Chapter 1: I, Baili Yuan, am an Ultraman (New book starting, please follow/subscribe)

"You might not believe it, but I, Baili Yuan, am an Ultraman!"

Baili Yuan took a puff of his cigarette and said with a touch of world-weariness.

"Children shouldn't smoke."

A slender hand snatched the cigarette from Baili Yuan’s chubby little hand and brought it to her own alluring red lips.

Baili Yuan glared with a pair of resentful dead fish eyes.

"Are you going to take away my last hobby too?" Baili Yuan said mournfully.

"Hmm? Your hobbies? What are they?" The woman wore an intrigued smile. This little boy who had been squatting at the academy gate for half an hour looked rather interesting.

"Women and cigarettes!" Baili Yuan replied without hesitation.

The woman’s expression stiffened.

"Heh."

"That’s why I said, cigarettes are my last hobby!" Baili Yuan shouted in despair.

"And that’s why I said, children shouldn't smoke!"

The woman gave Baili Yuan a sharp flick to the forehead.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch..."

Baili Yuan clutched his head, squatted down, buried his face in his short legs, and curled into a ball.

"Kid, let me ask you, what are you doing at the academy gate?" the woman asked curiously.

"Obviously, I'm here to go to school," Baili Yuan said.

"Go to school? How old are you this year?" the woman asked in surprise.

"Two thousand three hundred and thirty-three years old," Baili Yuan replied without hesitation.

The woman just looked at him quietly.

Baili Yuan hesitated for a moment, then added with difficulty

"Minus two thousand three hundred and twenty-eight years."

"So, you're five years old?" the woman said, somewhat astonished.

"You could put it that way," Baili Yuan nodded.

"Beautiful sister, I’m a student at this academy, but I lost my access card. Could you help me get in? Once I get back to my dorm, I’ll put on my Infinity Gauntlet and snap my fingers to keep you safe."

"Sorry, I don't know what an Infinity Gauntlet is, but the enrollment age for our academy is seven, so you might have come to the wrong place. Walk straight down this street and turn left; that’s the preschool, which is where you should be," the woman said with a smile, clearly amused by teasing the child.

"Pfft! Trash academy, ruining my youth, depressing my spirit, wasting my money!"

Baili Yuan jumped up, gave the woman’s "bountiful assets" a quick poke, and turned to run.

Being cheeky like that felt really good!

The woman was clearly stunned by Baili Yuan’s sudden action and didn't react for a long time. By the time she did, Baili Yuan had already disappeared.

"Brat!" The woman snorted coldly. Given her temperament, she wasn't about to be embarrassed by a wet-behind-the-ears child.

However, she soon frowned.

"His movements just now were so fast that even I didn't react. That kid... he's interesting!" The woman smiled.

"Forget it. As long as he's a child in Cloud City, he'll definitely come to the academy in two years. When that time comes... hehe, I'll make sure to settle this score." Saying this, the woman took a small notebook from her pocket and began to write.

...

"Geez, that was thrilling." Baili Yuan leaned against the wall in a small alley, patting his little chest.

"System, what did you think of that move just now?"

"Totally OK!" a crisp voice rang out.

"Then hurry up and bring it out!"

"Tsk."

"Don't always think about skimming off my rewards!" Baili Yuan rolled his eyes.

The space in front of Baili Yuan distorted, and a brilliant diamond egg was slammed hard onto the ground in front of him.

Baili Yuan looked at the diamond egg, feeling a surge of excitement.

"Easy there, if you break it, are you going to pay for it?"

"It won't break. Eggs can only be opened with the egg-smashing hammer provided by the system. Anything produced by the system is a masterpiece!"

The system inside Baili Yuan was called the "Egg System." It would refresh eggs on the map within a certain range, and the grade of the eggs would vary depending on the surrounding environment.

However, there was a pattern to the spawning: the more dangerous the location or the more powerful the person, the higher the grade of the egg that would appear.

The grades of the eggs, from low to high, were: Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Colorful, Supreme, and Legendary.

Beyond these, there were two special types of eggs. One was the "Holiday Egg," which would randomly spawn near the host during festivals and holidays. The locations were random, and they contained rare or specific holiday items. According to the description, their value was about the same as a Gold Egg.

The other was the "Glory Egg," which was even more random—the reason for its appearance, its location, and its contents were all completely random.

Baili Yuan hadn't encountered either of the two special types yet; after all, he had only just received the system five days ago, and he had only been in this world for five days!

That’s right, Baili Yuan was a transmigrator, and a second-time one at that!

The first time, his soul transmigrated to the M78 Nebula, where he became a red-and-blue hybrid Ultraman. He had managed to live to the age of two thousand three hundred and thirty-three. In truth, two thousand three hundred and thirty-three wasn't very old; the original Ultraman, at twenty thousand years old, was only in his fifties when converted to human age—the perfect age to be a middle-aged man picking at his feet.

And Baili Yuan, at only two thousand-plus years old, was equivalent to just over five years old in human terms. This was why, when he took on a human form, he was nothing more than a five-year-old brat.

After that... that bastard Belial broke out of the space prison, went to the Land of Light, and pulled all sorts of crazy stunts, grinding the Ultramen into the dirt.

It was then that Baili Yuan discovered that the attacks of the Ultramen were nothing like what was shown in the tokusatsu films. How should he put it? Powerful beings, like Belial, could shatter space with a single punch, causing spatial turbulence—that was a perfectly normal occurrence. As for why it wasn't shown in the films, Baili Yuan suspected it was likely because the special effects couldn't keep up.

By the way, Belial’s age converted to human years was four hundred, and Zero was sixteen at the time.

As for whether Zero eventually succeeded in defeating Belial, Baili Yuan had no way of knowing. He only remembered being sucked into spatial turbulence while trying to escape—a classic case of being caught in the crossfire while doing nothing.

Baili Yuan, still just a child, was quite lucky; he wasn't torn to shreds by the spatial turbulence. Perhaps because he had transmigrated once before and had experience, he remained in a drifting state within the turbulence. During this process, he encountered the "Egg System," which was also wandering through the spatial turbulence!

After a "friendly" conversation, Baili Yuan silently patted the "Egg System" on the head... well, the "Egg System" was a ball of light, so patting it felt about the same as patting a head.

To be honest, Baili Yuan had never seen a system that had it so rough.

The details aren't worth repeating, but simply put, its previous host had become incredibly powerful using its power, then kicked it to the curb to live a happy life with a wife and kids.

Abandoned and homeless, the "Egg System" had no choice but to wander the spatial turbulence, looking for a host to take it in, and then it met Baili Yuan, who was also drifting through the void.

Fate, truly, is a wonderful thing.