Lin Ge

In the back mountain of the Lin Clan in Green Sun Town stood a quiet bamboo grove. Deep within it was a small cottage, and behind the cottage, a young man stood straight among the bamboo, motionless as a mountain.

A breeze swept past, rustling the bamboo leaves. The young man held a sword in one hand, his eyes closed and his expression calm.

Suddenly, a bamboo leaf slid from a stalk and danced freely through the air on the breeze.

Just as the leaf was about to fall to the ground, the young man's eyes snapped open. A flash of light gleamed in them as he swiftly drew the iron sword in his hand and lightly slashed at the leaf. In an instant, it split in two.

The leaf fell without a sound. To pinpoint its path with keen senses amid all the surrounding noise was something very few people could do.

The young man looked at the two halves of the leaf and smiled with satisfaction.

His name was Lin Ge, and he was a transmigrator. Unlike those who had come before him, he had been born after spending nine months in the womb.

In his previous life, he had been a shut-in who spent all day immersed in novels and manga, imagining what he would do if he one day gained power that stood unrivaled beneath the heavens.

Later, while on his way to buy a novel, he was careless and got hit by a speeding truck. He died on the spot.

Like so many transmigrators before him, he had also received a cheat of his own: an auxiliary system.

The system had no shop or martial arts manuals. All it offered was a panel that let him check his own status.

Of course, it was only after seeing his panel that Lin Ge realized just how terrifying his constitution was.

If nothing unexpected happened, he would become the strongest person in this world, powerful enough to suppress an entire era!

Just thinking about it filled Lin Ge with excitement.

Everything was ready. All that remained was for him to become the ruler of this world!

As a transmigrator and a shut-in who had read countless manga and novels, he naturally had ambitions of his own: to be like the Desolate Heaven Emperor and stand alone across the ages, or like the Ye Heaven Emperor and crush every foe!

Of course, all of that depended on first finding out what kind of world this was, and whether he could cultivate and become a great cultivator capable of turning clouds with one hand and rain with the other.

Time flew by. After nine months, Lin Ge finally arrived in this world.

His arrival caused no strange phenomena. In fact, it brought danger: his mother, whom he had never even met, died in childbirth because of him. This made his father dislike him, leaving him on his own from a very young age.

Lin Ge had spent more than ten years alone in his previous life, so he had no trouble adjusting. He was even quite happy, though he was still a little tyke under a year old.

Three years passed in the blink of an eye, and Lin Ge finally learned what world he was in.

He had transmigrated into the world of Martial Universe, and happened to belong to the same clan as the protagonist, Lin Dong.

This was good news, because Lin Ge was very familiar with this world and knew how things would unfold in the future.

He had read all three of Potato's series—Battle Through the Heavens, Martial Universe, and The Great Ruler—as well as the prequel Yuan Zun. He could rattle off all the major events in them.

Once he had figured out that he was in a world he knew, his ambitions as a transmigrator swelled even further.

Whether Lin Dong or Xiao Yan, they had both ultimately stopped at the Sovereign stage and become guardians of the Great Thousand Worlds.

What Lin Ge wanted was to surpass the Sovereign stage and become the strongest being in the Great Thousand Worlds!

Of course, all of that was still a long way off. For now, he needed to figure out how to cultivate.

In Potato's worlds, almost everyone fought using worldly energies such as Dou Qi and Yuan Power. Very few people deliberately cultivated a particular weapon.

That was true of Lin Dong, Xiao Yan, and the others alike.

After careful consideration, Lin Ge made his decision.

He chose the path of the sword!

"Without me, Li Chungang, the sword path would be as dark as an endless night."

Those were the words that appeared in Lin Ge's mind after he chose the sword path.

The words were arrogant, but also imposing. Lin Ge liked them very much.

From this day onward, he, Lin Ge, would change those words in this world.

"Without me, Lin Ge, the sword path would be as dark as an endless night!"

For someone with a chūnibyō streak, there was no such thing as being afraid to dream. The only fear was dreaming without having any way to make it come true.

But things were different now. Having come to this world, Lin Ge felt that there was nothing he could not accomplish with the Peerless Supreme Body he bore. It was only a matter of whether he wanted to.

"Now, it's time to put those plans into action!"

A resolute glint appeared in Lin Ge's eyes. He knew that no one became a powerful expert just by imagining it. He would have to cultivate painstakingly and fight for what he wanted.

Though he had never practiced the sword in his previous life, as a transmigrator, Lin Ge could think of countless ways to cultivate the sword path. But he chose the most basic method.

He would start with the fundamentals of swordsmanship.

Every beginning was difficult, and swordsmanship was no exception.

To become a great sword master, one first needed an exceptionally solid foundation. So Lin Ge's first task was to lay one.

For an ordinary sword cultivator, a hundred repetitions brought familiarity, a thousand brought a minor mastery, ten thousand brought great mastery, and a hundred thousand brought perfection. What about a million repetitions? Ten million?

What then?

No one knew. No one could know.

Because nobody would be crazy enough to practice for that long.

But Lin Ge wanted to do it. He wanted to accomplish what others could not do and dared not even imagine.

At first, he was confident he could stick with it.

But a few months later, he began to struggle. Then he saw his swordsmanship proficiency on the panel slowly increasing, and found a little more resolve to persevere.

Three years passed in this dull, monotonous training. During those three years, he practiced only the fundamentals and nothing else. In the end, he reached a whole new level—the highest realm spoken of in legend: Unity of Man and Sword!

After successfully reaching the realm of Unity of Man and Sword, Lin Ge began cultivating Yuan Qi. After all, he had started much later than other people.

When it came to cultivating Yuan Qi, Lin Ge had no intention of following the rules. He planned to take a shortcut.

The Peerless Supreme Body had three benefits for Lin Ge at this stage.

First, his cultivation speed far surpassed that of others.

Second, his comprehension was peerless, giving him an overwhelming natural advantage.

Third, he could devour certain pills, spirit herbs, and other items that strengthened his body and rapidly increased his strength without suffering any side effects.

So, apart from the six hours he needed to spend cultivating each day, he secretly studied and experimented with pills, hoping to become an alchemist.

There were no alchemists in the world of Martial Universe, which gave him the perfect opportunity.

Relying on his memories, he slowly figured things out, building up his knowledge bit by bit. After a year of effort, he finally succeeded in refining several pills that could strengthen the body!

With those pills and the powerful talent of his Peerless Supreme Body, Lin Ge's cultivation advanced rapidly. In less than three years, he broke through Body Tempering and reached the Earthly Yuan Mirror stage.

By then, he had already become the strongest among the younger generation of the Lin Clan!

Yet no one knew any of this. In fact, hardly anyone in the Lin Clan had even heard the name Lin Ge.