Fusing Memories, Martial Dao Realm Division

[Ding, memory fusion in progress...]

Accompanied by the system prompt, a lifetime of memories belonging to another person surged into the mind of Lin Hanzhou.

With over a hundred years of life experience, Lin Hanzhou found it quite easy to organize the other person's memories.

After some sorting, Lin Hanzhou roughly grasped the current situation.

The place where he was located was a nation called the Great Gan Dynasty.

And the original owner only knew that the place he lived in was called the Great Gan Dynasty.

More information regarding the Great Gan Dynasty was clearly not something a rustic villager like him could know.

The original owner of this body was named Zhang Qi, an ordinary young villager in this Zhang Family Village.

Originally, Zhang Qi and his parents, a family of three, lived a life here that was poor but stable.

But just this afternoon, this peace was completely shattered by an outsider.

A man claiming to be a "Cloud Glow Sect disciple" came to the village, declaring that the Cloud Glow Sect was going to recruit disciples here.

He ordered the village chief to gather everyone in the village, regardless of age or gender, at the square by the village entrance, saying he would personally test their aptitude.

How could the simple villagers doubt the words of this "Cloud Glow Sect disciple"?

Filled with beautiful visions of the future, they arrived at the village entrance in high spirits.

Yet, what greeted them was not a ceremony to test martial arts talent, but the cold butcher's knife of Zhou Fengyu.

As a martial master expert, Zhou Fengyu slaughtering a group of defenseless, ordinary villagers was simply a one-sided massacre.

With great ease, he cruelly murdered all of the hundred or so people who had gathered.

The original owner Zhang Qi's family of three was naturally among them.

Then came the events where Lin Hanzhou's consciousness transmigrated into Zhang Qi, was ambushed by Zhou Fengyu who mistook him for a survivor, and ultimately completed the counter-kill.

As for why Zhou Fengyu slaughtered the entire village?

There was no answer to this in Zhang Qi's brief memories.

Lin Hanzhou frowned deeply.

A direct disciple of a major sect, for no reason, slaughtering over a hundred people in a remote village?

There must be a hidden reason for this.

But for now, there was too little information, and he could not deduce the cause at all.

Currently, what he needed to be highly vigilant about were the consequences of killing Zhou Fengyu.

The sect the opponent revealed before his death—the Cloud Glow Sect—was truly a behemoth.

Even a rustic villager like the original owner knew the name of this sect.

According to the fragmented information in Zhang Qi's memories, the Cloud Glow Sect was one of the top three sects in the current Great Gan Dynasty.

It was as famous as the Emotionless Gate and the Vajra Temple, with experts as numerous as clouds within the sect, and even more so, it was guarded by a "Grandmaster," the highest realm in the world, shaking the world with its prestige.

"This is troublesome..."

Lin Hanzhou rubbed his brow.

He had just arrived in this world and had already slaughtered a direct disciple of a top sect's master.

This grudge was now set in stone.

But fortunately, the location of Zhang Family Village was very remote, and it would likely take some time for the Cloud Glow Sect to receive news.

Moreover, the Great Gan Dynasty did not have so-called surveillance or tracking methods, so it would still be easy for him to hide.

Immediately, he began to carefully analyze the martial arts system of this world.

In this world, martial arts realms were roughly divided into:

Third-rate, second-rate, first-rate, martial master, grandmaster, and great grandmaster.

Based on the strength displayed by the martial master expert Zhou Fengyu and the original owner's fragmented memories, Lin Hanzhou made a preliminary judgment.

"Third-rate and second-rate martial artists should only be tempering their tendons, bones, and skin, corresponding to the Body Tempering Realm of Blue Star."

"First-rate martial artists begin to cultivate internal energy and true qi, corresponding to my first-stage Pulse Opening Realm."

"And martial masters can already project true qi externally, with strength far exceeding that of a first-rate martial artist, which corresponds exactly to my second-stage Qi Gathering Realm."

"By this logic, the so-called grandmaster should be a third-stage Qi Sea Realm expert. And that legendary great grandmaster..."

Lin Hanzhou's gaze became solemn.

"Such beings rarely make a move, and there is simply too little information."

"But it is very likely that they correspond to the fourth-stage True Origin Realm of Blue Star; I will have to wait until I collect more intelligence later to judge."

Having analyzed the strength comparison clearly, Lin Hanzhou had a clearer understanding of his situation.

His current second-stage cultivation could be considered that of a martial master-level expert in this world.

Within the same cultivation realm, possessing perfected-level movement techniques and swordsmanship meant he would likely be hard-pressed to find an opponent.

With this level of cultivation, as long as he didn't provoke those major powers, he could walk sideways across any territory.

However, if he were to face a Grandmaster powerhouse, there would likely still be a gap.

Not to mention, the unfathomable Great Grandmaster.

The most urgent priority is to improve my strength as quickly as possible; at the very least, I must possess the ability to protect myself.

He glanced at the sky; the setting sun had completely vanished, and the veil of night was about to descend.

He certainly could not continue to stay in Zhang Family Village; he needed to leave immediately.

After all, if a Grandmaster from the Cloud Glow Sect happened to pass through here, his dream traversal would come to an end.

Although the probability of such a thing was slim, it was not impossible.