t guide you. Following the example from my memories, I took the shortcut to achieving this and jumped down from 12 meters, headfront. Thus, I achieved the second stage, ¡®seeing stars around your head¡¯. And with unsteady steps, I let my legs to guide me¡­ ¡°Hey man, all the female disciples here are mine. Don¡¯t steal them.¡± There was this one man, I¡¯ve never seen before, obviously from another sect, who was floating in the sky and overseeing me and my fellow disciples. As every main character, I am also territorial, and so I felt the need to remind him. ¡°How¡­ do you see me?¡± ¡°I have this special method. It is so ancient and profound you won¡¯t be able to comprehend it. But if you¡­ help me, I could give you a hint.¡± ¡°What¡­ do you need to help with?¡± ¡°You know, I am a really poor and dilligent cultivator. Every day, I follow my priorities. Food and future wife are okay¡­ for today. And now I need to train. Can you help me train?¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ I need to see if you are talented enough. Take this ¡®scripture of basic wind arts¡¯. So what is your secret?¡± ¡°I don¡¯t have any unnecessary thoughts. Nobody can read my mind or my intentions and I see more than other people.¡± ¡°Hm. We¡¯ll see then.¡± Upon receiving the scripture, I felt encouraged to do more. You know, there is a rule for every MC - always want more. That¡¯s why Ron from Harry Potter treated the girl who was after him really badly and instead of communicating with her properly, and treating her like a human being, he let her chase after him in vain in the end and let her feel all the frustration - because he wanted Hermione. But the trick is, it works only for the minor MCs. If you are a major one like Anakin, and want some unnatural dark abilities, you will end up with nothing. Naturally, I am no minor MC. And so I just went on to look for a place to train in. ¡°Hey, sister, do you know a place with a lof of wind?¡± Naturally, it needs to be really windy in there, because I have a wind scripture. ¡°Yeah, our grandmaster is in a closed cultivation. As he calls down all the energies in the world, it is really windy underneath the mountain he is on. It is the perfect place, trust me.¡± ¡°Oh, really?¡± ¡°And that is not all. It is only seven hundred meters from here. You just go there, see¡­ and take the yellow portal.¡± ¡°Oh, really?¡± ¡°Hm-hm. It will teleport you to the exact place. Don¡¯t think about anything else. It is a really windy place.¡± ¡°Oh, really?¡± ¡°Yes.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°Just go, ok? You must go fast, trust me.¡± It is the best when your fellow disciples care about you. --- The place I arrived at is a lot more than I imagined it to be. It is REALLY windy in here. Be it the falling rocks from nearby mountains, the tornadoes in the background or the swirling energies all around, this must be the ideal place for practicing a wind scripture. It¡¯s just that due to me flailing all round, I have currently certain issues opening it. I just¡­ can¡¯t¡­ pull my hands close to each other. Desperate, I let the scripture open at a random page, part of it getting out of the hold of my fingers. The depiction was fortunately something I can practice. The figure of a man was drawn, with his legs quite apart from each other... It had the following sentence: ¡®The humming of a wind penetrates all¡¯. The humming of a wind¡­ humming of a wind¡­ Tell me, what kind of a sound does a wind make? Something like¡­ moo¡­ no, that goes for cows. Yet, suddently, my immense comprehension figured it out! ¡°BOOOOOOOO¡­!¡± Not enough. ¡°BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!¡± It¡­ it must be the frequence. Right. Sounds of a certain frequence make different changes. ¡°BOOOOOOOOOO!¡± --- On a mountain nearby. ¡®What the ¡­!¡¯ ¡®What kind of m¡­.!!!¡¯ Then, after few seconds, it started again¡­ ¡°BOOOOOOO¡­¡± Sometimes from the right, then from the left, the strange sound was reaching here from all directions, not letting me finish in peace. Normally, a cultivation at my level can¡¯t get disrupted by sounds... But it is a different story when you secretly practice a dual demonic cultivation and forcibly refine the energies in the body of an elder you killed few days ago. I need utter concentration for this! ¡°BOOOOOOOOO¡­¡± Few strands of my hair fell down, as I failed to control the energies going through the aperture. ¡°BOOOOOO¡­¡± After the fifth try, I vomitted blood, along with my essence of qi. ¡®Please¡­ no more¡­ no¡­ more.... I can¡¯t stop this now¡­¡¯ ¡°...¡± ¡®Perhaps¡­?¡¯ ¡°BOOOOOOOOOOO!!!¡± Driven mad and exhausted, I tried to smash parts of the mountain, with the hopes of vanquishing the enemy. But as my skin got purple and my bones were shattering, I tried one final attack, an omnidirectional blast. ¡®Hah¡­ hah¡­¡¯ ¡®...