bioinnovel Chapter 20: The Origin of Lingxu, the Beginning of a New Round of Dreams
Chapter 20: The Origin of Lingxu, the Beginning of a New Round of Dreams
Lin Hanzhou was completely unaware that he was being targeted.
Even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
After all, he still has a very important identity: a college entrance examination candidate.
With less than a month until the college entrance examination, the Da Xia government is paying great attention to the candidates.
If any examinee goes missing, the Great Xia Inspection Bureau will intervene immediately.
No one would bother the Inspectorate for the sake of an ordinary examinee.
His current cultivation level is indeed that of a prodigy, but it hasn't reached the point where people would go crazy for him.
Back home, Lin Hanzhou immediately locked the door and eagerly opened the two boxes.
He laid out the purchased martial arts manual page by page on the table and began to force himself to memorize it.
He couldn't carry any items when traversing the dream world, so he could only remember it in his mind.
Unfortunately, he only bought the paper version.
If it's a "jade slip" version that uses special jade to carry information, he can instantly copy all the content into his mind.
You can even gain some insights into cultivation left by predecessors from it.
However, the jade slip version of the cultivation technique costs more than ten times the price of the paper version, which he simply cannot afford.
Fortunately, as a second-tier martial artist, his memory was already far beyond that of ordinary people.
While photographic memory is impossible, memorizing a manual of tens of thousands of words is not difficult.
He concentrated and began to recite and understand the text, word by word.
From how to open the Qi Sea in the third-stage Qi Sea Realm, to how to convert spiritual power into true essence in the fourth-stage True Essence Realm, and then to how to nurture the divine soul in the fifth-stage Spirit Gathering Realm...
The other book, "Three Techniques of Reversing Meridians," is a secret method that involves burning one's own essence and blood to disrupt the meridians in order to achieve a higher realm.
Although the side effects are severe, using it once can basically take away half of your life.
But as a surprise trump card, it couldn't be better.
It took about a morning until the sun outside the window was high in the sky.
Lin Hanzhou finally let out a long breath, having firmly memorized all the contents of the document.
It was noon.
Lin Hanzhou ordered takeout and, while eating, habitually opened his phone and started scrolling through short videos.
Various martial arts popular science articles, beautiful women dancing, and cultivation guides flashed by rapidly.
Suddenly, his finger paused as a local official news notification caught his attention.
The video footage shows a desolate mountain on the outskirts of the city.
A large number of military hovercraft cordoned off the area, and soldiers in standard combat uniforms set up a long cordon.
In the center of the video is an area that has been highlighted.
The space there presents a distorted appearance, like ripples on water.
A serious-looking female voice sounds off-screen:
"Emergency News from Lin'an City: At around 6:00 AM this morning, a spirit-like structure was discovered on Bailushan Mountain in the eastern suburbs of our city."
"According to the initial test by the Great Xia Pioneer Army, this spirit void is the lowest level, a low-level spirit void. Its internal energy fluctuations are weak, and no signs of high-level life forms have been found so far."
"Currently, the area is under complete military control, and the land reclamation team is assembling, preparing to enter for exploration."
"The public is urged not to panic, maintain normal daily life, and refrain from approaching this area..."
Lingxu?
Lin Hanzhou stared at the distorted space in the video, a look of surprise flashing in his eyes.
It is important to know that since the resurgence of spiritual energy more than a thousand years ago, spatial rifts have been appearing all over the world.
The other side of its spatial connection was officially named Lingxu by the Great Xia Dynasty.
Lingxu is a self-contained space containing abundant resources and cultivation techniques.
This is also why martial arts on Earth have developed so rapidly over the past thousand years.
However, besides these, there are other dangers within Lingxu.
Among them are many demonic beasts and alien races, and once the Spirit Void is opened, they will also come to Blue Star.
These guys are no pushovers; in their eyes, humans are just prey.
Not long ago, a remote city was destroyed by the alien race that emerged from the Spirit Void because of its sudden appearance.
Currently, the Great Xia is confronting three top-tier Spirit Void beings.
Before today, he, like everyone else, only had a superficial understanding of Lingxu.
But now, after learning about the existence of all the heavens and myriad worlds from the system, he has a deeper understanding of this so-called "spiritual void".
This so-called Lingxu is a small world among the myriad realms.
Lin Hanzhou guessed that the "low-level spirit realm" mentioned in the news was probably a low-level world similar to the Sui Dynasty.
He believed that the Great Xia's pioneering army would handle this spiritual void well, and he didn't need to worry about it at all.
He scrolled past the video and continued eating his lunch with a clear conscience.
He spent the afternoon consolidating his newly achieved second-tier cultivation level.
Time passed slowly and peacefully.
When the digital clock on the wall, with its hour, minute, and second hands finally aligning on the number "12".
Night has fallen, midnight has arrived.
A cold system notification sounded in his mind right on time.
[Ding! A new day has begun. The host has been granted one opportunity to enter a dream. Would you like to use it now?]
Hearing the system notification, Lin Hanzhou on the bed instantly perked up.
He had been waiting for this moment for far too long.
"use."
He silently recited it in his heart without hesitation.
[Ding! This indicates that the host has used the Dream Talent feature for the first time. You have been granted one free draw!]
[Should we extract the host's talent?]
"Extract".
[Instructions received. Dream talent extraction in progress...]
The scene before Lin Hanzhou's eyes was instantly replaced by a wheel made of starlight.
The roulette wheel spun rapidly, its green and blue lights flashing and intertwining, dazzling the eye.
"stop!"
With a thought, the pointer of the roulette wheel slowly slowed down and finally stopped on a patch of blue light.
[Congratulations, host! You have drawn the blue talent – Martial Arts Prodigy!]
[Talent: Martial Arts Prodigy (Blue)]
[Effect: The host will possess extraordinary martial arts comprehension and cultivation speed. They will be able to easily master any martial arts technique and skill, and apply their knowledge to other situations, significantly increasing their cultivation speed.]
A martial arts prodigy!
Lin Hanzhou's heart skipped a beat.
This is practically a god-level talent tailor-made for him.
He was worried that his inferior talent was holding him back, but unexpectedly, he drew a talent that directly improved his cultivation efficiency at the beginning of the game.
With this talent, his strength will increase at an unbelievable rate during his next dream journey.
As long as the spiritual energy in that world isn't too scarce, he'll have no problem cultivating to the third-tier Qi Sea Realm.
[Talent extraction complete. Selecting a world for the host to travel to...]
[Given that the host's cultivation has reached the second tier, the intermediate world has been unlocked.]
[Drawing low-level/medium-level worlds...]
[Congratulations, host, you have been drawn into a low-level world—the Last Dynasty World.]
[Connecting the host to the last dynasty of a lower-level world...]
[Connection successful. Have a pleasant journey!]
As the system notifications sounded one after another, Lin Hanzhou's consciousness once again sank into that familiar darkness.