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Tianluo Planet
"Chen Ming, your Martial Soul... dirt? An Item Martial Soul, perhaps..."
At the Spirit Pagoda's free Martial Soul Awakening station, a black-haired, black-eyed little boy held a square object in his hands.
The topmost part of the object was covered in lush green grass; everything below it was made of dirt.
The boy was named Chen Ming. He was a transmigrator. The good news was that he'd made it to Douluo Continent. The bad news was that he'd landed in the era of Douluo IV, where god-level powerhouses were as common as dogs and Limit Douluo roamed everywhere.
Chen Ming had been utterly despairing when he found that out. Had he committed some terrible offense in a past life? Why had he been sent straight to Douluo IV?
In this era, with the little Dragon God running rampant, Chen Ming had already resigned himself to living an ordinary life. Now, Heaven had given him another chance and rekindled his hopes.
That was because the Martial Soul he'd awakened was a Grass Block from a game he'd once played: My World.
Wonderful! There's hope for me after all! Just as Chen Ming was wondering how he should develop himself, the Martial Soul Awakening master who had awakened his Martial Soul took out a Soul Power testing crystal ball and held it out to him.
"Little fellow, let's test your Soul Power. Even a dirt Martial Soul can have Innate Soul Power, so there's no need to worry."
"Okay, thank you, Uncle."
Chen Ming nodded at once and placed his hand on the ball. To the man's surprise, dazzling light burst from the instrument in an instant.
"Innate Rank 10?! A dirt Martial Soul can have Innate Soul Power at Rank 10?!"
The awakening master was stunned. It wasn't Chen Ming's Innate Soul Power that shocked him, but the fact that a dirt Martial Soul had brought it.
In the era of Douluo IV, geniuses with Innate Full Soul Power were practically as common as cabbages. There were so many of them that they were a dime a dozen. But this was the first time anyone had seen a dirt Martial Soul with Innate Full Soul Power.
"Uh... Uncle, please calm down..."
Chen Ming instinctively took a step back as the awakening master leaned closer. The man coughed to cover his embarrassment, then said:
"Little fellow, would you like to join the Spirit Pagoda?"
The awakening master immediately extended an invitation. Of course they wanted to recruit a genius with Innate Full Soul Power. Chen Ming nodded.
After all, he had nothing: no cultivation technique, no resources, and no knowledge of how to survive here.
It would be best if he could slowly develop within a major organization. The awakening master nodded and said with a smile:
"All right, little fellow. I'll take you home. With your aptitude, you don't have to stay in a backwater like Tianluo Planet. Headquarters should arrange for you to go somewhere bigger and receive an education."
The awakening master escorted Chen Ming home, explaining the arrangements along the way. Chen Ming lived in a small house, and in the end, he couldn't escape the fate of every transmigrator: both his parents had died.
Fortunately, there was still some inheritance left, enough for Chen Ming to get by. After they arrived, the awakening master said goodbye, and Chen Ming returned to his room. The moment he focused his thoughts, his figure disappeared.
When he reappeared, he was on a vast, boundless grassland. Everything around him was made of square blocks: grass, animals, flowers, and trees.
Chen Ming looked at himself. He hadn't turned into a pixelated figure. Then he surveyed his surroundings and quickly found his status screen.
[Douluo Continent Mod loaded! Enjoy your game!]
A string of text soon appeared in the chat window, and an option to awaken a Martial Soul appeared on Chen Ming's personal panel.
"Oh? Which studio made this mod?"
Chen Ming looked a little surprised, then clicked Martial Soul Awakening. A moment later, a scythe Martial Soul appeared before his eyes, and his vision went dark.
"Is there a reincarnation button? I want to start over!"
Chen Ming immediately searched for a restart button. He was in Survival Mode, which meant he had to gather resources bit by bit.
[Chen Ming died]
With a sharp crack, Chen Ming died right there. He soon appeared again and awakened a Martial Soul without a word. A Thunder Holy Dragon Martial Soul appeared before him. Was it an upper-level Martial Soul of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon?
"Only an idiot would use this Martial Soul. Restart!"
[Chen Ming died]
Martial Soul Awakening: Seven Kill Sword. Restart!
[Chen Ming died]
Martial Soul Awakening: Blue Silver Grass. Restart!
[Chen Ming died] [Chen Ming died] [Chen Ming died] [Chen Ming died] [Chen Ming died] [Chen Ming died]
Chen Ming kept dying from day to night, until he was starting to lose his mind. At last, he finally hit the jackpot.
Martial Soul Awakening: A fearsome golden dragon appeared before his eyes, followed by a verdant green tree Martial Soul.
The Golden Dragon King and the Life Tree. Chen Ming finally lifted his head, a glimmer of hope in his eyes.