¡¯ ¡®...¡¯ At this stage, resembling a zombie, and slowly raised my head¡­ ¡°BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!¡± --- No scripture is as powerful and no MC is as badass as I am. Man, even the mountain started to shatter itself as I hummed like the wind. It really... penetrates all! When it reached the final stage, even the wind stopped blowing and the energies stopped swirling. I slowly, with epic steps like a MC in a final cut scene, moved toward the center, where the brightest energies clashed against each other. There were also some crooked and demonic, ying ones, from perhaps dual cultivation, but as MC, I want obviously only the brightest stuff. Because only the brightest is the most powerful. Because I am the brightest star. For example some people think that Anakin lost against Obi-wan in Star Wars due to not having the high ground, but the truth is that the color of his blue lightsaber did not match the color of his new red eyes. You need to match the colors properly or you are done for. Basic MC logic. As human cultivator, I need to have the brightest. And so I sat there, meditating. ¡°Hey¡­ what has happened in here?!¡± ¡°Perhaps the grandmaster¡­ ascended?¡± ¡°You don¡¯t say¡­ we would be a fifth grade sect, then!¡± ¡°Ohh¡­.¡± ¡°But, does he not look¡­ quite younger now? Did he look like this when he was young?¡± --- ¡°This is Daniel. Reporting to Merry in the Starfall Sect. This guy is definitely¡­ not normal. I gave him the wind scripture, and he then proceeded to vanquish the previous grandmaster and even impersonate him, all the while raising his cultivation by seven minor stages. I repeat, he is... an anomaly.¡± Chapter 2 - A Bit Too Simple Somewhere, there is a ¡®xianxia¡¯ crossroad. The kind of crossroad where many fights took place on, many people died close to it, and many people made quite a bad decision when it came to their choice of direction, with fatal consequences. But today, an event the crossroad has never seen before took place on it. Three people were shouting random words, before running forward and bumping against each other at great speeds. ¡°See? I told you!!¡± ¡°Told what?¡± ¡°That this is the only certified way for MCs to reveal how strong their plot armor is!¡± ¡°...are you sure it is certified?¡± ¡°Yes! Three MCs like us participated, so that makes it a proven way of ascertaining things. One MC is a guess, two MCs are probability, and three MCs make it a certified thing. Such is the way of the universe.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°...¡± I had no idea what he talks about, but lately I have no idea about many things. Must be because I got so clever. Right? Pe Teng''s method, the MC who is heading to the Starfall sect like me, lies in the fact that ¡®high-quality main characters¡¯ (I don¡¯t know what he means by that, but I am definitely ¡®high-quality¡¯) should bump against each other and the one ending up being closest to the center has the biggest plot armor. Which means I am a third place. I can live with that. Being in the top 3. Sitting up, I¡­ had spent some time thinking about nothing, which I am particularly good at. Thankfully nobody is reading my life as a story, because instead of cunning or clever thoughts I just have this profound emptiness most of the time. Then Da Hon, the other main character, started singing after a certain time. Let me tell you, it sounds like me when I cultivate the wind scripture. So it did not take long, and with my long ¡°BOOO¡±, I joined him out loud. The servants of the Starfall sect seemed a bit angry, but that is okay. It is inevitable that the great me - or us - will leave a lasting impression. After one hour of practice, the small spiritual boat took flight and me and Da Hon have secured extraordinary positions - being tied by a rope to the end of the boat, while flailing in the wind. Just perfect. --- The Starfall sect was the kind of place where even grass seemed to be made of spiritual herbs, every wooden stump a piece of a hidden formation, and where they would find faster an epic artifact instead of something you can eat. But more importantly, there were 12 more of ¡®us¡¯. Well I had no idea there are ¡®us¡¯, until Pe Teng came up with the ¡®main character¡¯ concept. It sure sounds something like me. And the arguments he uses sound solid as well. ¡°You know, and that¡¯s why you need to be patient, and not strike the arrogant young master of this sect right when you see him.¡± ¡°But, Pe, I am righteous, right? No compromises!