Yi'an District No. 3 High School.
Class Five, Senior Year.
With the college entrance exams approaching, the atmosphere in the classroom was tense and solemn.
The students listened attentively to the lesson, the scratching of their pens mingling with the teacher's explanations.
Yet at that very moment, Luo Feng, sitting by the window, suddenly jolted violently for no apparent reason, as if struck by an invisible force.
A moment later, an intense pain, like countless needles stabbing into his mind, erupted inside his head.
In an instant, countless strange and complicated memories surged into him like a raging tide.
They belonged to a young man from another parallel Earth, whose name was also "Luo Feng"—only one character was different.
Then, a soul quietly entered Luo Feng's mind and began slowly merging with his own.
Luo Feng's consciousness was like a tiny boat struggling to navigate a vast ocean of unfamiliar memories.
At the same time, his soul rapidly grew stronger under the influence of this mysterious power.
In his mind, a dark golden sphere that had originally been no bigger than a cherry seemed to have been infused with some kind of magical power. It slowly grew until it was the size of an egg, then stopped expanding.
The sudden onslaught of memories and the sharp increase in the power of his soul left Luo Feng in agony. He couldn't help clutching his forehead with both hands, a stifled groan escaping his throat as he nearly cried out in pain.
"Babata... Golden Horned Beast... Universe Genius Battle... Virtual Universe Company... Outer Battlefield... Universe Ocean... Mountain Guest... Origin Continent... Hunyuan Lord?"
After absorbing the memories, Luo Feng learned about the course his future would take through a novel called Swallowed Star. It was as if he had opened a magnificent door leading to the boundless universe, gaining a preliminary understanding of its vast expanse.
Before Luo Feng could fully digest the massive flood of memories, a crisp electronic notification suddenly sounded in his mind.
[ Ding: Tomato Heavens Game System activated.] [ Luo Feng: Advanced Student (Spiritual Telekinetic) — Not yet awakened (8/9 experience)] [ Blade Technique: Basic (21/100 experience)] [ Movement Technique: Basic (46/100 experience)] [Character template fusion complete] [Current fused character: Linley Baruch (childhood)] [Azure Dragon Bloodline concentration: 0.07% (can evolve)] [Points: 0]
Tomato Heavens Game System? Character fusion? A Linley Baruch template? Azure Dragon Bloodline? Points?
The sudden flood of information left Luo Feng completely dumbfounded. His head was buzzing.
"What? Could it be..."
Luo Feng's heart skipped a beat, and an image from just before the young man "Luo Feng" had crossed over involuntarily surfaced in his mind.
Just before crossing over, "Luo Feng" had been lounging on the soft sofa at home. The gentle glow of his phone screen illuminated his focused face.
He had just downloaded a mobile game called "Tomato Heavens."
It was a pay-to-win card game, and all its five-star gold cards featured protagonists from novels by Qidian Platinum author I Eat Tomatoes.
Characters like Luo Feng, Linley, Teng Qingshan, Dongbo Xueying, Qin Yu, Ji Ning, and many others were all incredibly difficult to draw in the game.
"Luo Feng" was an ordinary wage earner. In his spare time outside of work, his greatest hobby was reading novels.
His favorites were I Eat Tomatoes's Swallowed Star and Coiling Dragon.
At the time, he had been staring intently at his phone screen, torn as his finger slid across it, comparing the attributes and skills of the opening characters, Luo Feng and Linley.
This chance to choose was rare. The game allowed players to pick any one gold card only at the very beginning. After that, drawing one would cost at least a thousand RMB.
Since his name was "Luo Feng," almost identical to that of the protagonist of Swallowed Star, he felt a special connection to the novel's main character.
But he had read Coiling Dragon even earlier, and had gone through it several times. Linley was another character he liked very much.
Looking at the two characters' cards, whose skills had both been designed to be ridiculously overpowered, Luo Feng found himself caught in a deep dilemma.
Just as he was hesitating, a dazzling purple bolt of lightning flashed outside the window, like a sword slicing through the gloomy sky.
A moment later, a thunderous boom shook the world. The lightning struck straight down, and then everything went black. He knew nothing more.
At the instant the lightning struck, the image on his phone had frozen on a frame split down the middle, with Luo Feng on one side and Linley on the other.
After absorbing the memories of "Luo Feng" from before he crossed over, the answer suddenly became clear to Luo Feng.
He was both thrilled and astonished.
Could this "game system" be the reason I fused with Linley's bloodline and talents?
Luo Feng knew exactly who Linley was: the protagonist of a novel called Coiling Dragon.
Linley was not only a Dragonblood Warrior, but also carried the bloodline of the Divine Beast Azure Dragon, as if he were a favored child of fate.
He also possessed astonishing magical talent: superlative in the Earth and Wind Elements, average in the Fire Element, and remarkable in spiritual power and comprehension.
Although his Water Element talent hadn't awakened early on because the Azure Dragon Bloodline in his body was too weak, Linley later awakened it through relentless effort and many opportunities. He even achieved a Four-Soul Mutation and became a supreme being who transcended the universe, accomplishing no less than Luo Feng would in his future in Swallowed Star.
Though the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline in Luo Feng's body was still extremely thin, it was an incomparably precious gift to him at this point.
After all, ordinary Earth Humans, aside from their unusual souls, had physical constitutions that paled in comparison to the powerful races in Swallowed Star.
Even with only a childhood version of Linley's template fused with him, his bloodline concentration was currently too low for him to transform into a Dragonblood Warrior.
But as long as Luo Feng trained tirelessly and kept building up his body, he could grow stronger quickly.
With the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline, Luo Feng's physical foundation was already far superior to that of an ordinary person.
After all, Coiling Dragon was a magical world. The physical constitutions of ordinary people there should be about the same as those of ordinary people in the "spiritual energy revival" world of Swallowed Star, if not stronger.
In the world of Coiling Dragon, even an ordinary person who trained diligently could consider it an impressive achievement to reach the level of a Second-Rank Warrior through physical training alone.
A Second-Rank Warrior in Coiling Dragon was probably about as strong as an Advanced Student in Swallowed Star.
Dragonblood Warriors, however, were entirely different. They could easily train to become Sixth-Rank Warriors, and those with especially outstanding talent could even reach the Seventh Rank.
The gap in talent was like the difference between heaven and earth.
And this was without cultivating battle qi. In the world of Swallowed Star, that would be like not cultivating Genetic Origin Energy.
What did it mean to reach the Sixth-Rank Warrior level through physical training alone, without cultivating Genetic Origin Energy?
That was probably at least War General Level.
A Seventh-Rank Warrior was ten times stronger than a Sixth-Rank Warrior, at least on par with an Elementary War God.
Besides, in the world of Swallowed Star, Luo Feng didn't need to cultivate battle qi. He only needed to cultivate Genetic Origin Energy.
That meant the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline's inability to cultivate battle qi wasn't a drawback for him at all.
And in the world of Swallowed Star, dragon-type monsters were not uncommon.
Earth Dragons, Iron-Armored Dragons, the Thunder Dragon Emperor... If Luo Feng got the chance to absorb their blood one day, perhaps he could awaken his Azure Dragon Bloodline and successfully transform into a Dragonblood Warrior.
Once he succeeded, Luo Feng could easily reach the so-called "Saint Realm peak" of the Coiling Dragon world within a few decades, embarking on an entirely different legendary life.
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