"There's hope! As long as the little Dragon God fails to fuse his bloodlines, he won't be my match!"
Lan Xuanyu should count as the third-generation Dragon King. After the first-generation Golden Dragon King died, all his essence went to Tang Wulin.
But bloodlines could be diluted. Tang Wulin had the human bloodline of Tang Hao, the god-level Blue Silver Emperor Bloodline of Ah Yin, Tang San's Sea God bloodline and Asura God bloodline, and Xiao Wu's god-level Soft Bone Rabbit bloodline.
With so many bloodlines diluting one another, by the time they reached Lan Xuanyu, they would probably be nearly diluted away. He definitely wouldn't be as powerful as Chen Ming.
All Chen Ming had to do was interfere with the main plot and stop Lan Xuanyu from fusing them into the Dragon God Bloodline.
Besides, the Life Tree was the true form of the Goddess of Life, a fellow God King. If Chen Ming fused the Power of Destruction of the Golden Dragon King with the Power of Life of the Life Tree, he could probably form the Power of Creation too.
At last satisfied, Chen Ming chose Confirm. Just as he was basking in his success, an arrow suddenly shot toward him and plunged into his arm.
"Ah!"
Chen Ming cried out in pain and turned to look. A skeleton stood there with a yellow Soul Ring circling its feet, indicating a hundred years of cultivation.
"Holy crap! It's nighttime!"
Chen Ming hurriedly dodged. More and more Zombies and skeletons were gathering around him. And these were Bedrock Edition skeletons—they walked while firing arrows, and they were ridiculously accurate.
Chen Ming was forced to dig three blocks down and fill in one above himself, huddling in a corner as he checked his status.
The bleeding effect was constantly draining his health. Chen Ming immediately switched to the Life Tree Martial Soul, then gritted his teeth and pulled the four arrows out of his body.
Blood spurted everywhere. Chen Ming's health dropped from one hundred points to seventy. Originally, he'd only had twenty points, but the Golden Dragon King Martial Soul had increased his maximum health by eighty.
As Chen Ming circulated his Soul Power, the energy of life flowed into his body and his health began to recover, while his mana bar started to fall.
"That really hurt... Sigh... I'll just wait until morning..."
Chen Ming idly fiddled with his panel. Before long, he found something very strange.
It seemed to be a second account. When he clicked it, the information changed at once. His health went from one hundred points back to twenty, and Chen Ming felt something was off.
He clicked again, and everything changed back. The Martial Soul and Life Tree were still there. In other words... he could run two accounts at once!
Chen Ming immediately continued awakening Martial Souls. He was bored anyway. Actually, it was just one male account and one female account, which he could switch between at will. He had two forms!
Since he had nothing else to do, he might as well grind Martial Souls for the second account. Chen Ming clicked Martial Soul Awakening again.
Bone Dragon Martial Soul. He didn't even hesitate before restarting!
[Chen Ming died]
"Uh... don't you think this guy's weird?"
Skeleton Xiaobai watched Chen Ming die and respawn in this area over and over, and couldn't help commenting.
"Come on, this is normal. We should be grateful he hasn't built a mob farm."
The Zombie beside him shrugged as he watched Chen Ming keep dying and respawning in the same area.
"Hey, want some?"
An Enderman came over, holding a few carrots out to the Zombie and the skeleton. They both took some, then watched the show.
"Bro, I don't have hands."
The Creeper came over too. The Enderman saw him and fed him directly. The three of them quietly watched Chen Ming do weird things.
[Chen Ming died] [Chen Ming died] [Chen Ming died]
At last! Chen Ming finally rolled a Martial Soul he was satisfied with! Two images appeared on the screen.
One was a silver dragon shimmering with seven-colored light: the Silver Dragon King. The other was a Source of Destruction filled with purple Power of Destruction.
"Holy crap... My two accounts are incredible. If I stood in the Divine Realm, the Goddess of Life and the God King of Destruction would probably be turning in their graves."
Chen Ming looked over his main account, which had the Golden Dragon King and Life Tree Martial Souls, and his alt, which had the Silver Dragon King and Source of Destruction.
Had the Golden Dragon King cheated, or had the Goddess of Life been unfaithful? Or had the Silver Dragon King cheated, while the God King of Destruction had been unfaithful?
Or... according to unofficial histories, the Golden Dragon King had secretly loved the God King of Destruction, and the two had been in love. When the Goddess of Life found out, she flew into a rage and seduced the Silver Dragon King.
"That's pretty exciting..."
Chen Ming's thoughts drifted to the process of grinding soy milk. He wiped his nose and, after confirming there was no nosebleed, cleared his throat.
"Ahem. It's daytime. First, let's punch—punch some trees."
