Hundred Treasure Pearl, Lin Yan: If Huo Yuhao Can Become a God, Why Can't I?

Time ticked away, second by second.

Outside the window, the laughter of students in the distance and the rustling of wind through leaves made everything seem calm and normal. That sensation of being watched never returned.

After a long while, Huo Yuhao slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. His taut nerves relaxed slightly, but the vigilance in his eyes did not diminish in the slightest.

Could it be... that something has happened in the God Realm?

A bold conjecture surfaced in his mind.

It was no small matter that could force a God King like Tang San to temporarily divert his continuous focus from a "key chess piece."

Or perhaps... some of Tang San's plans have encountered an accident, or even been exposed?

Combining the fact of his own rebirth with the appearance of this "transmigrator" Wang Teng, Huo Yuhao vaguely felt that the "script" of this world might no longer be something Tang San could fully control.

In the dark, there might exist variables that even a God King would find difficult to predict or contend with.

His own soul rebirth, returning with the memories and origin of his past life, was in itself the greatest "accident." It might have already disturbed some higher-level causality or laws, triggering a chain reaction.

"But regardless, one thing is certain for now—" Huo Yuhao's eyes narrowed slightly, "Since Tang San has stopped spying, it at least means his main attention is being held back by other more important, more urgent matters. For me right now, this is a rare window of opportunity."

A window of opportunity meant a chance.

It meant he could practice the Dao Heaven Technique more freely and delve deeper into the other self-created techniques from his past life.

He no longer had to worry that every move he made was being watched by the "director."

This undoubtedly greatly increased his room for maneuver and his safety.

However, just as Huo Yuhao began to plan how to utilize this "free" time, he did not know that the root cause of all these changes lay in Dormitory 108, less than twenty meters away from him.

Dormitory 108.

The room had been cleaned until it was spotless, and a faint scent of air freshener drifted through the air.

The handsome youth was currently sitting cross-legged on his bed, which was covered with a soft mattress. His eyes were closed, his breathing long and steady, appearing as if he were in deep meditation.

However, his consciousness had long since sunk into his own Sea of Spirit.

This was a space far smaller and dimmer than Huo Yuhao's current Sea of Spirit. The spiritual power was pale gray, undulating slowly.

But in the very center of this space floated a highly conspicuous object—a bead about the size of a fist, radiating a soft, pale golden light throughout its body.

The surface of the bead flowed smoothly, pulsing slightly as if it were alive, emitting an ancient and mysterious aura.

At this moment, the light of the bead was flickering rhythmically, as if it were gestating something.

Where the light converged, the phantom of a card was gradually turning from illusory to solid, its outline becoming increasingly clear.

The youth was named Lin Yan, a native of the Douluo Continent, born into a mid-sized soul master family in the Heaven Dou Empire.

His life should have followed the family's trajectory: relying on his decent aptitude to cultivate to a three or four-ring Soul Ancestor, becoming a pillar of the family, marrying, having children, and living a stable life.

However, everything changed on the day of his martial soul awakening at the age of six.

Right at the awakening ceremony, the moment his hand touched the awakening stone and his martial soul was about to manifest, his mind shook violently!

Countless fragmented, bizarre, and kaleidoscopic memory images surged in forcibly like a bursting dam!

These memory fragments were extremely chaotic and mostly blurred, but a few key pieces of information were branded into his mind with abnormal clarity:

—A youth named Huo Yuhao.

—He is the Son of Destiny of the Douluo Continent.

—He will ascend to the God Realm in the future and become a new deity.

—He has a million-year soul beast, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, as a wisdom soul ring.

—He has a powerful ice-attribute second martial soul.

—He is at Shrek Academy, in Dormitory 108, and has a roommate and future partner named Wang Dong (who is actually Tang Wutong)...

—In a place called the Valley of Universe Inquiry, he is repeatedly tortured to death, resurrected, and subjected to inhuman torment by a powerful existence (in the memory fragments, there was only a blurred blue-haired figure and heaven-toppling divine might)...

At the same time, deep within his Sea of Spirit, this pale golden bead appeared out of thin air.

