Chapter 1

In a shabby, cramped, and dim room that resembled a rat's den,

Jian An lay on a moldy bed, his eyes lifeless and his body weak.

What was called a bed was actually just a broken wooden board propped up by two piles of bricks.

Jian An, now nothing but skin and bones, was vomiting large amounts of blood mixed with dark red clots.

His face was deathly pale, devoid of any color, and seemed to be shrouded in the twilight of his life.

He looked like he was on the verge of death.

He felt a bit resentful.

After his parents passed away, he had survived for over a decade in the New Era, living like a walking corpse, and in the end, he still died.

And he died in a rather ridiculous way.

He was killed by the poison of a venomous mosquito.

Of course, in this era, even a venomous mosquito was undoubtedly a superlative creature.

Its toxicity was strong enough to easily bring down an elephant from the old era.

"Just a little more, and I could have saved enough money for the awakening potion."

"To have the chance to awaken as a superlative being."

"Unfortunately, there's no more chance now."

He died in the darkness before dawn.

No one came to see him off, and perhaps no one even knew that he had died in such a shabby, dilapidated house.

As a "person of the old era" born in the last year before the New Era began,

Jian An was undoubtedly extremely unfortunate.

He neither enjoyed the luxurious life of the old era, which his parents often spoke of as being like heaven,

Nor did he manage to truly establish himself in the New Era.

His life would be forever frozen in the 27th year of the New Era.

This autumn.

The last thing 28-year-old Jian An saw before he died was the bleak autumn wind outside.

"If only I had seized the opportunity that was right in front of me ten years ago, everything might have been different!" This was Jian An's last thought, or perhaps his last obsession.

...

At a chaotic construction site.

"Let go! Are you deaf, you little brat?!" A vicious voice rang in Jian An's ear.

Jian An was stunned for a moment.

"Didn't I die from the venom of a venomous mosquito?"

Until a hairy, muscular hand tightly grabbed his thin arm.

Jian An finally came to his senses.

When he looked at the menacing figure in front of him and the surroundings,

His face immediately showed a look of shock.

"What is this?"

The muddled memories surged up like spilled old wine, becoming increasingly clear.

Jian An finally understood why the scene in front of him seemed so familiar.

"What is this, let go of what I told you to!" The owner of the muscular hand was a burly man with a face full of scars.

His two hairy hands were already prying open Jian An's right hand,

Trying to take the thing Jian An was tightly holding.

Jian An glanced at the man, silently comparing their strength.

The man's two arms were probably as thick as his two thighs.

He first sensibly let go of his hand,

Allowing the man to take the thing from his hand.

The vicious man spat at Jian An, the spittle landing on his shoe.

"Hmph, you refuse the wine and choose the punishment, forcing me to use force!"

Jian An looked at the man's arrogant face, saying nothing.

Seeing the seemingly defiant look on Jian An's face, the man pushed him hard.

Jian An stumbled, almost falling to the ground.

Seeing that Jian An still had no courage to resist, the man showed a look of contempt.

Then, he looked at the thing in his hand, too lazy to further humiliate Jian An, and turned to leave.

Before the man had even turned and walked far,

Jian An quickly picked up a rusty shovel from a pile of cement nearby.

He ran towards the man.

Before the man could react, Jian An swung the shovel hard.

With a loud clang, it hit the man's back of the head.

The burly man struggled to turn his head, looking at Jian An in disbelief,

Then fell heavily to the ground.

"Madman! Was it really necessary to be so ruthless?" This was his only thought at the moment.

After confirming that the man was unconscious, Jian An pried open the man's fingers,

Taking back the thing he had lost and regained.

"Since heaven has given me a second chance, I will not let any opportunity slip by again!" Jian An clenched the shovel tightly, determined.

He dropped the shovel, ignored the still unconscious man, put the thing in his inner pocket, and quickly left the scene.

"I have been reborn!" Jian An thought to himself, his slightly trembling hand revealing his inner turmoil.

The scene that had just happened was deeply etched in Jian An's memory.

This was something that should have happened ten years ago, in the 17th year of the New Era.

The reason Jian An still remembered this incident so vividly after ten years was because of the thing in his hand.

The red mantis bug egg!

A thing of immense value!

In his previous life, this egg, which could have changed his fate, was forcibly taken from him, a source of regret that haunted him for a lifetime.

This time, he would not let it happen again!

Putting the fist-sized, slightly pulsating red egg in his inner pocket, Jian An quickly walked towards the management building in the town center.

What was called a building was actually just a seven-story house.

Compared to the skyscrapers of the old era, it was nothing.

However, in the walled town, it was one of the tallest buildings.

Arriving at the entrance of the management building, Jian An saw a reward notice posted on the bulletin board and a cold smile appeared on his face.

"Sure enough, I didn't remember wrong! The management is offering a large reward for the red mantis bug egg."

The red mantis bug was a rather powerful superlative creature.

Several decades ago, at the end of the old era,

A mysterious supernatural force suddenly visited Earth.

Under the influence of this mysterious force, the creatures on Earth underwent astonishing changes.

Countless ordinary animals and plants in nature began to possess supernatural powers, becoming superlative creatures.

The red mantis bug was a superlative creature that evolved from an ordinary mantis during that era.

Human society also changed dramatically due to this transformation.

A group of people who could tame superlative creatures and harness supernatural powers began to emerge.

These people were called Beast Tamers!

The superlative creatures tamed by Beast Tamers were called Beasts.

Human society once experienced a wave of Beast Tamers.

Until the first year of the New Era!

The day Earth was rebooted.

This day was also called the end of the world!

The source of the world's catastrophe was a superlative creature.

A superlative creature far beyond human imagination.

A superlative creature that dwelled in the core of Earth, the Heartfire Dragon.

Unlike the species that evolved into superlative creatures under the influence of the mysterious energy, the Heartfire Dragon was a superlative creature that had long existed on Earth.

Supernatural powers had existed on Earth in ancient times.

However, in the old era, supernatural powers had waned and become dormant due to some external factors.

This led to the belief in the old era that supernatural powers did not exist.

But no one could have imagined that the most terrifying supernatural power on Earth was hidden in the core of the planet.

The Heartfire Dragon, curled up and resting in the core of Earth, was mostly in a state of dormancy, which is why its existence was unknown to humans.

However, every time it moved, it represented a catastrophe for Earth, a reboot of the ecosystem.

Especially during the era when supernatural powers had waned and become dormant.

The movement of the Heartfire Dragon could completely destroy the surface ecosystem of Earth.

This natural disaster caused by the Heartfire Dragon's movement directly changed the entire geological structure of Earth.

Massive earthquakes and tsunamis higher than the clouds completely destroyed the surface ecosystem, even altering the continental plate structure.

The New Continent's Saint Sara Peak, which had the lowest average elevation, directly replaced the Divine Peak of the Eastern Continent, becoming the new highest point on Earth.

The positions of the North and South Poles also shifted by thousands of kilometers.

Earth was rebooted in the catastrophe, and countless humans perished.

Human history entered the New Era.

The walled town was a settlement established in the New Era.