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2025-10-28
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2025-12-10
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A Root Babies Self Saving System

Summary:

After dying in his first life when he had just gotten the freedom to live by himself, all because of an expired meatbun. Shen Yuan wanted to scream, but when he got put into the body of a ginseng baby plant, a demonic tree in the original PIDW, a new hope for life was received, that was, until that scum villain found him and brought him back to his mountain. Although he may be a baby, he has the ability of the tree to help cultivators with their qi-related problems.

Seeing how Shen Jiu keeps teasing him like a baby rather than a dissection project or a cauldron, Shen Yuan is determined to save Mama Jiu and his meridian and others if he is feeling nice, while also trying to figure out why Shen Jiu hates everyone. More than anything, though, he is excited to meet Lou Binghe and uncover plot holes that he needs to know.

Notes:

HUGE thanks to my beta reader, Cash_ew, for correcting all my spelling mistakes and timelines.

Chapter Text

Dumbfuk author…
And just like that, Shen Yuan had died after a lifetime of being sick and living in the hospital.

But then a white light flashed, and he was crying. Shen Yuan didn’t know why he was crying, just that he was. Maybe it was the almost suffocating grip something had on him, or because this version had become a lot more red than what he remembered.

A blue screen flashed in front of his eyes and announced “Host! Welcome to the world of Proud Immortal Demon Way. The host has been chosen for the role of transmigrated in order to make the world of PIDW better by filling plot holes and unearthing the character backgrounds of important characters. The host has been transmigrated into the body of the ginseng root baby. You are one of the first souls to have been successfully transmigrated into the world of PIDW because of your fanatical worship of the character Lou Binghe.”

Wait, he remembered this plant from a wife plot where Lou Bing had squashed a demon rebellion that took the resources of the ginseng plant to absorb all types of qi. He ended up infiltrating the rebellion instead of just crushing them in order to help wife, number 214, who had fallen ill with a mysterious qi-related illness. Of course, after the demon rebellion was subdued and the wife healed, papapa ensued. But why was he in the body of a ginseng plant baby?

“Host body was obtained after the ginseng plant couldn’t absorb any more qi from the outskirts of the demon, nor wandering cultivators and demons. As the plant's last-ditch effort, the plant has taken physical form in order to move about as a mindless beast; usually, the plant will wither and die at this stage of qi starvation, but the benevolent Shen Yuanstem has deemed it fit to put a host in its body.”

Now Shen Yuan was crying for real. He had been transmigrated into a stallion novel where everyone except the protagonist and his wives had decent lives. “Get me out of this body right now.” It was the only thing. Shen Yuan could think as his body got increasingly more uncomfortable.

This benevolent Shen Yuan system does not understand the hosts’ wish to leave the world. The Shen Yuan system has made sure the host has sufficiently spiritual potential in order to be a master cultivator and join the Cang Cian sect in the future to influence the plot enough that it is a number-one hit story.

How did I even end up in this world! I thought it was a novel!

“Host seems to be confused, so this magnanimous Shen Yuan system will help! You see, within every world, there are stories, and within every story, there are worlds. So as the story is developed, the world is subsequently created in an alternate dimension.

So does that mean I am a story for readers to enjoy??

Precisely host. Host has not been transmigrated into just any world; instead, host has been trans migrated into the author’s original story, which was an omega verse.

Shen Yuan was both ecstatic and confused at the same time. He was now transmigrated into a world where Lou Binghe existed, but also a world in which he might get killed by the protagonist because the protagonist is always the strongest. And in a world like that ‘omegaverse’ that his sister had forced him to read, only the protagonist would be strong while everyone else would be weak by comparison or straight up killed.

“Host, please stop panicking. This amazing Shen Yuan system has a few more qi details to tell you. Firstly, that omegas in this world are highly prized and kept only as partners to the richest and successful people due to the fact, they are most likely to produce cultivators with high spiritual potential. Rarely do non-omegas give birth to an alpha cultivator or other omega. Betas rarely have enough spiritual energy to become cultivators, but it’s not out of the question. Omegas have a sweet scent to them, betas have little to no scent, and alphas can have a variety of scents. There are ways for one gender domination to appear as another with scent-suppressing perfumes from particular plants.

Shen Yuan was listening intently until now, because the dark shadow of a man loomed over him. He had a peerless face with skin that looked as smooth as Jade. His face was scrunched up as if he was contemplating something important, but Shen Yuan was too busy Shen Yuan admiring the pretty boy in front of him.

A ding came from his side with a Shen Yuan system announcement that said, “Congratulations, host, for his first encounter with the scum villain, Shen Qingqiu.”

And that was Shen Yuan’s announcement to continue panicking because the scum villain who notoriously hated children except for his favorite disciple was standing in front of him, probably contemplating in what way to kill him. So Shen Yuan did the only thing he could think of: act like Ning Yingying. He started squealing like a little baby seeing his mother.

The scum villain’s face slowly morphed into one of curiosity, which Shen Yuan understood as his sign to reach out with his little baby hands to the scum villain.

Without a scowl eclipsing his face, he looked quite beautiful with porcelain skin and eyes that showed like emeralds, while his long, jet black hair was tied up in a fancy and elaborate headpiece. His uniform complemented his features and elevated his lean figure beyond belief. Even if this was the scum villain, Shen Yuan was mesmerized and couldn’t look away.

Suddenly, Shen Yuan was carried like a ball. The moment the scum villain touched him, though, he started to feel like a starved man, finally reaching food and water. His body began to hungrily eat up all the qi, the scum villain he released.

“Congratulations, Host, on making the scum villain curious enough to study you!”

Again, Shen Yuan was thrown into a loop because studying in the PIDW novel usually meant dissection; rarely ever was it a case study. Nevertheless, he was scooped up by the scum villain and whisked away to God knows where.