(ps: Dual-wielding, check out my other book "Douluo Peerless: System Treasure-Swapping, Usurping Shrek". This one is almost finished, and once it's done, I'll finish "Douluo Peerless: Make Huo Yuhao Suffer A Bit More")
Bamboo Ridge is not a mountain, but merely a village.
And a very, very dilapidated village at that.
For dozens of miles around, this is the only village.
It backs against a bamboo mountain and faces a vast river.
Crossing that bamboo mountain takes a long time, and traversing that river is no easy task.
Therefore, anyone in the village with even the slightest ability chooses to move away, and as time passes, this mountain village grows increasingly rundown.
Lin Yuan sits in the horse-drawn carriage with his parents, watching the familiar settlement gradually recede, and cannot help letting out a soft sigh.
Deep in Lin Yuan's heart, there is a secret known only to him.
That is, he is a transmigrator.
In his past life, he was merely an ordinary corporate drone in society. During a certain Chongqing water-splashing festival, he was attacked by a little fairy with a mineral-water bottle; in a fit of anger, he unscrewed the cap and splashed the water back.
He was intercepted by the fairy's simp and ultimately unable to bear the humiliation, he died of pent-up anger and a racing heart.
After transmigrating to the Douluo Continent, he was reincarnated into an ordinary family. His father is a Soul Master, and the family receives a Soul Master subsidy of one Gold Soul Coin every month. Coupled with his father working as a guard at the Notting City lord's estate, their life was considered quite well-off.
Now his father's Soul Power has broken through level twenty, promoting him to a Soul Grandmaster, and the family of three is moving to settle in Notting City fifty miles away.
They have a carriage and a house, both parents are alive and well, and his father is even a Soul Grandmaster drawing a huge subsidy of ten Gold Soul Coins a month, while the lord's estate subsidy has also increased by a large margin.
One could say he has achieved the moderately prosperous life that he struggled his entire past life to obtain.
Originally, this should be a joyous occasion.
Yet he simply cannot bring himself to be happy.
On the one hand,
it is because he possesses no Cheat, and his Martial Soul will most likely be the same as his father's, inheriting his Lone Bamboo.
In this world that stresses lineage and background, he is destined not to achieve great accomplishments in the future.
Not to mention completing the four essential elements of a transmigrator: acting cool, flirting with girls, beating up Tang San, and torturing Yu Xiaogang.
On the other hand,
it is because he discovered that he seems not to be the only transmigrator in this world.
Take Bamboo Ridge, for example.
From a very young age, Lin Yuan noticed the abnormalities of a peer in the village.
His name is Lin Tian, an orphan who grew up eating meals provided by every household in the village.
Since childhood, he neither liked talking to people nor enjoyed digging into bird nests and catching fish in the river with the other village children.
He acted mysterious all day long, and starting from two or three years old, before the sky even brightened, he would dare run off to the back mountain alone, not returning until noon.
After eating a meal at a villager's home, he would head back out in the afternoon.
Then return at dusk.
At first, the villagers thought Lin Tian was still young and worried about him running into danger.
However, after he brought back game like pheasants and hares time and time again.
As time went on.
Hardly anyone said anything to him anymore.
This, however, aroused Lin Yuan's vigilance.
One must ask, how could a child so young, capable of hunting in the mountains, fail to make Lin Yuan suspicious?
Recently, the muffled sounds of rumbling thunder have even been faintly rolling from the back mountain.
Which only further solidifies the speculations in Lin Yuan's heart.
After finishing his sigh, Lin Yuan ponders and begins to make plans.
He figures that since there is a second transmigrator in this world, there might just be a third or a fourth.
After all, his father is merely a Lone Bamboo Soul Grandmaster with level-two Innate Soul Power, and his mother is just an ordinary person.
He himself is still two and a half months away from turning six years old.
With neither lineage nor a system Cheat.
In this world where fellow villagers meet and shoot each other in the back,
it is better to keep a low profile.