¡± ¡°But¡­ you are GREAT, right? You DESERVE the best woman around, the best scripture around¡­¡± This is the ninth time he uses this sentence, as he talked to the eight friends before in the same manner. ¡°Well¡­ now that you put it this way, I am certainly kind of a big deal.¡± ¡°And this is it. You need to admit your greatness. Would a great man strike the arrogant young master right when he sees him, or try to discover all the evil men behind him first?¡± ¡°Huh¡­¡± ¡°Right? You are great, so you should not belittle yourself. Don¡¯t be content with little. Aim for more!¡± ¡°Huh¡­¡± Huh. That¡¯s what each of them was saying in the end. Taking me behind a corner after the talk, Pe confided in me few things. ¡°Man, really¡­ these MCs, they are so damn explosive¡­¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°And their IQ¡­ don¡¯t make me even start.¡± Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! ¡°Really?¡± ¡°You know, you can carry a lot more things, right? We need meat for everyone, so go there¡­ see that? Take this and that and then follow me¡­¡± ¡°Okay.¡± --- I learned that every sect has several types of training rooms. The Starfall sect, in particular, has ¡®training rooms for disciples¡¯, ¡®training rooms for elders¡¯, but also ¡®training rooms for when you are punished¡¯, ¡®training rooms for when sect master is really dissatisfied with you¡¯, ¡®training rooms for when sect master tells you to go hide somewhere or¡­¡¯ , ¡®training rooms for when sect master tells you to improve your cultivation or die¡¯ and so on. Our guide, an elite disciple called Mr. Haofei, let us take a look at the last type. It consisted of a seat on the floor, with many strange rotating crystals around. Supposedly, when you are not completing your cultivation cycles on time, they start to shoot rays of penetrating light that somehow resonates with your deepest fears and pain. I wanted to try, but Pe said no. Instead, he started inquiring about the situation here. And I felt satisfied, because our agreement was that he will be the ¡®brain¡¯ and I will be carrying things. I like carrying things. ¡°What is that big place right there?¡± ¡°Oh, that is a profound palace for burning down the remains of the sect¡¯s enemies. We obviously can¡¯t just let their bodies rot on a grass somewhere¡­¡± ¡°What an honorable sect this is, then. To care so much about few bodies a week¡­ wow, I feel good being here.¡± ¡°Yes¡­ only few groups of bodies a week, sometimes rather big groups. We are quite the honorable sect.¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°...¡± ¡°And who has the main say around here? Sect master, right?¡± ¡°Yes, sect master¡­ unless his wife has an objection.¡± ¡°So, it¡¯s his wife, then?¡± ¡°No, obviously, it is the sect master. I insist. It¡¯s just that his wife might object to his decisions. It is up to his conscience¡­ and guts¡­ to not take her opinion into account before he decides anything. But that is the virtue of a married couple, right? To mind how the other person will see your actions.¡± ¡°So his wife is very mindful of him as well, then?¡± ¡°But of course. But she is very wise, so it may not be as obvious.¡± ¡°...¡± The rest of the walk was about similar things, so I just turned my mind off. As we were approaching the place we agreed upon, I finally unloaded the several tens kilograms of meat I was carrying with me. ¡°So, Mr. Teng, you think this is really necessary?¡± ¡°Yes. We are¡­ special cases. You know it. So we need rankings. Because rankings are one of the few things that can keep us looking at the long term situation.¡± ¡°And this pile of meat¡­ he was carrying¡­ that is for¡­?¡± ¡°Ah, you know, when you do a tournament, you need to make the rewards obvious. You can¡¯t say the winner can eat what he wants. No, you need to have there a visible pile of meat. And this is just the meat - I made him carry it to prove the point. The same goes for any women, any artifacts and so on. You need to show abundance.¡± ¡°Heh. And tell me again, how will this help to identify the special cases, then¡­?¡± ¡°Well, a lot of the special cases suffer from a certain kind of heart-demon, if you will. They feel they are better than anyone else, and just need to show it to the world to prove it. So they are searching for these kind of opportunities.¡± ¡°But if you are better, you just need to work hard, and naturally will get better results¡­?¡± ¡°No, it¡¯s not like this - when you are special, you are used to get awesome things just because of ¡®good ideas¡¯ or ¡®luck¡¯ and so you don¡¯t want to actually work for it. You just want a fast, short-term opportunities to show off.¡± ¡°I see. I suppose then that when young master Han De will have time to see you, he might be pleased with the idea. And when it comes to a tournament just for the 15 fo you, I can approve that by myself.