Lin Yuan

It was night. In a secluded small courtyard somewhere in Jia Nan Academy, a youth in gray-blue robes sat cross-legged, his eyes lightly shut, his hands forming seals. As Dou Qi circulated around him, a pale azure Dou Qi veil fluttered.

At a certain instant.

"Da Dou Shi, break!"

With a light shout, a powerful aura erupted from the youth's body. Along with that aura, a wave of energy ripples spread into the fluttering Dou Qi veil. The dancing veil slowly stilled. A moment later, azure radiance suddenly flashed, then rapidly fused and gathered, until finally it merged together. After a moment, the azure radiance transformed into a condensed, well-fitting suit of azure flame-patterned armor that covered the youth's body.

After that, the youth withdrew the seals in his hands and opened his lightly closed eyes. He looked at the Dou Qi armor on his body and revealed a faint satisfied smile.

"One-star Da Dou Shi, done!"

All of a sudden, the youth's gaze shifted. He immediately rose, turned toward the distance, slightly bowed, cupped his fists, and gave a salute.

"I have disturbed the Headmaster. Lin Yuan is ashamed. Many thanks for watching over me, Headmaster. This student is infinitely grateful!"

As soon as his voice fell, a gray-clothed figure appeared before Lin Yuan. It was none other than Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy Vice Headmaster, Hu Gan. Hu Gan said with some surprise, "Although I did not deliberately conceal myself, you were actually able to sense me. It seems that what Old Man Huo said was true. You are indeed extraordinarily talented in the soul aspect."

After saying that, he sized him up a few times, revealed a satisfied smile, and said, "Good, very good. A fifteen-year-old one-star Da Dou Shi, and your foundation is also extremely stable. As expected of a genius of my Jia Nan Academy."

Immediately, Hu Gan took a token from his storage ring and tossed it to Lin Yuan. "Accept this token. Tomorrow, go to the Cultivation Method Pavilion and choose one Profound Tier High-Grade Technique and one Profound Tier High-Grade Dou Skill. In addition, you don't need to go to the Enforcement Team these next few days. Properly familiarize yourself with the power of a Da Dou Shi. I will notify Elder Wu."

Lin Yuan received the token and replied with slight excitement, "Thank you, Headmaster! This student will respectfully obey your teachings!"

Hu Gan laughed and said, "Why be so polite? We're all on the same side. Cultivate well. While you're at it, go and provoke that little girl Hu Jia. You two are the same age, but now you're already a one-star Da Dou Shi, while that girl still hasn't broken through to Dou Zhe, and she's still so careless when cultivating. No, I have to go lecture her."

Having said that, his figure dispersed.

After Hu Gan's figure had dispersed for a while, Lin Yuan straightened up, put the token into his own low-grade storage ring, and pondered, "Breaking through to Da Dou Shi earned me the reward of a Profound Tier High-Grade Technique and a Profound Tier High-Grade Dou Skill. As expected of Jia Nan Academy. It is truly generous toward its own people."

Suddenly, he gave a soft laugh.

"Rather than saying it was a reward, it would be better to say it was an investment in its own direct-line genius. Choosing to come to Jia Nan Academy back then really was not wrong!"

Lin Yuan raised his head and looked at the bright, pure moonlight in the sky, his heart slightly stirred. He returned inside to take out a pot of wine, then sat at the stone table in the small courtyard. Under the shine of the moonlight, his figure appeared especially clear and lonely. He held a delicate wine cup in his hand and leisurely drank by himself toward that bright, pure moon.

The moonlight was like water, quietly spilling over him and draping him in a layer of silvery-white gauze. Along with his long thoughts, his face appeared somewhat hazy beneath the moonlight, but the light in his eyes grew even more resolute.

"It has been fifteen years since I came to this world. I have finally obtained the qualifications to enter the game!"

That's right. Lin Yuan was a transmigrator. Fifteen years ago, he had been born into an ordinary family in this familiar yet unfamiliar world of the Dou Qi Continent. His father was a mercenary, a seven-star Dou Zhe; his mother was a minor physician who had not broken through to Dou Zhe. His family background was ordinary, but it could still be considered happy.

