The Great Wilderness stretched for countless miles!
Atop a Divine Mountain that pierced the clouds, immortal cranes danced while strange beasts roared!
Spiritual Energy swirled through the air. Even weeds, in such an environment, possessed immense medicinal potency!
Enough for a small tribe in the Great Wilderness to regard as a priceless treasure, one worth exhausting the entire tribe's strength to obtain!
Inside the Lu Family's main hall.
A massive cauldron stood in the center, with a cluster of dark-red flames constantly scorching its underside.
Countless treasures of blood and spiritual plants were thrown into the cauldron.
More than a hundred Lu Family children surrounded it.
Among them, one child with delicate features and a smooth white jade bracelet on his wrist seemed somewhat out of place among the rest.
"Where am I?"
Lu Qingyun raised his hand and looked at his tender, fair little palm.
Very soon, a stream of memories, neither complicated nor cumbersome, merged with his own.
This made Lu Qingyun understand everything before him.
It turned out he had been struck by a truck and sent into this incomparably vast world of the Great Wilderness, where gods truly existed!
He had become a member of the Lu Family, one of the four strongest Lineages in the Great Wilderness!
Only now, at the age of six, had he broken through the mystery within the womb and recovered the memories of his previous life.
And now was the first Rite of Passage that every Lu Family member had to undergo upon reaching the age of six!
This Rite of Passage would, to a certain extent, determine the upper limit of one's future achievements!
Those with high talent would receive the Lu Family's focused cultivation, devote themselves to training from then on, and become supreme experts!
Those with low talent would be supported by the Lu Family, producing descendants for the family and expanding the Lineage!
Though, to Lu Qingyun, neither choice was all that bad.
But having finally arrived in a world that possessed boundless great power, he naturally wanted to choose the former!
Still, relying on himself alone made him feel somewhat unsure!
"System? Old grandpa? Chat group?"
Lu Qingyun silently called out in his heart.
Normally, this was the time when a cheat should appear.
Otherwise, with only what he had, he would most likely have no choice but to pick the latter.
After all, according to his memories, his parents in this life were not particularly powerful, possessing only Wheel Sea cultivation.
They could be considered top-tier elsewhere, but within the Lu Family, they were practically at the bottom.
Fortunately, Lu Qingyun's call received a response.
The mechanical voice he had longed for sounded.
[Host detected. Myriad Systems binding initiated. Binding successful.]
"Myriad Systems? What functions do you have?"
Suppressing his excitement, Lu Qingyun silently asked in his heart.
Yet no voice answered him.
At that very moment, the first Rite of Passage began!
Before Lu Qingyun could react, an invisible lifting force tossed him and the nearby children into the massive cauldron together!
The boiling bloodwater churned without pause, its temperature far exceeding the hundred degrees known to Lu Qingyun.
There were even living venomous centipedes swimming through the bloodwater.
The instant Lu Qingyun entered the cauldron, the searing heat nearly cooked his body alive!
The intense pain made him cry out despite himself.
Not just him—the other children also began crying and screaming at that moment.
This was undoubtedly the most painful experience they had ever endured since birth!
For a time, the entire hall was filled with children's wails.
Outside, the Lu Family members, whose auras were as unfathomable as bottomless abysses, showed not the slightest reaction.
They were not at all worried that any accidents would occur.
Because in the next moment, Lu Qingyun felt vast amounts of energy within the cauldron drilling into his body.
Yet rather than easing Lu Qingyun's pain, their excessive brutality inflicted even greater injuries upon him!
However, this state did not last long.
The mechanical voice from before sounded again.
[Host detected absorbing energy-based matter. Conversion initiated!] [Energy Points +10, +12, +11...]
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Every few seconds, Lu Qingyun heard a number increase.
Correspondingly, he could barely feel any pain at all.
Lying in the cauldron felt almost no different from lying in ordinary water.
Only then did he have the leisure to open his eyes.
He saw that the other children were still painfully enduring the Rite of Passage.
Within the main hall, Seventeenth Elder Lu Changming opened his eyes at that moment. After briefly glancing at Lu Qingyun, he closed them again and gave a slight nod.
Clearly, he was quite satisfied with Lu Qingyun's performance.
To adapt so quickly in such a short time—
Other than cripples born with blocked meridians, only exceptionally gifted prodigies could do so!
And with the Lu Family's bloodline, the former was impossible!
Naturally, Lu Qingyun could not notice the gaze of an unimaginably powerful expert.
Nor was he paying attention to such matters now.
After some probing, he finally brought up the system interface.
[Host: Lu Qingyun (Soulbound)] [Energy Points: 3205] [Realm: Blood Moving Realm, Layer 0!]
Such an exceedingly simple interface was displayed brightly before Lu Qingyun.
Not a single Lu Family expert present noticed the extra interface.
Upon seeing it, Lu Qingyun slowly let out a breath.
His heart leaped with joy!
This is settled!
It's a Point Addition System—we're saved!
The next moment, Lu Qingyun decisively added all his Energy Points to his realm!
In Lu Qingyun's understanding, with a system in hand, why the hell should he be timid and hesitant?
With strength, one had to show it boldly. Only then could one gain the Lineage's attention and obtain more resources!
The rougher the seas, the more expensive the fish!
If he spent every day fearing this and fearing that, would this transmigration not have been for nothing?!
It was an extra life anyway. If it was gone, then it was gone. He would never let himself suffer more indignities!
As his Energy Points plummeted at an astonishing rate, the realm below rose layer by layer!
Blood Moving Layer One, Blood Moving Layer Two, Blood Moving Layer Three... Blood Moving Layer Four!
Hmm... huh!?
Seeing that extra layer, Lu Qingyun's eyes widened at once.
Shouldn't the ratio have been one thousand to one?
You went straight to one hundred to one, and it did not even decrease at all!?
Very soon, Lu Qingyun broke through Blood Moving Layer Ten!
The blood and qi within his body surged like the cub of a savage beast awakening!
"Hmm? This aura is wrong!"
Seventeenth Elder Lu Changming, who had opened and then closed his eyes earlier, now stared wide-eyed!
With a flash of his body, he appeared directly above the massive cauldron and pulled Lu Qingyun out!
He then threw him into another, smaller cauldron, likewise filled with precious blood and spiritual materials!
The quality of the precious blood in this cauldron was clearly a tier higher than that of the original massive cauldron!
It had originally been prepared for any possible Peerless Prodigy!
And now, Lu Qingyun was that Peerless Prodigy!
After being thrown into the smaller cauldron, Lu Qingyun could clearly see that the rate at which his Energy Points increased had more than doubled!
This made Lu Qingyun extremely excited. He had gambled right!
Yet even more excited than Lu Qingyun was Seventeenth Elder Lu Changming.
Watching Lu Qingyun's realm continue to rise, his gaze grew incomparably fervent!
As though he were looking at a rare treasure beyond price!
"Layer Twenty-One... Layer Twenty-Seven... Layer Thirty-Two!"
"Good! Excellent! Hahaha, my Lu Family has gained another Peerless Prodigy!"
(Realm divisions: Blood Moving, Cave Heaven, Mountain-Sea Realm, Dharma Form Realm, Nirvana Realm, True God Realm...)
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