If he awakens Soul Power, he will become an ordinary Soul Master, take a few wives and concubines,
and live out his life in peace.
If he fails to awaken Soul Power, he will do some small business, opening a sundry shop or a restaurant, and still manage to carve out a decent future compared to his past life.
Just as he clears his thoughts and feels greatly relieved inside, his father's voice suddenly sounds by his ear, "Yuntao..."
Lin Yuan looked in the direction of the voice and saw a quite handsome young man dressed in a Spirit Hall deacon's uniform and carrying a bundle in his hand. At his father's invitation, the man climbed onto the carriage.
Lin Yuan knew this young man; he was Su Yuntao, a Spirit Hall deacon in Notting City.
He was known as the Blind Douluo, and he possessed the Single Dog Martial Soul.
Of course, that was just a joke.
Brother Tao's character was truly beyond reproach. It was precisely because Spirit Hall had countless lower-tier Soul Masters just like Brother Tao that it could become a place of yearning for Soul Masters across the entire continent, and even for numerous transmigrators.
Almost every year around this time, Su Yuntao would travel across mountains and rivers to awaken the Martial Souls of the children of appropriate age in Bamboo Ridge.
"A-Kun, come to think of it, I haven't had a chance to congratulate you on your promotion to Soul Grandmaster yet. Are you taking your wife and child back to Notting City with you?"
Su Yuntao cast a polite glance at Lin Yuan and Lin Mother inside the carriage and sighed as he spoke.
"Yeah, I've finally saved enough money to buy a small courtyard in Notting City, so it's about time I brought them over."
Mentioning the small courtyard he bought in Notting City, Lin Father's lips curled into a trace of barely concealable pride.
Nowadays, he was also a man with property in the city.
For anyone born into poverty in the countryside, this was something worth bragging about.
As he spoke, he did not forget to tell Lin Yuan to greet Su Yuntao. "A-Yuan, quickly call him Uncle Tao."
"Uncle Tao!"
Lin Yuan obediently called out.
Su Yuntao nodded, uttered a single word of approval, and then began to sigh to himself.
Seeing Su Yuntao looking extremely depressed, Lin Father asked in surprise,
"Yuntao, didn't you encounter any good seedlings this time during the Martial Soul Awakening?"
"If only that were the case." Mentioning the Martial Soul Awakening, Su Yuntao could not help but vent his bitter frustrations. "Today I ran through dozens of villages."
"It was so hard to finally run into two cases of Innate Full Soul Power, but as it turns out, one is a Trash Martial Soul Blue Silver Grass, and the other is unwilling to join Spirit Hall."
"Oh right, the one who was unwilling to join Spirit Hall is that Lin Tian from your village."
Blue Silver Grass? Lin Tian?
Lin Yuan's spirits perked up. The Blue Silver Grass with Innate Full Soul Power went without saying; that was Tang San.
This Lin Tian was rather thought-provoking.
As a transmigrator, his parents' Martial Souls were merely bamboo and lotus flowers without Soul Power.
Even with that, he managed to awaken Innate Full Soul Power. Could he be holding some cultivation technique manual similar to the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record in his hands?
Should he find a way to snatch it over?
As soon as this thought arose, Lin Yuan abandoned it. Let alone the fact that his father was merely the most ordinary of Soul Grandmasters,
whether he could even defeat the other party was an unknown variable.
Even if he could win,
given his honest and kind nature, he would never make a move against someone from the same village.
However, that did not mean there was no hope at all.
After all, when it came to courting death, it was a common ailment for the vast majority of transmigrators.
Even if Lin Tian did not court death, Lin Yuan would create an opportunity for him to do so.
Amidst these thoughts, Lin Father and Su Yuntao were already chatting about other matters.
The two of them were Soul Masters within Notting City, and as people in the same circle, they naturally had endless topics to discuss.
Meanwhile, Lin Yuan's thoughts drifted toward Lin Tian's cultivation technique.
The passion that had just been extinguished in his heart was ignited once again.
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