Woke Up and Found Myself on the Spirit Road?

(This was made with care. Feel free to finish the free chapters before reviewing it. You can also point out anything that isn't good, and I'll take it all into consideration.

The Spirit Road arc ends in Chapter 22. If you don't want to read the Spirit Road, you can skip to Chapter 23.

Also, the protagonist will not take Wu Yingying into his harem. He won't. He won't. He won't.)

"Damn, where the hell did this send me? Am I still in China?"

Within the vast Primordial Forest, Lin Suchou abruptly opened his eyes and discovered that he had somehow gone from his rented apartment to the wilderness.

Looking at the towering trees and lush vegetation around him, Lin Suchou felt like he was either in Southeast Asia or the Amazon.

At that thought, Lin Suchou nervously lifted his shirt to check himself. Finding no scars, he let out a relieved breath.

"Ding! Detected that the host has transmigrated into the Spirit Road Secret Realm of the Great Ruler world. System binding in progress..."

"Ding! System binding successful. The Goddess Contract System is now at your service."

A mechanical female voice suddenly rang out in Lin Suchou's mind.

"Great Ruler? Did I transmigrate?"

Hearing that voice, Lin Suchou was overjoyed.

He had been rereading Great Ruler before going to sleep yesterday. It seemed this was fate!

"System, what functions do you have? Daily check-ins, or issuing missions?"

As he spoke, Lin Suchou found a concealed pile of rocks and hid inside it.

This was the Spirit Road, a place of immense danger and ruthless people. One careless move, and he could become either Spirit Beast food or someone else's points.

Right now, he did not have a strong physique. He had not even cultivated spiritual energy. Calling him a useless weakling would be an exaggeration.

"This system is called the Goddess Contract System. As long as the host forms a contract with a qualified Goddess and increases intimacy, the host may obtain corresponding system rewards."

After hearing that answer, Lin Suchou asked a few more detailed questions and finally came to fully understand the system's functions.

The most crucial requirements for selecting a Goddess were threefold: first, she had to have a powerful background and high status; second, she had to possess exceptional talent and great strength; third, she had to still be a virgin.

Only those who met all three requirements could become a Goddess.

Now that he was on the Spirit Road, the only qualified Goddesses he knew of were Luo Li and Wen Qingxuan.

But the only problem now was, how could he gain enough strength to move around freely?

Whoosh!

Suddenly, a black streak fell from the sky and hovered before him.

It was a pitch-black metal Token, with a blood-red character for "Spirit" in its center.

Lin Suchou examined it curiously before raising his hand and grasping it.

A stream of information surged from the Token directly into his mind.

Blood Token!

This was the identity token of every student who entered the Spirit Road. It could be used to enter the five Guardian Lands of the Spirit Road to rest and recover, and it was also part of the assessment for the final Spirit Road Empowerment.

The more Blood Tokens one possessed, the higher one's final ranking would be, and the better the quality of one's Spiritual Energy Infusion.

Most importantly, Spirit Beast Essence obtained by killing Spirit Beasts could be converted through it into spiritual energy to strengthen the body.

The body was divided into nine Spirit Body levels, with Level 1 Spirit Body being the lowest.

As for Lin Suchou, he did not even qualify as a Level 1 Spirit Body yet.

So now he had another problem: how was he supposed to hunt Spirit Beasts?

Using a small puddle beneath a rock, he discovered that his appearance had reverted to how he looked at twelve years old.

His childishness had not yet faded, but it had also been the time when he had possessed the most energy.

Even the clothes on his body had come along with him. His gray casual outfit looked completely out of place in this world.

If others saw him, they would definitely give him a few extra looks.

Still, that was not entirely bad. At least its color was similar to the rocks, making it easier for him to hide.

But hiding forever was not a solution. He still had to find Goddesses.

"Mm, finally found a river."

Just then, a young girl's voice reached his ears.

Lin Suchou stood up and looked toward the sound. Beneath an ancient tree whose canopy stretched for nearly a hundred li, a girl was actually bathing!

Unfortunately, she was too far away for him to see much more than a vague outline.

After watching critically for a while, Lin Suchou was about to look away and resume lying low when he suddenly spotted something in the bushes beside the stream.

A youth's face poked out. Like Lin Suchou, he was staring at the girl.

