Marrying a Beautiful, Wealthy Woman and Reaching the Pinnacle of Life

Lin Li hurried to the unremarkable Small Tree. It was two meters tall and not very lush, giving off an undernourished air.

Looking at the egg-sized fruit growing on the Small Tree before him, its color as vivid as flames, Lin Li fell into deep thought.

Just as he was considering whether to pick the red fruit, a faint golden light suddenly flashed across its surface.

Lin Li was more familiar with this color of light than anything else... This was Spiritual Light!

After seeing the faint golden light flash across the fruit's surface, Lin Li stopped hesitating and immediately reached out to pick the Small Fruit from the Small Tree.

The fruit seemed to be perfectly ripe. After Lin Li grabbed it, he barely had to exert any strength before the Small Fruit was plucked from the tree.

As he looked at the fruit he had picked, Lin Li suddenly caught a fragrance that made his mouth water.

The fragrance was coming from the fruit in his hand... How strange. Before he picked it, there hadn't been even the slightest scent.

The enticing fragrance grew increasingly rich. Holding the miraculous fruit, Lin Li suddenly sensed that if he did not eat it soon, the fruit in his hand would vanish.

"Although I've never seen this kind of fruit before, its scent is so fresh and enticing. It shouldn't be poisonous."

Worried that he would be poisoned after eating it, Lin Li consoled himself inwardly, then gritted his teeth and stuffed the fruit into his mouth.

"Crunch, crunch..."

His teeth clashed together, instantly crushing the Red Fruit that had entered his mouth.

Sweet juice flowed between his lips and teeth, and the delicious flavor left Lin Li utterly captivated.

"This is the best fruit I've ever eaten. It doesn't even have a pit, which saves me the trouble." Having swallowed the Red Fruit, Lin Li muttered to himself.

"Huh? It seems like nothing's happening! Could this Small Fruit really just be an ordinary fruit that happens to taste good?"

Lin Li's disappointment had lasted less than three seconds when he suddenly felt a warm current surge through his body.

The warm current was incredibly familiar. It felt exactly like the sensation he used to experience whenever his body absorbed the free Spiritual Energy in the air while exercising.

"It's here, it's here... I knew this Red Fruit was extraordinary." Feeling the warm current inside him growing stronger and stronger, Lin Li's face lit up with delight.

There was a saying for this... When joy reached its peak, sorrow followed.

"Slow down, slow down! Don't come so fast—I can't take it!"

As Lin Li felt the warm current within him grow more and more violent, it seemed to him as though it were about to burst his body apart.

"No!" The delighted expression on his face turned to terror.

"Ah..."

Unable to hold on any longer, Lin Li shouted and fainted.

After he passed out, faint golden Spiritual Light blossomed from Lin Li's body as he lay on the grass.

As time passed, if a Cultivator had been present, he would have clearly sensed the Spiritual Energy fluctuations around Lin Li rapidly growing stronger.

"I... I'm still alive...?!"

No one knew how much time had passed. When Lin Li opened his eyes and saw the familiar scene before him, he hurriedly climbed up from the grass.

He felt himself over from front to back. After confirming that he had not lost an arm or broken a leg, his heart immediately relaxed.

"Hm? Why is there so much Spiritual Energy inside me?"

Lin Li suddenly sensed the change in the amount of Spiritual Energy within him, and his face filled with astonishment.

If his Spiritual Energy before had been a single ladle of water, then the Spiritual Energy inside him now was an entire barrel—one of those huge barrels a meter high and half a meter wide.

Although he did not know what level his cultivation had reached, Lin Li was absolutely certain that he had become a Cultivator.

"Hahahaha... I've become a Cultivator... Hahahaha... Uh..."

Lin Li laughed loudly, but suddenly cut himself off. He stared blankly at his right hand. A Small Fireball had appeared at his fingertip.

The fireball was the size of a pigeon's egg and radiated an orange-red glow.

"An ability? I... I awakened an ability..." Looking at the Small Fireball hovering at his fingertip, Lin Li murmured.

When anyone reached the age of fifteen, they had a certain chance of awakening Spirituality. Then, by training their bodies and absorbing the free Spiritual Energy in the air, they could become a Cultivator.

After becoming a Cultivator, only an extremely small portion would be lucky enough to awaken all kinds of strange abilities, turning them into the outstanding among Cultivators of the same level.

If those who awakened Spirituality through hard work and persistent physical training would, in the end, overwhelmingly become Cultivators,

then abilities were not something one could obtain through hard work! Those Cultivators who awakened abilities could almost be said to have earned Heaven's favor.

And now, on the mysterious Small Island, Lin Li had merely eaten a Red Fruit. Not only had his cultivation greatly increased in a short time, but he had also gained a Flame Ability.

If he told others about this, no one would believe him. They would only take him for a lunatic with something wrong in the head.

If eating a fruit containing Spiritual Energy caused one's cultivation to soar in a short time, that was at least possible. In this world, some plants had transformed into Spirit Plants because of Spiritual Energy, and some of them bore Spirit Fruits capable of increasing a person's cultivation.

But a Spirit Fruit like the one Lin Li had eaten—one that could grant someone an ability—had never been seen before.

"Grow, grow, grow..."

Lin Li looked at the pigeon-egg-sized Small Fireball at his fingertip. While channeling the Spiritual Energy in his body into it, he shouted at the top of his lungs.

After Lin Li infused it with Spiritual Energy, the Small Fireball continued to grow. When it had expanded to the size of a soccer ball, Lin Li felt that the Spiritual Energy in his body was nearly depleted, so he hurriedly stopped pouring more into it.

"Go!"

Lin Li waved his hand toward the distant water. The soccer-ball-sized Small Fireball he had condensed shot out with a sharp whoosh.

"Boom!"

After the Small Fireball shot into the water at high speed, it immediately erupted in a violent explosion.

The explosion sent a wave several meters high surging upward, and it quickly came crashing toward Lin Li, who stood on the shore.

"Smack."

"Ow!"

Still stunned by the power produced by the Small Fireball's explosion, Lin Li had no time to dodge the three-meter-high wave rushing at him. It slammed him onto the ground, soaking his entire body.

"Hahahaha..."

Knocked down onto the grass by the wave and drenched from head to toe, Lin Li did not voice the slightest complaint. Instead, he lay on the grass and burst into uproarious laughter.

"I'm going to take off... This time, I'm really going to take off... Marrying a beautiful, wealthy woman and reaching the pinnacle of life—this dream is finally more than just a dream."