Who Needs to Live Off a Woman After Transmigrating to Coiling Dragon? Part 1

Who Needs to Live Off a Woman After Transmigrating to Coiling Dragon?

Author: Ice Wind Demon

Synopsis:

After transmigrating into Coiling Dragon, he gained the identity of a Soul Mutator and was pursued by a beautiful third-generation rich girl from Hell. Looking at his exceptional cultivation talent, Simon solemnly swore with a hand over his chest, "Even if I die and transmigrate again, I absolutely will not live off a woman!"

Also known as: Wind Rises in Coiling Dragon

Mutation

At the northwestern edge of the Rayast Continent, atop the main peak of Despair Peak.

Gales raged. On a small patch of flat ground atop the main peak, two young-looking men were whispering to each other.

"Big Brother, are we really just letting him go? He's the greatest threat to the Joshua Clan's resurgence," said the younger, frail youth with an ordinary appearance.

"Little Brother, if I could kill him at all costs, I definitely would have done so. But I never expected that my ultimate move, which I had perfected over several years, could still only seriously injure him. We can only look for another opportunity later," replied the youth who appeared to be the elder brother.

"But are we really going to let the tiger return to the mountains?" Little Brother was still unwilling to accept it.

"Then why don't you go kill him?"

"Hehe, Big Brother, you must be joking. I'm only a Level 9 Warrior, and I can't even withstand a single move from you. Going after Simon alone would just be suicide."

"Then shut up!"

The elder brother looked at his younger sibling, who was only a few years younger but had a temperament nothing like that of a hundred-year-old adult. He was more like an overgrown boy who had never left the family's protection.

It's all because the family and I spoiled him too much since childhood. If there's a chance later, I'll have to temper him properly. The elder-brother-like youth said nothing more. With a grim expression, he glanced once more at the magic crystal mine beneath the mountain, then waved his hand and flew away from Despair Peak with his immature younger brother.

Within the Herbert Family.

"Patriarch, it's already been half a year since Young Master fought Elodi of the Joshua Clan's Saint Realm. Why is he still unconscious?" Pete, the Herbert Family's head steward, asked anxiously.

"I was still too hasty. The Joshua Clan provoked me, and I agreed to let the two juniors fight. Looking back now, I truly shouldn't have." Solo Herbert, the current patriarch of the Herbert Family, was filled with regret. He had never expected Elodi, who had previously been so obscure, to have hidden himself so deeply. The strength Elodi displayed was already no weaker than Elder Garrod, the Herbert Family's current second strongest expert.

He is only slightly weaker than me. And Elodi has cultivated for barely over a hundred years. He is a major threat. I must be more careful in the future, Solo thought.

Inside a brightly lit bedroom, two old men silently watched the pale-faced youth lying on the bed.

At that moment, the seemingly calm and motionless youth was actually undergoing a violent Soul Storm within his mind.

"What's going on? How did I end up here? I only stayed up all night gaming over the weekend. My ten-stack Heartsteel had just formed, and I was about to get a Three-Star five-cost unit. And this is what I get?" Yang Yu, whose soul was shaped like a sword, looked utterly depressed.

There was no other reason. This situation had already lasted for two days. At this rate, he had probably transmigrated.

Other people either transmigrated with the help of a truck or after getting drunk. Why had his transmigration happened because he got too excited while playing a game?

Sigh, I wonder what world I transmigrated into. I hope it's a high-martial or fantasy world. Otherwise, after transmigrating once, I'd still have to work nine to five tightening screws. Who could stand that?

Within the soul space, Yang Yu thought idly.

His current state was strange. His consciousness was clear, yet he could not move at all. It was like the lucid dreams he had experienced in his previous life.

To be honest, this state was terrifying. He clearly knew he was dreaming, but he could neither wake up nor control his body.

"If this goes on much longer, am I going to go insane..."

His thoughts drifted, and before he realized it, Yang Yu fell asleep.

In the dream, he seemed to become someone else and gained another name—Simon Herbert.

From the moment he was born, to when he gradually grew up, he learned this world's language and writing and embarked upon the path of cultivation!

The dream continued. Yang Yu, having arrived in this world, gradually accepted this identity and came to believe from the bottom of his heart that Simon was him, and he was Simon.

"Perhaps Simon is me in the Coiling Dragon World, while I am Simon in the Blue Star world. This could be understood as versions of myself in different spacetime within parallel universes. At their core, the two are the same person. Under special circumstances, their souls can fuse perfectly," Yang Yu guessed.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain how he had died suddenly after pulling an all-nighter, arrived here, perfectly fused with the soul before him, and felt no discomfort whatsoever.

In the dream, Yang Yu recognized this world as the setting of Coiling Dragon, his favorite novel from his previous life.

The reason was obvious. From a young age, he had studied the family's inherited Battle Qi Manual and displayed the qualities of a genius. He entered the path of a warrior in half a day and cultivated his first thread of Battle Qi in a single day.

If Battle Qi alone could still have been a coincidence, then the magician test he underwent at the age of six confirmed everything.

