1 Confusion and Clarification

Kai woke up with a severe headache. He looked at his surroundings and quickly realized that he was no longer in his tiny apartment.

The place looked and smelled like a stable, with mud and dirt everywhere. Kai was looking around when he suddenly heard the sound of animals coming from outside.

'Was I kidnapped and sent to a farm?. I bet that despicable uncle of mine is finally trying to get rid of me!'. Kai had thoughts running through his mind as he tried to stand up but immediately fell to the ground in pain. He looked down at his arms and legs with a shocked expression. 'Why am I so skinny all of a sudden?'.

Kai stood up again, kept his balance, and successfully walked outside, where he noticed a small, clear-looking pond. Kai quickly hobbled over and took a look at his reflection but was so shocked that he almost fell in.

"What...what happened to my face?!" Kai yelled out loud.

Instead of his old face, Kai saw a malnourished young boy, aged 14 or 15, with dark brown hair hanging messily down to his skinny and prominent collarbones.

When Kai was at the edge of having a mental breakdown, he heard someone speak in a shocked tone. 

"Kai, you're still alive?!". 

Kai looked over and saw a young girl around the same age as this body. She was wearing ragged clothes similar to his and held a large staff with two water buckets tied on each end.

"After the last punishment the overseer had given you, I was sure you were already dead!". The girl continued as she walked over to him.

"Excuse me, but can you please tell me where I am right now?". Kai quickly asked the girl, desperate for answers.

She looked at him with an expression full of pity and said, "You must have suffered a lot if you don't even know where you are."

"You are on Master Jiao's farm. He is our owner and bought you a few months ago. You worked the fields during the day while the overseer took joy in punishing you for any little mistake. Your body finally gave out a few days ago, and you could not do your daily work, which resulted in continuous beatings and starvation from the overseer."

"The last beating you got yesterday was so severe that everyone thought you had died and turned into fertilizer. It is good that you survived!".

Kai had calmed down as he listened to the girl's story. He finally discovered why his body felt extreme hunger and pain to the point where he could barely stand.

His brain was firing on all cylinders, which was painful when considering the current state of his body, but he had no choice. He needed to figure this situation out.

'It seems I've transmigrated into this boy's body. Wait, did I hear her correctly? Was I bought? Am I a slave?. What era is this?'.

He tried to ask the girl the follow-up questions, but his body finally gave out on him, and he could barely utter any legible sounds.

The girl took out a moldy-looking rice ball and handed it to him.

"Here, have this and rest for today. The overseer does not know that you are alive. Go continue resting in the stable. I will be back in the evening with some more food."

As disgusting as the moldy rice ball looked to a starving Kai, it was the same as a bountiful feast. He carefully took it with both hands and said in a low and weak voice, "Thank you..."

The girl turned around and collected the water from the pond, then gave some to Kai. After which, she hurried away. Kai did not stop her seeing as he was too hungry to even talk, so he just sat down by the pond, slowly ate the rice ball, and drank the water to fill up the rest of his empty stomach.

Having avoided starvation, Kai crawled back to the stable, trying to conserve as much energy as possible.

"How did I end up going to a parallel world and transmigrating into this boy's body?. Does it have something to do with the novel I was reading?". Kai had already dismissed the idea that he went back to the past. The odd language he was suddenly speaking told him that this couldn't be Earth. Also, the two-headed chicken-goose creatures he saw running around proved that this definitely wasn't Earth.

Now that he wasn't starving anymore, Kai had the time to think about his situation. He started getting random flashes of vague memories belonging to the body.

'It seems this body belonged to a slave boy similarly named Kai. The boy had grown up as a peasant alongside his parents. However, their village was raided by bandits, and his parents were slaughtered. He and the other survivors were then sold, and that's how he...I ended up here.'

'The memories of this boy don't have much information, seeing as he was simply a mortal peasant. However, it's general knowledge that the most significant noble families are built on the foundations of Martial Arts Cultivators. Yes! The Martial Arts Cultivation of fantasies is a reality here!. Those gifted enough can gain the power of gods and even become rulers of entire nations!.'

'How amazing is this? My dream can finally become a reality!' Kai thought to himself, full of excitement.

But just as he was thinking this, he remembered his situation and sighed. 'This body is just that of an ordinary peasant boy. I don't have any talent in cultivation at all.'

He remembered that his captors had tested his aptitude as they usually do and found he had no talent in either martial arts or cultivation, so he was sold as an ordinary manual labor servant.

"No, I refuse to believe that!. I need to find some more information," Kai said to himself.

His fantasy life dream had finally come true, so he would hate to waste it by being a servant for the rest of his life.

"Hey you, bag of bones. Still alive, I see". Kai heard these words from a condescending voice just as he had resolved to live this new fantasy life.