Chapter 1
Rin woke with a gasp you could call a cry. A sharp pain in his head. It felt like a fire was burning his thoughts.
First his sense of touch returned, he could feel the heat of pain, and blood from injuries that made his body scream. A sharp burning pain all over his back, and left arm. It felt like a million ants were eating his skin. Then came the cold rough, ground that felt like stone below.
It was solid, heavy and felt grounding. Rin tried to breathe, but it felt like breathing through water. Rin coughed and some blood escaped his lips, warm, wet and thick.
Rin tried to remember what happened, his thoughts were a chaotic mess.
'I was on a work business trip to a branch location out of country. It was one of the few things I liked about my job. Traveling, meeting new people, trying new foods. '
'I always made sure I had time to fully explore and adventure into the cities, from museums, art galleries, and national parks, to cozy cat cafés, hole-in-the-wall diners, and local history sites or temples. I loved learning about it all.'
'It was the one thing I looked forward to, and my sister would always ask about stories of my travels, so I made so I had something to say and show when I got back...'
'I remember now! I was on the plane back from my lates trip when a storm hit, and the turbulence was bad. I remember hearing the captain say something, but I can never hear what they say on a good day, and in a storm. With screams, babies crying, and the panic of seeing the oxygen masks dropping, made it so I really couldn't hear what he said.'
'But I can guess. "Brace for impact" or something....'
Rin took a deep breath as he realized the plane most likely crashed-- The pain from breathing to hard, and the memories of the finale moments, crashed on Rin and he almost passed out, but through sheer will, he focused, and bit his bottom lip to stay conscious.
'I didn't know how I survived, but I wasn't gonna pass out and die from blood loss or something.' Rin looked around his surroundings... and paused.
This was not the plane wreck he had Imagined. It was a mess yes, but it was night time, and now the sun was just setting...
'Did I sleep a whole day? No impossible, I'd be dead from hyperthermia or something by now if that was the case.' He excepted to see trees, a mountain side, or valley maybe since that the are the plane was over when the storm it.
And he was on a mountain side, but Rin did see one thing... The plane... well he wasn't sure how much of it would survive, but as he looked around, there was no sign of the plane.
No instead it looked like it was at the site of 'Burning Ruins'. Rin was in what looked like a courtyard of a palace on top of a mountain overlooking a valley filled with wooden and stone buildings, either burning to cinders or had already collapsed.
But there was no large pice of metal, no grove of the plane crashing into the earth, and he wasn't in his seat, or could see any of wreckage. No this looked like a different kind of destruction.
The reason Rin could look out was because the wall over 10 feet (3m) had a huge hole in it. The palace behind him was also damaged and crumbling, he could see bodies laying on the ground in their own similar pools of blood. But there was a strange quiet in the air like it was the aftermath. Rin couldn't see any movement, or any living beings.
'I was so confused, what was going on? Where was the plane? Did we crash in a city, or a more rural village?'
Before Rin could even think any more, his brain felt like it turned into mush.
A pain like he never felt before flooded his skull. It felt like an ice pick was swirling around and burning it ash. Thoughts couldn't even form and he slumped to ground with drool and a little bit of blood dribbling down his chin. His eyes lolled back, show the whites, as it wasn't just pain.
The pain was accompanied by flashes of foreign memories... It wasn't just as if he was seeing those memories. No... He was experiencing the memories, reliving them as if they were his real memories.
In 20 seconds he went through over 18 years worth of memories, from the moment of birth... until this body's death.
So... I have transmigrated into another world... That's my first guess. I've read a bunch of earth media like books and watched some of the isekai anime. There could be other possible explanations for what's going on but that's not my main issue.
The main issue was the body his soul possessed belonged to the clan heir of the 'Heavens' family. His name was Oqurin, but his mother also called him Rin growing up.
Oqurin was the first son of the clan head, and was a handsome, talented young man. He had grown up with a golden spoon yes, but he was never rude to others. He saw them as members of the clan he would one day lead and so he was a model student getting perfect grades, and with excellent communication skills he was very like-able even if he wasn't approvable due to his status.
He had no friends and was only close to to his mother and father, but Oqurin was also a prodigy. He was already in the foundation realm at the age at 18, and he also master the clan's secret art 'Phoenix Tail Strike.'
Not to mention that Oqurin was very handsome. He had striking features, with his black hair deep like night sky, like his mother had. His eyes were silver pools that sparkled and seemed to swirl in a hypnotic pattern, that could be cold and sharp. His jawline was well defined and his smile when he parted his lips could attract all eyes in the room.
He had this charismatic aura around him, one that made people wasn't to trust him. Want to follow him. Who wouldn't want someone young, talented, respectful, who's stronger than his peers and who's comprehension skills make him a prodigy?
Well the answer to that question is his uncle. HIs uncle, Sanli, had tried to stage a coup d'état for the seat and position of clan head. Sanli had contacted a rival cultivator sect and made a deal with them for territory and recourses.
However what nobody expected was for a senior expert to appear in mid air and try to ask for directions, when the rival cultivation sect leader, and his father didn't respond and instead attacked the senior nearly gave a 'Hmph' and with a wave of his sleeve fire fell from the sky.
Before any could react the expert appeared behind of the enemy sect leader and then, the sect leader's head fell and rolled off his head. When his father realized that he had offered an expert he shouldn't have, it was already too late.
The expert had mercilessly slaughtered everyone in the clan, and the rival sect that had appeared. Then the expert simply left, he didn't even take a look in their treasury, what reason did he have for any of their pitiful recourses.
And so that day the Heavens family bloodline went extinct.
Or that was until Rin reincarnated into Young Master Oqurin Heaven.