However, Lin Yuan's family life did not last too long. His father also simply died at the hands of a magical beast during a mission when he was nine years old. His mother became mentally distraught because of his father's death, and passed away after accidentally coming into contact with a poisonous herb. Lin Yuan once again became an orphan.

His parents' deaths made Lin Yuan deeply understand the cruelty of the Dou Qi Continent. Without strength, the shift between life and death took only the blink of an eye. From then on, he made up his mind to become strong, step by step.

Fortunately, although he had no special background, nor the standard golden finger for transmigrators that had yet to appear even now, Lin Yuan himself seemed to possess quite outstanding cultivation and soul talent.

His excellent talent gave Lin Yuan the chance to become strong. Coupled with the self-discipline of an adult's mentality guiding his own actions, Lin Yuan had cultivated diligently without cease since childhood. Finally, when he was ten years old, he passed Jia Nan Academy's assessment, which recruited students all across the continent, with Ninth Stage Dou Qi. Though there were some twists and turns, he smoothly became a student of Jia Nan Academy.

During the five years after coming to Jia Nan Academy, Lin Yuan had not been stingy in displaying his formidable talent, hoping to obtain more investment from Jia Nan Academy.

Lin Yuan understood very clearly that when the information in his mind could not be converted into resources, his outstanding talent was his greatest capital. Displaying his own value and letting suitable people invest in him was the best choice for getting through the early, weak stage, and Jia Nan Academy was also the ideal target.

The development of events was indeed just as he had expected. His clean identity as an orphan, together with his extraordinary talent, gained the academy's recognition, and he became a direct-line junior of Jia Nan Academy.

Lin Yuan had originally thought he would take some elder of the academy as his master. Only later did he learn that Jia Nan Academy had an implicit rule, or perhaps an understanding: once orphans like him, with clean backgrounds and excellent talent, became direct-line members of the academy, the academy's upper levels would cultivate them in the name of the academy as a whole, in order to avoid personal influence within the academy swelling in the future and harming the academy's organizational structure.

Lin Yuan was one of the members of the "Hero Forging Plan," through which Jia Nan Academy's upper levels aimed to cultivate junior direct-line elders, and he was the most talented among them. He could be called Jia Nan Academy's "Elder Reserve." Therefore, Lin Yuan received quite a bit of care within the academy, and he was also familiar with Hu Gan's granddaughter Hu Jia and Wu Hao, the adopted son of Elder Wu Tianlang of the Enforcement Team.

During his five years in the academy, Lin Yuan basically spent his time in bitter cultivation. He cultivated Dou Qi, followed the Enforcement Team out for training to temper his Dou Qi and accumulate real combat experience, and studied all sorts of alchemy knowledge in the Alchemy Department. His days were extremely fulfilling.

His formidable soul power made Lin Yuan extremely talented in alchemy. In both the study of medicinal knowledge and the study of fire control, he was outstanding. He was greatly appreciated by Elder Huo of the Alchemy Department, who even gifted him the kindling of a Fifth Tier Beast Flame, the "Azure Spirit Flame," when Lin Yuan became a Grade Three Alchemist.

Under the moonlight, Lin Yuan recalled the important five years he had spent at Jia Nan Academy, the five years that had laid a firm foundation for his road ahead. He thought about the future historical direction of this Dou Qi Continent, and also thought about the future plans he had drafted.

As the wine pot reached the bottom, Lin Yuan's contemplation also ended. He raised his cup, saluted heaven and earth from afar, and drank this final cup.

"Although I do not know why I came to this Dou Qi Continent, if some noble person is watching me, then please see whether this life I perform will be splendid."

"Dou Qi Continent, the great trend of the world—Lin Yuan has come."

Lin Yuan put down the wine cup and sat cross-legged on the prayer mat in the courtyard where he cultivated. As Dou Qi circulated, it dispelled his drunkenness, and he began the day-after-day cultivation once more.

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