Carefree Path of Dreams

“Ugh... my head hurts!”

Fang Yuan sensed some information from the outside world. This body seemed to be in a comatose state. Instead of forcibly awakening the body immediately, he spent his energy digesting the body’s memories.

“Lin Meng... cultivation... exam... confession...”

A series of fragmented memories emerged piece-by-piece, consisting of all the body’s memories.

Soon, his True Spirit stabilized, and he began to take over every part of this body.

“This world is relatively large, and it uses the concept of galaxies. Humans don’t live on just one planet. Instead, they colonized different planets to create the ‘Human Alliance’. In fact, this was because of an immense pressure from the outside world. Against the alliance, there’s an equally strong enemy...

“It’s the year 20099 here, and there is a society with extraordinary powers here. However, the technology is also very advanced. After twenty thousand years of development, were there so many amazing fruits born?”

Fang Yuan had a premonition. If this world possessed condensed Great Daos, they had to be very exotic types like ‘Extraordinary Technological Great Daos’.

“How is it? How’s his recovery?” A majestic voice trailed from the outside.

“He’s recovering well, but he’s received some brain damage. The development has been falling non-stop...” a sweet voice responded. “The likelihood of salvaging this situation is low. If we want to perform surgery, we’ll have to transfer the boy to one of the top institutions.”

“What a pity. He’s only eighteen. He hasn’t even taken his college entrance exam yet!”

“With this amount of brain damage, he can only be a normal person in the future. His future is ruined...”

“I hear that his confession failed, so he went drinking at a bar and got into an accident...”

...

Many voices followed; some carried pity while others were joyful.

It seems like there’s some trouble. That’s normal. If there weren’t any problems, this body’s owner wouldn’t have died.

Fang Yuan thought about it carefully and immediately understood all kinds of the previous owner’s experiences.

The owner’s name was Lin Meng. He was a high school senior studying on Planet Blue Ray, Flying Rainbow High in Flying Rainbow City.

Since he was an orphan, he was raised by the city’s charity organizations. He studied diligently and had good grades. If he had not gotten into an accident, he would have received early admission into a top university, allowing him to enter a cultivation university!

Fang Yuan was left speechless that this world had college entrance exams as part of their system.

Furthermore, he realized that this world’s college entrance exams were even harder than those in his memories. They were utterly brutal and truly decided people’s fates!

Students that scored well could enter cultivation schools. By studying hard, they could become Extraordinaries and enter the upper-class society.

On the other hand, those who did not make it could only fall out of the race and enter a regular university. In the future, they would become low-class workers.

Lin Meng was a strong candidate as a ‘seeded student’ for cultivators. Within Flying Rainbow High, he had a small reputation. However, he was low-profile, so he did not have much presence either.

A few days ago, as the college entrance exam was approaching, Lin Meng gathered his courage to confess to his crush, Flying Rainbow High’s top beauty—Ling Fei’er. Unfortunately, he had failed miserably.

Meeting the greatest pain in his life, he took out his savings and stepped into a bar for the first time. There, he started drinking to drown his sorrows. However, he unexpectedly suffered from an accident, causing brain damage. This was how Fang Yuan entered his body.

The previous owner... seems like he had a crush on her for three years. Thinking that he’d never see her again after his college entrance exam, he put all his eggs in a basket and gave it his all. However... he was unfortunate. Reality isn’t a fairytale!

Fang Yuan mocked him silently. He doesn’t know his worth. On top of that, his heart is weak. Even if she agreed and fell into his arms, and he made it to college, he wouldn’t amount to anything in the future. This accident is bizarre. I don’t have memories of it. Was the damage was too great?

Feeling like his body had already recovered, he opened his eyes slowly.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a pure-white hospital room. Various types of equipment were next to the hospital bed.

A nurse dressed in a pink uniform ran out of the room immediately and called for the doctor. “Doctor, the patient is awake!”

“Hello, Lin Meng!” Soon after a quick examination, a bespectacled doctor gave his diagnosis. “Other than the brain, the rest of your body is working well. You can leave the hospital now.”

“Thank you!”

Naturally, Fang Yuan understood that the irregularity in his brain arose because he had taken over. He was sure there would not be any side effects due to it.

However, the doctor’s eyes were full of pity. “... This means that your brain development might be affected. You’re a senior in high school, right? Your college entrance exam is coming up soon. I advise you to take the exam for a regular school!”

Brain development, huh? A new term. Let me think about it...

Fang Yuan’s expression remained stoic. He pretended to look like he had received important news, but in reality, he was recalling his memories with all his might.

The so-called brain development referred to a concept that acted in alignment with cultivation. To a large extent, it was akin to the ‘spiritual roots’ in the past. It represented extraordinary aptitude and was universal for humans in both the East and the West.