The testing scene was almost identical to the one in the original novel. Only the location had changed to the family's ancestral residence, while the tools used were exactly the same.

Under the Light magic spell Intimidation, the little boy held on for an exceptionally long time—so long that Patriarch Solo, who was overseeing the test, was stunned. "It's already been half an hour, hasn't it? Little Simon learned the Battle Qi Manual incredibly quickly, completing in one day what others need a month to achieve. But for his spiritual force to be this strong..."

Finally, Little Simon reached his limit and could no longer endure, dropping onto the ground. "His spiritual force is already eighty times that of children his age, isn't it? And before this, Little Simon tested as having exceptional elemental affinity for both Water and Wind."

This is far stronger than I was back then. Our branch of the family will finally rise to prominence as well. Hahaha, Simon's father, Darren, thought.

At that moment, Patriarch Solo, the legendary Saint Realm expert who had dominated the Gale Empire for over a thousand years and was hosting the test, was also incomparably excited.

For the Herbert Family, which had prospered for over a thousand years, only two or three descendants with such talent at the age of six had ever appeared. Apart from one who had died midway through his growth, the other two had both become Saint Realm experts without exception. This had allowed the Herbert Family's overall strength to rise into the forefront of the Gale Empire.

The Herbert Family controlled three provinces. It had tens of thousands of officially registered clan members, with an actual territory exceeding one million square miles. Most clan members were usually scattered throughout the various provinces. Only during the annual Wind God Festival would they gather at the patriarch's summons. First, to bring together the normally dispersed family members and strengthen their bonds; second, to conduct unified aptitude tests for children from every branch who had reached the age of six.

The entire festival lasted for a week.

That week was also the liveliest time of the year for the Herbert Family.

Patriarch Solo placed great importance on nurturing the family's younger generation. Whenever he was within the family during a test, he always personally oversaw it.

And this time, the old patriarch had truly received a tremendous surprise.

The dream continued. With such talent, Simon's strength as a warrior steadily rose under the personal guidance of Patriarch Solo, a Saint Realm Peak expert. He cultivated Battle Qi at six, became a Level 1 Warrior that same year, a Level 2 Warrior at seven, a Third-Rank Warrior at eight, and a Fourth-Rank Warrior at nine. If Solo had not kept Simon in check and prevented him from neglecting physical training, then with his talent in cultivating Battle Qi, breaking through one rank every half year for the first three ranks would have been easy.

Even so, Little Simon broke through to become a Level 6 Warrior at the age of twelve. This also set a new record for the youngest Level 6 Warrior in the Herbert Family. The previous record had been held by Simon's great-great-grandfather, who became a Level 6 Warrior at thirteen.

Solo did not allow Simon to abandon magic training either. It would have been too much of a waste for Simon not to learn magic with such high spiritual force and elemental affinity. To that end, Old Solo did not hesitate to use his Face-Face Fruit and personally invite his old friend Phil, a long-famous Wind Element Saint Magus.

Under the careful tutelage of two veteran Saint Realm experts, Little Simon's strength rose rapidly. It could be said that he enjoyed the finest treatment on the entire Rayast Continent. Even an imperial prince would have had little more than this.

Little Simon did not disappoint his family's expectations. After years of diligent cultivation, he finally comprehended Momentum of Heaven and Earth at the age of thirty-five!

After comprehending Momentum of Heaven and Earth, Simon felt as though he could control the wind. He had never found the wind so intimate before. He could sense the Rhythm of the Wind and its pulse with such clarity.

Soon after, Simon broke through to the Saint Realm as a warrior!

This also set a new record for the youngest Saint Realm expert in the Herbert Family!

That year, the Herbert Family basked in unprecedented glory. Old Patriarch Solo hosted a banquet for every major figure in the Gale Empire and formally introduced Simon to the empire's upper class for the first time.

That night, Simon, having broken through to the Saint Realm, was in high spirits. The nerves he had kept taut for decades could finally relax somewhat. Simon felt the sense of security brought by strength, especially the immense freedom of being able to race freely between heaven and earth through his own power. It intoxicated him.

At that moment, pursuing the peak became his instinct.

Cultivation was no longer a tedious matter. The joy brought by constantly growing stronger and endlessly transforming his life level had already surpassed every pleasure from his previous life!

Five years passed. When Simon was forty, he was only a hair away from truly mastering the Rhythm of the Wind. This meant that he had cultivated as a warrior to the peak of the Saint Realm Mid-Tier and could break through to the Saint Realm Peak at any time, truly stepping through the gate of comprehending Laws.

In magic, Simon had also cultivated to the level of a Level 9 Magician of both Water and Wind and was not far from becoming a Saint Magus.

According to Solo, the step from Saint Realm Mid-Tier to Saint Realm Peak was extremely difficult. Within the Herbert Family, only Patriarch Solo and Elder Garrod had comprehended Laws. As for the other elder, Sanders, he remained at the peak of Saint Realm Mid-Tier, roughly equal in strength to Simon now.

