Chapter Summaries

Lin Yinuo was born as the elder twin of Linley in the Baruch Clan and discovered that he had awakened the Hongmeng Sign-In System. After his first sign-in strengthened his Dragonblood Warrior bloodline, he resolved to protect his family and help restore the clan’s glory.

• Lina gave birth to Lin Yinuo and his younger twin brother, Linley, as Hogg welcomed them into the Baruch Clan.
• Lin Yinuo recognized Hogg and Lina as his parents and realized that he had been reborn in the Coiling Dragon World as Linley’s brother.
• The Hongmeng Sign-In System activated and offered Lin Yinuo one daily sign-in for a random reward.
• Lin Yinuo signed in and received a one-percent increase in Dragonblood Warrior bloodline purity.
• Hogg and Lina named the elder twin Lin Yinuo and the younger Linley, while Lin Yinuo vowed to protect his family and restore the Baruch Clan’s glory.

A month after his birth, Lin Yinuo received another bloodline purification from his check-in system and grew closer to his twin, Linley. As Hogg worried about the Baruch Clan’s fading glory, Lin Yinuo silently resolved to help his family restore it.

• Lin Yinuo received daily check-in rewards that improved his body and soul, and his one-month check-in increased his Dragonblood Warrior bloodline purity by 0.5%.
• When Linley stirred and nearly cried, Lin Yinuo patted his swaddling, and Linley grasped his finger and settled.
• Hogg noticed that Lin Yinuo seemed unusually calm and felt sturdier than Linley, though he dismissed his concerns as imagination.
• Hogg held his sons and spoke of the Baruch Clan’s lost glory and his hope that they would awaken their bloodline.
• Lin Yinuo silently vowed to help Linley restore the clan’s glory and felt that Hogg’s words carried a responsibility for him.

Over three years, Lin Yinuo’s check-in rewards strengthened his body, and Hogg began to feel his old injuries easing after training. The family cherished the improvement as Hogg’s hopes for his sons and the Baruch Clan’s future grew.

• Lin Yinuo and Linley reached three years old, and Lin Yinuo’s accumulated physique enhancements made him noticeably sturdier and healthier than his brother.
• Hogg practiced the Baruch Clan’s Dragonblood Battle Qi forms while Linley imitated him and Lin Yinuo watched closely.
• After training, Hogg noticed that his left shoulder and chest pain had eased and his body felt unusually relaxed.
• Lina wondered whether Hogg’s rest or her medicinal broth had helped, while Hogg suspected his improved spirits might be affecting how he felt.
• Hogg praised Linley’s imitation, accepted a maple leaf from Lin Yinuo, and gently ruffled his eldest son’s hair as he reflected on his family’s growing well-being.

Lin Yinuo used maple leaves and carefully chosen words to make Hogg reconsider the Baruch Clan’s Dragonblood Warrior legacy. Hogg took Lin Yinuo to the ancestral residence’s abandoned library to search for clues about the family’s past.

• Lin Yinuo received a check-in reward called [dust from an ancient library ×1] and suspected the abandoned library might hold the clan’s secrets.
• While Hogg trained Linley, Lin Yinuo showed Hogg maple leaves whose veins resembled dragon scales and spoke of blood and protection.
• Hogg connected Lin Yinuo’s words and his own improving injuries to the possibility that the Dragonblood Warrior bloodline could emerge again.
• Hogg took Lin Yinuo to the locked ancestral building, opened the abandoned library, and began searching among its old books.

Lin Yinuo signed in beneath Wushan Town’s Ancient Locust Tree and received supreme affinity for all elements. After witnessing the talent, Hogg planned to keep it secret and send Lin Yinuo to the Ernst Institute while continuing to investigate the Dragonblood Warriors.

• Lin Yinuo signed in beneath the Ancient Locust Tree and gained supreme affinity for all elements and a miniature Elemental Affinity Testing Crystal.
• Hogg found Lin Yinuo at the tree and asked whether he sensed anything unusual about the elements.
• Lin Yinuo guided a falling leaf into his palm, revealing his elemental sensitivity to Hogg.
• Hogg gave Lin Yinuo the testing crystal, which shone brightly with every elemental color and confirmed supreme affinity for all elements.
• Hogg embraced Lin Yinuo, told him to keep his talent secret, and decided the Ernst Institute should teach him.
• Hogg returned home with Lin Yinuo, determined to pursue the Dragonblood Warrior secrets and plan both sons’ futures.

