Back to Douluo, a Month in the Blink of an Eye

Silence reigned, broken only by the thunderous roar of a distant waterfall.

After a long while, Yun Yun asked, "Did you two see everything clearly?"

Nalan Yanran nodded.

Yellow Tier high-grade battle techniques were the strongest techniques possessed by most families.

Yet with a single move, Yun Yun had taught Nalan Yanran four powerful battle techniques.

Lin Hao asked, "Senior Sister, don't we need to spend sect contribution points to obtain higher-tier battle techniques?"

Yun Yun spat, "You are the old sect master's disciple. If you had to follow the same rules as everyone else, what privileges would you have?"

Her meaning was clear: I, Yun Yun, was the privilege.

Although Yun Yun did not follow the same path as Lin Hao, she still taught him several battle techniques to keep himself alive.

Three days later, Lin Hao lay on his bed.

"I have cultivation techniques, and I have battle techniques too."

"Battle Through the Heavens cultivation techniques are... meditation methods in Douluo!"

"Battle Through the Heavens battle techniques are... Self-Created Soul Skills in Douluo!"

"There are still five years before Nalan Yanran breaks off the engagement."

"There are still eight years before Xiao Yan comes to the Misty Cloud Sect."

"Battle Through the Heavens has left me plenty of time."

"My Dou Qi hasn't increased during these past few days of cultivation. It feels like I've hit a bottleneck!"

"It should be related to my Martial Soul not having a Spirit Ring attached. It's time to return to the Douluo Plane and attach Spirit Rings to my Martial Soul!"

"What would Douluo's soul skills be in the Battle Through the Heavens Plane?"

As Lin Hao pondered, a thought flashed through his mind. He summoned his Martial Soul and entered Boundary Space.

When he emerged from the space, he found himself in the room where he had originally left the Douluo Plane.

Old Jack's voice came from outside the room.

"Where on earth did that child go?"

"I've searched everywhere inside and outside the village."

"Where could a six-year-old child who ran away from home possibly go?"

Lin Hao opened the door and saw Old Jack sitting alone in the courtyard. He called out, "Grandpa Jack!"

The sudden voice startled Old Jack.

Old Jack turned to look at Lin Hao, stunned. "Lin Hao?"

"Grandpa Jack, who did you say ran away from home just now?"

"Lin Hao, where have you been for the past month?"

"Over a month?" Lin Hao was shocked. "Grandpa Jack, are you saying I've been missing for over a month?"

"You silly child, didn't you just want to attend a Soul Master Academy? Grandpa Jack has already found a compromise. Holy Soul Village's work-study student slot will go to Tang San, and the academy and the other villages have agreed to let our Holy Soul Village use a shared slot belonging to the other villages."

"No, Grandpa Jack, you said I've been gone for over a month!" Lin Hao asked anxiously.

He had not spent long in the Battle Through the Heavens Plane, only about a week. Yet from what Old Jack had said, he had been gone for over a month.

From this, he could infer that time flowed far faster in the Douluo Plane than in the Battle Through the Heavens Plane.

According to the theory of relativity proposed by another person known as a transmigrator, this was normal.

Time flowed much more slowly in higher planes than in lower planes. Relatively speaking, a single day was much longer than one in the latter.

Douluo had its own opportunities, and Battle Through the Heavens had its own opportunities.

"Huh, where's my sword?"

Lin Hao was the old sect master's final disciple. Before leaving the Misty Cloud Sect and the Battle Through the Heavens Plane, he had brought some treasures with him.

A sword had originally hung at Lin Hao's waist, but although he had returned, the sword was gone.

To investigate what was going on, Lin Hao repeatedly assured Old Jack that he absolutely would not run away from home again.

He had merely gone to the Battle Through the Heavens Plane. He had not stormed out of the house in anger over school as Old Jack believed.

After entering his room and closing the door, Lin Hao returned to Boundary Space and found the treasures he had wanted to bring into the Douluo Plane.

All of the items had been left at the entrance where he entered the Douluo Plane and immediately exited Boundary Space.

It felt exactly like the emergency extraction route in Surnan Mode from the Game for Peace game he had played in his previous life.

His equipment and supplies had dropped.

To verify his suspicions, Lin Hao gathered all the supplies again and returned to the Douluo Plane once more.

The same thing happened again. The supplies dropped into Boundary Space once more.

Lin Hao pondered. "Could it be that items from the Battle Through the Heavens Plane can't be brought into the Douluo Plane?"

As he considered this, Lin Hao first noticed the clothes he was wearing.

The moon-white robe was the mark of a core disciple of the Misty Cloud Sect.

"Clothes can be brought from the Battle Through the Heavens Plane into the Douluo Plane, but supplies can't."

"Could it be because the supplies are too high-tier?"

After some analysis, Lin Hao guessed that items from the Battle Through the Heavens Plane could be brought into the Douluo Plane. There was simply a restriction on the tier of those items.

To verify his guess, Lin Hao returned to his room. Looking at the bare walls, he picked up a chamber pot and several other worthless items from the floor, then returned to Boundary Space.

When he reached the vortex gate leading into the Battle Through the Heavens Plane, an invisible wall blocked him as he tried to enter.

"Ow!"

Lin Hao rubbed his slightly aching forehead. He reached out and touched the vortex gate before him.

"There's a barrier?!"

Before the vortex gate, Lin Hao felt a transparent barrier.

"The barrier is preventing me from entering the Battle Through the Heavens Plane. What's going on?"

"Everything was fine before. I could travel freely between two different worlds. Why can't I do it now?"

Lin Hao fell into thought again.

"It definitely isn't an issue with the supplies."

Because he had just returned from the Battle Through the Heavens Plane to the Douluo Plane with supplies. Even his clothes had come through, while the items that could not be brought out had remained in Boundary Space. There was no way he should be unable to return to the Battle Through the Heavens Plane.

"And it isn't an issue with me."

Lin Hao had not changed much before or after. He had not even changed his clothes. Clearly, the issue was not with Lin Hao himself either.

"Then it must be an issue with this space."

Lin Hao looked around.

The starry patterns across the sky were no different from before.

As Lin Hao looked down at the ground, he recalled the scenes of entering Boundary Space twice.

"It's an issue with the formation on the ground!"

"The runes are dim and lifeless. That means their energy has been depleted!"

"If I want to return to the Battle Through the Heavens Plane, I have to recharge this formation!"

Having found the cause of the problem, Lin Hao pressed both hands against the patterns on the ground, attempting to channel Soul Power into them.

Lin Hao failed.

"The runes aren't absorbing my Soul Power."

"Every formation needs energy to keep operating. There must be another way to recharge it!"

Unable to find a solution, Lin Hao could only temporarily return to his room in the Douluo Plane.

Bang!

Just as he emerged from the Douluo Plane, a middle-aged man burst through the door. Tang San stood behind Old Jack.

"Old Jack, what are you doing?"

"You child, I thought you'd run away from home again. I knocked on your door, but you didn't answer. Didn't you keep insisting on attending a Soul Master Academy? Today is registration day. Come with me—I'll take you to Notting Academy!"