I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world.

Chapter 1: At the entrance to the beginner village, powerful players are everywhere.
Norren College.

This colossal structure is not built on the ground, but floats in the clouds, like a building block casually tossed there by some unreasonable giant.

On the ancient stone wall, a subtle yet powerful energy fluctuation could be seen flowing with the naked eye.

Jemin mingled among the thousands of young men and women crowding in front of the academy's bronze gates, trying his best to mimic their expressions—looking around with just the right amount of nervousness and anticipation in his eyes.

But to be honest, the reason for his nervousness was completely different from that of others.

“…One hundred and eighty, one hundred and eighty-one… Damn, there are more than one hundred and eighty Golden Core stage academy staff members just at the entrance to greet guests… uh, no, according to the terminology of this world, they are second-level formal wizards.”

Jemin tried his best to maintain the standard "country kid going to the city" expression on his face, but his eyeballs still couldn't help twitching.

Fortunately, the young people around him who came to take the test all had expressions that said, "Who am I? Where am I?", which made him seem less out of place.

Feeling the wisp of true essence that had just been refined from the first level of Qi Refining within his body, Jieming felt like he was about to laugh out loud.

"What kind of interstellar joke is this? How could such a 'spirit-free world', devoid of any spiritual energy, possibly have nurtured so many Golden Core stage... no, Level Two Formal Wizard level experts? Damn it, is the knowledge my cheat system gave me pirated? If something goes wrong, do you think I can escape?!"

He secretly glanced at the imposing group of Level 2 official wizards in front of him, who resembled miniature humanoid nuclear launchers, and the numerous Level 1 official wizards around him that he had become too lazy to count.

These guys could render a mere trace of their oppressive aura, even to someone at the Qi Refining stage, unable to move.

Looking back on his decades of relentless effort, struggling through the ancient method of "refining essence into qi"—a practice so obscure it's practically a museum piece in the cultivation world—he barely managed to reach the first level of Qi Refining... Jieming really wanted to slap himself to see if he was dreaming.

He has been in this world for so long that he has almost forgotten the era of neon lights and high-speed internet in his previous life.

He became the son of an ordinary merchant in a remote territory of this world, from a well-off family, whose life trajectory followed a predictable path.

Except for... the "library administrator" privileges hidden deep within his consciousness.

Taking a deep breath to calm his emotions, which were more thrilling than a roller coaster, Jieming separated a part of his consciousness and skillfully located the magnificent white jade palace deep within his soul.

【Da Dao Shu Ge】

The name sounds incredibly sophisticated, as if it represents the ultimate truth of the universe.

Its origins are unknown and mysterious, but the knowledge within is indeed vast as the sea, ranging from the most basic Qi-induction to the supreme secret methods of defying fate, alchemy, weapon crafting, formations, and talismans, encompassing everything under the heavens and on earth.

"If I had this in a cultivation world with abundant spiritual energy, I would have reached the Golden Core stage by now, right? Maybe even the Nascent Soul or Divine Transformation stage!" Looking at the white jade palace standing quietly in his consciousness space, Jieming couldn't help but smirk.

This cheat code is excellent and very powerful.

But Jemin found it more like a top-notch online library and research database than the kind of cheat code that could directly empower him.

He needs to understand, practice, and find the "raw materials" for the knowledge within himself.

Unfortunately, this world... lacks spiritual energy.

Without spiritual energy, all those powerful cultivation techniques in the Great Dao Scripture Pavilion that require drawing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and those alchemy, weapon crafting, and array formations that require the assistance of spiritual herbs, spiritual stones, and spiritual veins, are completely useless!

Even the most skilled cook can't cook without rice; even the most powerful book in the Great Dao Library can't conjure up spiritual energy.

He could only rely on the "refining essence into qi" method in the book pavilion, which was almost obsolete in the cultivation world, to literally "eat" his way to cultivation.

Every day's efforts require a lot of energy and time, and also a lot of food to replenish the deficit.

What seems like an insignificant "Qi Refining Level 1" in the cultivation world is, here, a ladder he barely climbed after more than ten years of hard work and countless efforts. Just when he thought his life might continue like this, barely stronger than ordinary people with his meager true essence, and able to live a peaceful life, this world suddenly threw a huge curveball at him—it was actually a high-magic world, inhabited by a group of wizards who controlled the elements, studied the soul, and pursued immortality!

What's even more deadly is that these wizards are a group of research fanatics with an almost pathological thirst for unknown knowledge.

As someone who cultivated a completely different power system, he... is an extremely rare and living research subject!
Jemin knew very well that once he was discovered to be a foreigner, all that awaited him was the pitiful fate of being studied, dissected, and exploited until all his value was extracted, before being displayed as a specimen.

Human rights? Morality? Do you really expect a group of wizards who can arbitrarily start wars in other dimensions and experiment on souls to have such things?

So when he heard his lord inform him that he had reached the required age and had to go to the academy for a qualification review along with the other children, Jemin wanted to refuse.

Faced with the lord's overwhelming pressure as a second-level wizard, the words of refusal swirled in their mouths, but not a single one dared to utter.

Fortunately, Jemin hadn't given up hope and resigned himself to his fate.

Although most of the knowledge in the Great Dao Library cannot be used directly, the sheer number and variety of the methods it records far exceed Jieming's imagination.

In addition to the mainstream cultivation knowledge, some special and unorthodox methods were also recorded.

With Jemin's thought, a stream of light flew out from the white jade palace, forming a phantom image of a book in front of his consciousness.

He skillfully flipped through the contents while sensing the flow of his internal energy, making precise checks and adjustments to ensure everything was perfect.

"Fundamentals of the Internal Circulation"

Internal circulation is a rather unconventional method in the cultivation knowledge system that Jieming understands. Generally, only those cultivators who specialize in body refinement and attempt to refine their bodies into magical treasures will practice it as a side practice.

Unlike mainstream cultivation methods that seek to absorb spiritual energy from the outside world, this method focuses on internal exploration, using one's own essence, energy, and spirit as nourishment to form a miniature energy circulation system within the body.

The most important advantage is that once the internal circulation reaches its limit, it will disconnect the body from external energy, putting itself in an extremely closed state.

As long as you don't actively expose it, even if someone scans you with their divine sense, it will be very difficult to detect the wisp of true essence within your body that is completely isolated from external energy!

"Calm down... I already underwent a simple preliminary aptitude test at the lord's manor, and I roughly understand that the test of a wizard's aptitude mainly focuses on mental strength and soul. As long as I use internal circulation to hide the fluctuations of true essence in my body, and appropriately restrain the intensity of my mental strength, it should be no problem to fool them... right?"

Even if it's impossible, it has to be done. This is the most effective method he can use within the limited conditions!

Jemin sighed, letting his consciousness return to reality.

He raised his head and looked once again into the massive bronze gate.

To outsiders, he simply stood at the door, momentarily lost in thought due to nervousness.

The queue ahead of him kept getting shorter, and as he got closer to the bronze gate, his heart became calmer and calmer.

The qualification test was conducted very quickly. Young people, filled with trepidation and anticipation, entered the gate in batches and came out in batches, their faces displaying a variety of emotions.

Soon it was Jemin's turn.

He straightened his back, took a deep breath, and let go of his last remaining concerns.

Come on! Let's make this a do-or-die game!

(End of this chapter)