[What are you doing (=･ω･=)?] [Are you free ^_^?] [Can you come save us (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧?]
Lu Chen: ?
When I type a question mark, it doesn't mean there's something wrong with me. It means there's something wrong with you, System Sis!
Even after seeing it many times, the system panel unfolding before him still reminded Lu Chen of that overcast afternoon on Blue Star.
He had just walked out of the hospital, his heart filled with fear over having become a terminally ill guy.
And that Dayun truck coming around the corner had been going far too fast...
In the blink of an eye, six years had passed since the "Dayun Squadron: Otherworld Rangers" rammed Lu Chen headfirst into the Douluo Continent.
Compared to his fellow transmigrators, Lu Chen felt his circumstances could be called pretty good.
Thanks to the system's power, not only had he shed his terminally ill body while transmigrating and become an infant with a constitution better suited to the Douluo Continent, but while still in swaddling clothes, he had also been found and taken home for adoption by Lu Yun, the chief of Dragon Soul Village, who happened to be passing by.
Over those six years, Lu Yun, whose only son had died fighting an Evil Soul Master years earlier, had treated him entirely as his own grandson. The elderly man in his seventies had given Lu Chen almost all his warmth.
One sincere heart won another, and this had made Lu Chen, who had been an orphan in his previous life, relate hard to the Calabash Brothers.
[Whoever dares hurt my grandpa, I'll hunt down their entire family tree (╯°□°)╯︵┻━┻!] [Esteemed host, your Blue Star Transmigrator Fortune Plundering System rune loadout has been configured.]
Lu Chen: ...
System Sis, the internet has ruined your damn life. You know that?
Outside the window lay the deep darkness of night.
Inside the little house illuminated by a Soul Guidance Lamp, the handsome, black-haired, black-eyed boy watched the faintly flickering pale blue screen before him, a vein throbbing uncontrollably on his forehead.
No intelligence, an icy, mechanical girl's voice, a simple and clear interface, plus privacy that allowed only the host to see it and communication through thoughts...
System Sis almost perfectly met every requirement a modern transmigrator had for a system.
Well, aside from the Blue Star internet slang, anime memes, and copious emoticons that popped up from time to time...
Lu Chen: Why do I keep feeling someone would like this sort of contrast even more?
According to the database left behind by the system intelligence, which had long since dissipated completely:
The system intelligence's true identity should have been an amalgamation of shattered Plane Spirits from the Douluo Universe.
Which raised a question: Teacher Lu Chen, Teacher Lu Chen, how did perfectly fine Plane Spirits end up shattered?
That required mentioning a certain His Majesty the God King, who preferred to remain anonymous.
After the timeline of Douluo V, Tang God King had mastered abilities including limited manipulation of time and space, brief glimpses of the future, perception of fortune, and, most importantly, devouring the bloodlines of demonic beasts to strengthen himself.
After returning to the Divine Realm, in order to further strengthen himself and achieve his ultimate goal of transcending the entire Douluo Universe, he had set his sights on parallel worlds in other timelines.
What bloodline, one might ask, could be more suitable for strengthening oneself than that of one's own counterpart from another time and space?
It had to be said, he certainly had ideas.
As a Blue Star transmigrator who had read the original work long ago, Lu Chen knew Tang San's background very well, and knew all the more clearly that he had originally come from nothing more than a world resembling an ancient martial arts setting.
Naturally, then, the man had never seen that classic movie the Kung Fu Emperor had starred in during his early years, yet he had somehow devised a similar cultivation method.
He continually hunted down his counterparts from other times and spaces, plundering the fortune and power of their respective planes as well, gathering the strength of numerous planes within himself to ultimately achieve transcendence.
Adding to seek fullness.
He had taken a path completely opposite to subtracting to seek emptiness, and this path had proved unexpectedly effective.
Those shattered Plane Spirits were proof.
Driven by the simple desire for revenge, these fragments of Plane Spirits had gathered into a system intelligence, crossing vast stretches of time and space before finally succeeding in drifting to Blue Star.
Leaving aside how, during several years of wandering Blue Star, it had learned a thoroughly muddled written language from those unnameable apps.
Through a stroke of chance, it had finally found the "chosen one," Lu Chen, before exhausting its power completely.
Only magic could defeat magic, and only a transmigrator could defeat a transmigrator.
After exhausting all their power to control "Dayun" and ram Lu Chen into the Douluo Continent, leaving behind a brief explanation, the many Plane Spirits had dissipated completely.
The system had also become the current version: a "mechanical, stone-faced cute girl" whose voice was utterly emotionless, but whose manner of communication was full of things begging to be roasted.
In fact, with the highest level of access, Lu Chen could absolutely restore the system to its default settings. He simply had not chosen to do so.
Part of the reason was his gratitude toward the system intelligence for curing his terminal illness and giving him another life.
Another part was that he had thought of what those Plane Spirits had endured.
