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◈ Surviving as a Genius on Borrowed Time ◈
Chapter 1: Prologue
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Moonlight fell in a gentle curve over the riverbank that night.
A man knocked on the gates of a manor.
His long ears and beautiful face seemed beyond this world.
Saying that he would stay as a guest for the night and offer his medical services, he called for the manor’s owner.
With his mysterious features and the scent of fresh grass about him, the gatekeeper did not dare treat him poorly.
The manor’s owner happened to have a newborn child. Hoping to have the child’s pulse examined, the owner welcomed the long-eared man inside.
Holding the child and peering down intently, the man spoke.
“It will be difficult for this child to live past twenty. That is this child’s constitution.”
“Then this child is fated to die young? This child was born at the cost of their mother’s life. Is this child cursed by heaven after all?”
At the owner’s words, the man drew his brows together as if he had heard something outrageous.
“Is that something to ask a physician? Even if you are an ignorant country bumpkin...”
“What is the child’s condition?”
The manor’s owner asked after clearing their throat.
“You are still this child’s father, after all. This is similar to Nine Yin Blocked Meridians. I have never seen anyone with a Baihui acupoint opened to such an extreme in my life. I mean the acupoint at this child’s crown is completely open.”
“I thought Nine Yin Blocked Meridians killed when the acupoint pathways hardened.”
“You are not entirely ignorant. This child will die because the acupoint pathways at the crown are excessively open. It is commonly called Ascension.”
“Ascension to immortality, all of a sudden? Is that not when a Taoist of great spiritual power departs for the immortal realm?”
“You believe such things?”
The man stroked his long ears and began explaining.
“I do not know whether you have heard that a few absolute masters use the upper dantian in their heads. They become intoxicated by the great natural energy pouring down from heaven and earth, then ultimately fail to bear it and cross the Sanzu River. That is what Ascension is. The story was distorted.”
“It seems this child truly is cursed by heaven.”
“You turtle. And you call yourself a father...”
The man clicked his tongue with a frown. The manor’s owner abruptly rose and pointed a finger.
“I have heard enough. You seem to be a martial artist, but what is your martial seniority? Even if you are of the elven race, your speech and conduct are exceedingly unpleasant.”
“Martial seniority? You dare question my martial seniority? Even if your grandfather’s grandfather appeared before me, to me...”
The man, who had been speaking rudely to the manor’s owner, was driven out, and the conversation between the two never became known beyond the manor.
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“Had this child been raised in the Demonic Sect, they would have become the Heavenly Demon. Had they grown up in Shaolin, the Seventy-Two Arts would have increased twofold. But this child was born hated in such a quiet, out-of-the-way place, with no way to survive, they will die young in the countryside.”
The man shook his head and set off.
“Unless they awaken on their own...”
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