Five Choose One, an Invincible Start

"Ugh, didn't they say getting hit by a truck was enough to reach another world?"

Through a haze of pain, Lin Yuan opened his eyes.

A field of pure white met his gaze, and he felt as though even his soul was gradually drifting away.

Then, as the scene around him slowly came into focus, he realized that he seemed to have transmigrated. Yet he did not feel that he possessed a body.

Just as he was wondering whether he had arrived somewhere like hell, the system's voice gradually sounded beside his ear.

"Ding. Congratulations, Host, on transmigrating to Douluo Continent during the Peerless Tang Sect era. Since the Host was physically twenty-five years old before transmigrating, the twenty-five-minus-ten transmigration benefit has been triggered. The Host's new body will be locked at ten years younger, becoming fifteen years old. Five choose-one options will now be activated."

Hearing the last part, Lin Yuan finally let out a long sigh of relief.

Oh, so it was Douluo, the region with the most fellow Blue Star natives.

Then there was no big problem. Compared with certain novels bound by Blue Silver Grass...

Like My House of Horrors, where humans could never defeat ghosts, or the Gu world and the like.

Douluo, the local region bound by Blue Silver Grass, was extremely friendly toward transmigrators.

According to unreliable statistics, if all the Blue Star transmigrators from the myriad worlds gathered in one place, there would not be a single native left in the entire Douluo world.

"Ding. Host, please first select one of three background options."

[1. Do As You Please—Holy Spirit Cult.]

[2. Supremely Great—Shrek.]

[3. Imperial Power Struggle—Sun Moon Empire.]

Seeing the three background options, Lin Yuan found it somewhat difficult to laugh.

The first one did not even need consideration.

In this era, aside from Long Xiaoyao and Ye Xishui, who had some connection to Mu En and died with a modicum of dignity...

Not a single other member of the Holy Spirit Cult escaped their fate.

Moreover, the Holy Spirit Cult's Holy Son and Holy Maiden training classes did not care much about sanity, unless one had displayed world-shaking talent beforehand.

As for supremely great Shrek, it was even faintly worse than the Holy Spirit Cult.

To put it bluntly, Shrek was nothing more than a toy of the God King.

Bei Bei, Mu En's descendant and inheritor, possessed the mutated Blue Lightning Radiant Holy Dragon. Forget obtaining the inherited Dragon Dan; even the soul spirit he absorbed in the end caused his ninth soul ring to be only twenty thousand years old.

Combined with Shrek's absurd educational philosophy, it was even worse than the Holy Spirit Cult.

By comparison, the Sun Moon Empire actually looked rather pleasing.

Although the legendary Wang Shaojie relied on his royal status to bully Lord Huo Gua, but... well, aside from that, it was at least the most normal choice.

"I choose three."

After Lin Yuan made his choice, the system's voice soon rang out beside his ear again.

"Host, please activate the second option: choose one of three aptitudes."

[1. Clear Sky Hammer: Tang Chen's aptitude, Great Sumeru Hammer, Exploding Ring Manual.]

[2. Sky-Piercing Spear: Yun Ming's aptitude, Spear Out Like a Dragon, Nine Sky-Piercing Forms.]

[3. Hades Sword: Child of Fortune, Fated Godslayer, Netherworld Rebirth.]

Lin Yuan had to admit that the Clear Sky Hammer appeared comparatively powerful.

But who was actually powerful in the end?

Tang Chen, of course. And the Sky-Piercing Spear? The same was true.

Yun Ming himself was powerful. Though it was already incredibly shocking by comparison, before the third option, it was not worth mentioning at all.

The Hades Sword was purely about stats and mechanics.

Halosa was practically the second Huo Gua created by the will of Douluo.

His purpose was to purge humanity, because there were simply too many human soul masters in Douluo Three.

The Douluo plane was faintly unable to bear the burden, and humanity's oppression of other living beings had become so severe that he appeared.

As a transmigrator, Lin Yuan knew better than anyone just how insidious the Child of Fortune trait was.

Without some outrageous cheat, trying to contend with the protagonist of this era was simply seeking death.

Thus, Lin Yuan did not hesitate in the slightest over the first two aptitudes.

He directly chose three again.

"Host, please activate the third option: choose one of three martial souls."

[1. The Sea.]

[2. Six-Winged Angel.]

[3. Heavenly Stem Qilin.]

Looking at the first two martial soul options, Lin Yuan was fairly satisfied. In terms of martial soul grade, they were both extremely formidable.

But when he saw the third one, he suddenly felt that the first two martial souls were not even worth dog shit.

Why?

Because Lin Yuan understood the Heavenly Stem Qilin like this.

Its initial form was the Five Elements Qilin, possessing the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as divine beast bloodline.

Afterward, it would gain Yin-Yang power and become the Yin-Yang Five Elements Qilin. It possessed the mutually generating and restraining Yin Five Elements and Yang Five Elements, making it practically an all-round fighter.

Under such circumstances, it would evolve into the Heavenly Stem Qilin.

After fusing the ten Heavenly Stem attributes, it possessed Primal Chaos Divine Light, which restrained all energy-attribute attacks, including soul skills.

It was an all-purpose martial soul.

If the first two were absolutely domineering because of divine seat inheritances and single attributes...

Then the Heavenly Stem Qilin was a stat monster whose own mechanics were practically perfected.

Therefore, Lin Yuan chose three again without the slightest hesitation.

"Ding. Host, please activate the fourth choose-one-of-three option: soul bone selection."

[1. Eight Spider Lance.]

[2. Evil Emperor's Eye (version capable of releasing Temporal Light).]

[3. Qilin Legs (possess a weakened version of the Qilin Step effect).]

If the Eight Spider Lance embodied the path of devouring...

Then the Evil Emperor's Eye was a top-tier law of time.

After all, the value of Temporal Light was beyond question.

Lin Yuan had originally been ready to choose without hesitation, but upon seeing the third option, he instantly froze. Qilin Step?

Was it the Qilin Step he was imagining?

What was there to hesitate about?

Lin Yuan once again chose the third option without hesitation.

"Ding. Host, please activate the fifth choose-one-of-three option: protector selection."

[1. Rank 98 Bi Bidong.]

[2. Rank 98 Qian Renxue.]

[3. Rank 98 Gu Yuena.]

Seeing the first two options, Lin Yuan blanked out for a moment.

Nice, there were even limited characters from ten thousand years ago?

This time, he selected option three without hesitation.

Though he did not know how the system would produce this protector...

What a joke. The final choose-one-of-three was, in reality, just a choose-one.

The system might be able to piece Gu Yuena together somehow, or perhaps create her using some of the Silver Dragon King's origin power.

But if it truly resurrected Qian Renxue or Bi Bidong...

Lord God King Tang San would probably start breathing hard and directly interfere with the lower realm.

After the choices were complete, Lin Yuan had only just breathed a sigh of relief when his whole body went blank. After his consciousness briefly vanished...

The next moment, he found himself in a noisy scene. Quite a few people around him were filled with anger, and someone who seemed to be a captain came over, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a grief-stricken voice,

"Lin Yuan, rest assured. I will definitely avenge your brother, Lin Xi."

Only then did Lin Yuan subconsciously come to his senses in a daze.

Hmm, his current identity seemed to be the younger brother of Lin Xi, the one who died in the original story?

That seemed to be his only family member...

Was this the essential opening setup for a protagonist?