Their entire planes had been shattered, their fortune and strength plundered, everything they cherished had vanished like smoke, and they had drifted through the void with their hatred for tens of thousands of years...
That was far more painful than a terminal illness.
So even if it no longer meant much, Lu Chen still hoped System Sis could be a little "happier."
"System Sis, close the character affection interface and open my panel."
With a thought, Lu Chen closed the interface displaying [Lu Yun's affection: 100 (closest family)] and called up System Sis's other functions.
[System Sis at your service ^_^~] [Lu Chen, have you forgotten your grand vow to eliminate Evil Soul Masters and avenge Grandpa's lost son (╬￣皿￣)?!]
Lu Chen: Of course n... you mother-I'm going to reset you to default sooner or later!
People could not even empathize with their past selves.
[Host: Lu Chen] [Age: 6] [Martial Souls: Azure Dragon (conversion complete, unawakened), Spirit-Suppressing Spear (conversion complete, unawakened)] [Soul Power: Innate Full Soul Power (unawakened)] [Spiritual Power: 100 (early Spirit Connection Realm)] [Soul Bones: none] [Cultivation methods: none] [Profession: none] [Shop: locked (unlocks after Martial Soul Awakening)] [Fortune points: 500] [Items: none] [Character affection interface: click "+" here to view] [Note: you have a starter transmigration gift pack, claimable after Martial Soul Awakening. This is Mother Blue Star's final gift.]
Looking away from the "starter transmigration gift pack" in the panel's last line, Lu Chen fought back the urge to turn into a Valorant kid on the spot, closed the system, turned off the light, and went to bed.
Tomorrow was the day of his Martial Soul Awakening.
Douluo Continent, southwestern Heaven Dou Empire, Fasinuo Province.
Dragon Soul Village-judging by its name alone, this village east of Nuoding City seemed rather ordinary, and could hardly compare to the resoundingly named Holy Soul Village south of Nuoding City.
In reality, however, it was a large village boasting over six hundred households, and its chief, Lu Yun, was a Battle Soul Master as high as level 29, enjoying considerable prestige within a hundred li of Nuoding City.
Within Nuoding City's circle of Soul Masters, Lu Yun's standing was even more exalted.
Even the city's three highest authorities, whose levels had reached the Soul Ancestor realm, dared not offend him in the slightest.
After all, they did not have a younger brother who was a Soul Douluo and served as a Red Cardinal in Spirit Hall.
Lu Tian, Martial Soul: Four-Winged Eagle Dragon, level 89 Power Attack System Soul Douluo, Red Cardinal of Spirit Hall.
He was also the younger brother of Dragon Soul Village's chief, Lu Yun, and Lu Chen's second grandpa.
Unlike his older brother, whose Martial Soul had undergone a detrimental mutation.
Ever since a fortunate coincidence six years ago had caused Lu Tian's Martial Soul to evolve from a Four-Winged Cloud Eagle into a Four-Winged Eagle Dragon.
Not only had he successfully broken through from a level 79 Soul Saint into the Soul Douluo realm, but he had also risen through the levels at an exceptionally terrifying pace over those six years. Now, he was only one step away from the incomparably revered realm of Titled Douluo.
Spirit Hall had long hailed him as the most likely next Titled Douluo to break through, and once he reached that stage, even the emperors of the two great empires would have to respectfully address him as "Your Eminence" when standing before him!
With Spirit Hall deliberately spreading the word, his inspiring story had long since reached all the nations of the continent.
It was said that His Holiness the Pope had personally issued instructions to promote him to Platinum Bishop in the coming days, an honor held by no more than three people aside from the highest authorities of the two Spirit Temples in Heaven Dou and the Star Luo Empire!
In short, Dragon Soul Village had produced a True Dragon!
And dragons were... a sign of a powerful Martial Soul!
"Whew~"
The sky was already fully bright.
Standing outside Dragon Soul Village, the young man dressed in a fitted white outfit let out a long breath.
Su Yuntao carefully went over Dragon Soul Village's circumstances in his mind one last time, trying to calm himself.
Calm down, Su Yuntao!
You are:
A mere twenty-five-year-old level 26 Battle Soul Master with Innate Soul Power as high as level 5 and the Power Attack System Martial Soul Lone Wolf, personally requested by Dragon Soul Village's chief to awaken his grandson's Martial Soul, and Nuoding City's youngest white-robed deacon in nearly ten years!
Master Ma Xiunuo said this chance to awaken Master Lu Yun's grandson's Martial Soul was exceptionally rare. So many people wanted to come and couldn't even get a foot in the door~
Besides, I was specifically requested!
But here's the problem...
That child named Lu Chen apparently isn't Master Lu Yun's biological grandson. In other words, he can't inherit Master Lu Yun's hereditary Cloud Eagle Martial Soul.
What if this child awakens a Trash Martial Soul with no Soul Power...
Will I live (ノ˃̩̩⌓˂̩̩)ノ?
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