¡± ¡°Thank you. We need the rankings, really.¡± --- The next day, Pe Teng had us all gather together. ¡°Fellow cultivators¡­ you are the greatest, right?¡± A lot of yeah or right sounded from the group. ¡°Yet you feel like you suffer the most, don¡¯t get what you deserve, and have no good opportunities, right?¡± Again, a lot of voices confirming that. ¡°So let me teach a way out - when there is none, you need to create an opportunity for yourself!¡± This time, a curious huhs were voiced out. ¡°Let me teach you a technique ¡­ a technique which is, honestly, better than your plans of beating up the young master first thing in the morning I can¡¯t make you abandon¡­ the ultimate, soul piercing gaze!¡± Everyone knows that when there is the word ultimate, it must be good. So we all kept paying a lot of attention to him. ¡°It goes like this¡­ you frown a little¡­ yes¡­ and then look into the eyes of the person you want to pierce with your eyes... ¡° ¡°But how does that help?¡± ¡°It reveals the true nature of things. Obviously, before the great you, everyone should reveal any secrets when you frown menacingly, right?¡± That makes sense. ¡°So when we meet the young master, and you see his women, or¡­ anything makes you angry, you need to use this technique. That¡¯s the only way.¡± ¡°But how do we know who is the strongest?¡± Yes. That is really important. I wonder how Pe could have forgotten about that. ¡°Simple - the one who frowns the hardest will be the one young master will speak to.¡± ¡°Really?¡± ¡°For sure.¡± When we finished with the instructions, Pe said that he needs something really strong to drink, since nobody is paying him ¡®for this¡¯. I thought that we will see young master this very day, but the time when we saw Han De for the first time was Sunday. I know, because that was the day that - upon listening to me cultivating the wind scripture for hours - one of the servants came up with an idea tailored just for me. He took me to a special training room filled with water, with a lot of undercurrents due to the wind elements embedded in the room, told me I can cultivate as long as I want, and then threw me into it. Sadly, when I opened my mouth to shout out the magical ¡°BOOOO¡± sound, a lot of water was getting into me, but in the end I somehow managed. Not only that, it turned out really great. When he took me out of there after 7 hours, he noticed that my cultivation sharply increased, which left him standing in place for few minutes, having no reaction whatsoever. I forgave him. There is no reason to be nasty toward him just because he cultivates some strange scripture as well. I hope we can be friends. Later in the day, the young master was about to see us, so we were joined by six more people, and in the end 18 of us were hauled to the outer training grounds. So we were waiting¡­. And then some more.... I was just standing there, devoid of any thoughts, but some friends got a bit restless. I guess the only thing keeping them in place was their agreement with Pe Teng. It was also fortunate that there was a delay, since two more ¡®main characters¡¯ came, so we had to ascertain who has the strongest plot amor all over again, and had to go through few rounds of bumping into each other. I still kept my third place! It helped everyone calm down a bit. Yet that did not last long, as Han De came, and one really elegant girl, following in his footsteps, had suddenly a rather cold remark: ¡°Master, who are these people?¡± I heard it from Pe Teng before. That one of the harshest thing you can do to people like ''us'' is to make us feel like we are¡­ unknown. But that was also the sign of starting the rankings. I still remember the instructions. Assuming various looks on their faces, everyone was frowning as hard as he or she could. With my eyebrow twitching from the pressure, I lamented not practicing this technique as diligently. Then, finally, Han De spoke. He revealed his true colors, since he could not stand the menacing frowns of our soul piercing gaze! ¡°I started a program to look for talented individuals that are getting mistreated by their environment. The purpose is to provide them with a safe place to grow, without having to worry about the security of themselves or their families.¡± Some of us could not endure the frowning anymore, but Pe Teng, as the founder of the technique, probably attaining the highest layer of profficiency in it, even clenched his fists. Not long after, he bowed before Han De.Could it be Han De spoke to him? It must be! When the young master left, Pe Teng gave a rank to each of us. To make it have a real impact, he said that we will also divide our resources based on that. But that¡¯s not important. When you have a ranking, you are officially a disciple! Yes!