Mage Elvin visited Wushan Town to test the Baruch brothers’ magical talent and discovered that Linley had exceptional affinity for earth and wind, while Lin Yinuo had exceptional affinity for all seven elements. Lin Yinuo accepted Elvin’s invitation to the Ernst Institute, beginning his journey alongside Linley.

• Mage Elvin arrived at the Baruch ancestral home after rumors of the family’s talented sons reached the Ernst Institute.
• Linley’s test revealed exceptional affinity for earth and wind, delighting his parents and impressing the gathered townspeople.
• Lin Yinuo’s crystal ball lit up with all seven elements, astonishing Mage Elvin and everyone watching.
• Mage Elvin urged Lin Yinuo to join the Ernst Institute and promised the institute would devote its resources to him.
• Lin Yinuo calmly accepted Elvin’s invitation as Hogg, Lina, and Linley watched.

At the Ernst Institute, Lin Yinuo reassured Linley about his magical talent and later guided him through his first successful meditation. The brothers began their studies with Linley newly able to sense and absorb earth and wind elements.

• Mage Elwin arranged guest accommodations for the Baruch family and reported the appearance of Lin Yinuo and Linley’s exceptional talents.
• Lin Yinuo and Linley enrolled at the Ernst Institute and moved into a special two-story dormitory.
• Lin Yinuo comforted Linley’s worries about having fewer elemental talents and encouraged him to train to restore the Baruch Clan’s glory.
• Lin Yinuo signed in at the dormitory area and received a Magic Origin Comprehension Orb for the earth and wind elements.
• Lin Yinuo taught Linley to feel the elements rather than seize them, and Linley successfully absorbed magical power for the first time.

Lin Yinuo checked in at the Ernst Institute library and gained enhanced memory and knowledge of commercial history. He met Elena Polenas, impressed her with his business insights, and saw her as a potential partner in building his future network.

• Linley devoted nearly all his free time to meditation and constructing basic spell models while Lin Yinuo turned to the library.
• Lin Yinuo checked in at the Ernst Institute library and received minor Memory Enhancement and knowledge of the rise and fall of chambers of commerce.
• Lin Yinuo avoided books that fell from a rolling ladder and helped Elena Polenas gather them.
• Lin Yinuo and Elena introduced themselves, and Elena criticized a book's account of the Fischer Chamber of Commerce's distribution channels.
• Lin Yinuo shared examples of commercial setbacks involving local nobles, prompting Elena to ask him for more details about ore transport in Chier Prefecture.
• Lin Yinuo and Elena discussed commerce and history, and he considered her a potential partner for his future network.

Lin Yinuo and Ailina officially began a business and intelligence partnership, while the Ernst Institute prepared its new students for a wilderness trial in the Magical Beast Mountain Range. As the trial approached, Lin Yinuo planned to help Linley survive and sought to prepare for the opportunities and dangers ahead.

• Ailina presented Lin Yinuo with a trade plan, and he suggested using mercenaries and wanderers as covert information sources.
• Lin Yinuo and Ailina agreed to share profits and intelligence, and he gave her predictions about climate and mineral output to guide their first shipments.
• The Ernst Institute announced its annual wilderness trial for new students near the Magical Beast Mountain Range.
• Lin Yinuo reassured Linley about the trial and urged him to practice defensive and acceleration spells.
• The night before departure, Lin Yinuo considered the trial's potential check-in rewards and prepared for the dangers ahead.

During the Ernst Institute’s trial in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, Linley injured a Thornhide Boar to protect his classmates, and Lin Yinuo killed it with a precise flame attack. The brothers impressed the instructors, and Lin Yinuo’s display of power left Mage Elwin wondering how advanced his magic really was.

• Lin Yinuo checked in at the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range and received an incomplete Fire Elemental Law Fragment and Elementary Danger Sense.
• Lin Yinuo’s danger sense warned him of a Thornhide Boar just before Mage Elwin called the group to arms.
• Linley cast Earth Spike and wounded the charging Thornhide Boar, protecting the students in its path.
• The injured boar charged at Linley again, and Lin Yinuo killed it with a concentrated flame ray through its forehead.
• Lin Yinuo praised Linley, while Mage Elwin and the students were stunned by the brothers’ abilities.

After the group camped by a stream, a Shadow Mouse named Bebe chose Linley and became his companion. Lin Yinuo recognized the encounter as a sign that the Coiling Dragon Ring was nearby and planned to guide Linley toward finding it himself.

