"How can this be? Everyone else who transmigrates becomes a human! And yet I'm a bug?! Just a little green caterpillar?!"
Li Qi found it hard to believe.
Right now, he felt as though he had no hands or feet; his entire body was soft, and his tactile sensations and field of vision were extremely strange, completely different from those of a human.
An inexplicable and mysterious prompt appeared in his mind, making him understand the plight of his reincarnated body.
"Congratulations! After your soul survived a billion-to-one peril and struggled across the boundless Chaos Ocean, you have successfully reincarnated into the Primordial World of Journey to the West!"
"You have reincarnated into a half-inch little green caterpillar in Huaguo Mountain of the Journey to the West world!"
"Because your soul experienced the endless perils of Chaos, under the rationale of balance, you have received the blessing of the Great Dao of Chaos!"
"You possess the blessing of the boundless Great Dao of Chaos, awakening Karmic Luck that surpasses the Heavenly Dao level!"
"Because your life essence is too weak, the vast majority of your Karmic Luck has fallen dormant. The highest level of active Karmic Luck you can currently bear is Boundless Fortune!"
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These mysterious prompts made Li Qi realize that he had been reborn—and not as a human, but as a bug!
Yet he could not understand why, with such massive Karmic Luck and boundless fortune, he had merely reincarnated as the weakest little green caterpillar.
A creature like a green caterpillar probably didn't even have a lifespan of a single year. Its vitality was like a flickering candle, and its remaining years like a narrow gap; no matter how one looked at it, this did not seem like a beginning destined for boundless fortune.
However, regarding this point, the mysterious prompt gave him no answers.
Li Qi perceived his surroundings and felt that danger was everywhere.
The thought that this was the Journey to the West world—and a Journey to the West with a Primordial World background—made his scalp tingle, while simultaneously filling him with a yearning for the future.
You had to know that in this world, one could actually become an immortal!
Countless humans in his past life, regardless of whether they possessed fortunes of billions or held the power to rule a nation and oppress hundreds of millions of people, were all fragile mortals who could not escape the great tribulations of life and death.
Yet this world was different. It was a true, grand world of cultivation!
A super grand world!
In this world, one could seek longevity and eternal indestructibility!
At this moment, Li Qi was still temporarily unable to adapt to this insect body, let alone adapt to this special sensory perspective belonging to an insect.
He even found it difficult to master crawling, nearly losing control of his body and tumbling down from the tree.
For safety's sake, Li Qi could only stay quietly clinging to the tree for a while to adapt, then move his body extremely slowly among the leaves.
He was also struggling to adapt to the insect's unique field of vision, which was so different from a human's.
Just as he was moving around to get used to his body, he unexpectedly caught the eye of an insect-eating sparrow up in the tree.
The sparrow beat its wings and lunged straight toward the oblivious little green caterpillar, Li Qi.
Li Qi perceived a uniquely shaped figure rapidly approaching him within his field of vision.
He immediately understood what that was.
One of the natural enemies of insects: an avian predator!
Yet Li Qi, this little green caterpillar, couldn't even control his own body right now; how could he possibly face a bird countless times his size, whose strength and agility far surpassed his own?
With a pang of sorrow, Li Qi realized that he was finished!
Just as he had transmigrated, he was already facing a fatal situation!
At that moment, he felt an unprecedented despair; he could do nothing but wait for death!
Yet after waiting for a long time, Li Qi neither received the fatal beak descending from the sky nor the sharp talons of the bird.
He looked up using his unfamiliar vision and discovered that everything around him seemed to have vanished.
Yet the mysterious information prompt informed him of what had happened.
"A spirit sparrow attempted to prey upon you! You were in mortal danger!"
"Yet you are blessed with boundless fortune; under the fatal crisis, the spirit sparrow suffered the backlash of your Karmic Luck, and it was hunted down and devoured by the hatchling of a wind-spirit green snake instead!"
"Your situation has returned to a state of safety!"
After reading the prompt, Li Qi finally understood what had happened.
