A sheet of paper is a trash martial soul? Watch my Planet Befall!

"Run, brat! Why aren't you running anymore?"

An icy laugh echoed through the dense forest. Five figures leaped down from the trees, surrounding Lin Ye and cutting off every escape.

Their leader was a scar-faced man. Two yellow Soul Rings and one purple circled beneath his feet, while the phantom of his Blood Leopard Martial Soul flickered behind him.

Scarface licked his lips, his eyes brimming with mockery as he watched Lin Ye.

"All that innate full soul power, and your Martial Soul is just a sheet of White Paper? Hahaha! Trash among trash martial souls!"

Lin Ye glanced at the men surrounding him without a word, then turned his gaze toward his palm, where a pure white sheet of paper floated slowly.

"I hear Spirit Hall gave you a subsidy of ten Gold Soul Coins?" Scarface grinned, exposing a mouthful of ghastly white teeth. "Too bad you won't live to spend them!"

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes at those words.

Half a day earlier, he had received ten Gold Soul Coins after awakening his Martial Soul at Spirit Hall in Silves City. He had never expected to catch the eye of this greedy Blood Leopard Squad, who had chased him all the way here.

"Boss, quit wasting words! Hurry up and kill him!" A Soul Master as skinny as a monkey laughed viciously. One white Soul Ring and one yellow rose beneath his feet, and the arms of his Windblade Mantis Martial Soul gleamed coldly.

"Hahaha! What can a lousy paper Martial Soul do? Wipe your ass?!"

"It's not even as good as Blue Silver Grass, and he gets ten gold coins? He should offer them to our Blood Leopard Squad instead."

Amid their jeering laughter, the other three men's Soul Rings lit up together. Their killing intent locked onto Lin Ye, and Scarface attacked first!

"First Soul Skill, Blood Claw!"

Faced with the lethal attack bearing down on him, Lin Ye neither dodged nor retreated.

The next instant, a sharp clang rang out. Scarface's crimson Blood Claw stopped right in front of Lin Ye, as though it had struck a solid stone wall.

"!!!" Scarface looked startled.

The corners of Lin Ye's mouth lifted. "Heh. That's it?"

At his words, Scarface struck again, only to get the same result.

Quickly retracting his Blood Claw, Scarface backed away several steps. A strange look flickered through his eyes as he watched Lin Ye.

"Boys, there's something odd about this brat."

"Boss, I bet the brat's got some kind of protective treasure. Let's attack together."

Scarface nodded at his subordinate's suggestion. All five unleashed their Soul Power and rushed in from every direction.

Lin Ye sneered at the sight. "Heh. Four Soul Grandmasters and one Soul Elder..."

"Useless brat! You still don't realize you're about to die! I'll break through!"

Yet the moment their attacks reached Lin Ye, every one of them was inexplicably blocked, unable to advance another inch.

"Useless? Heh. Then you'd better... watch closely."

With that, Lin Ye suddenly raised his hand. The blank paper in his palm erupted with dazzling golden light.

"Manifestation!"

Boom!!

The entire forest seemed to be crushed beneath some terrifying force. The air froze in an instant!

Panic seized the members of the Blood Leopard Squad. They immediately looked up to see an enormous meteor tearing through the clouds in the pitch-black night sky, hurtling down with the might to annihilate the world!

"What is..."

"No... impossible! He clearly doesn't have any Soul Rings!"

BOOM—!!!

The meteor struck. The earth shuddered violently, and a terrifying shock wave destroyed every tree nearby!

When the smoke and dust cleared, the Blood Leopard Squad had been reduced to drifting ash.

Lin Ye's face paled, and he slumped weakly to the ground. Looking at the enormous crater he had created, his expression brightened with delight.

"Heh. His Lordship's skill really does pack a punch..."

That attack had come from the innate skill possessed by his Martial Soul, White Paper—Manifestation!

The skill could manifest things he had seen or remembered into reality through the paper.

Using Manifestation, Lin Ye had unleashed a skill of Rex Lapis that he knew well from his previous life—Planet Befall!

"This move had less than one ten-thousandth of His Lordship's power, yet it could pulverize a Soul Elder into ash with a single strike. Truly terrifying."

"Unfortunately, the cost is far too high. It takes every last bit of my Soul Power to use..."

At that thought, Lin Ye gave a bitter smile, then called out silently.

System.

The next instant, a virtual interface appeared, displaying Lin Ye's personal panel.

[Host: Lin Ye]

[Age: Six (???)]

[Martial Soul: World-Painting Scroll]

[Level: Ten (???)]

[Soul Skill: Manifestation (innate ability)]

[...]

"So my White Paper Martial Soul really isn't ordinary White Paper. Its name is the World-Painting Scroll?"

The name of his Martial Soul reminded him of a certain little blue-haired girl who was always going barefoot.

Manifesting things was somewhat similar to her ability, though what they could manifest differed.

Closing his personal panel, Lin Ye could not help sighing. "Ah, it's been half a year, and I still can't believe I reincarnated from Teyvat into the Douluo Continent."

Lin Ye was a traveler across worlds. Half a year ago, after completing his travel mission in Teyvat, he had embarked on a new journey. What he had never imagined was that his next stop would be the Douluo Continent.

Reincarnated into the Douluo Continent, he had become a six-year-old orphan. With no financial support whatsoever, he had been forced to wander the streets and survive by collecting scrap.

Fortunately, after half a year of hard work, he had managed to escape that predicament and even awakened his Martial Soul at Spirit Hall in Silves City.

After his Martial Soul awakened, the system that had taken him through reincarnations across various worlds activated again. But the moment he stepped out of Spirit Hall, he found himself being hunted, leaving him no time to check what had changed in his system.

"Let's take a look at my new missions in this world first."

Lin Ye made a few practiced selections in the system interface, and a new panel appeared.

[Mission one: Cultivate to godhood and establish self-created godhood.]

[Mission two: Participate in the plot and seize fortune.]

[Mission three: Build prestige and make your name known throughout Douluo.]

"So these are my missions?"

Mission one was easy to understand. He simply needed to work hard, cultivate to level one hundred, and then create a divine position of his own.

Although that was much harder than inheriting a divine position through divine trials, it was not difficult for a traveler across worlds with his wealth of experience.

As for mission two, it probably meant joining the original story's plot and plundering the fortune that originally belonged to Tang San and the others.

Compared with mission one, this mission was far simpler.

After all, as the saying went, "The Sea God's mighty strength is a hundred thousand jin; a God King is half a step into the Blood Transformation realm."

Lastly came mission three. Lin Ye did not think it would be difficult either, because...

He glanced at his Martial Soul, then at the enormous crater he had made, and smiled. "Let me give this Douluo Continent a little taste of HoYoverse shock and awe!"