Golden Crocodile Douluo's Descendant! Jin Yu

"Jin Yu! I'll give you one last chance. Hand over the Soul Bones at once, or I'll cripple your Martial Soul and expel you from Shrek Academy today!"

Xuan Zi's furious shout rang throughout the academy.

Thirteen-year-old Jin Yu was covered in blood, pinned to his knees and unable to move under the terrifying pressure of Xuan Zi's soul power.

Yan Shaoze, Qian Duoduo, and the academy's other Titled powerhouses, along with Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, and a group of students, surrounded him. All of them watched him with suspicion and scrutiny.

Jin Yu's face was deathly pale. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his expression resolute and defiant. "I'll say it again too! I didn't steal the Soul Bones from the academy's treasure pavilion! Why won't any of you believe me?"

"Huo Yuhao, do you think I stole them too?"

Huo Yuhao sighed. "Sorry, Jin Yu. Even though you're one of my best friends, I believe Wang Dong. He said he saw you enter the treasure pavilion with his own eyes..."

"With his own eyes? Are you sure he got a clear look at my face?!"

"Even if he did, with all the chaos last night, couldn't someone else have gone into the treasure pavilion to take shelter? What gives you the right to decide I stole the Soul Bones before you've even investigated what happened?!"

Tang Wutong snorted. "Hmph! What gives us the right? The fact that you're a descendant of Golden Crocodile, the Second Worship of that evil force Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago!"

"As the descendant of a core leader of an evil force like that, you can't be much better deep down!"

"You've decided it was me just because I'm Golden Crocodile's descendant? Just because of that?"

Bitter disappointment and sorrow filled Jin Yu's heart, and he burst into wild laughter. "Ha! Hahaha! An evil force?"

"Was Spirit Hall really evil?!"

"It's just a matter of the victor becoming king and the loser being branded a villain!!"

"Enough, Jin Yu! Stop trying to talk your way out of this! I've already given you a chance. Since you're so stubbornly blind to your mistakes, I'll cripple your Martial Soul and leave you a cripple for the rest of your life!" Xuan Zi's expression turned vicious as he prepared to strike.

Seeing this, Jin Yu was utterly disappointed in this group, in the people of Shrek Academy.

Thirteen years ago, Jin Yu had transmigrated to the world of the Douluo Continent. His parents had both died when he was young, and he had been raised by a friend of his father's.

At six, he had awakened the Golden Crocodile, a high-grade Martial Soul, though not Golden Crocodile Douluo's top-tier Beast Martial Soul, the Golden Crocodile King.

His Innate Soul Power had been level nine.

Upon awakening his Martial Soul, he had also learned that he was a descendant of Golden Crocodile Douluo, the Second Worship of Spirit Hall ten thousand years ago.

At nine, he had broken through to Soul Grandmaster!

At twelve, he had become a Soul Elder!

Having grown up near Shrek Academy, Jin Yu had decided to enroll there at twelve, becoming classmates with Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, and Xiao Xiao.

During the freshman assessment, Jin Yu had relied on his formidable strength and the special information he possessed as a transmigrator to defeat the team of Huo Yuhao, Tang Wutong, and Xiao Xiao, taking first place.

After advancing to the second year, Jin Yu, Huo Yuhao, and the others had represented Shrek Academy in the Soul Master Tournament as substitutes.

In the tournament, Jin Yu had fought conscientiously and given his all, helping Shrek Academy win one match after another and ultimately claim the championship.

During that time, Jin Yu had not experienced much malice, prejudice, exclusion, or discrimination because he was Golden Crocodile Douluo's descendant.

There had been some, but it hadn't been too bad.

That had lasted until the previous night, when the Evil Soul Master organization known as the Holy Spirit Cult had sent four Titled powerhouses and a group of Evil Soul Masters to launch a surprise attack on Shrek Academy and take Ma Xiaotao away.

Shrek Academy had been caught off guard, and chaos had ensued.

As a student, Jin Yu had naturally made staying alive his priority and retreated somewhere safe. He had indeed gone near the academy's treasure pavilion, but he had never entered it.

But Jin Yu had never expected that the next day, when the academy discovered several Soul Bones missing from the treasure pavilion, Tang San's daughter Tang Wutong, who was currently Wang Dong, a man dressed as a woman, would immediately step forward and point the finger at him.

She had falsely accused Jin Yu of sneaking into the treasure pavilion amid the chaos the previous night and stealing the Soul Bones.

What chilled Jin Yu's heart was that the academy had not even investigated carefully whether anyone else had slipped inside the previous night. Shrek Academy suspected him of stealing the Soul Bones solely on Tang Wutong's word.

They had judged him with an overbearing attitude and tried to beat a confession out of him.

Only now did Jin Yu understand just how deeply prejudiced the academy was against him for being Golden Crocodile's descendant.

He had thought he was part of Shrek Academy.

But in the end, he had placed his trust in the wrong people.

Unwilling fury spread across Jin Yu's previously sorrowful face, and his emotions erupted. He cursed Xuan Zi to his face. "I'm stubbornly blind to my mistakes? You're the ones trying to convict me without knowing right from wrong!"

"Xuan Zi! Fuck your mother!"

"You fucking old bastard, you want to cripple my Martial Soul? Turn me into a cripple? Fine! Come and do it!"

"How dare you! You dare curse me?!" Xuan Zi flew into a thunderous rage, and killing intent flashed in his eyes. "Jin Yu, you're courting death!!"

The next moment, Xuan Zi charged at Jin Yu without hesitation, intent on killing him.

"You want to kill me? Xuan Zi, you might not have what it takes!!"

There was not a trace of fear of death on Jin Yu's face, because he carried a secret no one else knew.

It was the system he had possessed since transmigrating to the world of the Douluo Continent.

This system could travel through space and time!

"Xuan Zi! Shrek Academy! If I ever have the chance to return, I'll make you answer for this!"

"And you, Wang Dong! You slandered me! If I have the chance to return, one day I'll slap your mouth to pieces!!!"

A fierce look appeared on Jin Yu's face.

Just as Xuan Zi was about to slap him to death, Jin Yu decisively activated the system's ability.

In that instant, terrifying spatial and temporal forces surged around his body. Then he was pulled into a spacetime rift and vanished.

Jin Yu entered a spatial tunnel that could carry him through space and time. Unable to control his body, he kept falling.

"Where... am I going?"

Though he had escaped disaster, Jin Yu was now full of uncertainty about the unknown.

This was the first time he had used the system's ability.

He had never used it before because there was too little information about it. Its description had stated only one thing: it could travel through space and time.

But where would such a journey take him?

What kind of world would he go to?

Jin Yu had no idea whether he could return after traveling through space and time.

If he activated the system's ability and couldn't come back, or ended up in an unknown world, a dangerous world, he would be better off staying on the familiar Douluo Continent.

That was why Jin Yu had never used the system's ability.

But now Xuan Zi wanted to kill him, so Jin Yu had no choice but to use the system and rely on its ability to escape death.

"Can I... still go back?"

Jin Yu slowly closed his eyes.

A few seconds later.

Jin Yu emerged from the spatial tunnel and appeared out of thin air in a forest.

Bang!

He landed firmly on both feet.

"Where is this?"

Jin Yu remained on guard.

Before he could take a close look at his surroundings, a system panel appeared before him.

[Current parallel spacetime: Douluo Continent, ten thousand years ago, during the Douluo I era. Spirit Hall has not been destroyed. The protagonist of this era, Tang San, is twelve years old.]

[Current location: Spirit City.]