Huang Yaoshi Template? Even at His Peak!

"Hisss~"

Lu Xuan let out a low groan, abruptly jolting awake from chaotic slumber. Immediately following that, a dull ache thundered through his head as fragmented memories of his past life surged up like a rising tide.

Lu Xuan propped himself up to sit, his gaze sweeping across the unfamiliar and crude adobe walls. Filled with bewilderment, he muttered in a low voice, "Where... is this place?"

[Ding~]

A crisp mechanical sound suddenly exploded deep within his mind.

[Congratulations to the host for transmigrating to Douroland, the body has been reconstructed, and the age is locked at six years old. The system has issued a [Novice Gift Pack] to the host!]

"System?"

Lu Xuan's heart jumped violently, suppressing the roaring waves at the bottom of his heart. His consciousness sank into his mind, gazing at the floating, light-wrapped phantom of the gift pack suspended within his sea of consciousness. With a thought, he directly chose to open it.

[Opening the Novice Gift Pack...]

[Reward One: Innate Full Soul Power, has been injected into the host's origin.]

[Reward Two: Twin Martial Souls permission, has been enabled.]

[Reward Three: The Five Greats character template (randomly drawn), pending binding.]

[Reward Four: Language Mastery (Languages and scripts of all worlds in the heavens and myriad realms.)]

[Reward Five: Self-created godhood permission, unlocked at level ninety-nine.]

[Reward Six: Advanced gift pack, can only be unlocked after becoming a god.]

"Claim all!"

Lu Xuan gave a deep and stern command in his heart.

Whoosh--

Six streams of light simultaneously exploded from the sea of consciousness, and all six rewards fell into his origin. Yet for now, only the first four could be enabled immediately; the fifth, self-created godhood, and the sixth, the advanced gift pack, both remained in a sealed state and could only be unlocked after conditions were met in the future.

Lu Xuan's attention landed first on the randomly drawn [Five Greats template].

A trace of joy welled up slightly in his heart as a stream of information poured into his mind. The [Huang Yaoshi Template] fusion was successful!

When discussing pure head-on combat strength, Huang Yaoshi might not be the top among The Five Greats, but he was a solid, all-around hexagon-style polymath.

Most of his martial arts were self-created, and he thoroughly mastered all kinds of miscellaneous arts such as zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, medicine, poison, and the Strange Gates and Hidden Armor. Compared to the other Four Greats, this matchless creativity represented infinite potential for development.

What Lu Xuan inherited was not only Huang Yaoshi's world-shaking natural talent and comprehension, but also the vast, sea-like complete heritage of the Peach Blossom Island lineage.

Peach Blossom Island's exclusive internal cultivation mental skill, the ethereal and transcendent lightness skill, Falling Petal Divine Sword Palm, Divine Finger Flick, and various other ultimate techniques, Strange Gates and Hidden Armor and tactical strategy, medicine, poisons, pills, and astrological divination, all transformed into countless memory fragments that flooded into his mind.

And what shook his heart even more was that it actually also contained the complete, full set of the "Nine Yin Manual"!

"I didn't expect it to actually be this ultimate version of Huang Yaoshi's heritage."

Joy filled Lu Xuan's heart, overflowing with satisfaction.

He silently compared: Tang San relied merely on a second-rate sect's Mysterious Heaven Skill to make a huge name for himself on Douroland.

Now, with his own grip on Huang Yaoshi's lifelong learning, coupled with peerless classics like the Nine Yin Manual, his future path of cultivation would undoubtedly go much more smoothly.

Right at this moment, Lu Xuan also clearly perceived two distinct strands of martial soul origin slowly awakening within his body.

The first was a top-tier weapon martial soul with gentle, flowing light—Jade Flute.

And the other was an extremely rare body martial soul—body!

Knowing that he possessed these two major martial souls, Lu Xuan's thoughts involuntarily began to spin rapidly.