At that moment, Elodi of the Joshua Clan, a Saint Realm expert whose family had never gotten along well with the Herbert Family, issued Simon a challenge at a public banquet hosted by the imperial family.

Challenges between nobles were originally very common among the upper class of the Rayast Continent.

In this world that revered martial strength, battle was highly admired.

However, it was normally only a form of friendly exchange between nobles with close relationships.

But now, the Herbert Family and the Joshua Clan were fighting over ownership of a magic crystal mine in the northwestern border region of the Gale Empire. This challenge invitation was clearly not so simple.

And by coincidence, the wager for this challenge was precisely ownership of that magic crystal mine, worth at least several billion gold coins.

Although the Herbert Family was not particularly lacking in this magic crystal mine, taking full control of it would still be highly useful to the family.

In the dream, Yang Yu watched as the youthful and hot-blooded genius Simon discussed the matter with his family before accepting this publicly provocative challenge.

According to the family's intelligence, Elodi had always displayed only the strength of an ordinary Saint Realm Mid-Tier expert, so ordinary that he was practically invisible within the Saint Realm circles of the Gale Empire.

After all, there were many who, after entering the Saint Realm, showed no obvious improvement in strength for decades or even centuries. Everyone believed Elodi was the same, and that his public challenge was simply for the sake of competing over the magic crystal mine.

Besides, among those at the same level, the young genius Simon feared no one. He practiced Magical and Martial Dual Cultivation! The boost in power brought by being a dual-element Level 9 Magician could not be ignored even in Saint Realm combat.

On the surface, Simon was stronger no matter how one looked at it.

Under such circumstances, Simon had no reason to retreat.

If he did, the Herbert Family's thousand-year honor would be destroyed, and the entire upper class of the empire would brand them with the shameful title of "cowardly family"!

Naturally, the duel was approved under the witness of the empire and the nobles.

The time and place of the battle were set for half a year later, above the Seine River in the outskirts of the city.

This Saint Realm duel instantly ignited the enthusiasm of the imperial capital's citizens. In the fiercely martial Gale Empire, public battles between such experts were rare.

Some people even traveled tens of thousands of miles and spent several months getting there after receiving the news, all for the chance to witness the splendor of Saint Realm experts.

At the start of the duel, things indeed unfolded as Simon and the Herbert Family had expected. After casting the Wind Element support spell Extreme Speed and the Water Element defensive spell Water Guardian, Simon relied on his advantages in speed and defense to suppress Elodi. The sword light released from Simon's Wind-Annihilation Longsword even nearly struck Elodi several times.

Although Simon was a step weaker in Battle Qi, since Elodi had entered the Saint Realm much earlier than him, Simon surpassed him greatly in speed and defense. Furthermore, Simon had comprehended an ultimate move—Gale Breathless Slash—developed from the Level 9 Wind Element spell Wind Blade Soaring Dance, Vacuum Binding Art, and insights related to the Rhythm of the Wind. Once it struck at close range, it could bind the target briefly before unleashing an attack upon them.

In terms of pure offensive power, Solo judged that it had reached the threshold of Saint Realm Peak. It possessed absolute suppressive power against Saint Realm Mid-Tier experts. Even Patriarch Solo, a Saint Realm Peak expert, was unwilling to take it head-on lightly. After all, Solo was also skilled in the Law of Wind and was not particularly adept at defense.

The battle in the dream continued.

Just as Simon seized an opportunity and was about to unleash his ultimate move, Gale Breathless Slash, to strike his opponent—

Elodi, who had studied the Laws of Light, instantly split into two clones, causing Simon's Gale Breathless Slash to strike his opponent's false body instead!

Seeing this in the dream, Yang Yu could not help laughing. Wasn't this like Lee Sin's ultimate kicking a fake Wukong?

"This is bad! Elodi has hidden himself too deeply. He has actually crossed the threshold of Laws and begun comprehending the Light and Shadow Clone Technique within the Laws of Light. And his attainments don't seem low either. Simon is in danger now!" Patriarch Solo said worriedly.

Simon, who was fighting, also noticed Elodi's abnormality and hurriedly pulled back after using Gale Breathless Slash.

"So now you know fear? Weren't you having a great time chasing me around and beating me up just now? Now it's my turn," Elodi said coldly.

Taking advantage of Simon's ultimate move striking his clone, he had already swiftly switched positions to Simon's side. Then, a dazzling Light Ray shot from Elodi's eyes and struck Simon directly as he retreated at Extreme Speed.

The moment he was hit, Simon recognized it as a Soul Attack!

Elodi had hidden himself far too deeply!

Simon had never imagined that Elodi had silently not only broken through to the Saint Realm Peak, but had even comprehended a move related to Soul Attack.

Within Simon's Soul Ocean, the suddenly appearing Light Ray carried an unstoppable force as it sliced through Simon's soul defenses.

Fortunately, Elodi had not cultivated for very long, and his soul power was not strong enough—only at the level of a Level 9 Magician. Otherwise, Simon would truly have been in danger.