As he spoke, Chen Ming walked up to a tree and clenched his fist. Silver dragon scales shimmered with seven-colored light over his right hand, and he punched the tree hard.
Thud!
With a muffled thump, cracks spread across one block of the tree. Chen Ming drew back his fist and punched again.
Thud!
A block of wood came loose and fell. It worked well enough. He kept punching the tree, though one thing bothered him: he had no attack range, so he had to touch the tree to break off a block.
So Chen Ming could only jump up and use his dragon wings to fly into the tree. Once he was up there, he punched the blocks from the top down.
Soon he had a Crafting Table and a wooden pickaxe. He mined some stone, gathered three blocks, upgraded to a stone pickaxe, and headed into a mine.
Growl...
Before long, Chen Ming's stomach rumbled. He checked his hunger bar and was dumbfounded. Seriously, man?! Why do I have three hunger bars?!
It seemed the Dragon King Martial Soul had increased his appetite and added two more hunger bars.
With no other choice, Chen Ming flew out of the mine. Soon, he used the Silver Dragon King Martial Soul's fire element to kill more than ten cows, pigs, sheep, chickens, and other animals.
"By the way, why haven't I seen any Soul Beasts? I've only seen Overworld creatures with cultivation levels."
Chen Ming took out a cooked steak and began to chew. One steak wasn't nearly enough, so he immediately dug in again.
[Farmer's Delight mod loaded! Enjoy your game!]
Another message popped up in the chat window. Chen Ming paused. It seemed that eating had triggered a new mod. If he did other things, would they trigger something too?
With that thought, Chen Ming broke a patch of grass, and a Four-leaf Clover box dropped out. He picked it up, and another message popped up.
[Lucky Clover mod loaded! Enjoy your game!]
"You can open loot boxes too?"
Chen Ming chuckled, then opened it with a thought. A silver-white dragon spear dropped out and stuck into the ground.
"What is this?!"
Chen Ming was completely dumbfounded. He pulled the silver-white dragon spear free. Wasn't this the Silver Dragon Spear? Had he gotten a legendary item on his first try?
[Silver Dragon Spear] Quality: "Divine Artifact" [Weapon Quality mod loaded! Enjoy your game!]
Another system message appeared. Chen Ming was silent for a long time, then stored the Silver Dragon Spear inside his body. After stocking up on food, it was time to head underground.
[Dynamic Surroundings mod loaded!]
Chen Ming snapped his fingers, and a little flame lit up the darkness around him. He got to work.
He'd discovered that killing creatures in My World and smelting food and ores could both grant experience, which meant he could level up.
That was why he was working so hard. After a few days, Chen Ming returned to the surface and checked his watch.
One day in My World was about an hour in Douluo Continent. Chen Ming had mined quite a few ores and killed plenty of hundred-year Zombies, skeletons, and Spiders in the mine.
His level had long since hit the maximum at Rank 10. The main problem was that he hadn't gone to the Spirit Pagoda to obtain a Soul Ring. Wouldn't that look suspicious?
Chen Ming immediately left My World and returned to Douluo Continent. He was still at home.
Chen Ming glanced around and raised a hand. An Iron Sword gleaming with a cold light appeared in his grip. He nodded, satisfied.
Then he changed the Iron Sword into dirt and pointed at the ground. A one-cubic-meter block of dirt appeared.
Chen Ming punched it, smashing it to pieces. The small blocks were absorbed into his body. It seemed these things worked just fine on the Douluo Continent side too. Good.
After getting out of bed, Chen Ming stretched and walked into the kitchen to try the Farmer's Delight mod. He consulted the recipes and started cooking with ingredients from My World.
Cooked Steak: "Terrible"
The ingredient's quality appeared before him, and Chen Ming's face darkened. He immediately threw it into the trash.
[Skill Mod loaded!]
Another announcement appeared. This mod's main function was to help him improve his skills. For example, cooking would raise his cooking skill, while practicing a sword technique would improve his swordsmanship.
"This is great. Time to grind!"
Chen Ming's eyes lit up, and he got right to work.
[Cooking +1+1+1+5+2+3+3]
As Chen Ming kept at it, his cooking skill quickly advanced to Ordinary Chef. The general quality levels were as follows:
Terrible, Inferior, Ordinary, Good, Excellent, Refined, Epic, Legendary, God-level.
Weapon and tool qualities followed the same scale, except that their highest rank was Divine Artifact. Of course, Chen Ming also managed to use up all his ingredients. After eating everything, he was barely full.
All right, now he had a new problem. He might eat his family out of house and home. With a Dragon King Martial Soul, his appetite had increased so much that he couldn't afford to feed himself.
P.S. The new book launched on February 21. Four thousand words.
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