(So I kinda messed up and lost the first few chapters so I just made shorter versions)
Shen Tian opened his eyes to a world wrapped in a soft, silver mist. The air felt ancient, older than any memory he possessed, yet something inside him responded with an instinct he couldn't explain. His body was small, fragile, clearly belonging to a newborn—yet his mind carried an unnatural clarity. He could sense the thin threads of qi in the atmosphere brushing against his skin, as if the world were greeting him.
He didn't cry. He didn't flail. He simply breathed.
And in that breath, a dormant legacy trembled.
A faint warmth pulsed within his veins—his Imperial Crown Prince Lineage, weakened, sleeping, barely a shadow of what it once was. It was the remnant of a life he no longer remembered, a destiny he had not yet reclaimed. But as the warmth settled deeper into his bones, another presence surged awake within him: the System, an ancient construct of fate and providence.
A single crystalline voice echoed into the depth of his consciousness, calm, emotionless, absolute.
"Host bound. Initialization complete."
Shen Tian couldn't speak, but he understood. The system wasn't loud—it simply existed inside him, steady and familiar, like a limb he had always possessed but never noticed until now.
"Due to Host's unique lineage, one initial draw shall be granted."
The world flickered in his mind as strange reels spun in the darkness behind his eyelids. A beam of light shot through them, stopping on a result that made even the dormant part of his bloodline thrum with resonance.
"Congratulations. You have obtained: Eternal Human Guardian Physique."
Warmth flooded him. His tiny body felt both impossibly light and impossibly firm, bones strengthening at a rate no newborn should experience. Muscles subtly refined themselves. Meridians stretched in a way that should have been agonizing but instead felt natural, as if his body had simply remembered how it was meant to be.
Within moments, Shen Tian knew his growth would not be ordinary. His body would mature faster, adapt faster, evolve faster—yet the changes remained invisible to anyone else. Outwardly, he was just a baby resting in a glowing cradle of spiritual mist.
The world he was born into was completely unfamiliar, but for reasons he didn't understand, something inside him whispered that this was not his first beginning.
And it would not be his last