'Huh...'

'Where am I...'

I found myself in a small, windowless but comfortable room. The wall was "umber" coloured. The room was adorned with ancient paintings. I was laying on the bed. The bed was made out of wool, which felt soft. I was covered with bandages and medicines. Surprisingly the pain was gone. Someone entered the room through the furnished door.

It was an old man wearing bamboo hat and old damaged clothes. He said,

'Kid, you woke up!'

I questioned the old man,

'Old man who are you? And where am I?'

The old man replied,

'Kid, my name is "Zhang Quexu",  you can call me "old man Zhang".'

'I found you in the "Blood Moon Forest" while I was collecting herbs, you were very injured so I brought you here. How's your injury.'

'Huh!?!'

The old man was surprised and he said,

'How could this be, I correctly remember you had a large scar on your chest a few days ago?'

He asked,

'Are you a cultivator? No, even if you're a cultivator you can't regenerate this fast!'

Boy, did you eat a "Rapid Regeneration Pill" when you were in the forest?

'Umm...kind off!'

'Hmm, that explains it, but how did you get one, it is said only high-ranking soldier's get one per mission!' The old man sighed,

'Leave it, if you're recovered then come with me and eat food! You haven't eaten anything for 3 days. You must be hungry!'

I went with the old man to the kitchen; it was pretty smaller than the normal ones.

He mixed a few herbs in a bowl and passed it to me.

'Now eat this, it will increase your energy.'

While eating I had a long conversation with the old man about the whereabouts of this place.

'Boy are you a cultivator?'

'No!'

'So, you're also a mortal!'

He sighed,

'A long time ago, I was a cultivator, but someone broke my "Dantians" so I became a mortal again!'

'So kid, don't you want to go to your home now, you're already fully regenerated!'

I said,

'I'll be going tomorrow then!'

'Ok!'

'You should go rest in the room for now!'

'Yeah, okay!'

I went into the windowless room and sat down on the bed.

I thought, So I got reincarnated into this world. I'm the 4th son of Duke "Yan". If I look into my memories, six-month later is the competition between me and my step-brothers, which is held to find the successor for the title of "Prince-in-law". The winner will become one of the princes-in-laws of this dynasty. The Yan family is the long-sided part of the Royal family, so every generation one of the sons have to marry one of the Princesses. All of the sons of Yan family have to seclude in each city of this "State" and they have to cultivate, after 6 months there will be a tournament held between all the sons. I was on my way to the city that I was assigned for, but the 2nd and the 5th son sent assassins to kill me, then I got here.

So now I have to go to the city of "Yanzhou". As the old man says, we are at the mountain near the "Xinzai village" and it will take about half- day to get to the city. He said he will arrange a carriage for me to travel.

The next day the old man prepared the carriage and I went for the city of Yanzhou, the journey was harsh, but I got there safe.

I got into the city and went towards the palace. When I was entering the palace a city guard blocked me. He started arguing with me. A guy wearing a superior uniform came and asked the guard who am I. He looked like the Head guard of the palace.

'Kang Li, who is he and why are you arguing with him?'

'Sir, uhm...He's saying he is the 4th son of Duke Yan!'

'Nonsense!?! The 4th son is on his way, he'll arrive 2 days later!'

Luckily, I had my "Young Master token" with me, so I took it out and showed it. The head guard looked shocked, he kneeled before me and said,

'I greet the 4th Young master!' 'This Han apologize for not recognizing the Young master and beg for forgiveness!'

He slapped the other guard and said,

'You shameless idiot, apologize to the Young master!?!

'Umm...Please forgive me 4th Young master!'

I ignored them and entered the palace. A fat guy who was wearing top-class fancy traditional clothes came towards me and spoke,

'This Luo greets the Young master!' 'I am the City Lord of Yanzhou!'

I told him straightforward,

'Prepare a room for me, I have to rest!'

'Ye...Yes 4th Young master!'

I walked towards my room, it was clean and beautiful, decorated with different paintings, I sat on the firm wool chair. I thought calmly.

So now I have nearly 6 months left until the competition between the Yan sons. If I look into the memories of this body, if you win, you can get support from the emperor to win the heir competition for the title of Duke, Heir competition still have 5 years so I'm not in a rush, but if I think about the prince-in-law competition, because this body is weak, trash and doesn't have any respect so if I don't win the prince-in-law competition, I'm likely to die! I need to increase my cultivation level. Oh yeah, what was that screen I saw back then, was it a hallucination? But it looked so real!

[The System isn't a hallucination!]

'What the hell'

[The System greets the Host!]

I sighed.

'So, you're the one who saved me!'

[The Host is right!]

'Hmm...Okay, tell me what was that skill you used to help me?'

[It was the Host's soul-bound skill "Regeneration"]

'Do you have more properties?'

[At Host's current power level, the Host can only use 2 of the starter soul-bound skills!]

'Hmm...What skills are they and what are their properties?

[The first one is Regeneration-It will activate when you're injured or on the brink of the death.]

[The second one is Copy-It can copy all the skills with the same power level as you or lower, there's also a safe vault where you can save higher level skills and use them later when you get to that level.]

'What...This Copy skill seems Heaven-defying!?!' 'Now I don't have to worry about cultivating!'

'Will I get more of these soul-bound skills?'

[Yes, as the Host's power level increase, the Host can unlock more soul-bound skills.]

'When will I get my next skill?'

[When the host get into "Core Establishment stage 1", The Host can unlock the next ability!]

'What, I currently have no cultivation and you want me to get to Core Establishment Stage!'

I sighed.

'Do you have anything else to show me!'

[The Host got a starter kit from the System!]

[Does the Host want to open it!]

'Hmm...A starter kit, sounds interesting, open it!'

A strong light was flashing around my body and...