As he watched, the youth seemed to sense someone looking at him and shifted his gaze toward Lin Suchou.

And so, the two stared at each other wide-eyed for a while.

"Pervert! I'll gouge out your eyes!"

Suddenly, the girl's furious shout broke their standoff.

Lin Suchou thought he had been discovered and was about to jump out to explain when he saw the girl charge straight toward that other person.

Looking closely, Lin Suchou realized that guy had terrible luck. The girl's azure clothes had been left right beneath the bush where he was hiding.

"You think you can run after seeing my body? How could it possibly be that easy!"

After the girl reached the shore, her delicate little foot flicked up. Her blue clothes flew into the air and were on her body in the blink of an eye. Then, she conjured a fiery red Guan Gong Saber out of thin air and slashed toward the direction in which the youth had fled.

"Eek."

In the end, she did not kill him, but killed a rabbit instead.

The rabbit's dying cry reached Lin Suchou's ears.

After the girl chased the youth into the distance, Lin Suchou pondered for a moment before leaving the rock pile and walking over to the rabbit.

Though it was a rabbit, it stood half a meter tall, and its teeth were a full inch long.

Its blood-red eyes made Lin Suchou, a modern man who had always stayed far away from slaughterhouses, somewhat afraid.

But to grow stronger, he forced himself to focus. Picking up a fairly sharp rock, he smashed open the rabbit's head.

Brain matter and blood burst out, splattering Lin Suchou's entire face.

Ignoring his appearance, Lin Suchou began rummaging through its head. At last, he found a ball of white light containing a miniature rabbit.

This was Spirit Beast Essence.

Taking out his Token, he absorbed the essence. Spiritual energy converted through the Token entered Lin Suchou's body.

At once, he felt his Five Viscera and Six Bowels grow stronger.

Experience +3.

If he had previously been weaker than even a useless weakling, then now he was at least a useless weakling.

Lin Suchou raised his head and looked in the direction the girl had gone. A bold idea arose in his mind.

Follow them!

Lin Suchou then hunched over and headed in the direction the two had gone.

Fortunately, the girl had left traces all along the way. Following them, Lin Suchou gradually picked up several more Spirit Beast Essences.

It seemed that Woman really did have a fiery temper, but she was also strong. Every Spirit Beast that came to attack her had been killed.

Unfortunately, after Lin Suchou picked up seven or eight Spirit Beast Essences, Woman suddenly stopped.

It turned out that ahead of her, a handsome youth with black hair and black eyes had stopped as well.

Before him stood a mountain roughly a thousand meters tall, from which Spirit Beast roars occasionally echoed.

Presumably, the youth was wary of the powerful Spirit Beasts within the mountain.

"Stop chasing me! There are Spirit Beasts everywhere in those mountains. Don't get bitten to death. If you fail to make it to the end and lose out on the Spirit Road Empowerment, that would be more trouble than it's worth!"

Standing at the foot of the mountain, the handsome youth turned back and shouted at the girl.

"Forget Earth Ranking Spirit Beasts. Even if there are Heaven Ranking Divine Beasts inside, I'll still kill you!"

But the girl remained as fierce as ever, with no intention of stopping.

The youth tried to persuade her a few more times. Seeing that she still intended to chop him down, he simply began fighting.

The girl wielded a Guan Gong Saber, while the youth held a Bright Silver Dagger.

He was already at a disadvantage in terms of weapons.

That was what Lin Suchou thought.

But the result was unexpected. The youth actually intended to trade injury for injury.

Ignoring the wound on his back, he struck at the girl with one palm. Seeing this, she decisively abandoned her saber and began fighting with fists and kicks.

In the end, the youth was clearly more skilled in hand-to-hand combat and subdued the girl.

After the two exchanged a few more insults, Lin Suchou, who was hiding halfway up the mountain, finally understood when the girl said the name "Wu Yingying."

No wonder that youth was so strong. He was Mu Chen, the protagonist of Great Ruler!

This was exactly the part where he had just entered the Spirit Road. Since Lin Suchou had only recently reread the earlier parts of Great Ruler, he could not possibly be mistaken.

"Rogue! Put me down!"

Then, the girl's furious curses broke Lin Suchou's train of thought again.

Mu Chen actually carried her in his arms and tossed her straight into the small stream ahead!