Star Dou Great Forest

Where did the souls of humans go after death? The underworld? Or into endless, all-consuming darkness, slowly losing the last of their consciousness?

Compared to the former, Lin Wan'er preferred to believe in the latter.

Because this was a world filled with deathly silence.

Reaching out to grasp a clump of gray mist that had drifted over from who knew where, Lin Wan'er fell into thought.

First of all, she could be certain that she was indeed dead.

The cause of death was simple too. An unremarkable little gaming prodigy, she had finally reached Master in solo queue one afternoon. Her excitement had been too much, causing her already problematic little heart to overload.

And so, before she could take her medicine, she had successfully kicked the bucket in her gaming chair at the age of twenty-three.

As for why she had come here after dying, Lin Wan'er had no idea.

At that thought, Lin Wan'er subconsciously kneaded the tangible gray mist in her hand as though it were a mouse.

The next second, an ancient voice echoed through the pitch-black space.

"Beep... Unknown energy entity detected."

"Charging..."

"Charging complete. Welcome to League of Legends. Please select your beloved champion as your martial soul."

Lin Wan'er looked at the familiar UI and fell into thought.

It seemed she was one of the many transmigrators after all, and the system panel before her was her golden finger.

When Lin Wan'er failed to make another move for a long while, the ancient voice rang out again. "Please select your champion as your martial soul!"

Hearing the urging in its voice, she snapped back to her senses and reached out, tapping the dark League of Legends interface with her fingertip.

As dizzying ripples spread across the interface, champion icons representing different heroes appeared around Lin Wan'er. There were a total of 165 of them.

Beneath every familiar character icon was the champion's name.

"A martial soul in Douluo Continent? Let me think."

Propping her chin up with one hand, detail-oriented as she was, Lin Wan'er naturally had not forgotten the voice's prompt.

Welcome to League of Legends. Please select your martial soul.

Martial soul.

Lin Wan'er was no stranger to that term. After all, whenever she grew tired of gaming, she loved reading webnovels and comics to recharge her energy.

Putting together the common traits of all those transmigration novels, it was not difficult for Lin Wan'er to reach a conclusion.

The champion she chose from League of Legends would become the martial soul from that novel she knew so well from memory.

Therefore, being thoroughly familiar with the "works" of the first two installments, Lin Wan'er did not hesitate in the slightest. She decisively chose the champion she used most often, knew best, and owned the most skins for as her martial soul.

Star Child, Soraka!

Once the selection was complete, the icons representing the other champions gradually dimmed and vanished from before her eyes.

Only the icon she had chosen slowly enlarged, giving off a faint glow.

"As long as I live, no one will suffer."

A familiar and gentle female voice echoed by her ears. Before Lin Wan'er appeared the phantom of a woman with what looked like a unicorn horn growing from her forehead, dark purplish skin, and a crescent Scepter in her right hand.

The champion named Soraka had her eyes closed, her expression sacred, as though she were waiting for Lin Wan'er's next action.

The main reason Lin Wan'er had chosen Star Child Soraka as her martial soul was that she did not want to charge across the battlefield. Compared with Beast Soul Masters and Control System Soul Masters, she would rather become the ultimate boss of all Soul Masters, providing absolute healing and rational command.

Besides, what was wrong with a support martial soul?

One had to know that Soraka, as the Star Child, had been a goddess beloved by the stars from the moment she was born. The Star Power she wielded was also remarkably potent when used to harm enemies.

She could fight, deal damage, and heal. That was more than enough to crush those ordinary martial souls and stand above the rest.

"Martial soul confirmed: Star Child Soraka. Preparing for fusion..."

Human senses were magnified without limit. At this moment, Lin Wan'er was carefully experiencing Soraka's entire life.

An invisible pressure poured from Lin Wan'er's body, born from the love and blessings of the stars.

It could be said that Soraka herself was the embodiment of all that was beautiful. She should have been respected and adored by all Masterless Stars.

The crushing pressure attached to Lin Wan'er's soul from her previous life, along with the past she had been unwilling to face, was gradually fading away.

The strength brought by her rebirth was enough to carry her across the barrier between worlds, safely bringing her to Douluo Continent and making her the hope this World Consciousness had long awaited.

However, Lin Wan'er, currently immersed in her memories, was temporarily unable to sense the changes in the outside world or the transformations in herself.

She was striving to comprehend Soraka's life while deepening her memories of the plot points and details of Douluo Continent's story.

Then Lin Wan'er opened her eyes and looked at the darkness, now utterly different from before.

In the unseen depths of fate, she sensed why she had been reborn.

So she was meant to bear the task of changing the predetermined fates of Douluo Continent's important figures, becoming the person who carried the World Consciousness's hopes of changing the continent's fixed outcome.

In that case, it seemed she truly had made the right choice with her martial soul.

Lin Wan'er smiled as she looked at the passageway that had appeared in the distance, an unreadable light flickering in her eyes.

"Martial soul fusion successful. Next stop, Star Dou Great Forest!"

The ancient voice, enough to make one tremble with fear, echoed through the space once more. The next second, Lin Wan'er's soul form vanished from the dark space.

Douluo Continent, Star Dou Great Forest.

One of the three great Soul Beast habitats, it was a vast paradise for Soul Beasts stretching across both the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire.

Its depths were even more terrifying than the Land of Extreme North. Few Soul Masters foolish enough to seek a soul ring dared venture there.

Near the depths of Star Dou Great Forest, beside a stream surrounded by numerous plant-type Soul Beasts, a massive boulder bearing the patterns of Mount Targon suddenly appeared out of thin air.

The boulder containing Lin Wan'er appeared beside the stream. The plant Soul Beasts, which normally would not move about freely and possessed little self-awareness, reacted as though they had encountered the destined pillar of their lives.

One after another, they sprang fiercely from the soil, using their roots as legs as they pattered toward the boulder.

"Thump, thump."

Powerful heartbeats rang out as a strange pulse, similar to the one from when the Auspicious Beast had been born, swept through the entire Star Dou Great Forest.

An unknown existence had been born—one unable to speak, yet capable, like the Auspicious Beast, of bringing miracles and hope to every Soul Beast in Star Dou Great Forest.

All Soul Beasts below the Ten Thousand Year level that had been hunting, feasting, and frolicking came to a halt.

Their eyes filled with tears. Bearing complex emotions of grievance and joy, they bowed deeply toward the boulder's location.

Though they did not understand what exactly had happened within the forest, and their limited intelligence could not let them figure anything out, a seed where hope and wisdom coexisted had already been planted in their hearts! This is my first time writing a female-lead Douluo story, so please forgive any mistakes.

This story has no CP. Its timeline takes place after Douluo I and before Peerless Tang Sect! Against the God Kings, witness Huo Gua and the others grow anew! Updates will be no later than ten every night. There will be two updates a day until completion, with extra chapters for cumulative bookmarks and follow-up reads, as well as for climbing the rankings!

This is the latest female-lead-focused story. It's on the male-frequency rankings; the category is correct!