If I think about it from my current perspective, every person uses their brain entirely. The reason there’s a difference between intelligence arises from the issue of efficiency. The so-called brain development here refers to the manifestation of efficiency. A normal person can only use 10-20% of the brain efficiently! Every 1% increase requires a massive price to pay and lots of effort. According to research, if someone possesses 30% brain development, regardless of whether they study the Eastern spiritual techniques or Western arcane spells, it will be a great help in the future...

In the past few years, the East’s spiritual roots and the West’s scholarly aptitude have aligned as concepts of brain development. This is one of the conditions for being admitted into an extraordinary university. Without this condition, there’s no use, no matter how well you study.

The past Lin Meng had a 30% brain development and had already hit the minimum threshold. This was why he was selected as a seeded candidate.

Furthermore, the most important thing was that he was naturally born with this aptitude. He was not like the children from wealthy families that had been through all sorts of training and ingested drugs to push their brain development to the maximum levels.

“What... is my development now?” Fang Yuan asked carefully.

“It’s 15%! Before this, it was falling continuously. However, it stabilized three days ago!”

Three days ago was the day he took over this body!

Fang Yuan thought about this quietly. After he fully released the limits of his True Spirit, and under a Dream Master’s control, how far would his brain development have increased?

At the very least, it would be 80%!

However, he would be an idiot if he requested another examination.

“Then, that’s enough... Also, about my medical expenses...” Fang Yuan asked about another detail.

The doctor stared at the window in his hands. He said with certainty, “Under society’s welfare programs, ninety percent of your expenses have been subsidized. Someone else paid the other ten percent. You can leave after you sign out!”

“Someone? Who?”

Fang Yuan felt suspicious. Lin Meng was an orphan and a loner without any close friends or buddies. In school, he did not know many people, so he spent the rest of his extra time working. To put it simply, even when he graduates, he probably would not be able to name some of his classmates.

“Your teacher, Miss Xiao Hongyue!”

Before Fang Yuan’s eyes, the image of a knowledgeable twenty-plus-year-old woman appeared. His heart filled with gratitude.

Was this the remnants of the owner?

His gaze turned cold. He completed the documents and left the hospital.

...

Within a sealed, narrow dormitory.

Fang Yuan let out a long sigh. He flipped his single bed over, took out a crystal chip, and stuck it into his watch.

In an instant, a robotic female voice emerged.

‘Ding! With all due respect, Mr. Lin Meng, please select the service you would like to use!’

“Check my remaining balance!” Fang Yuan said in a deep voice.

‘*Ding! *Current balance: 3,990 star dollars!” the robotic female voice replied instantly.

Star dollars was the currency in the Human Alliance. It could be used on many planets and had a lot of worth.

“However, the expenses on this planet are horrifying. For example, to recover this body completely, it cost nearly one hundred thousand star dollars. Without Teacher Xiao Hongyue’s help, I probably wouldn’t have been able to afford it even if I gave up all my assets..”

Fang Yuan committed this to his memory.

For a Demon God, this was a part of the body’s karma. He had to resolve it in the future.

After he settled down, he crossed his legs and sighed deeply. “I’ve finally found a place to rest. Now, what should I do next?”

His original plan was to break the seal quickly to overcome the world’s restrictions. Then he would use the Dream Master techniques to figure out where he could obtain the material he needed for the Heaven Devouring Mystic Technique.

However, knowing that a terrifying enemy was lurking behind his back, he had no choice but to hide. How could Fang Yuan expose himself so easily?

“I can’t use the Dream Master techniques for now. Since he’s a Netherheaven Demon God, he can probably sense the Dream Dao. In terms of breaking through the world’s restrictions, I wonder if he’s faster than my stats window. Of course, he doesn’t know about my secret yet. He’s probably hiding in a corner, recovering his cultivation now. It’s my chance.

“Since I can’t use the Dream Master techniques, I can only use this body to walk the local power system. Once my stats window is unlocked, my cultivation speed will be pretty fast.

“This world’s power system... Cultivation? The Arcane? Mechas? Interstellar Warships?”

With the massive advancement in technology, the speed and scale of transmitting information had expanded to an unbelievable level.

Just by running through Lin Meng’s memories, Fang Yuan learned quite a lot.

“Within the Human Alliance, the extraordinary paths that many follow is split into the Western and Eastern paths. The East prioritizes cultivation, while the West prioritizes the Arcane. With these two paths, there are countless branches. For instance, mechanics could work as support from the back. Meanwhile, mecha pilots work in the frontlines. There are even agents for infiltrating the enemy’s backlines...

“The traditional path of cultivation has melded perfectly with modern technology to create a brilliant civilization... Interesting!”