Lin Qingyu

"Just... a little more!"

In the lavish room, a black-haired boy braced both hands against the arms of his wheelchair, struggling to make himself stand.

He was drenched in sweat, his teeth clenched tight. A fierce expression twisted his delicate features, making it clear that he had already given it everything he had.

Yet his hands, trembling incessantly from muscle fatigue, foretold his impending failure.

With a thud, he collapsed weakly back into the wheelchair.

The boy's name was Lin Qingyu. He was already fifteen years old, and ever since he had been born, he had never stood up through his own strength.

"Whew... Still not completely finished?" Lin Qingyu looked up at the ceiling, where an ornate crystal chandelier hung, and let out a long sigh.

He had actually expected this outcome. Every muscle, every nerve, even every cell in his body constantly sent pain more intense than being sliced by a thousand blades to remind him—it was still too early for him to move freely.

This pain had accompanied him since his birth and tormented him for fifteen whole years! It was this agony, worse than death by a thousand cuts, that had made someone who should have possessed a healthy body unable even to do something as simple as stand.

Lin Qingyu had long grown accustomed to this state. Besides, it was not as though he could see no hope.

First, he had adapted to the pain. Second, he knew its underlying cause and could even estimate when it would end. Waiting with a goal was always better than waiting without one.

At the very beginning, Lin Qingyu's self-awareness had been completely drowned by the excruciating pain. He had not even been able to react to external stimuli.

After all, even if he had truly been subjected to death by a thousand cuts, the pain he felt would not have amounted to even one-thousandth of what he endured now.

Still, it had to be said that his parents truly treated him well. Even though he was basically a cripple, they had never abandoned him.

The Lin Family was also quite wealthy, so they could afford to support him.

Fortunately, it's 2050. Luo Feng takes the college entrance exam in 2056, and there's still quite some time before those major events on Earth occur. And I'll soon be able to move freely. There's still time! Lin Qingyu thought.

Lin Qingyu was a transmigrator, and he clearly knew that he had transmigrated into the world of Swallowed Star.

Unfortunately, due to this agonizing pain, he had not practiced any cultivation at all since birth.

Of course, those fifteen years had not passed in vain.

After adapting to the pain somewhat, he had begun studying diligently and consciously developing his ability to investigate and explore.

Although he was only fifteen now, he was confident that in terms of learning and research, he would not be inferior to anyone on Earth.

In the world of Swallowed Star, the ability to learn and conduct research was extremely important. After all, in the later Plot, whether it was comprehending laws or deducing genetic structures, both were essentially forms of learning and research!

Moreover, the agonizing pain that had accompanied him for more than a decade was not without benefits.

At the very least, when it came purely to willpower, he believed he would not lose to those powerful experts. As for his state of mind, he had also entered the first realm.

What was more, he had other advantages to rely on. As long as the agonizing pain restricting his movements ended, Lin Qingyu was confident that he could become a true powerhouse!

"Ultimately, I brought these more than ten years of torment upon myself by messing around. I must learn my lesson in the future."

In a sense, the agonizing pain that had crippled him for fifteen years truly was something he had brought upon himself.

Lin Qingyu was not an ordinary transmigrator. As a transmigrator, he had a "cheat."

When his current body had still been an embryo, Lin Qingyu had retained his complete self-awareness. He had even relied on his great opportunity to observe and "record" the process by which Earth affected the souls of unborn children.

As a transmigrator blessed with a heaven-defying opportunity, and one who had even used that opportunity to "see" Zuo Shank's methods, Lin Qingyu had naturally become arrogant beyond measure.

So, he had acted recklessly. Relying on the great opportunity he possessed and believing that no matter how much he messed around, he would not die, he interfered in the process of his own body's birth.

In the Original work, the Life Imprints of Earth's humans were extremely special. When subjected to sufficient pressure, they could continuously transform and evolve.

Lin Qingyu's will had not been strong at the time, but with the help of his great opportunity, he could actively mobilize the power of his will like those top experts.

Although his will was not especially high in "quality," it exceeded that of ordinary people in "quantity." Thus, he used his slightly stronger yet inexhaustible will to pressure his own Life Imprint.

Then, his Life Imprint truly transformed successfully. It did indeed become stronger than that of ordinary people, even driving the evolution of his body itself.

However, this more powerful Life Imprint had no way of matching his evolved body.

In the worldview of Swallowed Star, a Life Imprint was also called a Soul Imprint. Before becoming an Undying deity, the Life Imprint was concentrated within the soul and could be said to be the core of a person's soul.

In other words, Lin Qingyu's soul and body could not fit together.

Even the Soul Possession Secret Technique required one to devour fragments of the possessed person's soul. Lin Qingyu's body and soul had both changed, but they had changed in different directions. After his body evolved, no soul capable of matching that body existed.

Nor could he leave his own body.

According to Lin Qingyu's original plan, even if he ruined his own body, he could simply use his cheat to reincarnate once more.

However, once he truly acted, he discovered that, without having cultivated any Will Secret Art, his will was vast but only about as resilient as that of an ordinary person. He simply could not use the great opportunity in his possession to actively leave his current body.

In the Original work, when Luo Feng's Life Imprint transformed, it was pressured by the inheritance of the Lie Yuan Technique. During the transformation process, the Lie Yuan Technique inheritance merged with the Life Imprint, and his will merged with his divine body.

But Lin Qingyu had used his half-baked will to pressure his Life Imprint.

Life Imprints and souls were themselves the origin of will. At the same time, the Life Imprint, which had begun transforming under pressure, saw its ability to merge with "foreign objects" greatly increase. Naturally, his fleshly body, which did not match his Life Imprint, was also considered a "foreign object."

Thus, under the influence of the transforming Life Imprint, his will began directly merging with his own fleshly body.

In the long run, this was actually a good thing. Once the fusion was complete, the problem of his soul and body being incompatible would naturally be resolved. Furthermore, he would gain some of the abilities of super experts in advance—his will would gain a "foundation" and no longer be an intangible, illusory existence.

This process was originally something that could only be completed after becoming a super expert or cultivating a Will Secret Art. Yet Lin Qingyu had entered this process early with the aid of Earth's special environment and his unique opportunity.

But something still went wrong.

Fusion was not a process that could be completed overnight. In the Original work, Luo Feng, who inherited the Lie Yuan Technique, took nearly a thousand years. Moreover, the process was so agonizing that even Luo Feng, who possessed peak Void True God willpower, found it difficult to endure.

That left Lin Qingyu in misery.

The fusion had already begun, and he had no way to interrupt it and leave his current body.

Fusion required time. Before it ended, his body and soul would remain incompatible, so naturally he could not move freely. On top of that, he had to endure incomparably intense pain.

Fortunately, both his body and will were weak, so the pain produced by their fusion was not as intense as what Luo Feng had experienced.

After all, when Luo Feng fused them, his body was already that of a Universe Master with tens of thousands of times the genetic level, while his will had reached the peak of Void True God. Both his body and will were powerful, so the fusion was correspondingly difficult.

His own difficulty was much lower, but even that greatly reduced difficulty had made him endure more than a decade of pain like being sliced by a thousand blades!

But this pain was finally about to end!

Through the great opportunity he possessed, he could observe that the fusion of his will and fleshly body had reached its final stage. The Life Imprint that served as the medium for the fusion of will and body would also become compatible with his body.

He would soon gain the ability to move freely!