Transmigration: Children of The Plane

Death and Transmigration

Life was a fragile thing. No matter how precious or dear it is to one, their life can also be destroyed easily by the unforgiving world. And that was what happened to Xue Bai on the eve of his 10th birthday.

"I'm sorry to say this, Mr. and Mrs. Xue, but your son has ALS and may not walk again." And with those words, Xue Bai's childhood life ended.

From that day onward, Xue Bai lived in his hospital room, which was great at first. After all, he was only 10 when he first heard it. So the first thought that came to mind was, "no more school," However, the novelty quickly wore out.

Boredom quickly set in as he was in his bed all day, every day. So, to sate his boredom, Xue Bai asked his parents to buy him different electronics.

The world he was born in was cruel to him, so he tried to find an escape from others.

So after getting his first tablet started his deep dive into the world of fantasy.

Xue Bai then spent the rest of his time delving into different fantasy works, from TV shows to Novels. Anything with unrealistic feats performed by superhuman characters brought enjoyment to his boring life.

Three years quickly passed, and Xue Bai still lived in his hospital room, but it had gained more liveliness than when he first was admitted. There were books, manga, and CDs of his favorite fantasy works throughout the room.

It seemed it was going to be a typical day until his parents came in with smiles. His dad was carrying a box as he and his mother stood beside him, seemingly giddy with excitement.

While confused, Xue Bai waited for his parents to explain what was in the box. Finally, after helping set the box down, his mother went to his side and did so.

In the box was something called a VR(Virtual Reality) helmet, which the doctors had recommended. Apparently, the doctors had said while the chances were slim, it could theoretically help him walk again. So, wanting any opportunity they could get for their son to walk again, they bought a VR helmet and an accompanying game for Xue Bai to play.

Knowing their son well, the game his parents bought was of his favorite genre, Eastern Fantasy.

The mentions of immortality, flying, and fighting blood-boiling battles gave the young ALS patient enjoyment like no other.

The game his parents bought him was the most recent popular Eastern Fantasy game called "Children Of the Plane," which, as advertised, had a new take on the saturated cultivation game genre.

In most cultivation genre games, you were the only protagonist, but in this game, besides the character you create, there were five others. However, to separate you and your five competitors from the rest of the world, you were all given a blessing from the plane itself called "A Child of the Plane."

This would be a blessing that affected every aspect of your life in an extremely beneficial way.

You were blessed by fate, meaning that you would always find great treasures. You had great charisma giving you an easier time creating allies. And many other inclusive traits that the main characters of a standard cultivation novel would have.

Depending on how you played the game, these five competitors could be your sworn brothers, spouses, or mortal enemies. And no matter how fast you cultivated, they had a feature that allowed them to keep up with your realm, raising the difficulty by giving you constant pressure.

And another fun aspect of the game was that your five competitors were all based on a standard cultivation novel troupe.

Enticed by the description, Xue Bai put on the helmet and started his first playthrough of the game, where he quickly fell in love with the game.

And over the next two years, Xue Bai would spend most of his time playing "Children of the Plane,"

While he had finished the main story since there was a sequel on the way, he decided to explore everything the first game had to offer fully. Also, since the VR was so realistic, Xue Bai constantly felt like he was doing all these heaven-defying acts himself, making him never want to remove the helmet.

After waiting a month, Xue Bai finally received the next game, "Children of The Heavens." It took place in the Immortal Realm, a higher plane. You had to ascend from the current Mortal Plane to reach the Immortal Realm.

However, across his two years of playing, Xue Bai had long cultivated to the peak of the Mortal Plane, the 13th stage of the Immortal Ascension Realm, which was one of the prerequisites for ascending. The other was to pass a final Heavenly Tribulation.

However, while waiting for his final Tribulation, Xue Bai suddenly felt like he couldn't breathe.

Thinking it was a sneak attack, he hurriedly checked his surroundings, but after sensing nothing within miles, Xue Bai soon realized that the feeling was coming from his actual body.

While he'd had attacks like these before, this one felt different, and almost instantly, Xue Bai knew it was severe. So before passing out, Xue Bai paused the game, took off his VR helmet, and pressed the help button.

Waiting for help to reach him, Xue Bai felt himself hyperventilating harder than ever. Feeling an ominous feeling well up inside him, Xue Bai was scared, but without anything to do to help himself, he could stay in his bed and wait for help.

The help arrived quickly, and it only took just over 20 seconds for the door to swing open, and doctors stormed inside. But something in Xue Bai made him know that they were too late. And just before passing out, Xue Bai got one more good look at the panicked looks on the doctors' faces.

And after an unknown amount of time, Xue Bai finally woke up.

As he opened his eyes, remembering what had just happened, he sprung up from his bed only to realize what he just did.

He had moved!

Xue Bai hadn't been able to sit up for almost a year, so doing it now with practically no effort shocked him. But what surprised Xue Bai more was his "hospital room," his tiny hospital bed had transformed into an ancient Chinese bed that was big enough for a small family. It even had the cliche thin curtains that blocked the view from the outside.

With his mind still reeling from the current situation, Xue Bai knew he had to investigate his surroundings. After he found himself in an archaic room, while suddenly regained his mobility. Something was definitely off about his current situation, and he needed to find out before something bad happened.

Climbing out of bed was simple, but as he went to move the curtains, he noticed the last anomaly, his body.

When Xue Bai went to grab the curtains, he saw his hands were too small for a 15-year-old, no matter how weak his body was.

Horrified, Xue Bai looked at the rest of his body, only to see that he was only a toddler, maybe 6 or 7 years old.

Seeing his shrunken body, Xue Bai tried to think about what had happened to get here. It certainly wasn't a kidnapping because no matter how good the kidnappers were, they wouldn't be able to swap his body.

Thinking supernaturally, Xue Bai soon thought up the only plausible scenarios. He had either transmigrated or reincarnated. However, as he thought a little deeper, he remembered that for either to happen, Xue Bai had to die.

Xue Bai suddenly felt sick to his stomach. He had died. No matter how bad his life was, it was still his, and finding out that he had died made him feel nauseous.

Holding his mouth, Xue Bai jumped out of bed to puke whatever meal the previous host had eaten. Then, rushing to find a nearby bin, he spotted something resembling a trash can. Without seeing what it actually was, Xue Bai vomited into it until he dry heaved.

After vomiting, Xue Bai began to calm himself down by taking a few deep breaths.

After regaining his composure, Xue Bai finally looked around his new room. And seeing it for the first time, he had very few complaints. While it was an ancient time-themed room, everything looked rich and fancy to the point where he, a future-era person, could tell.

The gold-clothed linings on the blanket. The cicada wing thin curtain around his bed. Not a single thing in the room looked cheap. Hell, even the trash can he threw up into was created from what looked like shiny silver metal.

As he finished evaluating his room, Xue Bai spotted a mirror next to a desk and decided to take a look at his new body. However, as he walked to the mirror, he soon found out he was too short to look at it standing normally, so after getting a stool Xue Bai found nearby, he stood on it to see his new appearance.

Looking in the mirror before him stood a Chinese toddler whose face seemed so delicate and pale that it almost looked like a porcelain doll. The eyes were an odd purple/blue hue that gave a quirky but excellent match to the black-colored hair cascading down his neck and back.

But in Xue Bai's mind, he wasn't thinking about anything besides one phrase that he yelled out, "FUCK AM I A GIRL?"