Origin Bead

Blackstone Town, an ordinary town in the Lucas Province of the Roland Empire, is also the hometown of Lynn in this life.

The town is located near the edge, and inside an ordinary residence, seven-year-old Lynn sits cross-legged beside a campfire, his upper body bare.

"Hoo~" A long and rhythmic breathing sound echoes; it is clear that Lynn is meditating.

Meditation is the foundation for a mage. Whether it is to absorb the elements of heaven and earth to convert them into magic power or to hone one's spirit, meditation is required.

The first meditation of a mage is particularly difficult and dangerous, usually requiring an experienced mage to guide them nearby. However, Lynn is different. According to the black-robed cleric, with Lynn's powerful spiritual power and superior elemental affinity, he can easily get started even without guidance, and there will be no danger at all.

Therefore, when leaving the Church of Light, Lynn had requested a meditation technique from the black-robed cleric. Not long after returning to Blackstone Town, Lynn couldn't wait to start practicing with it, and three days have passed since then.

"Hum~ Hum~"

At this moment, in Lynn's perception, the surrounding space, which was originally empty, is filled with dense, fiery red light spots, numbering in the thousands.

These dense, fiery red light spots are the fire elements wandering between heaven and earth. If Lynn wants to become a mage, he needs to incorporate these fire elements into his body bit by bit and refine them into magic power.

Time passes, the sky outside the window grows dim, the surrounding fiery red light spots continuously decrease, and the originally illusory strand of magic power within Lynn's body gradually solidifies.

As the last light spot is absorbed into his body, with a "hum," Lynn suddenly opens his eyes. He jumps up neatly and stretches his palm forward, using the solidified magic power in his body to communicate with the elements of heaven and earth. A small flame suddenly appears at Lynn's fingertips.

"Crackle~" The small flame on Lynn's fingertip burns without any fuel.

"After three days of accumulation, I finally have a bit of an extraordinary look." Lynn excitedly watches the small flame burning on his hand, playing with it with delight, switching it from his left hand to his right hand from time to time.

"Buddha Fury Fire Lotus!"

"Great Desolation Prison Heaven Finger!"

"You Have the Path to Death!" One after another, chuunibyou-esque shouts ring out in the room.

After a long while, only when the magic power in his body is exhausted does Lynn stop.

"Lynn, it's time to eat." Outside the door, the voice of his mother, Irina, rings out.

"Got it, I'll come out after I extinguish the fire." Lynn responds loudly, then puts out the campfire used during his practice and turns to leave the room.

At night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse. Excited by his first contact with the extraordinary using magic power, Lynn tosses and turns in bed, unable to sleep. Finally, he simply does a carp leap and sits up from the bed.

"Forget it, I probably won't be able to sleep tonight. I might as well continue practicing; it's a good time to recover the magic power consumed during the day."

Just as Lynn falls into a state of meditation, an unusual scene occurs.

Lines of golden text appear abruptly before Lynn's eyes without any warning.

[Extraordinary power detected, life level has changed, binding conditions met, Origin Bead has been bound.]

"What is this?"

"Could it be the golden finger of a transmigrator? No one told me that a genius-style protagonist also gets a golden finger." Lynn complains on the surface, but inwardly, the corners of his mouth are already curling up.

I wanted to get along with others as an ordinary genius, but alas, the "true fragrance" warning is real. Now that I've shown my hand, I'm not pretending anymore; I, Lynn, am a cheater.

"Godfather, would you like to introduce yourself?" Lynn tries to speak, but the golden text does not change in the slightest.

Seeing this, Lynn's expression changes. So it's a mentally challenged version of a golden finger? It's... simply amazing!

Seeing that he cannot get any information, Lynn tries to reach out and touch the golden text. However, the next second, his palm passes through the golden text without any obstruction, as if touching the air.

"Should I try magic power?" Seeing that physical touch has no effect, Lynn simply mobilizes the magic power he just recovered in his body to wrap around his hand and continues to reach toward the golden text, but the result is still ineffective.

Just as Lynn is at a loss, a sudden change occurs. The golden text shrinks rapidly and then rushes toward Lynn at an extremely high speed. Before Lynn can react, it sinks into his sea of consciousness.

Immediately afterward, countless unfamiliar pieces of information are forcibly poured into Lynn's brain.

"No... it's too much, too much... I'm going to be broken."

Suddenly receiving too much information, Lynn's face contorts. It takes a long while for him to recover and sort through the extra information in his mind.

Only then does Lynn realize that the golden text that bound him is actually a Great Dao treasure called the Origin Bead. In its prime, the Origin Bead could be called the supreme treasure among the heavens and myriad worlds; it could create Great Dao clones and stand above the Heavenly Dao of all worlds.

It's just that the Origin Bead that bound Lynn is now in a broken state due to the sudden War of the Gods. Forget about Great Dao clones; it can't even create Heavenly Dao clones. At most, it can only create some low-level Talent Clones, and its own power has been greatly reduced.

However, even so, with the Origin Bead in its broken state, Lynn carrying it is equivalent to carrying a supreme soul-defense artifact, thanks to its status far exceeding that of the Coiling Dragon World.

"Hiss~ How terrifying. Even in a broken state, it can actually be compared to a supreme artifact." Lynn, sorting through the information, cannot help but exclaim.

"Thinking about it, what kind of terrifying existence could have shattered the Origin Bead?" A thought stirs in Lynn's heart.

The golden text in his sea of consciousness seems to sense this. The next second, Lynn only feels a blur before his eyes.

When he regains his senses, he seems to be in another space-time. The surrounding world is filled with chaotic energy, permeated with the light of the Great Dao, and broken Heavenly Daos can be seen everywhere.

He sees that at the end of the River of Time, a hundred figures are jointly besieging several majestic figures.

Among the hundred figures, there is a towering Fire God holding a fire lotus, burning everything in the world; there is a Cthulhu-like deity with tentacles and an eerie, ominous aura; there is a strange, mutilated corpse with a heavenly eye on its forehead and a ghost-slaying halberd in its hand...

And the majestic figures they are besieging are covered in red hair, exuding an ominous aura, and shouting things like "I shall rule for all eternity!" and "I am the Heavenly Emperor, destined to suppress all enemies in the world."

The two sides trade blows. With a wave of their hands, countless Great Daos collapse. Merely the aftermath is enough to shatter the Heavenly Dao. Although the red-haired figures being besieged are few in number, they clearly have the upper hand.

Looking at the grand battlefield before him, Lynn's mouth is already wide open.

"Perhaps only a battle like this could shatter a treasure of the Origin Bead's level."

As Lynn thinks this, his brows suddenly furrow, and he looks back behind him.

"Why do I always feel like someone is shielding me?"

"Forget it, it must be my imagination. After all, this is just a recorded projection of the Origin Bead. Besides, even if I were really near the battlefield, how could the great powers capable of participating in this battle hide behind a small character like me?"

A certain Han Heavenly Venerable: ...Actually, it's not impossible.