The bead possessed self-awareness. It transmitted information to Lin Yan, calling itself the "Hundred Treasure Pearl," with mysterious functions: First, it could gestate various rare treasures, techniques, and even special abilities.

Second, it could seize the destiny of others, especially the destiny of that "Son of Destiny," Huo Yuhao, converting it into energy for the bead to gestate treasures, while assisting the host in gradually replacing the original owner to become the new Son of Destiny, eventually embarking on the path to godhood!

To demonstrate its capabilities, the "Hundred Treasure Pearl" gave him a "Newbie Gift Pack" on the spot.

It directly mutated and strengthened his ordinary Iron Hammer martial soul—which had only innate level one soul power—into an innate level six soul power Black Iron Thunder Pattern Hammer!

Not only that, it additionally bestowed upon him the embryonic form of an ice-attribute martial soul that had not yet fully taken shape!

Twin Martial Souls! And one of them started at innate level six!

At that moment, the dormant ambition in Lin Yan's heart was ignited like a wildfire.

Why should that Huo Yuhao from the memory fragments be the Son of Destiny, become a god in the future, live forever, and be revered by thousands?

And as for him, Lin Yan, with a heaven-defying opportunity like the "Hundred Treasure Pearl" and possessing Twin Martial Souls, why couldn't he take his place?

He also wanted to become a god! He also wanted to stand at the pinnacle of the world, look down upon all living beings, and enjoy eternal life!

From then on, Lin Yan began to consciously "reveal" his talent, rapidly becoming the strongest of the younger generation and the star of hope for his family.

When he expressed his desire to further his studies at Shrek Academy, his family spared no expense, pulling strings and spending heavily to finally secure a recommendation letter from a main city-level city lord, allowing him to satisfy one of Shrek's harsh enrollment requirements.

At this moment, looking at the new treasure gestating within the Hundred Treasure Pearl, Lin Yan felt both anticipation and a trace of regret.

What a pity... neither of my martial souls are of the spirit type.

He sighed to himself, Otherwise, I might have been able to do as the memory fragments suggested: go to the Star Dou Great Forest, find that million-year-old Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, and seize it! That was the crucial first step for Huo Yuhao's rise...

The memory fragments he had obtained were incomplete and jumped around, but he had an exceptionally deep impression of Huo Yuhao's greatest early opportunity—the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

He knew that Huo Yuhao had encountered the dying Sky Dream Ice Silkworm on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest at the end of his eleventh year, when his soul power was at level ten, and had fused with it, thereby changing his destiny against all odds.

He had once toyed with the idea of snatching it, but the images in his memories and the reality of his situation made it clear: first, he did not possess a spirit-type martial soul, so the success rate of forcibly fusing with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's massive spiritual essence was extremely low, and it would likely lead to a mental breakdown.

Second, among the treasures currently gestating in the Hundred Treasure Pearl, there were no items capable of ensuring the capture or safe fusion of a million-year-old spirit-type soul beast; the risks far outweighed the rewards.

Therefore, he could only settle for the next best thing and choose the second "intercept" route—securing Dormitory 108 at Shrek Academy ahead of time to intercept Wang Dong, who was originally destined to be Huo Yuhao's roommate.

According to the hints from the Hundred Treasure Pearl, as long as he successfully "occupied" this key position and established a connection with Wang Dong, he could continuously siphon luck from both Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong, accelerating the gestation process of the Hundred Treasure Pearl and gaining even more benefits.

However, whenever he thought of the terrifying scenes in the memory fragments where Huo Yuhao was repeatedly slaughtered by that Blue-Haired Divine Shadow, his body pulverized into dust only to be restored, Lin Yan would shudder.

He feared that if he intercepted Wang Dong (Tang Wutong) and took Huo Yuhao's place, he would end up suffering the same fate as Huo Yuhao.

Fortunately, the Hundred Treasure Pearl gave him a sense of security once more: as long as he successfully intercepted Wang Dong, the Hundred Treasure Pearl could use the massive amount of luck siphoned during the initial stage to gestate a treasure capable of influencing the God Realm, causing it to temporarily distance itself from the Douluo Continent!

This would undoubtedly greatly reduce the risk of him being directly interfered with by that terrifying existence.