Chapter 1: Max-level Comprehension
Great Yan Dynasty.
Qingzhou.
Snow Plum Villa.
Snow-like plum blossoms scattered piece by piece, mixed with blood even more desolate. Waves of shouts of killing completely shattered the villa’s past tranquility and beauty.
“Kill!”
“Today, Snow Plum Villa, leave no chicken or dog alive!”
“Not even a single ant is allowed to escape!”
Indifferent and ruthless shouts traveled through the cold wind, making people feel piercing chill.
Ning Qi regained consciousness in such an environment.
“Am I… transmigrated?”
It was no wonder he thought this way. Clearly, the previous second he was still on the sickbed waiting for the death countdown, but the next second he turned from an adult into an infant, and seemed to have encountered a vendetta.
That’s right.
Ning Qi was absolutely certain that he had now become a newborn infant. The warmth of being wrapped in swaddling clothes diluted much of the discomfort brought by the tiny body, but no matter what, this was already much better than his previous life.
In his previous life, he had suffered from the extremely rare amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at a young age, spending the last few years of his life on the sickbed, ultimately dying in darkness and solitude.
“At least I’m still alive… although the current situation isn’t great.”
Perhaps due to the transmigration, Ning Qi could easily understand the meaning contained in those words.
Ning Qi heard those voices filled with killing intent piercing through, making the woman’s body who was holding him and running rapidly tremble slightly. He also began to tense up. If possible, who would want to face death again right after being reborn.
He struggled to open his eyes, but there was still dried secretion on his eyelids.
From his angle, he couldn’t see the woman’s true appearance, but just the white and tender chin was filled with a heartwarming gentleness. Ning Qi seemed to feel the bond between him and the woman, like bloodline resonating.
“Is she my mother in this life?”
Ning Qi had just this thought.
The young woman had already rapidly entered a study room, then pressed some mechanism in a specific pattern several times. Following that, a hidden compartment appeared.
The woman bent down and gently placed Ning Qi in the hidden compartment.
Borrowing that faint light, Ning Qi finally saw the outline of the woman’s face clearly.
She had a comfortable delicate beauty, her eyebrows and eyes full of gentleness. As a new mother, that maternal radiance was enough to make one’s heart tremble.
The woman’s weak and sorrowful voice sounded:
“Qi’er, you must live on. Mother has to go with your father to face the enemy. If you are blessed by immortals and gods, don’t blame your father and mother in the future.”
Ning Qi felt warm lips press on his forehead, a few teardrops gently falling on his face. The reluctance in the woman’s gentle eyes was tangible.
Then, the woman resolutely turned and left. The mechanism sound rang out, and darkness enveloped Ning Qi once more.
A trace of sadness surged in Ning Qi’s heart.
Although he had just transmigrated, the resonance on the bloodline level was absolutely genuine. This was his birth mother. Even after such a short time together, he could fully feel that protective love.
But now, she was probably in grave danger.
From his birth mother’s weak tone, it was clear that she had just given birth and was forced to face the enemy. The situation was dire. He didn’t know where the enemies came from, but they had seized this opportunity like venomous snakes emerging from their holes, and they absolutely wouldn’t let it go easily.
Just after transmigrating, he encountered such peril. Ning Qi’s nerves were already taut.
He didn’t want to die like this.
He began to listen carefully.
The thick walls of the hidden compartment weakened most of the sounds, but he could still hear the killing sounds getting closer, the clash of metal and iron, and various rumbling noises unceasing.
Ning Qi discerned two pieces of information.
First, the martial prowess of this world was probably not low.
Second, the Snow Plum Villa where he was born was about to hold out no longer.
His heart kept sinking.
“What to do? If these enemies slaughter everyone in the villa, can I evade their search?”
Though he was currently safe in the hidden compartment, what if the enemies detected his presence through sensing breathing or the like?
In a world with such high martial power, Ning Qi wouldn’t take chances.
He began to minimize his movements in the swaddling clothes as much as possible, and also tried to lower his breathing sounds.
But the sense of unease still lingered around him.
Especially when the shouts of killing became quieter, and dense footsteps, kicking doors, and pleas for mercy increased, this unease intensified. He had a strong premonition that he would be discovered and found.
He knew Snow Plum Villa was finished.
His birth parents were probably also in grave danger.
But Ning Qi had no time for sorrow; the heavy sense of crisis left him no distractions.
“Search! Search carefully for me!”
“Don’t spare any corner, don’t leave a single living soul!”
“Especially the child of Ning Ye and Jiang Xuemei, must find it for me, cut the grass at the root!!”
That low and malicious voice made Ning Qi’s heart start beating violently.
He desperately tried to reduce his movements, but his body’s instinctive reactions were beyond his control.
“What to do? What to do?”
Ning Qi’s mind raced frantically, thinking of countermeasures.
He was now just an infant with no ability to resist, not even mobility. He couldn’t escape; the only thing he could do was try not to be discovered by the enemies, or it would be a dead end.
At this moment.
The world suddenly went quiet.
