1 Teapot

David opened his eyes and looked around, he could see the wooden ceiling over his head that was far too close for his comfort.

Below him, he could feel a hard surface sending a wave of discomfort in his body.

His chest raised and he took in a deep breath and then an ugly expression appeared on his face.

"For how long..."

He sat up on his wooden bed and looked at his small room.

The walls were made up of wood and he could see some decay on them.

His eyes then landed on the small water pot in the corner of the room and beside the pot, he could see a small chest-like box.

"It's been ten days since I transmigrated to this word. For how long do I have to bear this!" Standing up he moved towards the relatively big mirror in his room.

In the reflection, he could see a thin sickly guy. About the age of twenty. His hair was black and so were his eyes.

His eyes followed with dark circles below them and his posture was slightly slouched, reducing his good height to average.

"David!!"

As he was looking at his image in the mirror he suddenly heard a loud piercing voice in his small room.

An ugly expression appeared on his face when he heard the voice.

He turned his head and looked at the small wooden door.

Dread covered his body, however with a sigh he moved towards the door reluctantly while wearing some ragged clothes.

"Coming." He said and looked down at the stairway, his thin legs moved downwards on the stairs, his steps flimsy but he didn't fall down, and soon enough he was down in a big living room.

He could see a grand sofa and a cosy environment. On the sofa, he could see a red-haired lady.

Her body was curvy and she was wearing a green-coloured floral long skirt and a white blouse that revealed her deep cleavage.

Her eyes were narrow like a fox and her lips were a deep shade of red.

She looked at David with disdain visible on her face.

"You piece of shit! How many times do I have to tell you to make me tea before I wake up?! Tch... Such a dead weight. If not for Ron I would have already thrown you out of the house!"

Roxy said with an ugly expression on her face.

Her body moved lazily, her curves getting more apparent. Her long legs landed on the floor and then she stood up and looked at David with her fox-like eyes drooped.

Her body moved forward and she soon stood in front of David.

Her gaze moved over his body and her hand brushed past his thin hands and then moved to his chin.

Resting her long fingernail on his chin she smiled. Her smile was small and filled with mockery. Her posture turned straight and then she chuckled suddenly.

David on the other hand felt her touch and flinched back.

A shudder moved through his body and memories of the past came to his mind.

His stomach started turning weak and nausea moved through his body. Raising his head he finally moved his gaze to her face and when he looked at her, a terrified expression appeared on his face.

"Mom... I am sorry..." He muttered, his voice stuttering and his legs stumbled backwards.

He felt terror moving through his body. He could feel sweat forming on his forehead and his heart beating out of his chest.

Ten days ago when he transmigrated to this place he woke up in the basement of this place.

He wasn't wearing any clothes and there were many red marks on his body.

When he looked around he found out that Roxy was standing near him with a whip in her hand and a sadistic smile on her face.

She has actually beaten the previous owner of the body till he died and only then David acquired his body.

Roxy was actually a sadist and his stepmother. His father remarried to her when David's real mom died because of a disease.

Roxy hated David because a huge portion of land was in his name, that his mother left to him. And Roxy wanted to get this land for herself and her daughter.

However, the previous David refused to give up his land and because of that he got beaten up by Roxy and died.

David still remembered the beating of the previous owner from his memories and it hurted a lot.

Roxy saw him and a smile formed on her face.

"Hahaha..." She let out a seductive laugh. "You can be so cute sometimes." She said and turned around to move towards the sofa again.

David could see her ass jiggling as she moved, although she was a bitch to him, her busty figure made his shaft tightened in his pants.

He took in a deep breath and calmed down. "Mom, let me make you tea." He said and quickly moved towards the kitchen.

"You have been so obedient for the last few days." Roxy chuckled again.

David heard her, however, didn't look back, he continued to move back to the kitchen. And only after entering the kitchen. He clenched his teeth and started making tea silently.

He has been getting this kind of treatment since he has come to this world.

Roxy and her daughter consider him a slave and his father doesn't bother about him and even he beats him sometimes when David complains to him.

'I have to run away from this place!' A determined expression appeared on David's face however soon he let out a defeated sigh. 'There is no way I can run away from them.'

He looked at the boiling teapot and was in despair.

He has very bad spiritual roots and that was the reason why he was only at the skin tempering level one of cultivation.

After coming to this world David found out that this world was a cultivation world just like he read in the books in his previous life.

He was twenty years old and was still at the lowest level of cultivation, which was skin tempering.

At the skin-tempering level, although a martial artist is at least twice as strong as a normal human, David was still far weaker than Roxy.

Roxy had already broken through the Blood Tempering level and entered the Spiritual Sea level one.

Martial artists were divided into many different levels in this words.

The first one was Body tempering. And body tempering was also divided into four levels.

The first stage in body tempering is Skin tempering where a martial artist collects qi from the surrounding area and refines his skin and at the end of it, the skin becomes more durable than a normal person's.

The skin becomes so durable that normal weapons can't even cut through it.

The second stage was bone-tempering where one collects the surrounding Qi in his bones and hardens them and at the end of it, one's bone turns extremely hard. One can kick through iron and not break his bones.

The third stage is muscle tempering where one can gain control over his muscles and he can make them hard or soft at his commands. Breaking through it one can make his muscles as hard as iron and as soft as cotton.

And the last was the blood tempering stage where a person gets more vitality after breaking through and increases his life span to one hundred and fifty years old.

After that, the person reaches the spiritual sea level.

By this one can tell how hard it was to escape from Roxy for David.

As David was lost in his thoughts the teapot in front of him started shaking and it started making clattering noises.

Stream raised from the pot and woke up David from his stupor.

When his gaze landed on the shaking pot his eyes widened in surprise.

"Shit..." He muttered in a low voice and moved towards the Qi Diagram to turn it off.

Qi Diagrams are common in this world, they replaced the electricity from the previous world.

They were carvings that did different functions. Like there were Qi Diagram Light sources in the kitchen.

As David was moving he stumbled on his legs and started falling down.

"Ah--" David exclaimed and moved his hand in front to prevent himself from falling.

His hand landed on the Qi Diagram stove and he accidentally pushed.

"Paa--" The teapot flew in the air.

'Mother will kill me if I break this pot.' David gulped his saliva and looked at the flying teapot that was now descending towards the floor.

'I have to save it.'

David gritted his teeth and moved below the pot quickly to save it from breaking.

"Sizzle--"

The pot landed on his hands and all the water spilled on the ground.

David clenched his teeth to not let out any voice from his mouth so his mother wouldn't come and check on him.

'Ah...' He quickly placed the pot on the kitchen table and jumped a few times while looking at his hands.

They were burned red and some white skin started appearing on his palms.

'Fuck my life!' David cursed inwardly and looked down at the fallen water on the floor.

As he was cursing his life, suddenly a robotic voice entered his head.

[System Installing...]