Had it not been for his extraordinary Karmic Luck, he might really have become food in that spirit sparrow's beak this time—the kind that couldn't even fill a single bite.
Having survived the danger, Li Qi did not dare to move around rashly.
He concentrated on adapting to his field of vision.
Night fell swiftly, and by this time Li Qi had initially accustomed himself to the insect's completely different perspective and tactile sensations compared to a human.
Only then did he cautiously inch his body to the end of a tree branch and begin nibbling on the tender buds there, trying hard to fill his belly.
His human knowledge told him that ordinary leaves contained a certain degree of toxin.
Only the tender leaves at the very tips of the branches possessed the least amount of toxin.
He was still just a small green caterpillar; although he fed on plant leaves, it was best to be cautious.
In the days that followed, Li Qi gradually grew accustomed to the life of a caterpillar.
By day, he would find a secluded and safe leaf, pressing flat against its underside to lurk and rest, and at night he would come out to feed and move about.
After three days of this, Li Qi finally mastered the movement patterns of a caterpillar entirely, and thoroughly adapted to a caterpillar's vision and touch, allowing him to perceive the surrounding information effectively.
As time passed, Li Qi's caterpillar body also grew considerably larger.
"This is the Primordial World of Journey to the West, but as a caterpillar, I simply have no way to find a cultivation method. If this goes on, my lifespan might not even reach a single year!"
This problem arose in his mind, and anxiety gradually grew within him.
This was the Journey to the West, and moreover, Huaguo Mountain—where the protagonist was born.
When Sun Wukong was born, the heaven and earth trembled, and that kind of tremor would be a catastrophic, destructive force to someone like him now.
Yet all of this was close at hand, posing immense danger to him while offering no help whatsoever to his current survival or his yearning for cultivation.
The possibility of Li Qi obtaining a cultivation method was close to zero.
"It seems I can only comprehend it myself!"
Late at night, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, Li Qi thought of how countless members of the Demon Clan had accidentally absorbed moonlight before finally managing to cultivate into demons.
Perhaps breathing in unison with the bright moon was the key to their transformation into demons.
Yet he quickly discovered that a caterpillar's respiration seemed entirely different from that of normal animals; his respiratory organs were the spiracles along his sides, and there was simply no way to perform specialized breathing control.
This meant breathing cultivation was entirely impossible.
However, Li Qi's mind turned, and he thought of another method.
He could try the technique of meditation.
Thus, Li Qi began gazing at the bright moon in the sky, attempting to use it as the object of his visualization for meditation.
He gradually sank into a special state.
Yet at this moment, Li Qi was unaware that the mysterious prompt had updated; his aura was gradually beginning some form of interaction and connection with the bright moon in the sky!
"You are blessed with boundless fortune and have unexpectedly triggered the state of sudden enlightenment!"
"You visualized the bright moon in the sky, felt a stir in your heart, and your comprehension of the bright moon rapidly increased."
"You perceived the existence of moonlight and created a powerful visualization technique inferior to that of immortals: the Transcending Immortal Cold Moon Visualization."
"This method can borrow the power of moonlight to elevate your mental strength, while imbuing your mental strength with a certain divine perception effect."
"Your spiritual mental strength can also feed back into your body, strengthening it to a small degree!"
"The moonlight bestowed upon you a yin-aligned power, awakening a trace of a dormant, feeble Cold Silkworm bloodline; the bloodline awakening brings its own innate divine art, Protective Chill!"
"You have awakened the most basic Dharmic power, becoming a primary Essence-Refining Qi-Transforming demon insect! Your lifespan has increased from 1 year to 5 years!"
Gradually, wisps of moonlight cascaded down, converging into Li Qi's caterpillar body, strengthening his spiritual mental strength bit by bit.
At the same time, white stripes gradually began to appear upon his caterpillar body, presenting a hue of alternating green and white.
A faint chill began to emanate from Li Qi's body and the space around him.
At this moment, he was no longer a mortal bug, but a demon insect!