• Linley improved his spells during the group's journey through the outskirts of the Magical Beast Mountain Range, while Lin Yinuo studied the Fire Elemental Law Fragment.
• At the streamside camp, Bebe darted from the bushes, stole Linley's waterskin, and settled on his shoulder.
• Lin Yinuo stopped a guard knight from intervening, then helped Linley feed Bebe until the creature grew comfortable with him.
• Linley asked to keep Bebe, and Lin Yinuo agreed that the Shadow Mouse had chosen him.
• As Linley slept with Bebe in his arms, Lin Yinuo kept watch and decided to guide Linley toward discovering the Coiling Dragon Ring nearby.

Linley found the Coiling Dragon Ring with Bebe during the group’s final day in the Magical Beast Mountain Range, and Lin Yinuo recognized the sleeping soul of Doehring Cowart inside it. The group began its journey back to Fenlai City and the Ernst Institute with Linley carrying the ring and his new companion.

• Before the group departed camp, Lin Yinuo directed Linley and Bebe toward the place where the Coiling Dragon Ring lay buried.
• Linley uncovered the ancient black ring, and Bebe celebrated as Linley picked it up and kept it as a treasure.
• Lin Yinuo sensed Doehring Cowart inside the ring but told Linley only that it might be an ancient artifact and should be kept safe.
• Mage Elwin dismissed the ring as an ordinary trinket, and the group set off toward Fenlai City and the Ernst Institute.

After returning to the Ernst Institute, Lin Yinuo met Elena Polenas to review their profitable trade venture and expand it into an intelligence network. They formally reaffirmed their partnership as the foundations of a wider commercial and covert organization took shape.

• On the journey back, Mage Elwin decided Lin Yinuo's abilities warranted a revised training plan and a report to the institute's leaders.
• After reaching the Ernst Institute, Lin Yinuo left Linley and Bebe to rest and went to the library to meet Elena Polenas.
• Elena told Lin Yinuo that her purchases of graystone iron ore and weapon blanks had earned a large profit after military orders drove up demand.
• Lin Yinuo gave Elena a notebook of information-encryption methods and suggestions for building a low-cost intelligence network.
• Lin Yinuo and Elena reaffirmed their partnership with a handshake.

Ernst Institute’s leaders secretly granted Lin Yinuo and Linley the highest resource access after Mage Elwin reported Lin Yinuo’s extraordinary magic. That night, Lin Yinuo soothed Linley through an early Dragonblood Warrior bloodline reaction and decided to accelerate the Baruch Clan’s revival.

• Mage Elwin told Dean Harrington and the vice dean that Lin Yinuo’s Flame Ray showed exceptional control and a hint of the Laws.
• Dean Harrington ordered Lin Yinuo’s information classified, granted both brothers Class A Resource Access, and instructed the institute to protect and discreetly observe them.
• Lin Yinuo used his expanded library access and better Meditation Aid Potions to study an Incomplete Fire Elemental Law Fragment.
• Linley suffered a painful early reaction in his Dragonblood Warrior bloodline, and Lin Yinuo used his purified bloodline aura and guidance to calm it.
• After Linley fell asleep, Lin Yinuo resolved to find the Dragonblood Warrior Secrets and bring forward his plan to revive the Baruch Clan.

Lin Yinuo checked in at the Ernst Institute Library’s Ancient Bloodline Restricted Area and received the first part of the Dragonblood Secret Canon, which could help Hogg activate his bloodline and heal his injuries. He planned to guide Hogg into discovering the clan’s secret chamber at the ancestral residence, but waited for a suitable opportunity.

• Lin Yinuo guided Linley’s cultivation and resolved to help Hogg discover the clan’s hidden secrets.
• Lin Yinuo entered the library’s restricted area and checked in at the Ancient Bloodline Restricted Area.
• The system granted Lin Yinuo the first part of the Dragonblood Secret Canon as a spiritual inheritance.
• Lin Yinuo absorbed the canon’s knowledge about activating the Baruch Clan bloodline and locating its secret chamber.
• Lin Yinuo decided to steer Hogg toward discovering the secret chamber himself and began planning how to do so without arousing suspicion.

Lin Yinuo guided Hogg to the hidden entrance beneath the Baruch ancestral home's library floor by using his bloodline to trigger its response. The chamber opened, and Hogg prepared to uncover the clan's lost secrets.