As if light and time had lost meaning.
Ning Qi felt his thinking instantly enter a wondrous state, as if he were omnipotent and could control everything.
But this feeling lasted only a brief instant, then the world became noisy again.
Following that.
A spiritual insight flashed through his mind.
It also made Ning Qi instantly understand what had happened. Upon transmigrating and being reborn, he seemed to have activated something extraordinary. He now felt his thinking incredibly agile and leaping, his comprehension elevated to an extremely terrifying level!
That spiritual insight illuminated his past and present lives, letting him know that this was actually his Hundred Lifetimes, and the previous ninety-nine lifetimes were all full of suffering. Even the beginning of this hundredth lifetime was suffering.
“Hundred Lifetimes of suffering, even the heavens couldn’t stand it and gifted me a golden finger?”
Ning Qi was stunned.
Then came joy.
He didn’t forget the current crisis and immediately began to comprehend.
As the spiritual insight gradually faded, he understood that his current comprehension was the strongest possible under the foundation his current life intensity could bear—no one could surpass it.
“In other words, under the same life intensity, my comprehension reaches the limit it can bear, unmatched by anyone. Moreover, if my life intensity leaps in the future, my comprehension will always remain at the maximum full load!”
“This is max level comprehension! Always at max level no matter when!”
Surprise surged in Ning Qi’s heart.
This might be his dawn!
He could feel his thinking unprecedentedly active at this moment. A single thought birthed thousands of ideas—this was a miracle beyond mortal comprehension.
“Max level comprehension is powerful, but it can’t turn me into a peerless expert instantly. The urgent matter is still to escape this predicament first!”
Before, Ning Qi couldn’t control his breathing and heartbeat, but now it was different. He could completely perceive his body condition and find the patterns within.
The commotion outside grew more intense.
Ning Qi’s thoughts operated at light speed.
“In my previous life, I heard of breathing without using mouth or nose, like in the womb—that is fetal breathing.”
“I just born, my body not yet fully polluted by the outside world. I can occasionally enter fetal breathing state, but before I couldn’t capture it. Now it’s different; not only can I capture it, I can even find the pattern and control it…”
“That faint warm aura flowing in my body, could it be the innate Qi babies come with? So magical. If I make it circulate in a specific pattern, gathering all the innate Qi in the body without dispersion, this warmth will greatly enhance, protecting my current infant body!”
“…”
Thoughts turned one by one, and Ning Qi quickly captured that magical state, even further fusing it with innate Qi.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, his originally chaotic heartbeat and breathing became even and faint, until they completely disappeared!
If Ning Qi closed his eyes now, others might think this was a dead infant.
Surprise appeared in Ning Qi’s eyes.
“This breathing technique, let’s call it Innate Fetal Breathing Technique.”
This wasn’t some supreme martial art, just an internal breathing technique based on the infant’s special state, but under the enhancement of innate Qi, it was still incredibly magical.
Ning Qi began to fully operate the Innate Fetal Breathing Technique he had just created.
At this moment.
With the warm aura flowing in Ning Qi’s body, even with mouth and nose tightly closed, there was no discomfort. His whole body’s pores opened and closed slightly to replace breathing, and even the increasingly strong hunger that came with time was mostly dispelled.
Truly magical.
And the unease that had always haunted Ning Qi finally receded a lot.
Entering the fetal breathing state, Ning Qi’s perception was extremely sharp, allowing him to clearly hear the situation outside.
Chaotic and dense footsteps kept sounding, even entering the study room where he was more than once, along with sounds of sabers and swords chopping and various rumbling noises, as if violently destroying everything around.
He guessed it was saber Qi or sword Qi and such, which shocked him.
Fortunately, Snow Plum Villa was large enough, and the study room Ning Qi was in was inconspicuous. Without exposing traces, it hadn’t received special attention.
Instead, some hiding servants and attendants were caught and killed on the spot.
Snow Plum Villa rooftop.
A burly man in black clothes had furrowed brows, left hand clutching his shoulder where there was a fierce sword wound. His right hand occasionally swung out sword Qi, splitting houses in half, with unmatched aura. Occasionally some fish that slipped the net were found, but this was undoubtedly too inefficient.
Moreover, there was no trace at all of Ning Ye’s son, whom he most wanted to find.
His inner irritation grew.
One by one, men in black clothes gathered from all directions, respectfully saying:
“Lord Feng, all places to search have been searched, no movement at all. This subordinate also carefully sensed every corner, but there was no infant crying or heartbeat. Could it be…”
Before finishing.
Lord Feng waved his hand to interrupt, coldly saying:
“Absolutely impossible!”
“Jiang Xuemei just gave birth, that couple already died by my hand. This child couldn’t have been sent away so quickly!”
His eyes fiercely swept around, then in a venting manner he swung out large swathes of sword Qi. His figure quickly leaped around the villa once, but still perceived no infant movement.
Finally, Lord Feng gave a sinister smile.
“Really good at hiding!”
“Set fire for me! Turn Snow Plum Villa to ashes!”