The steady path was naturally to use Jade Flute as the primary cultivation object, step by step consolidating his foundation. Once his physical body and origin were sufficient to bear a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring, he would then turn back to cultivate the Body Martial Soul.

Relying on the extraordinary comprehension and physical foundation brought by Huang Yaoshi's heritage, Lu Xuan estimated that by his seventh soul ring at the latest, he would possess the conditions to absorb a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring.

There was also another, more radical path: prioritizing deep cultivation of the Body Martial Soul.

The Body Martial Soul would inherently continuously temper and transform the physical body, and even held the possibility of a secondary awakening. If he took this route, he estimated that by the sixth soul ring, he could touch the hundred-thousand-year threshold.

If his luck was sufficient, his early soul rings could guarantee a floor of purple, or even strive for an all-black soul ring opening.

Both paths had their own superior and inferior aspects, with clear pros and cons. Lu Xuan calculated silently in his heart; he might as well try both trains of thought.

"Clack."

Just as Lu Xuan was silently weighing the two cultivation routes, the door was gently pushed open.

An elderly man with crane-like hair and a youthful complexion walked in slowly. His gaze landed on Lu Xuan who was on the bed, and he spoke in a peaceful tone, "Little fellow, you're awake."

"Old sir."

Lu Xuan rolled off the bed and said respectfully, "Thank you for making a move to save me, old sir."

"I am not the only one who saved you." The old man smiled and shook his head slightly, saying slowly, "A little girl was passing by, saw you collapsed by the roadside, and kindly carried you here."

Hearing this, Lu Xuan was slightly startled, then cupped his fists and replied with composure, "If the old sir hadn't made a move to rescue me, even if this junior had been sent here, I'm afraid it would have been difficult to survive."

He did not mind adding another favor in his heart. Whether it was the healer before him or that young girl he had never met, he ought to keep this goodwill in his heart.

"May I ask your esteemed name, old sir?" Lu Xuan looked at the old man before him, speaking with a serious expression, "When this junior has the ability in the future, I will definitely repay today's lifesaving grace tenfold or a hundredfold."

"A healer practices medicine seeking only their original intent, not seeking rewards." The old man waved his hand and smiled indifferently, "This old man is Ye Renxin. In this Heaven Dou City, those who recognize me are not few."

"Ye... Ye Renxin?" Lu Xuan's heart suddenly stirred, and he blurted out, "Nine Heart Begonia?"

"Oh?" Ye Renxin did not hide it, raising a hand to stroke his beard with a hint of a smile in his eyes. "I didn't expect you to actually recognize this old man."

As the two of them were talking, the door was pushed open once more.

Two young girls walked in, holding hands.

The slightly taller young girl had a lively disposition. Seeing Lu Xuan awake, she spoke with a beaming smile, "You're finally awake! It wasn't in vain that I begged Daddy to bring you over."

Lu Xuan looked at the two dainty and cute young girls before him, feeling a favorable impression at first glance. He cupped his fists at the girl and said, "So it was Miss who saved me. I will never forget this life-saving grace."

"Don't be so polite." The young girl waved her hand offhandedly. "When I saw you on the side of the road at your last gasp, I just thought I'd try to save you."

"Yanzi." The other young girl beside her gently tugged at her sleeve, reminding her in a low voice, "Don't talk like that, it's too rude."

With that, she turned to look at Lu Xuan, explaining with a trace of apology, "Big Brother, please don't take it to heart; Yanzi has no malicious intent. She indeed put in a lot of effort to bring you back here."

"It's fine, I don't mind."

Listening to the conversation between the two girls, Lu Xuan had already confirmed their identities in his heart.

Being able to come and go freely at Ye Renxin's place, the life-saving girl named "Yanzi" must surely be Dugu Yan.

As for the gentle little girl at her side, she was naturally Ye Renxin's granddaughter, Ye Lingling.

Lu Xuan sighed inwardly, thinking that his luck really was quite good indeed.