• Hogg told Lin Yinuo and Linley that he had found ancestral notes mentioning bloodline resonance and an ancestral land core, but could not locate the core.
• Lin Yinuo suggested that a particular bloodline might sense hidden energy and temperature changes, then asked to examine the ancestral home with Hogg.
• Hogg returned to Wushan Town with Lin Yinuo and Linley and led them to the library's concealed compartment.
• Lin Yinuo sensed a faint warmth and bloodline resonance beneath the floor near the eastern corner, then secretly infused a stone slab with dragonblood battle qi.
• The slab lit up and hummed, so Hogg pried it loose and revealed a dark passage leading to the Baruch Clan's hidden chamber.

Hogg uncovered the Dragonblood Secret Canon and a drop of dragon blood essence in the Baruch Clan’s secret chamber. He began using them to awaken his bloodline and heal his hidden injuries, as Lin Yinuo and Linley watched.

• Hogg entered the secret chamber with Lin Yinuo, Linley, and Bebe and found a beast-hide scroll and a jade bottle on a stone table.
• Hogg read the Dragonblood Secret Canon, which described how to awaken the clan’s dormant bloodline and heal injuries.
• Hogg opened the jade bottle and discovered dragon blood essence that could serve as the canon’s catalyst.
• Lin Yinuo told Hogg that the canon and blood essence offered hope for his recovery, and Hogg began practicing the canon’s method.
• As Hogg absorbed the dragon blood essence, his injuries began healing and his strength and vitality increased while Lin Yinuo and Linley stood guard.

After three days in the clan’s secret chamber, Hogg emerged with his injuries healed, his bloodline awakened, and his Battle Qi at the eighth level, then joined Lin Yinuo in planning the Baruch Clan’s revival. Lin Yinuo received military knowledge and a magic cannon blueprint from a check-in beneath the Ancient Locust Tree and began preparing to build his own influence ahead of the coming war.

• Hogg emerged from the secret chamber with his strength restored and his Battle Qi cultivation at the early stage of the eighth level.
• Hogg thanked Lin Yinuo for helping revive the Baruch Clan and asked for his advice on its future.
• Lin Yinuo recommended stabilizing Hogg’s cultivation, restoring the clan’s prestige, strengthening Wushan Town, and making contacts in Fenlai City.
• Hogg agreed to reorganize the town’s affairs and prepare to make the Baruch name known in Fenlai City.
• Lin Yinuo checked in beneath the Ancient Locust Tree and received the Art of War and a Simplified Magic Cannon Blueprint.
• Lin Yinuo decided to prepare for the coming war by using advanced tactics and magic cannons to establish his own power.

As the Luo'ao Empire prepared for war, Lin Yinuo used Ailina and the Shadow Line to gather materials and recruits for a secret Magic Cannon project while developing a new fire attack. The institute then announced that apprentices and low-level mages would be sent to the Chier Prefecture border for combat training, bringing Lin Yinuo's preparations closer to their first test.

• Hogg's return to command strengthened the Baruch Clan's standing, while Lin Yinuo discreetly approached Fenlai City's military-connected nobles.
• Ailina reported that the Luo'ao Empire was moving troops and supplies along the border, and Lin Yinuo instructed her to secretly acquire materials for a simplified Magic Cannon and recruit carefully selected workers.
• Lin Yinuo tested his self-created Condensed Flame Finger, piercing a target protected by sixth-level defensive magic with a concentrated burst of fire.
• Mage Elwin told Lin Yinuo that an Imperial Military Department envoy would soon requisition apprentices and low-level mages for combat training at the Chier Prefecture border.
• Lin Yinuo accepted the coming deployment and said the Baruch Brothers would fulfill their duty.

Lin Yinuo used five newly built Magic Cannons to defend Third Watchfort against the Luo'ao Empire's assault. The attackers retreated, and word of Lin Yinuo Baruch and his weapons spread across the O'Brien Empire as he earned the title “Imperial Bulwark.”

• Lin Yinuo rallied the defenders and ordered them to trust his Magic Cannons rather than rely on conventional concentrated fire.
• When the Luo'ao Empire attacked, Lin Yinuo ordered the first two cannons to destroy siege engines on the left flank.
• Lin Yinuo directed two more cannons against the enemy's right-flank catapults, while the defenders attacked the disordered vanguard and engaged the enemy mages.
• The Luo'ao Empire's assault collapsed into retreat, and Third Watchfort's defenders celebrated their victory.
• The commander of ten thousand reported the battle to military headquarters and His Majesty, naming Lin Yinuo the “Imperial Bulwark.”
• News of Lin Yinuo Baruch and the Magic Cannons spread to Fenlai City and across the O'Brien Empire.